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.
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
Off The Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics (b. 1962)
Kite Fabric (35,700 Pieces) & Rope (6,276 Linear Feet)
Gazebo Lake
Suspended above Gazebo Lake, Off The Beaten Path is an expansive aerial sculpture that engages the natural world as an active collaborator—translating wind and light into an immersive experience of movement, space and stillness. Crafted from ultra-lightweight kite fabric engineered for responsiveness, Off The Beaten Path comes alive with the environment. As sunlight refracts through its textile surfaces and breezes ripple across its singular form, the work continually transforms, shifting with the rhythms of the day and the path of the viewer. Reflected in the water below and framed by the surrounding mountains, the piece invites a full-circle engagement encompassing presence and perception. Off the Beaten Path is the latest in Patrick Shearn’s Skynet Series. Unlike traditional public sculpture, Skynet is not fixed, rather it is temporal, porous, and alive, constantly shifting in its ambient conditions. Its scale is monumental, yet its effect is ephemeral, rewarding those who pause to look up and engage with the moment. As the artist observed: "Viewers complete this kind of work because every moment is a unique experience of it. At the lake, you don’t just view the work from one vantage point, you move all around it. It becomes a conversation between structure, flow, reflection as well as your perspective right now. My work is often site-specific, and I think about how it will live in the space, not just physically, but emotionally. Green Mountain Falls has a very distinct energy. It’s serene but full of life, intimate but vast. Off The Beaten Path was conceived with that spirit in mind."
Sunset at Gazebo Lake
by Sarah Wright (b. 1977)
Photograph of Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel
Lake Street Display
Sunset at Gazebo Lake captures the feeling and memory of an evening in Green Mountain Falls. Bold colors and sharp lines create the rhythmic movement of a colorful sunset slowly dissipating behind the mountains at Gazebo Lake. Sarah Wright is an abstract artist whose work expresses the reflective memories and feelings attributed to the beauty of the natural world.
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
Mountain Road Corner
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.
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.
Stone on Boundary GMF by Yasuaki Onishi (b. 1979)
Inside the Lakeview Terrace - West Room
Stone on Boundary GMF explores margins, voids, volumes and boundaries. This installation features copper foil which has been shaped by hammering it over river stones, gathered from nearby Eleven Mile State Park. The surfaces of these stones that traverse the earth’s surface over millennia have come to embody the collective memory of our planet. This work reveals the interplay of absence and presence and implies that perceiving things require more than knowing their surfaces – it requires applying the full richness of our imaginations, and we must acknowledge that even then we will never achieve full understanding. Onishi’s focus on the absent and the invisible aids us in applying a freer and more flexible sensibility to our grasp of this endlessly complex and diverse world.
This work was created through Green Box’s Artist in Residence program this Spring and are visible by entering the Lakeview Terrace building, available during select hours.
Throughout their residency in May 2025, Minako Yoshida captured footage of the entire process Yasuaki Onishi embarked upon to create the installation you are looking at.
This footage has resulted in an almost 8-minute documentary film, which can be by clicking on the photograph above.
Whispering Roots by CoCo Ree Lemery (b. 1989)
Inside the Lakeview Terrace - East Room
Whispering Roots invites viewers into a living dialogue between nature, technology, and human presence. Constructed entirely from deadwood branches gathered by hand along the banks of local creeks and shaped using only hand tools, the piece honors both the fragility and resilience of the natural world. Threaded with sound-reactive light, the installation becomes an oasis—alive with shifting rhythms of music and motion. Viewers are not just observers but participants, their movements and sounds subtly reflected in the pulsing light. This immersive environment is designed to gently disrupt our experience of the modern world, prompting reflection on connection, presence, and the unseen systems—natural and artificial—that shape our lives.
This work was created through Green Box’s Artist in Residence program this Spring and are visible by entering the Lakeview Terrace building, available during select hours.
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."
Schulhof's Curve by Richard Serra
Bear Crossing Studio
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.
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 is to be viewed via the street. Please be respectful.
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!