{"id":16953,"date":"2019-07-24T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T18:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=58980"},"modified":"2019-07-25T08:23:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:23:05","slug":"granby-to-form-public-art-committee-following-murals-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/granby-to-form-public-art-committee-following-murals-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Granby to form public art committee following murals controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the murals of RKY MTN WALLS on the back of the Granby Visitor\u2019s Center.<\/strong>
Emma Trainor \/ etrainor@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

For the third time in less than a month, Granby\u2019s Board of Trustees dug into the town\u2019s controversial mural festival as the board took steps to begin developing a public art committee.<\/p>\n

A modest crowd gathered Tuesday night at Granby Town Hall for a scheduled discussion about the art festival known as Rky Mtn Walls held earlier this summer.<\/p>\n

The discussion began with several citizens expressing their views on the art that was produced in June as part of the festival. A series of local residents, business owners and property owners spoke about the impacts the art has had and what they would like to see from any efforts to produce public artwork in the future.<\/p>\n

Grady Boomer, who owns the building housing Lion Head Coffee, said he thought the artists did a \u201cspectacular job,\u201d but Boomer took issue with the process.<\/p>\n

According to Boomer, he was approached earlier this year by officials from Granby\u2019s Main Street Program, which put on the mural festival, inquiring whether he would be interested in having a mural on his building. Boomer said he raised concerns about long-term maintenance of the mural and the content that would be produced.<\/p>\n

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Work progresses on the mural on the east side of the L.A. Eatery building in Granby.<\/strong>
Bryce Martin \/ bmartin@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI did have one request,\u201d Boomer said. \u201cI knew I wasn\u2019t going to be able to tell the artists what I wanted done, and that\u2019s fine. But I wanted to know what was going on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boomer said he just wanted a general idea of what would be painted on his building. He said officials from Granby Main Street told him they would give him details about the mural prior to the start of the festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext thing, I knew stuff was being put on the building,\u201d Boomer said. \u201cI would have appreciated if they respected me enough to tell me what they were going to put on my building before they started.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boomer noted that he would have agreed to what was ultimately produced. He said the artwork \u201clooks awesome,\u201d but he stressed the importance of good communication.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think communication needs to be improved next go-around,\u201d Boomer said. \u201cIt was a lot of work to put this on, and for a first go-around they did a decent job, but there are places where it could be improved, and communication is key.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Work on the mural on the Sky-Hi News annex building, the only mural that will be directly on and facing Highway 40.<\/strong>
Bryce Martin \/ bmartin@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Much of the Tuesday\u2019s discussion revolved around the process that led to the development of the mural festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy personal feeling is we need a public art committee so that the public is involved,\u201d Mayor Paul Chavoustie said. \u201cPublic art should be chosen by the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other town board members expressed a sense of frustration that the issue of the art that was produced continues to be a major point of town discussions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s done is done,\u201d Trustee Cathy Tindle said. \u201cWe need to move forward. We need to quit beating this horse to death. Let\u2019s move forward and get the committee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Granby\u2019s trustees approved an ordinance establishing a public art committee and are currently soliciting letters of interest from citizens who want to participate.<\/p>\n

Under the ordinance approved Tuesday, any Granby resident, individual who owns a business within the community or anyone with an 80446 zip code \u2014 which includes areas of unincorporated Grand County immediately surrounding Granby \u2014 are eligible to become committee members.<\/p>\n

The town plans to hammer out additional details, such as the exact number of committee members, after gauging initial public interest and seeing how many citizens volunteer.<\/p>\n

Committee members will serve terms of staggered lengths with some serving two-year terms and others on four-year terms. The town plans to have the public art committee initially work to develop a more comprehensive public art process and policy that will go back before the town board for final adoption.<\/p>\n

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The unfinished mural on the east side of the Spirits-N-Things building in downtown Granby.<\/strong>
Bryce Martin \/ bmartin@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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One of the murals of RKY MTN WALLS on the back of the Granby Visitor\u2019s Center.Emma Trainor \/ etrainor@skyhinews.com For the third time in less than a month, Granby\u2019s Board of Trustees dug into the town\u2019s controversial mural festival as the board took steps to begin developing a public art committee. A modest crowd gathered […]<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 02:45:06","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":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16967,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953\/revisions\/16967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}