Tuning into Birds with Viviane Le Courtois

Name: Tuning into Birds with Viviane Le Courtois
Start: 2026-04-19T09:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-04-19T10:00:00-06:00
Location: City Park

Schedule

Sun Apr 19 2026 at 09:00 am to 10:00 am

UTC-06:00

Location

City Park | Denver, CO

Viviane will lead us through her creative process for new work in association with Denver Parks & Recreation she has been creating for a Public Art Project and Residency; a site specific work being developed for the Wellington Webb Building, City of Denver. Inspired by birds and their song patterns, we will walk through City Park and learn how to tune into the presence of birds and think of ways to translate their movements and songs.
Register for this FREE event here: https://conps.org/home/events/event-calendar/#!event/2026/4/19/metro-denver-tuning-into-birds-with-160-viviane-le-courtois
This walk is sponsored by Creature Conserve as part of their Re-Inhabiting Conservation programming in 2026. Using Art to Bring Wildlife Conservation Closer to Home: Broadening perceptions of ‘home’ to include outdoors spheres around our lived-in structures, we encourage deepened relationships with non-human species who dwell with us in the urban corridors we call home, thinking of ways we may increase connectivity across Denver’s communities.
https://creatureconserve.com/
Viviane Le Courtois creates process-based, conceptual, and participatory art since 1989. Her installations, performances, sculptures, videos, and prints often intrigue visitors by connecting art to everyday life. Her works often comment on social and environmental issues. She has traveled in over 41 countries using 223 pairs of shoes as a sculptural performance. In 2004, she invented a non-toxic etching process using Kombucha.
http://www.vivianelecourtois.com
This walk is part of a series of artist engagements centered on working creatively within local landscapes. Curated by Lee Lee, the idea of eco-conspiracies grows from the idea that we breathe together with plants. As the foundation of ecological webs, native and bioregional appropriate plants serve to restore habitats, especially through the tight urban spaces where most of us dwell. Opening space for contemplative practice, we invite visitors to slow down and breathe with surrounding plants in our spheres, practice creative acts of sci/art conservation, and share seeds and their stories with neighbors to pass regenerative acts forward.
https://virtualvoices.org/

Viviane Le Courtois was born in Bretagne, France in 1969. She moved to the US in 1994 and lives in Denver, Colorado sicne 1997. She received a Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique from the Ecole Pilote Internationale d'art et de Recherches in Nice, France in 1992 and an MA in Art History from the University of Denver in 2000. She was awarded a Korea Foundation fellowship in 1993 and the Westword's Mastermind Award in Visual Arts in 2009. She has exhibited in the US, France, and Ireland including at the Passerelle Art Center in France and at the Regional Cultural Art Center in Donegal. Her works have been presented nationally at Mobius in Boston, The Williamsburg Art Center in New York, 601 Tully in Syracuse, Ohio State University, Neo Rio in New Mexico, and Speedwell Projects in Maine. She has shown works at many venues in Colorado, including Rocky Mountain School of Art + Design, Regis University, RedLine, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Denver Botanical Gardens, and the Center for Visual Arts (Metropolitan State University). In 2012, she presented her first solo museum exhibition: Edible?, 22 Years of Working with Food, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. She has since created site-specific interactive projects for the city of Boulder, the Biennale of the Americas, the Denver Art Museum, and Neo Rio. She was an artist in residence at RedLine from 2008 to 2011, at Sustainability Park from 2011 to 2014, and at the Denver Art Museum in 2016. She was awarded the Octopus Initiative grant in 2018 to create a series of etchings for the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. She created a permanent installation at Meow Wolf Denver for their opening in 2021. Since 2022, she has been drawing all the species vegetables she grows in her urban backyard located in a food desert, while working on repetitive projects in the landscape of Southern Colorado.