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People walk past the 35-foot tall, 65-foot diameter “Epicenter” sculpture as they enter the new Weidner Field Friday night, April 23, 2021. The $4.5 million sculpture at the entrance to the soccer stadium was reveal to an invited crowd during a tour of the new facility. The Switchbacks play their first match at the stadium Saturday in a preseason game against Orange County. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
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John Hazlehurst
A few days ago two back-to-back emails popped up on my screen â the first from the Denver Art Museum and the second from the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College.
The FACâs missive announced a summer show featuring âforty-eight works from renowned photographer Ansel Adamsâ Museum Set, a series which he felt best represented his lifeâs work.â The traveling show was âorganized by Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA, in association with Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.â Itâll be up from May 26 to Sept. 4.Â
Created more than a decade ago, the show is well traveled, having been exhibited in scores of small museum venues throughout the country (including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Fort Collins in 2011 and the Foothills Arts Center in Golden in 2016). For the FAC, it seems like a worthwhile but somewhat lazy endeavor, prepackaged, pleasant and predictable. Think of it as summer brea
Tyler Burley Courtesy Tyler Burley
Tyler Burley is a Colorado Springs native, and now heâs helping to light up the city in which he was born.Â
The 25-year-old electrical foreman has worked at Encore Electric, a Colorado-based employee-owned company, since he was 18. He recently worked on the Olympic & Paralympic Museum, a three-year-long project he calls âa once-in-a-lifetime build.âÂ
âThereâs never going to be another one of those built around the world for anything,â Burley said.Â
Burley loves the large-scale projects. Right now heâs working on Weidner Field â the new home of the Switchbacks soccer club â thatâs going up Downtown at Sahwatch and Cimarron streets. Â
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