The Art in Public Places (AIPP) program is one of many culturally oriented programs in the Vail Valley.

It was officially adopted in 1992 to “promote and encourage the development and public awareness of fine arts.” The town’s public art collection includes more than 70 works ranging from paintings, sculptures, murals, playground elements, and site-specific integrated art.

The AIPP program and newly opened Vail Art Studio focus on cultivating exceptional public art experiences and integrating public art throughout the town. The program seeks to ignite a deeper connection with public art, inviting the community to participate in shaping Vail's cultural identity.

The program is under the direction of a five-member board which meets monthly to discuss AIPP projects and direction. Members of the public are encouraged to attend the meetings which are held in the Vail Town Council Chambers on the first Monday of every month.

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Town of Vail Acquires HYBYCOZO's Forest Light

After the success of HYBYCOZO's first public art installation Forest Light in Vail, the Town of Vail's Art in Public Places is pleased to announce one of the sculptures from the summer installation will remain as a permanent work in the Town's public art collection. Through a private and public partnership, the sculpture sited in the planter bed by at the crossing of East Betty Ford Way and the Manor Vail Bridge entrance to Ford Park will continue to welcome guests to the park.

Artists Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk, the duo behind HYBYCOZO, work consists of larger-than-life sculptures that celebrate the inherent beauty of geometric form and pattern harmonizing the experience of sculpture, light and shadow. The sculpture takes on new dimensions when illuminated at dusk casting an intricately laced glow by the newly opened Vail Art Studio on the lower bench of Ford Park. 

“The sculpture resembles the shape of a pinecone and felt appropriate for this environment,” said Beaulieu. “Sharing a lot of geometry, especially with the Fibonacci sequence with the spiral effect at the top of the sculpture along with the patterns emphasizing the shape even more so, the work feels right at home.”

"Forest Light imagines a world where the invisible life of the forest becomes visible—where the oxygen produced by trees and the quiet communication between them are revealed as light. Placed permanently within the landscape, the sculpture becomes a poetic translation of the forest’s shared breath, inviting us to sense the magic of what is always present but rarely seen,” explains Filipchuk.

Museum Without Walls