Skatepark Mural
SKATEPARK MURAL
Location: Telluride Skatepark, Town Park
For this Telluride Skatepark project, Paul Distefano created a mural depicting a woman looking toward the mountains surrounding Telluride. The work explores resilience, reflection, and the ability to move forward, while connecting the painted figure to the landscape and community around it. For Paul, mural painting is an opportunity to create bold, accessible work that becomes part of its environment.
Gaiascope
GAIASCOPE
Location: Heritage Plaza, Mountain Village
Gaiascope is an interactive public artwork featuring three suspended kaleidoscopic sculptures. Visitors are invited to look inside mirrored chambers where original video art, light, and reflection unfold into immersive worlds of shifting color and pattern. For the complete illuminated and interactive experience, visit after sunset!
Mountainfilm 2026 Mural: “Well”
WELL
Location: 212 W Colorado Ave, Telluride
Hosted by the Telluride Company, on their exterior seating wall, the Mountainfilm mural series returns with an artwork by National Geographic Explorer at Large Ami Vitale - titled “Well”.
Ursa Ravus (Penny Bear)
URSA RAVUS (PENNY BEAR)
LOCATION: 635 E Colorado Ave, Telluride
Ursa Ravus, or the Telluride Penny Bear, is 15 feet tall. Her fur is made of 187,000 embedded pennies in concrete over a body or carved styrofoam and a frame of steel tubing.
Forest Creatures
FOREST CREATURES
LOCATION: Mountain Village
A collaboration between Telluride Arts, Town of Mountain Village, and Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association.
The Cabins at Mountain Village
THE CABINS AT MOUNTAIN VILLAGE
LOCATION: Mountain Village
A collaboration between TMVOA, the Town of Mountain Village, and Telluride Arts
Only We Know What it Could Have Been
ONLY WE KNOW WHAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN
LOCATION: The Gondola Station at the Ridge, between Telluride and Mountain Village
Local artist Brandon Berkel has donated his artwork titled “Only We Know What It Could Have Been” to the Town of Mountain Village.

