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BACKGROUND
Art in Public Places Board mee�ngs started in July of 1995. Mee�ngs are being held the third Wednesday of each
month at 3:30 p.m. at the Lincoln Center.
Members who served in 2014 were Liliane Francuz, Liz Good, Dwight Hall, Carol Ann Hixon, Jill Kreutzer, Jane Nevrivy,
Renee Sherman, Shelby Sommer, and York. Dwight Hall, Liz Good, and Jill Kreutzer served as Chairperson and Liz Good,
Jill Kreutzer, and Jane Nevrivy served as Vice-Chair.
Purpose:
The City recognizes that art is vitally important to the quality of life in the community.
Art in Public Places (APP) is intended to:
• Encourage and enhance artistic expression and appreciation.
• Add value to the Fort Collins community through acquiring, exhibiting, and maintaining public art.
Goals:
The principal goals of the APP Program are to:
(1) Enrich the public environment for both residents and visitors through the visual arts.
(2) Increase public access to works of art.
(3) Promote understanding and awareness of the visual arts in the public environment.
(4) Promote a variety of artistic expression in the community.
(5) Contribute to the community’s civic pride in its cultural diversity.
APP Board and Program
• Develop collaborations and outreach
• Advise and make recommendations for changes to rules, regulations, guidelines, policy, administrative, and
budgetary matters pertaining to the APP Program.
• Advise City Council on projects and programs relating to public art, design, and aesthetics.
• Review and make recommendations to City Council on all APP projects and city art donations.
• Share best practices with other local and national agencies on the APP processes and projects.
• Review the APP art collection to consider deaccession for specific pieces.
• Promote the program with the APP website, marketing opportunities, and project maps.
The APP goals, projects, and Work Plan align with the City of Fort Collins seven key outcome areas:
ART IN PUBLIC PLACES BOARD
2014 ANNUAL REPORT
Culture and Recreation Environmental Health Community and Neighborhood Livability
Reservoir Ridge – Joe McGrane Piano About Town – Gale Whitman Transformer Cabinet Mural – Ren Burke
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COMPLETED PROJECTS
MAX Corridor – APP ar�st Robert Tully worked
with the MAX Project Team to add art to the MAX
corridor. For each sta�on, light posts with integrat-
ed metal sculpture reflect light and also house a
sound-art element created by Robert Tully and Jim
Green that includes 22 sound recordings. Glass
windscreens were illustrated by the ar�st to reflect
the unique areas and neighborhoods surrounding
the sta�ons and thirty-two cast concrete benches were created to complement the windscreens. Way-finding beacons
were created to point to select sta�ons. At the South Transit Center, the ar�st designed granite panels that are
displayed on the columns with themes of local transporta�on. Tully created a historical marker to commemorate the
Public Service Company Power Substa�on previously located at 100 West Prospect. Ar�st
Barb McKee from Surface Strategy designed the concrete formliners that were used to adorn
the wall at Spring Creek Park.
Nix Farm – For “The Great Sense of Passing Through” ar�st Mario Miguel Echevarria painted
a mural that covers the walls and ceiling of the ves�bule in the new Nix Farm Office Building.
The mural is a realis�c interpreta�on of a specific vantage point from Mahoney Park at
Bobcat Ridge Natural Area. The mural is laid out to correspond with the site’s actual north/
south orienta�on, so the viewer gets the impression of being at the park. Echevarria painted
the landscape on canvas in his studio that a�erward was applied to the walls. The sky was
painted directly onto the drywall.
Pedestrian Pavers – The APP program has been working with the Engineering Dept. since
2002 on pavers with drawings created by community members aged 3 to 18 years old that
are incorporated into city sidewalks. Fi�een selected drawings were sandblasted into granite
pavers to be installed in city sidewalks.
Pianos About Town – Pianos were rotated throughout over 20 loca�ons in 2014. The Art in
Ac�on component of the program con�nued with 11 ar�sts pain�ng piano murals in Old
Town Square, along with 1 ar�st pain�ng inside the FC Museum of Discovery during the
winter months. The 2014/2015 season will end March 31, 2015.
Reservoir Ridge – “Ghost Kitchen” by ar�st Joe McGrane is an art space at the new Reservoir
Ridge Trailhead. It consists of two low concrete walls that define a picnic space and reference
the farmstead that was once located there. The artwork includes welded steel “windows,”
referencing the earlier homestead, with silhoue�e cutouts depic�ng common birds, animals,
and insects that visit the area. The wall that marks the entry to the space is designed for
sea�ng and incorporates a low-relief bronze map of the Reservoir Ridge Trail experience in
the form of a game board where small stones are moved along a path with detours and side
adventures one might find along the actual trail.
Reservoir Ridge - Joe
McGrane
Nix Farm – Mario Miguel
Echevarria
Pedestrian Paver – Noah
Kortenbruck, Age 15
Max Sta�on – Robert Tully South Transit Center – Robert Tully
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Transformer Cabinet Murals – Fifteen local artists and one non–pro�it group were selected to paint murals on
eighteen cabinets in 2014. Artists have painted one hundred eighty-four cabinets over the nine years of this
annual project, including �ive cabinets on or adjacent to Colorado State University property. This project has a very
high success rate in mitigating graf�iti on painted cabinets, saving the City/Utility money in abatement costs.
Visitors to the area have begun to seek out the murals as they tour the city, contributing to the City’s economic
development. This project is a collaboration with Utility Light and Power. This year we painted our �irst two s
sponsored cabinet murals; one was sponsored by the 2013 USA Pro Challenge and the other by the Bohemian
Companies.
Current and Ongoing Projects:
Twenty-five projects are currently in progress or are annual projects. These projects are usually developed in
conjunction with a larger construction project, so the art project timeline coincides with the construction timeline. All
projects have an artist working with the project design team to develop concepts that meet the goals of the project.
Dona�ons:
• Brooks Family Bike Bench
• Thornton Family Founda�on EPIC Sculpture
• Bernice Penney and Family Gardens on Spring Creek Sculpture
Sponsored Transformer Cabinet Mural:
• Nix Farm
• Ca�ail Chorus Bike Rack
• Fort Collins Museum of Discovery
• Great Lawn
• Linden Street Pocket Park
• Mulberry Bridge
• North College, Conifer to Willox
• Pedestrian Pavers
• Pianos About Town
• Pickle Plant Entryway
• Remington Greenway
• River Restora�on at Woodward
• Senior Center Expansion
• Southeast Community Park
• Tavelli Mul�-Use Path
• Timberline and Horsetooth Intersec�on
• Timberline and Prospect Intersec�on
• Transformer Cabinet Murals
• Trash Can Murals
• Udall Water Quality Pond
• U�lity Marker Project
• Vine and Shields Intersec�on
• West Vine Basin
Sponsored Cabinet Mural— Pro Challenge Bike Race - Mary Harne� Sponsored Cabinet Mural
Bohemian Companies – Terry McNerney
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COLLABORATIONS/OUTREACH
• Pianos About Town – This project partnership with the Downtown Development Authority and Bohemian
Founda�on combines art and music. This is the forth season that the APP Program has administered this
project. The partners have decided to con�nue this project for the 2015/2016 season.
• Earth Day Celebra�on – APP joined U�li�es in their display at this event. The display featured the Transformer
Cabinet Mural program and one of our ar�sts, Jennifer Ivanovic, pain�ng a cabinet on site.
• UCHealth Cancer Center – APP staff assisted the Center in exhibi�ng and purchasing art for their new facility.
COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS
APP staff gave presenta�ons to community groups, the Crea�ve Industries Summit, and Vibrant Colorado
Downtown Conference.
PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT
APP staff members con�nue to give support to private businesses in the community.
• Staff assisted with providing informa�on on processes for acquiring art and contact with ar�sts.
• Staff a�ended the Public Art Network Americans for the Arts Conference in Nashville, TN.
• Staff hosted a Colorado Public Art Administrators mee�ng.
• Staff provided informa�on to communi�es across the country, including: Davis, CA; Livermore, CA; Sacramento,
CA; Timnath, CO; Parker, CO; Spencer, IA; Findlay, OH; Ashland, OR; Eau Claire, WI; and Menomonie, WI.
PUBLICITY
• Local Publica�ons – The Fort Collins Coloradoan, Fort Collins Courier, Rocky Mountain Collegian, Scene Magazine, and
Style Magazine printed various photos and ar�cles of APP Projects throughout the year.
• Web – The local community and visitors to Fort Collins con�nued to include stories on APP projects in their blogs and
websites. Pianos About Town was featured in numerous You Tube videos.
• Facebook – The Pianos About Town Project invited the community to par�cipate with the project’s Facebook page at
Facebook.com/PianosAboutTown. Staff also included APP Projects on the City’s and the Lincoln Center Facebook Page.
• fcgov.com/artspublic – The APP website con�nued to be updated with new projects, project descrip�ons, and current
calls for art and ar�sts. The website also included printable maps of the Pedestrian Pavers, the Transformer Cabinet
Murals, and APP art loca�ons throughout the city.
• GIS Maps – Staff worked with the City’s GIS department to update maps and make new maps for printed handouts.
• APP Brochures – The APP program promoted the program and the Transformer Cabinet Mural Project with informa�onal
brochures at the Visitor’s and Conven�on Bureau, the Lincoln Center, and available for download from the APP website.
MAINTENANCE
The program con�nued to use our ar�s�c exper�se and communica�on with the ar�sts to maintain the APP collec�on.