Courtesy of Creative Alliance Manitou Springs
Creative Alliance Manitou Springs has been boosting Manitou Springs’ public art collection throughout 2022, in honor of the city’s 2022 Sesquicentennial Celebration. CRANE doubled the usual number of curated works installed in a single year, and for the first time added a mural to make a total of eight new installations.
CRANE is conducting an online vote to honor the public’s favorite new installation with the People’s Choice Award. The winning selection’s artist will receive a Creative Alliance cash price of $1,500 funded as part of a grant for the project from the Manitou Arts, Culture, and Heritage (MACH) tax initiative.
CRANE’s Public Art Committee also will honor one of the new installations, making a $2,500 artistic excellence cash prize to an artist based on levels of visual impact, craftsmanship, emotional impact and thought-provoking.
To vote or to learn more about Art on the Avenue, visit tiny.cc/artontheave and submit your vote by Dec. 12. The winners will be announced later that week.
The eight new installations, from east to west, are:
- “The Dance of TAVA” mural by K8e Orr and Joel Newmiller, Hiawatha Gardens;
- “The Serpent Waver” by Mel Whitcomb, 7 Minute Spring Park;
- “Revivification” by Zach Tabb, 7 Minute Spring Park;
- “Spiral Dance Flourish” by Harold Linke, 7 Minute Spring Park;
- “Magnify” by Kirk Seese, Shoshone Spring Park;
- “Sandstorm” by Justin Deister, 735 Manitou Ave.;
- “Germination” by Gregory Fields, 934 Manitou Ave.; and
- “Comforting Melody” by Antonio Flaminio, 962 Manitou Ave.