Library and Auditorium Lobby Rotating Public Art Installation
In September 2024, the Arts and History team put out a call for artists to create temporary art installations for the shared lobby and entrance area of the Broomfield Library and Auditorium. Artists were encouraged to explore unique imagery and seasonal themes suitable for all ages in a public space. Selected artists will have their pieces displayed in the shared lobby entrance for four months.
In October of that year, the selection panel, made up of city staff and community members, chose three artists for the project: Rebecca Lefebvre, Amelia Furman & Heather Rubald, and Sophia Dixon Dillo. The first installation, Forming Light, was installed in January 2025. Learn more about each project below.
Forming Light
Artist: Sophia Dixon Dillo
Installation date: January - April 2025
Sophia Dixon Dillo works with light as an active medium in her work, celebrating the transience of perception with her site-specific installations using miles of metallic thread to harness the light of a given location. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she currently resides in the mountains above Boulder, Colorado with her husband and son.
Murmuration: the dance of starlings
Artist: Rebecca Lefebvre
Installation Date: May - August 2025
The murmuration of starlings serves as a powerful metaphor for unity and interconnectedness. In their intricate dance across the sky, each bird moves in harmony with the collective, demonstrating how individual actions can create a big impact when they are combined. This mesmerizing phenomenon illustrates the beauty of cooperation, showcasing how our personal journeys are intertwined with the larger patterns of life. Just as starlings respond to the rhythms of their flock, we can also find strength in community and shared experiences. The fluidity and grace of their movement remind us that while we may have different paths, together we can create a stunning tapestry of existence, reflecting the diversity and resilience inherent in nature.
Kaleidoscope Community
Artists: Amelia Furman & Heather Rubald
Installation Dates: September - December 2025
About Amelia Furman
Amelia Furman began her artist career shortly after receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Painting, Printmaking, and Illustration from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2003. After her studies, she began showing her work in non-traditional venues and continued to develop her mixed media style through experimentation and involvement in the local artist community outside of the Brandywine River area. She honed her paper collage techniques in storytelling while simultaneously pursuing plein aire painting opportunities and painting landscapes near her home. After a time, her mixed media work became interwoven with her landscape painting into the style she uses today. As her body of work developed, she began working with galleries, participating in festivals and creating larger corporate commissions on the East Coast. In 2013, Amelia and her family moved to Loveland, Colorado where they currently reside. Amelia and her family are avid hikers, bikers, instilling a love of nature and the outdoors to their two sons. Amelia was awarded the Larimer County Visual Artist of the Year Award in 2018, has received public art commissions, shows in galleries throughout the country and has work in private and corporate collections nationwide. She teaches workshops for children and adults and often utilizes her skills to facilitate collaborative art projects for communities.
About Heather Fortin
Heather Fortin Rubald is a Colorado native who has been looking for possibilities in cast-away objects ever since she was a kid. She hates to see things go to waste. Heather currently resides in Loveland, CO. She began on a whim crocheting bulky beach bags and has spent almost 20 years experimenting with how far she can take the post-consumer plastic bag. Plastic Bags, although very useful for a lot of things, are very damaging as well. Images of overstuffed landfills, polluted waterways, suffering wildlife, and stats about the effects of plastic bags and other trash on our world are all super sobering. There are many reasons that the concept of a “Dystopian”, bleak future has become a very accepted vision of where we as a species and a planet are headed. The facts and figures, come from the scientists, but the Vision itself comes from artists – from George Orwell to Mad Max, this dystopian concept has become a belief, and beliefs create self-fulfilling prophecies.I would like to be part of a concept of –maybe not a utopian future – but a “sus”-topian future, a future that practices sustainability, a future that is not perfect, but also not bleak, because people have found the fun and beauty in being more resourceful and less wasteful. That would be a future you wouldn’t look away from. That would be a prophecy worth fulfilling.
