"Uptown: A Place for Art & Community" by Jason Needham and Downtown Aurora Visual Arts in Aurora - Murals

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"Uptown: A Place for Art & Community" by Jason Needham and Downtown Aurora Visual Arts

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Uptown – 1 of 5 murals (Copyright © City of Aurora Art in Public Places & Jason Needham)

9990 East Colfax Avenue

Aurora, CO 80010

303-739-6747

dsmiller@auroragov.org

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39.74° N 104.87° W

Uptown depicts a colorful community street scene as experienced by the youth that live in the area. Needham led the young artists through a six month series of foundational drawings, paintings and writing exercises to create this vibrant series of five murals.

Highlights

Uptown is one if eight significant public artworks that define Aurora’s East End Arts District, a 16-block area located generally along the historic commercial corridor from Clinton to Geneva streets on East Colfax Avenue. Public art in the District reinvigorates Aurora’s orignial downtown.

Access

Located on the east side of Aaron’s Furniture, 9990 E. Colfax Avenue

History

Commissioned by the City of Aurora Art in Public Places Program. Funding made possible by a Community Development Block Grant received by the Urban Renewal Divsion.