Public Art
We have both permanent and temporary installations on display throughout the year, dotted throughout our campus in Green Mountain Falls. Explore on your own, or put on a pair of headphones and be guided via an audio tour.
The importance of public art
Cultural value and community identity are fostered through public art, capturing the eye and mind of people passing through our public spaces.
Communities gain value through public art – cultural, social, and economic value. Public art is a distinguishing part of our public history and our evolving culture. It reflects and reveals our society, adds meaning to our place and uniqueness to our community. Public art humanizes the built environment and invigorates public spaces. It provides an intersection between past, present and future, between disciplines, and between ideas.
Leashed dogs are allowed in public art areas. Please note that only service animals are allowed in indoor installation areas, Skyspace, or other Green Box venues.
Self-guided public art tours
With a handful of permanent installation on display year-round, visiting Green Box is not just limited to the annual Festival. As the seasons change in Green Mountain Falls, so does the way our public art works appear.
Audio tour
Launched in the summer of 2022 and created by Artist-in-Resident Jessica Kahkoska, our walking audio tour allows visitors to don a pair of headphones and walk about Green Mountain Falls while learning about our public art and the history of our beautiful place.
Currently on display
Weight of the Sky by Shannon Mello
Photograph of Oil Painting
Lake Street Display
Shannon Mello's intentions of bringing new perspectives of earth and its elements into view are evident in this painting, created exclusively for the 18th Annual Green Box Arts Festival. From the use of raw materials such as charcoal, rust, gold leafing, and pigments, her passion for the outdoors helps guide her creative endeavors.
Untitled (African Red I) by Jose Dávila
African Red Granite, Eye Bolt & Ratchet Strap
Sallie Bush Community Center
This installation is viewable on Guided Art Walks or when attending events held at Sallie Bush Community Center.
Formally trained in architecture, Jose Dávila is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist best known for his sculptural practice. Dávila creates installations, works and paintings that simultaneously emulate, critique, and pay homage to 20th century avant-garde art and architecture.
This sculpture, a gift of the Marciano Art Foundation, was created in 2015 for a solo exhibition of Dávila's work.
Skye by Brian Wall
Lakeview Terrace
Brian Wall is a British-born American sculptor living in California. His career stretches over seven decades from the modernist art center of St. Ives, Cornwall, in the ’50s, to the London art scene in the ‘60s, to Berkeley, California, at the height of the counterculture revolution of the ‘70s. Wall was Head of Sculpture at London’s Central School of Art and Design, a professor at the University of California, has had numerous solo shows, and his sculptures reside in many private and public collections. Wall’s one-of-a kind constructed and welded steel sculptures combine geometric elements, often created from sliced sections of industrial steel tubes or I-beams and range from tabletop scale to monumental outdoor installations.
Skye by Brian Wall
Lakeview Terrace
Brian Wall is a British-born American sculptor living in California. His career stretches over seven decades from the modernist art center of St. Ives, Cornwall, in the ’50s, to the London art scene in the ‘60s, to Berkeley, California, at the height of the counterculture revolution of the ‘70s. Wall was Head of Sculpture at London’s Central School of Art and Design, a professor at the University of California, has had numerous solo shows, and his sculptures reside in many private and public collections. Wall’s one-of-a kind constructed and welded steel sculptures combine geometric elements, often created from sliced sections of industrial steel tubes or I-beams and range from tabletop scale to monumental outdoor installations.
Communication X9 by Yaacov Agam
Accessible via West Skyspace Trailhead
Communication X9 was created by Israeli artist Yaacov Agam in 1983 and is a beloved artwork that for decades was displayed on Chicago’s prominent downtown destination, The Magnificent Mile. This summer, Green Box welcomes this diverse and colorful work to its new home at Mountain Road Corner in Green Mountain Falls. Standing at an impressive 43-feet tall, the stainless-steel tower changes appearance as you move around its three sides.
226.5' ARC x 4 by Bernar Venet
Green Box Farm Stand
Beginning with photography and mediums such as coal and tar, Venet began using steel after becoming interested in logic and mathematics. When creating his monumental steel sculptures, Venet didn’t use preparatory drawings, he used intuition to shape each curve of steel to create visually captivating forms.
Loveletter by Pard Morrison
at corner of Park and Mt. Esther Avenues
Colorado native and sculptor Pard Morrison is an active artist based in the Pikes Peak region. Morrison's aluminum fabrications, appearing both solid and apparitional at once, are based on a rational, geometric foundation, with the use of color to denote depth and space. The artist describes his works as "momentary portraits of systems that are in flux."
Keith Haring Fitness Court
Pool Park
Keith Haring was one of the most renowned of the young artists, filmmakers, and performers whose work responded to urban street culture of the 1980s. As early as 1980, Haring began exhibiting in galleries and museums around the world, but continued to participate in public projects, including literacy campaigns and anti-AIDS initiatives. Haring has been the subject of several international retrospectives.
Open House by Billy Joe Miller
Wood, acrylic, glass and stone
Photo by Jeff Kearney/TDC Photography
Anderson Trail
Situated at the base of Red Butte and alongside the new Anderson Trail, Open House is both a place of shelter and a threshold into a larger landscape of movement, reflection, and encounter. Constructed from a monumental wood cruck frame -- a medieval building technique traditionally used for barns and home -- the sculpture reimagines vernacular architecture as an open sanctuary. Above, a canopy of colored acrylic glass filters sunlight into shifting fields of color that move across wood and stone.
Remember by Ziba Rajabi
Acrylic & Natural Dyes on Muslin, Thread
Photo by Jeff Kearney/TDC Photography
Lakeview Terrace
Remember aims to abstractly recreate the sky, mountains, and natural elements, bringing the outside inside gallery. This installation, based on the poem of the same name by Joy Harjo, features natural dyes, sourced from Blue Spruce pine needles, dandelions and soil from the immediate area. For the sky, Rajabi utilized synthetic blue.
Celestial Journey by Cory Feder
Colcha Embroidery with Natural Dyed Churro Wool
Photo by Jeff Kearney/TDC Photography
Lakeview Terrace
Celestial Journey is a re-envisioning of Herman Knackfuss' 1895 lithograph "People's of Europe, Guard Your Most Sacred Possessions" through the form of Colcha embroidery -- a cultural heritage tradition of Colorado and New Mexico. The Colcha tradition itself is an enduring Southwestern legacy that helps us remember the parts of our history that can be easily overlooked.
Phone of the Wind, donated by Lynda's Phones
Photo by Jeff Kearney/TDC Photography
Town Overlook
"This phone will never ring. It is connected by love to nowhere and everywhere. It is for those who have an empty place in their heart left by a loved one. Say hello, say goodbye. Talk of the past, the present, the future. The wind will carry your message."
Green Mountain Falls Skyspace, 2022 © James Turrell
Photo by Jeff Kearney/TDC Photography
Red Butte Recreational Area
Opened to the public in 2022, our Skyspace, the first in Colorado and the first in the world to be carved into the side of a mountain, begins with an inspirational journey from the center of town through the Red Butte Recreational Area, arriving at a transcendent destination. A one-of-a-kind kinetic light and color experience will shift your perception of nature and sky through contemporary light and space – an experiential work of art unlike anywhere else in the world.
EARTH.SPEAKS, brooke smiley
Adjacent to the Red Butte Recreation Area West Trailhead
EARTH.SPEAKS is a series of land-based public art projects aimed at healing through community creation of earth markers, a sustainable practice of structure building. This work centers Indigenous identity through reconnecting with our bodies, one another, and the land. Brooke will guide the community in building two earth markers, to uplift awareness of Indigenous history, present day visibility, and messages of the land.
The Managers, Molly Rideout
Lakeview Terrace
The Lakeview Terrace hotel has stood practically since Green Mountain Falls' founding in the 1880's. In 2022 Green Box writer-in-residence Molly Rideout teased from the historical archive the names and stories of the different women who ran the seasonal boarding house over the decades. The results are nine micro-essays installed in vinyl film on the front windows of the still-standing hotel. This type of installation Rideout calls "Public Writing."
Four Orbits by Charles O. Perry
Mountain Road Corner
Believing that sculpture must stand on its own merit without need of explanation, Perry’s work has an elegance of form that masks the mathematical complexity of its genesis. Perry’s Four Orbits sculpture is dark bronze, eleven feet tall, and weighs about 5,000 pounds. It is mounted on a ten-foot stainless steel pole.
Audio Walking Tour, produced by Jessica Kahkoska
38 locations throughout Green Mountain Falls
Put on a pair of headphones and take your own walkabout tour exploring the art installations throughout Green Mountain Falls and the history of this beautiful place. Created by Green Box Artist-in-Residence Jessica Kahkoska, we look forward to visitors gleaning a new perspective on our natural and creative home.
Viewable Seasonally
Faime Walking by Julian Opie
(Private Residence)
Faime Walking by Julian Opie is a striking double-sided LED monolith. Opie studied at Goldsmiths, University of London and has long been fascinated by technology in its many forms - ranging from traditional tools like pencil and paper to modern innovations such as computers, lighting - and the human body. With his LED sculptures, Opie aims to heighten the viewer's awareness of light, transforming it into an essential element of the artistic experience.
A note: This piece is on private property, and can be viewed only when part of a Green Box Staff or Artist-led Guided Art Walk.
Schulhof's Curve by Richard Serra
(Private Property)
With its sweep of rigorous COR-TEN steel that dramatically bisects the environment in which it stands, Richard Serra’s Schulhof’s Curve is a modestly scaled version of his imposing free-standing structures that have come to symbolize the artist’s unique brand of sculpture.
A note: This piece is on private property, and can be viewed only when part of a Green Box Staff or Artist-led Guided Art Walk.
Artists: bring your art to green box
Have a work that you think would look great in Green Mountain Falls? We are always interested in considering temporary or permanent installations, whether 2 or 3-D. Let’s talk!