AA rider’s rider’s guideguide to publicpublic art art onon RTD’sRTD’s transittransit systemsystem Table of Contents

Introduction...... 2-3

Central Light Rail Stations 30th • Downing...... 4. 25th, 27th, 29th • Welton...... 5. 16th • California...... 6. Convention Center • Performing Arts...... 7. Colfax at Auraria ...... 8. 10th • Osage...... 9. Alameda...... 10. I-25 • Broadway...... 11. Central Platte Valley Light Rail Stations Union Station ...... 12. Pepsi Center • Elitch Gardens ...... 13. INVESCO Field at Mile High ...... 14 Auraria West Campus...... 15. Southwest Light Rail Stations Evans...... 16. Englewood ...... 17. Oxford • City of Sheridan...... 18. Littleton • Downtown ...... 19 Littleton • Mineral ...... 20. Southeast Light Rail Stations Louisiana • Pearl...... 22. University of Denver ...... 23. Colorado...... 24. Yale...... 25. Southmoor ...... 26. Dayton...... 27. Nine Mile...... 28. Belleview...... 29. Orchard...... 30. Arapahoe at Village Center...... 31. Dry Creek ...... 32. County Line...... 33. Lincoln...... 34. Bus Stations and other Transfer Facilities Civic Center Station...... 36. Market Street Station...... 37. Colfax and Federal...... 38-40 Tufts Flyover...... 41. How to Ride RTD ...... 42-43 Light Rail System Map...... 44-45 Introduction

You’re probably familiar with art walks…but did you know that in metro What kind of art will you Denver, you can take an art Ride? see on RTD?

Thanks to RTD’s art-n-Transit program, As you ride RTD, you’ll notice two types of public you can enjoy an eclectic array of public art art. The first consists of art enhancements — artistic pieces at more than 30 light rail stations and elements incorporated into the design of the transit bus terminals throughout the metro area. station. These include windscreens, benches, This brochure is designed to help you take a canopies, railings and other basic architectural self-guided tour of those artworks and learn features that provide functional benefits and more about the art behind the transit. make stations and terminals easily identifiable.

The true centerpieces of the art-n-Transit program What is art-n-Transit? are the site-specific commissioned artworks. These murals, mosaics, sculptures and other Since 1994, the mission of RTD’s art-n-Transit imaginative installations were created by artists program has been to enhance the design, hired to produce unique works of art that reflect aesthetic quality and user friendliness of the surrounding community and add an identifying transit projects, as well as to foster transit- element to the neighborhood. Community oriented community development. members participate in the selection process for each of these commissioned art projects. The art-n-Transit program is based on RTD’s belief that public art helps provide a stronger We invite you to take a ride on RTD and connection between neighborhoods and transit. get a first-hand glimpse at one of the metro Installing artwork at transit facilities creates a area’s most innovative art collections! sense of community and provides opportunities to celebrate the diverse cultural, ethnic and historical richness of the many communities RTD serves. In addition to enhancing the beauty of the entire transit system, public art also helps discourage vandalism and graffiti.

2 3 central corridor

30th • Downing 25th, 27th, Light Rail Station 29th • Welton Light Rail Stations

Lady Doctor Untitled Jess DuBois Darrel Anderson Dedication Date: 1998 Dedication Date: 1996

This sculpture pays tribute to the first Five Points’ legacy of great music and African-American doctor licensed in the community served as the inspiration State of Colorado, Dr. Justina Ford. During for these colorful mosaics, located on Dr. Ford’s 50 years of practice, she delivered the light rail station access ramps. over 7,000 babies. The artwork is located on the plaza along Downing Street.

4 5 central corridor

16th • California Convention Center • Light Rail Station Performing Arts Light Rail Station Photo by Ron Ruscio

Ha-no-oo Star Calendar Doing Your Dance in Denver Scott Parsons Dwight Atkinson Dedication Date: 1997 Dedication Date: 2007

A 500-square-foot granite mosaic walkway. An interactive light installation using sensors “Ha-no-oo” is the Arapahoe word for “galaxy.” and light helps visitors perform their own Just as the stars are used for navigation, “Dance of Denver.” As a dancer operates the artist Scott Parsons relates the light rail system, a variety of illustrations and slogans station as “a metaphor for navigation.” The light up on the stainless steel mirror, providing mosaic itself represents the 10,000-year amusement and faux guidance, whimsically history of native migrations as displayed in defining the three areas of Denver dance: the night skies above Colorado, recorded commerce, nature and sport. The installation in 21 indigenous languages. The mosaic is adjacent to the southbound boarding area. walkway is adjacent to the light rail tracks.

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Colfax at Auraria 10th • Osage Light Rail Station Light Rail Station

Bookmark Denver Colorado Mestizaje Donna Billick Emanuel Martinez Dedication Date: 2002 Dedication Date: 2003

Two terrazzo benches with book replicas are The sculpture is a synthesis of images that bench backs and seats. The images on the represents Mexican culture through the bench backs portray Denver and Colorado. 1960s civil rights movement, to the United The theme of the books was selected to Farm Workers labor struggle and the urban honor the multiple institutions committed Chicano movement. The sculpture is located to the education and enlightenment of their on the lawn north of the station plaza. community. The benches are on the plaza between the light rail tracks and the campus.

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Alameda I-25 • Broadway Light Rail Station Light Rail Station

Hand Up The Welcoming Committee Scott Donohue Elaine Calzolari Dedication Date: 1998 Dedication Date: 1997

Two statues show diversity and history These three modernistic granite monuments throughout the world. Each figure is made were created, in part, from sculptures up of different patterned sections and makes salvaged from demolished buildings. Some a composite of many people from various of the main components include materials cultures, races and times. The statues are from an old mausoleum, fragments from located northwest of the bus drop-off area. granite quarries and other architectural remnants. Ms. Calzolari’s vision for this sculpture was to inject humor and add the stamp of humanity in an almost sleek, manufactured environment. The sculptures stand in the island south of the bus gates.

10 11 cpv corridor

Union Station Pepsi Center • Light Rail Station Elitch Gardens Light Rail Station

Winter Crossing Seven Sisters Stephen Batura David Griggs Dedication Date: 2002 Dedication Date: 2002

This 8 x 24 foot mural is located above Seven sculptures are along the wall between the entrance to the pedestrian walkway the light rail platform and the Pepsi Center. inside Denver Union Station from the Through a joint project with the Denver Wynkoop Street entrance. The mural is a Urban Renewal Authority, these whimsical representation of a steam freighter crossing figures were designed to acknowledge the a viaduct-type bridge in winter. Its muted playful attractions of the Platte Valley. colors of green, blue and yellow have been coordinated to fit in with the décor of the historic Denver Union Station.

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INVESCO Field at Auraria West Campus Mile High Light Rail Station Light Rail Station

Pig Skins Destinations Troy Corliss Donna Billick Dedication Date: 2002 Dedication Date: 2003

Five oversized terrazzo footballs tilted in A gateway arch is between the station and different angles give the appearance of the Auraria Higher Education campus. The wobbling balls on the main plaza of the light idea suggests the transformation education rail station. Each football represents a different provides the students in their journey into the era in the development of the “pigskin.” world of opportunities. The items on the arch are a compilation of sports balls, a gold nugget and maize representing important elements from the past and present in Auraria’s history.

14 15 southwest corridor

Evans Englewood Light Rail Station Light Rail Station

People Hereabouts Glass Panel Windscreen Overland Neighborhood Association Outdoor Museum Ray Tomasso Jack Unruh Dedication Date: 2000 Dedication Date: 2000

The Overland Neighborhood Association The glass panel windscreen in the center of presents a series of text and image historical the platform portrays the interaction between vignettes about the area in an outdoor the dreams, hopes and aspirations of society museum exhibit. Over 70 small panels are and the entropy caused by time. According mounted to five colorful steel kiosks to artist Ray Tomasso, the subject matter of standing between the light rail plaza and the the windscreen includes, “fragments that park-n-Ride. “People Hereabouts” is an exhibit shift across the subconscious leaving only to remind you that you are making history! a shadow, an essence of a patina, the dust found in a crack, a word left behind, flotsam found along a lost highway, the desk of an unknown and forgotten author, link from a lost love, broken dreams of neon…” 16 17 southwest corridor

Oxford • Littleton • Downtown City of Sheridan Light Rail Station Light Rail Station

Untitled Michelle Lamb Dedication Date: 2000 Untitled The Sheridan School District (Grades K-12) Dedication Date: 2000 Measuring 40’ x 7’ tall, the Littleton • Downtown Light Rail Station mural was painted on eight individual metal A multi-color mosaic adorns the retaining panels installed on the wall west of the wall at the Oxford • City of Sheridan Light platform leading to the park-n-Ride. The Rail Station. Each of the one thousand 12” inspiration for the mural comes from the x 12” ceramic tiles in the mosaic depicts book “Settlement to Centennial” by Robert a form of transportation and was hand McQuarie and from a wealth of archive drawn by a child from one of four schools photos and information at the Littleton in the Sheridan School District. The Historical Museum. The mural depicts over schools included Alice Terry Elementary, 50 historical structures, most of which exist Fort Logan Elementary, Sheridan Middle less than five minutes from the light rail School and Sheridan High School. station. The seasons in the mural change from spring to winter and the light from morning to night as you look from left to right. 18 19 southwest corridor

Littleton • Mineral Light Rail Station

The Silver Band of Present Time Robert Tully Dedication Date: 2000 The themes of technology and the environment are captured in the solar powered clock tower at the Littleton • Mineral Light Rail Station between the pedestrian bridge and the stairway to the park-n- Ride. The vastness of time is glue that lets us live with so many rational unknowns; the present is a source of enlightenment, contentment, creativity and knowledge. The artwork is complex, like a personality. It is a weaving of technology, nature and time that is both colorful and fragile.

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Louisiana • Pearl University of Denver Light Rail Station Light Rail Station

Stange Machine Reflective Discourse Ira Sherman John Goe Dedication Date: 2006 Dedication Date: 2006

An overhead, kinetic sculpture can be A series of blue steel panels with cut-out turned by an orb on the station platform. It words. The words in the tunnel reflect is a tubular metal with blue neon highlights community and motion, and the words on the and resembles a train wheel in motion. The outside wall reflect learning and education. artwork is on the platform down by the train. The color blue of the artwork conveys This sculpture is one of the first ever public confidence and importance and has a logical outdoor monumental kinetic sculptures in connection to nature—the sky. The steel panels Colorado that the viewer can set into motion. are in the pedestrian tunnel inside the parking structure and on the wall on the University of Denver side of the parking structure.

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Colorado Yale Light Rail Station Light Rail Station

Big Boots People Ries Niemi Gregory Gove Dedication Date: 2006 Dedication Date: 2007

A pair of 7’ cowboy boots are made from A series of compositions are scattered stainless steel containing intricate detailing. across the wall between the park-n-Ride and They sit side by side between the light rail the light rail platform, which relate to one station and the park-n-Ride on the east end. another. “My idea for the Yale Station wall The “Big Boots” draw their inspiration from came out of my thinking about the constant Native American rug designers, Mexican shifting and changing of communities as Pitiado patterns, Pueblo Deco architecture various people travel to and from them of the 1930’s and Gene Autry’s stage wear. via the light rail system.” – G. Gove

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Southmoor Dayton Light Rail Station Light Rail Station

Harmonic Pass: Denver Windswept Christopher Janney Christopher Weed Dedication Date: 2006 Dedication Date: 2006

A multi-dimensional interactive piece includes These stainless steel poles with large splashes of colored lights along the pedestrian bright red spheres travel on the edge of tunnel walls under I-25 on the way to the the pedestrian bridge that crosses the station. Each of the lights has emanating wetlands area between the park-n-Ride sounds that are started when someone walks and the elevator to the light rail station. by them. A riddle in the tunnel, that when “Windswept” transforms the viewers as solved by stepping in front of the lights in the they walk through a field of brightly colored correct order, will congratulate the winner steel that seems to be in perpetual motion. by playing a light and sound melody.

26 27 southeast corridor

Nine Mile Belleview Light Rail Station Light Rail Station

Yet Another Way To Know That Thunder over the Rockies Nature Will Eventually Win Richard Elliott Dwight Atkinson Dedication Date: 2006 Dedication Date: 2006

A glowing textured metal chandelier depicts A geometric pattern of roadway reflectors the perceived conflict between humanity illuminate as people walk through the and technology. Overlapping aluminum pedestrian tunnel, just north of the light panels form a turbine symbolically collide rail station. It is the first reflectorized art with the ceiling. Nature’s nymph emerges, tunnel in the world. The unique convergence while metallic vines grasp the suspending of the high plains meeting the Rockies, structure. The chandelier is overhead as western culture intertwined with native you enter the pedestrian tunnel between the influences and the ghost of herds of wild stairs to the platform and the park-n-Ride. buffalo running along the freeway is what inspired “Thunder over the Rockies.”

28 29 southeast corridor

Orchard Arapahoe at Light Rail Station Village Center Light Rail Station

Orchard Memory Nucleus Wopo Holup Michael Clapper Dedication Date: 2006 Dedication Date: Expected 2010

A combination of two distinctive items— Three sculptures made from sandstone stamped concrete portraying apple leaves and marble will be placed in the plaza area magnified 400 times in the area between just west of the light rail station. The three the park-n-Ride and the light rail station interlocking forms will each be 6’ x 10’ and platforms—are in remembrance of the when placed together, will convey a sense apple orchards that were grown on this of interdependence. Set in an open, reverse site. In addition, stainless steel birds are curved pattern, this installation of timeless sitting on the fence posts just above the forms will serve as an interactive focal point stamped concrete. This work is about for the new town center of Greenwood Village. memory and simple observation in nature.

30 31 southeast corridor

Dry Creek County Line Light Rail Station Light Rail Station

Fools Gold John McEnroe Dedication Date: 2006 Plow This series of colorful stainless steel tubes Emmett Culligan holding hourglasses contain pyrite. These Dedication Date: 2006 tubes vary in size and are placed on the wall heading to the light rail station from the parking structure. They can be turned and A free-standing sculpture of an old fashioned people can watch the pyrite flow through the plow was designed in recognition of the use hourglass. This piece suggests the idea that of this land in the near past and far past. over-development is our modern fools gold. The plow sits in a landscaped area that is “Fools Gold” highlights the precious nature half prairie grasses and half rows of crops of our water resources while at the same time near the bottom of the stairs leading to the pays homage to the historical significance pedestrian bridge on the east side of I-25. of this site. One of the earliest gold strikes documented in Colorado was here in Dry Creek and fueled the Colorado Gold Rush.

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Lincoln Light Rail Station

Sun Stream Ray King Dedication Date: 2006

A series of iridescent, dichotic glass panels were placed on the south side of the five-level parking structure. The glass panels change color depending on time of year and time of day.

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Civic Center Market Street Station Station

Untitled Douglas Kornfeld King and Queen Dedication Date: 2002 Brian Swanson Dedication Date: 2001

A ceramic tile wall mural is 50’ x 7’ and is installed inside the station between Gates Two statues of chess pieces double as 1 and 2. The mural, depicting two arms benches and game tables. The sculptures reaching out to shake hands, is made up of are composed of found objects combined more than 3,500 tiles. Each handmade tile with stock steel shapes such as bar, sheet has an international person symbol glazed and woven wire cloth. The found objects are onto its surface depicting the physical and most often components of machine tools, psychological diversity of RTD’s passengers. appliances, automotive, agricultural and The mural symbolizes the movement when a hand tools. These sculptures stand outside passenger is transformed, by a handshake, the south entrance to Market Street Station. from an anonymous traveler into a unique person at the beginning or end of a journey.

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Colfax and Federal Colfax and Federal Bus Transfer Facility Bus Transfer Facility

Butterfly Hope Windscreen Interdependence Children from Cheltenham Elementary Michael Clapper Dedication Date: 2006 Dedication Date: 2006

The facility windscreen features hand- A series of three sandstone sculptures feature painted tiles of local landmarks created children’s handprints pressed into the piece. by children from Butterfly Hope, an art The handprints come from the local children in program sponsored by local Cheltenham the neighborhood. The sculptures are located Elementary. This project was supervised west of the bus gates in the plaza area. by artist Bob Luna. The windscreen is west of the bus gates in the plaza area.

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Colfax and Federal Tufts Flyover Bus Transfer Facility

Benches Universal Travel Bob Luna Susan Cooper Dedication Date: 2008 Dedication Date: 2002

These arc style benches are topped with A wall sculpture symbolizes our orbital the mosaic tile work of artist Bob Luna. The transportation systems. The travel systems benches are located in the center of the plaza. depicted are the earth which travels in its orbit in one day, the moon which circles the earth in one month, and the sun around which the earth orbits in one year. This artwork can be seen by drivers traveling along south Santa Fe Drive at Quincy.

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RTD Day Pass Ticket & Pass Sales

If you want to make a day of enjoying RTD’s Regular and discounted ticket public art, the easiest and most affordable books and passes are available for option is the RTD Day Pass. You can save purchase at the following locations: money by purchasing a Day Pass rather than multiple individual tickets, and you can RTD-Denver.com get on and off light rail (and RTD buses) as Visa, MasterCard and Discover many times as you want. Choose from Local, accepted. Free shipping and handling. Express and Regional Day Passes for unlimited one-day travel on a specified level of bus or RTD Sales Outlets light rail service or purchase a 5-Day Pass Market Street Station for unlimited rides on all levels of bus and Market/16th Street Mall, Denver light rail service for five consecutive days. Civic Center Station Day Passes are available at RTD Sales Broadway/16th Street Mall, Denver Outlets, the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau in Downtown Denver at Boulder Transit Center 16th/California or online at RTD-Denver.com. 14th/Walnut, Boulder For more information on the Day Pass or other fare options, call 303.299.6000. RTD Sales Counter at DIA West Terminal, Level 5

Route and Schedule Other Sales Outlets Information: King Soopers and Safeway stores at the Customer Service Center For more information about light rail or bus schedules, log on to RTD-Denver.com or call 303.299.6000.

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