Center of Southwest Studies will host a summer solstice window viewing from 6 to 7:30 a.m. Thursday at the Center, 1000 Rim Drive.
Admission and parking are free. Light refreshments will be provided, along with music by keyboardist Jonas Grushkin.
At the dawn of the solstice, a spiral of sunlight from the Center’s solstice window makes its way across the gallery walls, creating an impressive display.
The solstice window is situated in the upper northeast corner of the Center’s exhibition gallery. Created by Denver artist Scott Parsons through Colorado’s Art in Public Places Program, the window was designed to integrate with the building’s architecture as a tribute to the solstice markers of the ancestral Puebloans of Southwest Colorado. The spiral cast by the solstice window is visible for several weeks before and after the summer solstice, but is sharpest on solstice morning. Moving with the rotation of the earth, the spiral makes its journey across the gallery wall, fading as the sun rises higher in the sky.
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