A youth-created work of public art gets a stronger, more weather-resistant future.
In 2023, students from Nucla, Naturita, Telluride, and Placerville came together to create Schroomzillah — a colorful, whimsical sculpture that became Nucla’s first-ever youth-created public art piece.
The Rocky Mountain Arts Student Project is ready to be revealed—and you’re invited to celebrate with us!
Youth sculpture workshop build alive with creativity, and Sunday saw an inspiring overlap with our welding workshop.
An Important Announcement, A Difficult Decision. …And, An Evolution. Rocky Mountain Arts has made a difficult decision to cancel the Telluride Fire Festival for this December. Regrettably, San Miguel County will not permit the Festival to use the recently paved road at the end of the box canyon. As we no longer have an outdoor […]
Expert artists/builders and an architect guide the students during the entire program. Participants are involved for as many days as they wish. The final sculpture will be on display in Telluride, Norwood, Nucla, and Naturita for part of the year. Participants will be named on signage with sculpture.
We’re exciting about helping Camp Porta Party and their amazing Art Car, Hel’s Diner. This is a nonprofit organization just like us. We can totally relate to the struggles of maintaining an Art Car (AKA Mutant Vehicle) for public use at Burning Man’s annual event.
Rocky Mountain Arts (RMA) is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to receive a Challenge America award of $10,000. The grant will support a Community Build Sculpture Project for youth. This grant is one of 262 Challenge America awards totaling $2.62 million that were announced by […]
See Impermanence transformed by flames at Resurrection Dec. 3! From an array of reclaimed and stripped old deck boards, Impermanence is well on its way to fruition for the Telluride Fire Festival. “This project has been a welcome creative challenge, and I can’t wait to share its transformation from a completed sculpture, to a flaming beacon, to […]
Nate Robertson and Garrett Briones will be bringing Hex Machina, an interactive propane fire “poofer” or “boosh” effect. Essentially, this is a gigantic, interactive lantern: Visitors can push a button to release a burst of fire within the large steel hexagonal lantern which is seated above a 22 ft hexagonal steel framework. This flame effect is […]
Rocky Mountain Arts will collaborate with True North Youth Program to produce a wood building sculpture workshop for teens through support from Alpine Bank. The completed art installation will be on display on December 3 at the Telluride Fire Festival. All students will be invited to attend the event in December. THE DEETS: Oct 1 […]