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Night Lights Denver

Daniels & Fisher Tower + KITTREDGE Building + SPARK

Night Lights Denver is a collection of light and projection-based art installations throughout Downtown Denver, including "The People's Projector" at the Daniels & Fisher Tower, the unique two-sided projection on the Kittredge Building, and multiple SPARK window exhibitions.

Venues

Daniels & Fisher Tower (1601 Arapahoe St) + Kittredge Building (1601 Glenarm St) + Various Locations on the 16th Street Mall

Dates and Times

Nightly starting approximately 30 minutes after sunset and looping until midnight

Artists

The artworks are designed by local, national, and international artists, as well as the greater Denver community

Free and All Ages

All programs are FREE to attend and appropriate for all-ages

Our Projection Programs

Daniels & Fisher Tower

1601 Arapahoe Street

Kittredge Building

1601 Glenarm Street

SPARK

16th Street Mall in Downtown Denver

The Artists

Fresh Air

Fresh Air explores lighting and movement techniques to capture an oasis of stillness that only a snowy evening in the mountains can bring. Projected onto the D&F Tower, it invites viewers to experience a peaceful moment outside of the city with gently falling snow and a soft purple sunset.

http://rachelwood.org/

The Entrepreneur

A young entrepreneur follows her dreams, even after peers scoff at her work. I want to remind young people that their ideas and imagination are important and that they can find success in doing what they love.

https://artbydow.myportfolio.com/

Happy Holidays Earthlings

Depicted in watercolor and charcoal, this cozy cabin, gentle snowfall, and winter holly bows came together to make the perfect winter scene. All that was missing was a Christmas tree. Be ready to discover that Holiday cheer is truly universal.

https://www.chelsearomaniello.com/

Benevolent Beasties

"Benevolent Beasties" captures often misunderstood ancient mythological creatures, legendary cryptids and spirit beings simply existing in their habitat of Planet Earth’s cryosphere and winter months. A reminder that even in the midst of fear, the unknown and life’s harshest conditions — the way out is through. Stay curious, open, and never judge a benevolent beastie by its fur, or lack thereof. Contributing artists: Andrii Shramko, Supriya Bhandari, Arie Wijianto, Curtis Bergesen, Jonny DeStefano, Ray Young Chu, Derek Knierim, Jeff Mitchell, Derek Knierim, Jonathan Dodd, Pete Kornowski, Chris Austin, Jash Tracey, Indigo Blu, Krysti Joméi, Eric Joyner, Austin Parkhill, Graham Franciose, Josh Keyes, Brian Serway, Alex Skopje

https://www.birdymagazine.com/

A Frosty Flight

This piece aims to capture the chilly festive energy of the winter season with frosty visuals meeting rich colorful glows on a journey of exploration through a winter wonderland.

https://www.chaske.com/

Snow & Mirrors

A wintery and celestial themed tribute as the 3rd member of the big blue animal family arrives in Denver.

https://www.waveformexp.com/

Winters We Remembered

"Winters We Remembered" is an AI-generated dream collage of holiday themes with an emphasis on the global outdoor Christmas lights tradition that originated in Denver over a century ago. The ethereal quality of the visuals reflect the artist's fleeting memories of holidays past, loved ones lost, and a rapidly changing world.

https://cacheflowe.com/

Goofball Winter

’Twas twilight in Denver, when all through the streets, Goofballs were playing, even a… Oh, no! The wind is picking up!

http://ryanwurst.com/

SPARK Independence Plaza

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location created by Joel Rekiel, Denver Projection Mapping. Windows graciously provided by Independence Plaza.

https://denverprojectionmapping.com/

waveform.exp @ 1555 Champa Street

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location provided by waveform.exp

https://www.waveformexp.com/

waveform.exp @ 1600 California, Unit #3

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location provided by waveform.exp

https://www.waveformexp.com/

Micromonumental Mapping: Essence of Creation

"Micromonumental Mapping: Essence of Creation" is a projection mapping artwork, created by Limelight, featuring a 3D-printed, 1/40-scale model of the Opéra de Lille in France. Viewable through the window as part of the SPARK program, you can see it from Sunset until 2:00 AM daily, located near 16th St and Curtis Street on the ground floor level of the 16th Street Center Parking Garage.

https://limelightart.net/

Fresh Air

Fresh Air explores lighting and movement techniques to capture an oasis of stillness that only a snowy evening in the mountains can bring. Projected onto the D&F Tower, it invites viewers to experience a peaceful moment outside of the city with gently falling snow and a soft purple sunset.

http://rachelwood.org/

The Entrepreneur

A young entrepreneur follows her dreams, even after peers scoff at her work. I want to remind young people that their ideas and imagination are important and that they can find success in doing what they love.

https://artbydow.myportfolio.com/

Happy Holidays Earthlings

Depicted in watercolor and charcoal, this cozy cabin, gentle snowfall, and winter holly bows came together to make the perfect winter scene. All that was missing was a Christmas tree. Be ready to discover that Holiday cheer is truly universal.

https://www.chelsearomaniello.com/

Benevolent Beasties

"Benevolent Beasties" captures often misunderstood ancient mythological creatures, legendary cryptids and spirit beings simply existing in their habitat of Planet Earth’s cryosphere and winter months. A reminder that even in the midst of fear, the unknown and life’s harshest conditions — the way out is through. Stay curious, open, and never judge a benevolent beastie by its fur, or lack thereof. Contributing artists: Andrii Shramko, Supriya Bhandari, Arie Wijianto, Curtis Bergesen, Jonny DeStefano, Ray Young Chu, Derek Knierim, Jeff Mitchell, Derek Knierim, Jonathan Dodd, Pete Kornowski, Chris Austin, Jash Tracey, Indigo Blu, Krysti Joméi, Eric Joyner, Austin Parkhill, Graham Franciose, Josh Keyes, Brian Serway, Alex Skopje

https://www.birdymagazine.com/

A Frosty Flight

This piece aims to capture the chilly festive energy of the winter season with frosty visuals meeting rich colorful glows on a journey of exploration through a winter wonderland.

https://www.chaske.com/

Snow & Mirrors

A wintery and celestial themed tribute as the 3rd member of the big blue animal family arrives in Denver.

https://www.waveformexp.com/

Winters We Remembered

"Winters We Remembered" is an AI-generated dream collage of holiday themes with an emphasis on the global outdoor Christmas lights tradition that originated in Denver over a century ago. The ethereal quality of the visuals reflect the artist's fleeting memories of holidays past, loved ones lost, and a rapidly changing world.

https://cacheflowe.com/

Goofball Winter

’Twas twilight in Denver, when all through the streets, Goofballs were playing, even a… Oh, no! The wind is picking up!

http://ryanwurst.com/

SPARK Independence Plaza

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location created by Joel Rekiel, Denver Projection Mapping. Windows graciously provided by Independence Plaza.

https://denverprojectionmapping.com/

waveform.exp @ 1555 Champa Street

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location provided by waveform.exp

https://www.waveformexp.com/

waveform.exp @ 1600 California, Unit #3

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location provided by waveform.exp

https://www.waveformexp.com/

Micromonumental Mapping: Essence of Creation

"Micromonumental Mapping: Essence of Creation" is a projection mapping artwork, created by Limelight, featuring a 3D-printed, 1/40-scale model of the Opéra de Lille in France. Viewable through the window as part of the SPARK program, you can see it from Sunset until 2:00 AM daily, located near 16th St and Curtis Street on the ground floor level of the 16th Street Center Parking Garage.

https://limelightart.net/

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Let’s Be Dolphins

(Haiku for Daydreaming in Class) Oh, Trapper Keeper Tell me about summers past Ah, Let’s Be Dolphins!

http://ryanwurst.com/

Creature vs. Squatch

No one knows how or when it started, but for as long as we can remember, Creature hates Squatch and Squatch hates Creature. These seemingly similar beings refuse to acknowledge the many things they share in common only to focus on their minor differences. All work is by Arlo White / Hypnotic Turtle.

http://hypnoticturtle.com/

The Waters Edge

This abstract video is made by blending together different clips I have taken from my life over the last year. It is simply meant to tickle the viewers eyes.

https://www.davidageecreations.com/

Good Tasks Around: Denver

"There are three responses to a piece of design—yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.”- Milton Glaser. Videographer: Candice Wells (IG: @candiwerk)

https://www.youtube.com/@Imtyphy

Transmutations: An Exquisite Corpse Experiment

Transmutations is the culmination of a year-long collaborative project in which eight artists created a series of moving image works, each inspired solely by the final twenty seconds of the preceding artist’s piece. This project, done in the process of the Surrealist parlor game Exquisite Corpse had one directive: each work must originate through an analog photographic or film process before being transmuted into digital form for projection onto Denver’s iconic Daniels & Fisher Tower. The title speaks to the alchemical journey of transformation, where the tactile and chemical properties of analog materials—silver halides, acetates, nitrates, pigments, and iron salts—are transfigured into non-physical streams of digital code. Curated by Shana-Cruz Thompson and featuring Jason Biehner, Ahmed Salvador, Sapphire Goss, Kevin Hoth, Leah Diament, Markus Puskar, & Sharifa Lafon. Pictured: "Hothroids re-animated" by Kevin Hoth

https://shanacruzthompson.com/transmutations

Let’s Be Dolphins

(Haiku for Daydreaming in Class) Oh, Trapper Keeper Tell me about summers past Ah, Let’s Be Dolphins!

http://ryanwurst.com/

Creature vs. Squatch

No one knows how or when it started, but for as long as we can remember, Creature hates Squatch and Squatch hates Creature. These seemingly similar beings refuse to acknowledge the many things they share in common only to focus on their minor differences. All work is by Arlo White / Hypnotic Turtle.

http://hypnoticturtle.com/

The Waters Edge

This abstract video is made by blending together different clips I have taken from my life over the last year. It is simply meant to tickle the viewers eyes.

https://www.davidageecreations.com/

Good Tasks Around: Denver

"There are three responses to a piece of design—yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.”- Milton Glaser. Videographer: Candice Wells (IG: @candiwerk)

https://www.youtube.com/@Imtyphy

Transmutations: An Exquisite Corpse Experiment

Transmutations is the culmination of a year-long collaborative project in which eight artists created a series of moving image works, each inspired solely by the final twenty seconds of the preceding artist’s piece. This project, done in the process of the Surrealist parlor game Exquisite Corpse had one directive: each work must originate through an analog photographic or film process before being transmuted into digital form for projection onto Denver’s iconic Daniels & Fisher Tower. The title speaks to the alchemical journey of transformation, where the tactile and chemical properties of analog materials—silver halides, acetates, nitrates, pigments, and iron salts—are transfigured into non-physical streams of digital code. Curated by Shana-Cruz Thompson and featuring Jason Biehner, Ahmed Salvador, Sapphire Goss, Kevin Hoth, Leah Diament, Markus Puskar, & Sharifa Lafon. Pictured: "Hothroids re-animated" by Kevin Hoth

https://shanacruzthompson.com/transmutations

Portal Mycelia

Inspiration came when Senior Artist Alex Riczko read an article about mycelium found on asteroids, and how there is a chance mushrooms effectively came from space. That inspired the visual of bioluminescent mycelium, producing energy so dense and powerful that it has the ability to form portals to other dimensions.

http://www.limelight.art

Oracles Oracle

A sphere is a unitary entity, not easily integrated into a collective body. "Oracles Oracle" is then an exploration of the solitary nature of a sphere, even in a crowded space. Among the chaos of spheres raining down into the Kittredge Building, each object remains itself, continually jostling for position in the crush of objects. The spheres do not become a unit but a crowd, packed together, waiting for the time they can regain their freedom of movement. Just as the Kittredge Building fills entirely with spheres, the floor drops out from beneath the spheres, dispersing them like seeds into the darkness.

https://paulusvanhorne.com/

Working Drawing

"Working Drawing" examines the medium of drawing as the primary document by which architects communicate construction information. But what happens if an architect begins to produce different kinds of drawings to communicate more than just the organizational rationales of construction? Where does beauty live in the architect's drawing, and how is it communicated before the building is built? Looking at line drawings, impressionist paintings and mosaic collages, "Working Drawing" imagines which personas that Denver's Kittredge Building could adopt relative to different possible forms of architectural practice.

http://richardmapes.net/

Convolutions

"Convolutions" is a real-time algorithmic animation system that was built specifically to spill across the architecture of the historic Kittredge Building. Built with Cacheflowe's personal creative coding framework called "Haxademic", the software runs continuously, displaying new combinations of patterns and effects that will never repeat the same image. The title ("Convolutions") refers to the low-level graphical processing steps that encourage the organic ornamentations to dance around the surface of the building.

https://cacheflowe.com/

"Facets 888v"

"Facets 888v" is a real-time generative artwork - a software application that runs indefinitely and creates an ever-shifting mosaic pattern via an array of layout and motion algorithms. The title is a reference to the 888 discrete shapes that create the moving mosaic and the Voronoi pattern created by a novel graphics programming technique. These flat, high-contrast and slow-moving patterns are designed to harmonize with the dimensional surfaces of the Kittredge building.

https://cacheflowe.com/

Passing By

http://benjaminpowellart.com/

waveform.exp @ 918 16th Street

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location provided by waveform.exp

https://www.waveformexp.com/

waveform.exp @ 303 16th Street

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location provided by waveform.exp

https://www.waveformexp.com/

waveform.exp @ Denver Pavilions Suite 180

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location provided by waveform.exp

https://www.waveformexp.com/

waveform.exp @ 1600 California, Unit #3

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location provided by waveform.exp

https://www.waveformexp.com/

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About

Night Lights

Our vision for this project is that Night Lights Denver truly becomes ‘the people’s projectors,’ encouraging Denver to participate and contribute – including the international, national and locally-based artists we pay for commissioned artworks, schools and people walking through the district.

Night Lights Denver partners include Downtown Denver Partnership, Orange Barrel Media, the Daniels & Fisher Tower, the Kittredge Building, and the Denver Pavilions.

Additional SPARK partners include Waveform.exp, The University Building, Hines, Gart Properties, Denver Pavilions, Brookfield Properties, NAI Shames Makovsky, and the Downtown Denver Business Improvement District.

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