DENVER (AP) – Take the gut-shaking Interstate 70 traffic overhead, add the procession of oil trains, and you have one very high-decibel emerging art scene in north Denver.
A group of artists are painting colorful murals beneath the Interstate 70 viaduct that, when built in 1964, sectioned off immigrant and minority communities from downtown.
Their goal: Make a dark, deteriorating and don’t-go-there stretch of viaduct a place to attract residents from both sides of the highway.
They also hope to ameliorate the cultural and economic disparities triggered by the interstate’s construction 52 years ago.
