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CALL FOR ENTRY: 21ST ANNUAL EXHIBIT

Art on the Streets is now accepting applications from sculptors, muralists and installation artists for the 21st annual exhibit, which will open in June 2019. Application deadline is February 11, 2019. For more information or to apply, please CLICK HERE. Questions may be addressed to CLAIRE@DOWNTOWNCS.COM. No phone calls, please.

20TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS

GUIDED WALKING TOURS

One-hour guided walking tours provide insight into this year’s 20th-anniversary exhibit. Tours available SEPT. 1, AND JAN. 5, 2019. $10 per person, includes a coffee beverage of your choice. Registration is required. Additional details and tour topics HERE.

TOAST THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT WITH LOCAL RELIC!

LOCAL RELIC, a locally owned craft brewery, features 10 different artworks from the history of Art on the Streets on limited edition beer bottles. Collect them all! Purchase while supplies last through Local Relic at The Carter Payne, 320 S. Weber St., and DOWNTOWN FINE SPIRITS AND WINE, 103 S. Wahsatch Ave.

LIMITED-EDITION ART ON THE STREETS COFFEE TABLE BOOK

A limited-edition, 64-page art book chronicles the founding and history of the award-winning Art on the Streets program through interviews and photographs from exhibits since the program’s inception. The book is available for purchase ($35) at the Downtown Partnership office, open 9 am to 4 pm Mondays to Fridays, Ste. 703, North Tower, Plaza of the Rockies. Call 719-886-0088 for more information.

ONGOING OPPORTUNITES

SELF-GUIDED AUDIO TOURS

Hear the stories about Downtown public art from artists and arts advocates themselves by using your smartphone. Download the free GPS-based app Otocast via ITUNES or GOOGLE PLAY. Downtown Ventures has added more than 30 new audio clips for works that are part of the city’s permanent collection of public art. Icons on the Public Art Map indicate works with audio clips, and the app will automatically display the featured works with audio.

GUIDED WALKING TOURS

We’ve expanded the summertime opportunities to explore this year’s Art on the Streets exhibit, with both morning/coffee walks and evening/happy hour walks. For a full schedule of times for guided walking tours, go to DOWNTOWNCS.COM/TOURS.

ABOUT THE 2018-19 EXHIBIT

The works in the 20th annual Art on the Streets exhibit were drawn from a total of 90 proposals from 72 artists worldwide. Twelve Colorado artists are represented in this year’s exhibit, with an additional five artists from elsewhere in the United States and one international artist, from South Korea. Jurors Joy Armstrong, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, and Rodney Wood, artist and founder of ArtoCade in Trinidad, Co., used artistic merit as the primary criterion for selection, as well as considering placemaking and social impact.

Artists and photos of their works are listed below.

The exhibit will be on display through May 2019 throughout the Downtown Creative District.

Use the free app Otocast to explore the exhibit with commentary from the artists themselves! To get our Otocast mobile tour, download the app via ITUNES or GOOGLE PLAY. or, DOWNLOAD A MAP.

The $10,000 Juror Award was awarded to Trace O’Connor of Fort Collins for Iscariot. The $2,500 second-place award went to Byeong Doo Moon of Gwangju-si, South Korea for You, Light as a Cloud. The $1,000 third-place award went to Nikki Pike and Thomas Dodds of Denver for Musical Churn, and a $500 Honorable Mention was awarded to Kasia Polkowska and Kyle Cunniff of Alamosa for Chipeta-Mai. The 2017-18 People’s Choice Awards ($1,000) went to Byeong Doo Moon for I have been dreaming to be a tree.

All of the artworks included in the Art on the Streets exhibit are for sale, and purchase inquiries are welcome; contact us at 719-886-0088.

Source: https://downtowncs.com/live/arts-and-entertainment/aots/