The Living Her Legacy project all began with a wrong turn.
Patti Smith was leaving the Colorado Convention Center when she made a wrong turn and ended up happening upon 80 portraits of men and women. After a little investigating, Smith discovered the images were part of
Colorado Panorama, a project by artist Barbara Jo Revelle designed to showcase the state’s historic figures.
“And I thought, ‘If they can do that in Denver, why can t we do that in Fort Collins?’” Smith said.
Almost eight years later, Smith unveiled the first four portraits of the new Living Her Legacy project honoring historic Fort Collins women this week.
Meet the first 4 women to be featured in an art exhibit spotlighting Fort Collins women Erin Udell, Fort Collins Coloradoan
Fort Collins first permanent public art exhibit dedicated to women s history took its latest step this weekend with an unveiling in Old Town on Sunday afternoon.
Living Her Legacy s public art exhibit a Fort Collins-born project aimed at honoring 48 of the city s notable women and educating the community about their contributions revealed a placard with a rendering of what the portraits of its first four honored women will look like.
This fall, the project plans to install renderings of the next four portraits. Eventually, permanent versions of the portraits which take 20 to 30 hours to create on weatherproof metal panels through a wood-cut reduction process will replace the renderings on the north-facing wall of windows of Coopersmith s Poolside, Living Her Legacy founder and director Patti Smith said. Once complete,