{"id":1380985,"date":"2018-12-05T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/glenwood-springs-community-weighs-in-on-north-landing-sculpture-ideas\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:44:00","slug":"glenwood-springs-community-weighs-in-on-north-landing-sculpture-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/glenwood-springs-community-weighs-in-on-north-landing-sculpture-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenwood Springs community weighs in on North Landing sculpture ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Matthew Bennett<\/a><\/span> Glenwood Springs residents participated in the final public art charrette Wednesday evening for the future sculpture that will land on the parcel where the former Grand Avenue Bridge once touched down \u2014 the city-owned North Landing site.
\nArtist Madeline Wiener, a part-time Marble resident whose work, known as “Bench People,” lives in public places from the western Colorado town of Montrose to Scotland, was selected to complete the work.
\nThe new addition to Glenwood’s public art offerings comes thanks to a $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant awarded to the city earlier this year. Wiener will now sculpt a piece of Colorado Yule marble to fit the identity of the town formerly known as Defiance.
\nCommunity members bullet-pointed 35 different words that came to mind ranging from “fun” to “justice,” when asked to describe Glenwood’s values and character.
\nHowever, after a healthy debate, the same participants boiled down the laundry list of opinions to “western,” “environmental,” “hardworking,” “historical” and, above all else, “welcoming.”
\nFor its part, the Post Independent’s current weekly poll asks readers, what aspect of Glenwood should the new North Landing sculpture depict?
\nTo date, 33 percent of online participants voted for “western history” and 29 percent have voted for “river recreation,” while “native people” and “mix of cultures” each have earned 19 percent of the vote.
\nHauling around a bucket full of pieces from “the stone,” as Wiener refers to it, the sculptor invited community members to actually feel the Yule marble that comes from the quarry high in the mountains above the town of Marble.
\nTouch, in and of itself, sits at the forefront at the sculptor’s mind as it relates to her sculptures. Wiener described how she originally started her career as a painter but had a difficult time, “getting to the other side of the canvas.”
\nWiener would frequent art galleries and museums, but was not a fan, to say the least, of not being able to touch the work.
\nWhat will ultimately sit on the North Landing site remains a bit unknown, but rest assured the artist said it will invite people to touch, sit and subsequently fully experience her sculpture.
\nAfter figuring out the town’s “values” and “character,” participants were asked to pinpoint pieces of Glenwood’s past, present and future.
\nThe consensus, again, good question?
\nFollowing an additional spirited discussion, community members honed in on, “having a cast of characters,” “vibrancy,” and being at a “crossroads,” but at the same time a “sanctuary.”
\n“I am all ears,” Wiener said of all of the ideas.
\nAt the end of the meeting, Wiener showed off pictures of her previous work and seemed more than ready to get to work on the Glenwood Springs project.
\n“I have dedicated my career to creating sculpture for public places \u2014 sculpture that is intended to be touched, interacted with, functional \u2014 and I came to designing a series of works that I call bench people,” Wiener, who splits her time between Boulder and Marble, told the Post Independent …read more<\/a> <\/p>\n

Via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glenwood Springs residents participated in the final public art charrette Wednesday evening for the future sculpture that will land on the parcel where the former Grand Avenue Bridge once touched down \u2014 the city-owned North Landing site.
\nArtist Madeline Wiener, a part-time Marble resident whose work, known as “Bench People,” lives in public places from the western Colorado town of Montrose to Scotland, was selected to complete the work.
\nThe new addition to Glenwood’s public art offerings comes thanks to a $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant awarded to the city earlier this year. Wiener will now sculpt a piece of Colorado Yule marble to fit the identity of the town formerly known as Defiance.
\nCommunity members bullet-pointed 35 different words that came to mind ranging from “fun” to “justice,” when asked to describe Glenwood’s values and character.
\nHowever, after a healthy debate, the same participants boiled down the laundry list of opinions to “western,” “environmental,” “hardworking,” “historical” and, above all else, “welcoming.”
\nFor its part, the Post Independent’s current weekly poll asks readers, what aspect of Glenwood should the new North Landing sculpture depict?
\nTo date, 33 percent of online participants voted for “western history” and 29 percent have voted for “river recreation,” while “native people” and “mix of cultures” each have earned 19 percent of the vote.
\nHauling around a bucket full of pieces from “the stone,” as Wiener refers to it, the sculptor invited community members to actually feel the Yule marble that comes from the quarry high in the mountains above the town of Marble.
\nTouch, in and of itself, sits at the forefront at the sculptor’s mind as it relates to her sculptures. Wiener described how she originally started her career as a painter but had a difficult time, “getting to the other side of the canvas.”
\nWiener would frequent art galleries and museums, but was not a fan, to say the least, of not being able to touch the work.
\nWhat will ultimately sit on the North Landing site remains a bit unknown, but rest assured the artist said it will invite people to touch, sit and subsequently fully experience her sculpture.
\nAfter figuring out the town’s “values” and “character,” participants were asked to pinpoint pieces of Glenwood’s past, present and future.
\nThe consensus, again, good question?
\nFollowing an additional spirited discussion, community members honed in on, “having a cast of characters,” “vibrancy,” and being at a “crossroads,” but at the same time a “sanctuary.”
\n“I am all ears,” Wiener said of all of the ideas.
\nAt the end of the meeting, Wiener showed off pictures of her previous work and seemed more than ready to get to work on the Glenwood Springs project.
\n“I have dedicated my career to creating sculpture for public places \u2014 sculpture that is intended to be touched, interacted with, functional \u2014 and I came to designing a series of works that I call bench people,” Wiener, who splits her time between Boulder and Marble, told the Post Independent …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1380985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 04:24:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}