Tag: joy armstrong
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Colorado Springs mural exhibit features nationally known artists
Lady Pink was a despondent teen in the ’70s when she started tagging her boyfriend’s name on walls around her middle school in Brooklyn, N.Y. After he’d been arrested for graffiti and sent back to Puerto Rico, spray painting helped tend her wounded heart. Decades later she still expresses her pain, anger and joy through…
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Colorado Springs resident’s art featured in Hollywood, at Olympics, Burning Man, Coachella
East of Colorado Springs lives a man with a penchant for the whimsical, a thirst for the colossal and an affinity for the natural world. Tentacles of Patrick Shearn’s ebullient mind have reached into many corners of culture and history around the world: Hollywood, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Burning Man, Electric Daisy Carnival…
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New Colorado Springs exhibit inspired by late sculptor Starr Kempf
The spirit of Starr Kempf will live on in a new exhibit. Kempf, the late Colorado Springs artist celebrated for his monumental steel, kinetic sculptures, three of which dot the landscape outside Ent Center for the Arts, is the inspiration for “We Are the Sky,” a new show at Galleries of Contemporary Art at Ent…
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Around Town: 2018 Art on the Streets artists honored at 20th anniversary reception
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The 20th anniversary of Art on the Streets was celebrated June 14 with an opening VIP reception at the Pioneers Museum attended by sponsors, donors and a number of the artists. Seventeen new works are…
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Around Town: 2018 Art on the Streets artists honored at 20th anniversary reception
The 20th anniversary of Art on the Streets was celebrated June 14 with an opening VIP reception at the Pioneers Museum attended by sponsors, donors and a number of the artists. Seventeen new works are displayed throughout downtown, all pinpointed with all public art on a new Downtown Colorado Springs Public Art Map. Look here…