12 foot tall Bronze sculpture of "Peace" Art for the Mountain Community has commissioned a sculpture, in a permanent medium, to be installed in front of the new Mt. Evans Hospice and Home Health Care building located on Evergreen Parkway in Evergreen, Colorado. Mt. Evans Hospice and Home Health Care delivers professional, compassionate in-home medical care to mountain area residents in four counties who are recuperating from an injury, living with a chronic illness, or facing end-of-life issues. The highly trained staff also helps family members by offering counseling services, support, and education. The focus of this project is to honor the valuable contributions of Mt. Evans Hospice and Home Health Care to our community and to convey the spirit of hope and strength that characterizes the organization. To see more, go to http://mountainart.org/mt_evans_competition.php
Conversation with Myself at Park Meadows Mall: The Vistas
A new Douglas County public art program, called Art Encounters, began its first countywide exhibit in June with 14 sculptures.
Art Encounters is a year-long outdoor sculpture exhibit that showcases a number of sculptures, in various media and styles, displayed in highly visible areas in Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree and Parker. The project is designed to promote public interest in art, develop community pride and draw visitors to the retail or civic areas where they are displayed.For an article about this program go here
Conversation with Myself: Main Street, Evergreen, Colorado
The 1999 project of Art for the Mountain Community was a new venture, the "Evergreen Sculpture Project", an experiment in bringing a lively diversity of good sculpture to the mountain area. The project was to hold an annual competition for sculptors willing to have their work displayed for one year. Art for the Mountain Community provided pedestals and name plates for the sculptures, and developed a brochure describing the works and providing a guide to locations. Each of the artists selected was given an honorarium of $500, and a $1,000 "People's Choice Award" went to the sculpture chosen by public ballot. The first selection of eight works was installed in June of 1999. To see this year's sculptures, go to http://mountainart.org/08/sw_2008.php where you can vote for your favorite!
The Women with Wings Project is a community-based art project begun by Lorri Acott Fowler and with the help fo her best friend, Nan Larson.The original vision was to bring together 100 women to tell their stories and stamp symbols of those stories into slabs of clay. The slabs would then become fired clay towers or columns with a sculpted woman with wings placed at the top of each tower. A photographer, Ronda Stone, would document the process and the stories would be collected and compiled by a writer, Cindy Griffin. The power of stories has altered that original vision because, far beyond the early expectation of 100, over 400 participated in the Women with Wings Project inFort Collins, Colorado. The women are diverse in age, ethnicity, sexuality, spirituality, profession, and personality, and the symbols of their stories have been stamped and then rolled into thirty towers of clay. Atop each tower sits a winged woman sculpted by Acott-Fowler and representing her dream of women becoming who they are, who they want to be, and allowing their dreams and talents to take flight. The pilot installation of the project in June 2007 in Fort Collins, originally conceived as a local one, is moving toward national and international opportunities.
