World-renown fabric artist Christo will speak at the Vail Symposium this evening at 5 p.m to discuss his life work and his hope for his Colorado project “Over The River.”
According to the Vail Symposium website, general admission tickets to the event are sold out, however there are still tickets for the Private Artist Reception which includes a ticket to the sold out lecture and a gathering with Christo after the lecture. Tickets for the Private Artist Reception can be purchased here.
Christo’s “Over The River” project would suspend pieces of metallic fabric over a 42 mile stretch of the Arkansas River, pending approval the Bureau of Land Management, as Huffington Post and CBSDenver report.
But, as Vail Daily reports, Christo’s “Over The River” project hasn’t been welcomed with open arms by all. A group that is calling themselves “Rags over the Arkansas River” opposes the project on grounds that it will disturb wildlife and clog traffic along highway 50.
Christo is known throughout the world for creating massive-scale fabric art projects including his famous “The Gates” in New York’s Central Park, the 24-mile-long “Running Fence” piece in Sonoma and Marin Counties in California, as well as the fabric wrapping of landmark bridges in Berlin and Paris, according to the Vail Symposium website.