Art on the Streets 2026-2027

Art on the Streets returns to downtown Colorado Springs for its 28th edition, an award-winning outdoor public art exhibit organized by Downtown Ventures, the nonprofit affiliate of Downtown Partnership. The 2026-2027 installment scatters eight new sculptures and four murals across the downtown core, with works on view for a full year along Tejon Street, Pikes Peak Avenue and surrounding blocks. Artists were selected from 130 proposals submitted to an international call for entries, each receiving a 2,000 dollar stipend. Denver artist Michael Brohman anchors the year with Horizon Line, a cluster of four-foot bronze pillars topped by tiny horses, inspired by a residency in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains and the myth of the American West. Other commissions include Lina Perez's Light Totem, Patrick Sullivan's O'Keefe 7, Christopher Thomson's Spiral Pajos #5 Orange, Stephen Landis's Ama at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center sculpture garden, and works by Paul Reimer, Jacob Harvey, Bilhenry Walker, Jay Weets and Polina Soloveichik. Winning artists this year come from Colorado, Canada and Germany. Now in its third decade, the program has brought more than 300 artworks downtown and was central to the area earning state Creative District certification. This year's jurors were Troy Briggs of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Denver-based artist and educator Grow Love, and Jess Preble, gallery director at Cottonwood Center for the Arts. Two of the murals are installed at Artspace, an affordable housing building for artists at 315 Costilla St.