"Meeting Of Minds" - 2005
Materials: Epoxy painted steel and perforated steel - 16' x 29' x 18'
Location: City Park, Denver, CO.
Commissioning Agency: Denver Office of Cultural Affairs.
Recognition: Americans for the Arts National Award (2005)
Meeting of Minds" was installed in 2005 adjacent to City Park Golf Course in Denver, Colorado. That same year, it received a national award from Americans for the Arts, which recognized it as:
“one of the most compelling and innovative public artworks in the United States”.
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The sculpture features two monumental heads in profile. One stands upright and portrays an African American profile gazing toward North Denver, a historically African American neighborhood. Within her head is an oval that, from a distance, resembles a brain. Upon closer examination, the space is filled with a chaotic constellation of stylized human figures—loosely inspired by familiar male and female symbols. However, these figures differ in shape, size, and proportion: tall, short, slender, muscular, some with disproportionate heads, symbolizing a diversity of thought and identity. This complexity reflects and celebrates the richness and variety within the surrounding community.
Together, the two heads symbolize a cultural transformation. They reference the long-overdue shift in thinking that finally allowed African Americans to access and play a golf course located in their own neighborhood!