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MALL FEST 50 art parade: June 27
Celebrating “What we love about this place”!
We made something big and you were a part of it. Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Mall Fest 50 Art Parade in collaboration with by Aspen Public Art and The Red Brick Center for the Arts. We hosted Free costume and prop workshops for the public and we re-imagined the 1893 Silver Queen, using only reclaimed and donated materials in celebration of what we LOVE about this place!
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This place is great because our community makes it great
We present a re-imagining of the Silver Queen sculpture from 1893, which showcased what mattered to Aspen at the time. In an earnest attempt to keep the value of Silver tied to the US currency – upon which Aspen's economy was dependent – locals created and sent the sculpture to the World's Fair. Today in 2026, in celebration of our community, we take a look again at what we value, what we want to value, and what actually has the most value. We wondered what if the Silver Queen wasn't an object in a boat, representing a commodity we were mining from the land, but rather she became the vessel that carries and cares for the things we love and are privileged enough to enjoy about this place, and to honor the natural world that long came before us. She is made only of reclaimed materials, saved from dumpsters, donated by friends, scrounged from collections... An exercise in creative problem-solving and resourcefulness. She is a collective piece made possible by and inspired by the community – by artists, educators, adventurers, thinkers, scientists, caretakers, farmers, and doers who have come before us and are growing up in our midst.
