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

The current list of works is on display and accessible year-round. 

 

Note: Skyspace is available Thursdays – Sundays.  

To schedule a Wednesday private group showing, please email info@greenboxarts.org 

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.

OVUM by Nikki Pike
H.B. Wallace Preserve

Nikki Pike is an Artist and Activist committed to serving the community through her art practice and role as an educator. Through the use of universally positive human experiences such as curiosity, music, surprise, and gifting along with the influence of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, she spreads values of empowerment, vulnerability and connection in the form of experience as opposed to product. 

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.

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.

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."

Audio Walking Tour, produced by Jessica Kahkoska
33 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.

Green Mountain Falls Skyspace, 2022 © James Turrell
Photo by Jeff Kearney/TDC Photography
Red Butte Recreational Area

Opened to the public on June 18th, 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 Hotel

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.

A Vista of Green Mountain Falls, Photograph by W. Ira Rudy for the Colorado Midland Railway, Circa 1890s
Lake Street Display

The Green Mountain Falls Hotel, which opened on August 27, 1892, was an ambitious undertaking with 70 guest rooms, kitchen, a dining room capable of seating 150 guests, parlor, and broad verandas set off by slender white columns. Situated on a slope overlooking the lake, the hotel was similar in design to the gazebo, and early photographs like this one show them as complementary structures. Guests at the hotel would have had an enchanting view of the lake and picturesque gazebo, while visitors to the town rowing out to the gazebo could observe the hotel in all its splendor set against a background of rugged granite mountains covered in evergreens.

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!