Colid #7

Denver artist Emmett Culligan donated his piece titled “Colid #7” to the PACE Center in 2013. The sculpture is placed on Pine Drive at the western entrance to PACE.
 Culligan's art often focuses on the manipulation of metal, wood, stone and glass, and references common forms found in everyday life. He says, “Within my work, an emphasis is placed on the natural inherent qualities of material interacting formally to access human emotion and spirituality.”

Somewhere Down The Lazy River

In 2015, artist Mario Miguel Echevarria won the commission to create a piece of public art for the Parker Recreation Center's new indoor Leisure Pool. Inspired by kids' love of animals and a desire to celebrate Colorado's native aquatic species, he created a three-part piece in which kid power is amplified by the uniquely amazing skills of Colorado's river and lake inhabitants. You'll find a boy flying with a Painted Turtle, a girl surfing with a Cutthroat Trout, and a girl riding on a Clark's Grebe. The works are crafted from ceramic tile and aluminum sheet. As the artist says "When people see a kid surfing on a fish the size of a VW Bug, they will never look at a trout the same way again!"  

I'm Dreaming With My Brain Awake

Artist Sandy Friedman says of this piece, "The environment of Colorado and the Southwest significantly influences my work. I draw from the energy of our environment - the mountains, sky, weather, plains, etc. My sculpture represents the energy found in totems and the interaction of the negative spaces created by the sculpture's shapes. Elements in the sculpture represent moments in time, father sky, mother earth and the vastness of the land."

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Art Encounters - rotating public art

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, Roxborough, 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. The public is invited to view the art in the program and vote for their favorite piece by visiting www.douglas.co.us/artencounters. Artists are encouraged to submit entries in January of each year via www.callforentry.org.

From June 2018 through May 2019, the Town of Parker is exhibiting eight sculptures at various locations along Mainstreet to highlight Parker’s growing Creative District in Downtown.

Amber Eye

By Glenn Zweygardt
19553 E Mainstreet
By Las Delicias
Amber Eye is a stone sculpture made from Vermont Granite, marble from Vermont and a dark granite base from Pennsylvania. The amber eye is made cast glass inside of a bronze cast ring. Please feel free to touch the various surfaces!

Change

By Charlotte Zink
19801 E Mainstreet
Old Parker Water Building
This trio of totems is a satisfying mixture of simple forms and rich textures coming together and rising up from sturdy steel blocks. Zink is proud to have created this visual and tactical delight, and she encourages visitors to touch them!  She hopes this sculpture will inspire people to discover new things and to reexamine old methods of doing things.

Logarithm 

By Joe Burleigh
O'Brien Park
Near H20'Brien
From the two foot base to the point at the top, the tip of this geometrically-based piece could go on to infinity. Created using a combination of geometry, harmony, and creativity, Burleigh hopes visitors will feel the vibrations of this piece and become part of the art experience - touching is encouraged!

LOVE IS THE ANSWER

By Sandy Friedman
O'Brien Park
Corner of Mainstreet and Victorian
Inspired by the idea of bringing love to a world filled with increasing acts of violence, Sandy Friedman created this visual reminder that love is the only spiritual experience that will both sustain and provide us with a template to accept difference and coexist together.

Ode to Miro

By Paul Konchagulian
20000 Pikes Peak Avenue
Lot in front of PACE Center
Paul Konchagulian is a metal sculptor with a belief that metal doesn't have to be rigid and a desire to show this medium's softer side. He's spent 30 years working with metal, finding new ways to smooth metal sculptures with curves and embellishments. For Konchagulian, a lover of metal, the subject isn't the inspiration of this piece, the medium is.

RED

By Reno Carollo
19650 E Mainstreet
In front of Schoolhouse

Combining the attention-catching red with the convex and concave surfacesof this seated fiberglass figure, Carollo has worked to blend his sculpture into space, motion, and time.

Tide Pool Dreams

By Annette Coleman
20000 Pikes Peak Avenue
In front of PACE Center west of front doors
This hand-cut piece was inspired by a day at the beach in the rain, searching through tide pools on the Pacific Northwest coast, and delighting in seeing the sea anemonies and crabs moving gently with the waves while the sky glinted off of the water.

 

TORO! JR.

by JR Novinger
20120 E Mainstreet
Near Town Hall

This abstract, passionate red bull with lines of action. Simplicity is Toro's strong suit.