Recently, Pomona High School announced it would make cuts to its music program and other elective classes. In a letter to students and parents, Principal Andy Geise said in part, “Not enough students chose instrumental music for Pomona to carry a full-time teacher."
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As a program administrator at Denver Public Art, Brendan Picker juggles funds, fabrication and artists’ visions to realize major public-art projects, managing all the necessary moves leading to an eventual unveiling. But in his spare time, Picker also curates the Storeroom, a walk-by installation gallery in an East 17th Avenue storefront window, where he gives local artists, perhaps lesser-known than those creating major public art with big-city dollars, free rein to use the space as they please.
Given some free rein of his own, Picker helped organize the exhibition
Queer City of the Plains – An Artistic Look at Denver’s LGBTQ+ Historyat the McNichols Building in 2020. That’s evidence of his big heart and inherent love for artists and their missions the unmeasurable qualities that make Picker a good public servant.