Art
The free Lyons Studio Tour (formerly Lyons Artique) is held each year,since 2004, for one weekend in May or June with up to 50 artists showing their work in their home studios, or in Lyons shops and galleries. For two years, there was a Sculpture Trail with several dozens pieces made specifically for the Trail. It featured a trail of outdoor sculptures along a pre-determined path. An annual booklet had quotes from the artists, and contained a story that people could follow as they took the Trail. Kristine Smock and John King developed the Trail, and had a collaborative piece placed at the entrance to Main Street for one year. Polar Bear artist Barbara Stone was the first artist to have a permanent sculpture installed. A ring of bear stone etched tiles were placed next to the Lyons Depot Library.
Lyons Arts and Humanities Council is an instrumental group in helping to promote art in downtown Lyons, and its artists' works. There are several pieces of permanent public art, including sculptures made of local sandstone, such as giant eggs, flower containers, a fountain, a small performance stage, and more.
In 2008 and 2009, the town renovated its two main streets to include sandstone sidewalks and features, floral decorations, seating areas and sculptures. It won the Governor's Award for Downtown Excellence .
As a public community art project, a mural depicting life in Lyons, called Lyons Past, Present and Future, was placed on the outdoor wall of the Visitor Center in June 2003. At that time, the group gave itself the name Confluence Community Arts (CoCoA) . It is mainly run by Cathy Rivers and Priscalla Cohan, who have gone on to start a second project, call The Clarifier Project which involves the communitiy painting tiles to decorate the old circular cement building next to the St. Vrain River.
Notable cultural arts residents include: artist Barbara Stone, poet George Moore, author Ann Ripley, writer/photographer Kathleen Spring and sculptors John King and Bruce Campbell who reside in the Lyons area.
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Famous quotes containing the word art:
“We should always remember that the work of art is invariably the creation of a new world, so that the first thing we should do is to study that new world as closely as possible, approaching it as something brand new, having no obvious connection with the worlds we already know. When this new world has been closely studied, then and only then let us examine its links with other worlds, other branches of knowledge.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“If we can learn ... to look at the ways in which various groups appropriate and use the mass-produced art of our culture ... we may well begin to understand that although the ideological power of contemporary cultural forms is enormous, indeed sometimes even frightening, that power is not yet all-pervasive, totally vigilant, or complete.”
—Janice A. Radway (b. 1949)
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance ... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)