Reception wall with the Colorado River District logo and a carved blue river inlaid across maple panels

Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Colorado
River District

A workplace art program that maps the river itself, made for the people who steward the Colorado.

For the District's offices in Glenwood Springs, a centerpiece anchors the reception while regional photography and landscape painting carry a sense of place through the building. Each piece was sourced and placed with care, holding together as a single, quiet collection.

The work draws on the region's landscapes, its history, and the hands of local artists, echoing the District's own care for the water and country of the Colorado River basin. That commitment to place runs through how the collection was built: in all, the project supported 4 independent artists and 8 small businesses, 7 of them local.

ArchitectF&M Architects
PhotographyTony Prikryl
Year2024
Scope
Site Assessment01Curation & Placement02Sourcing & Acquisitions03Commission Development & Management04Framing05Installation Oversight06
Original oil painting of a Colorado valley and mountains, framed above a console with a vase and books
Detail of the Colorado valley oil painting, showing the blue mountains, green hills, and a farmstead in the golden valley
Framed vintage map of Colorado on the office kitchen wall beneath black pendant lights
Two cowboys on horseback crossing a shallow river beneath autumn hillsides
Stacked pair of framed photographs of a high-country cattle drive at dusk beside a potted plant
Photograph of two riders moving cattle along a high ridgeline trail at dusk with distant snow peaks
Two framed illustrations of Colorado peaks, Uncompahgre Peak and Maroon Bells, on a slatted wood wall
Corridor lined with five large framed Colorado landscape photographs and a relief map at the end