Free Box Truck Art

In collaboration with the Town of Telluride and the Telluride Freebox, Telluride Arts organized a call to artists for a temporary, mobile, public art installation on the new Telluride Free Box Truck.

The Telluride Free Box, on the corner of Pine and Main St., is the Town’s center for anonymous gifting. It is a staple in the Telluride community—but the Free Box would not be possible without the Free Box Truck - the wheels behind the operation. Celebrate the re-opening of the Free Box by getting more art on the streets!

Local artist, Andrew Dines’ design was selected to wrap the truck. Dines says, “the lighthearted cube design inspired the simplified, transparent landscape around each side.”

The Cabins at Mountain Village

Welcome to The Cabins at Mountain Village, 25 gondola cabins that The Town of Mountain Village and Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association refurbished to offer private dining spaces throughout the Mountain Village Center. 

The Cabins at Mountain Village were conceived to offer private dining cabins to visitors during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet were designed to outlive the pandemic and will continue to be a fixture throughout the plazas of the Village Center.

Tag on social media enjoying the cabins: #thecabinsatMV @TownofMountainVillage

After several months of behind-the-scenes work and collaboration, the Town of Mountain Village, Mountain Village Owners Association and Telluride Arts are excited to announce the official unveiling of The Cabins Public Art Installation. Come see the 11 gondola dining cabins that have been adorned with the art of local and regional artists placed throughout Heritage, Village Pond, Reflection and Sunset plazas for the duration of the winter.

Tips for enjoying The Cabins

• First Come, First Served: These unique dining cabins are open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

• Share the Love: Please share the love and limit your time to one hour with no more than eight people from one associated party/household.

• Wait it Out: Please allow five minutes of ventilation time between parties, and leave the windows open for proper ventilation. There will be timed heaters in each cabin to keep you warm and cozy.And soon we will install timers to help the public know when five minutes have passed between users.

• Unattended items will be removed: Please do not leave items unattended to 'save your spot.' Unattended belongings will be brought to Lost and Found underneath Tomboy Tavern.

• No smoking

• Please bus your table and keep exploring Mountain Village!

• Tag us on Social Media! Tag us on social media @townofmountainvillage #TheCabinsAtMV

There are QR codes in each cabin that will take you to our Dine Outside page where you can conveniently peruse the takeout options from our Mountain Village restaurants.

The Art Behind the Cabins at Mountain Village Coloring Book

Fun for the whole family!

The Art behind the Cabins at Mountain Village is now featured in a family-friendly coloring book. Make sure to download your own copy! Please share your masterpieces with us on social media so we can see your artwork.

#TheCabinsatMV

Main St. Fence Covers

Summer 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Main St. Colorado Ave shut down to open up additional, temporary, outdoor dining patios. Telluride Arts took on covering the metal barricades with art to liven up the scene. The Telluride Musuem as well as over 20 local artists contributed to the effort!

COVID PSA

The road signs, along with the banners and posters were designed by Brandon Berkel, in collaboration with Molly Perrault.  They developed the creative and informative COVID-19 Public Safety Announcement artwork seen around the Town of Telluride as part of Telluride Arts push to educate our local population and our visitors. Telluride Arts was involved in a covid-response team that included the Town of Telluride, San Miguel County, the County Health Director, and other local partners to develop strategies to keep our community safe and business open. Once they understood the key messaging that needed to get out, Telluride Arts led the charge to include artists in the safety campaign.

In mid-March of 2020, when the ski mountain closed, and then the Free Box - a series of wooden bins and shelves that are located on a sidewalk just off of our main street, and an iconic part of our local heritage where people exchange goods - was shuttered, Branden Berkel and several friends realized how bad things were.  “When the Free Box closed, everyone was really bummed,” Berkel said. “That felt like the first sign things were getting really serious.”

And so, the first unofficial public service announcement, “This town ain’t big enough for the two of us,” was born during their midnight guerilla art project to beautify the plywood that boarded up the Free Box. 

Telluride Arts loved the Free box aesthetic and reached out to Berkel to build on this work for the full COVID campaign on behalf of the Town of Telluride. Molly Perrault, Telluride Arts' programs director at the time and a skilled artist herself, worked with Berkel to develop the specific designs featured in the campaign. In total there was a banner across Colorado Avenue, eight large signs on the Spur road coming into town, the outdoor dining and website collateral, and hundreds of posters that were plastered across town and became collector's items.