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Historic Inglewood presents draft designs for Second Floor murals, seeks tribal approval and copy edits
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Historic Inglewood and city staff presented draft mural artwork and copy for the library/municipal building Second Floor, described a timeline-based composition and an Indigenous-history panel, and said the artist will seek tribal approval before final production.
Historic Inglewood representative Lindsey Runyon presented draft designs for a set of four murals proposed for the Second Floor public corridor and community room, saying the work pairs historic photographs and artwork with short explanatory “tabs” attributing image source and time period.
Runyon said the project, developed with the city communications team and the library, frames “community past and present,” using side-by-side imagery to show historic sites such as Cinderella City Mall, the 3,400 block west of downtown, Blood Middle School (with adjacent apartment changes), Whitaker Farms (later Bellevue Park/Pirates Cove) and local train facilities. She said the presentation deck will be updated and re-circulated to the commission for review.
The proposal includes a panel introducing tribes historically present in the Englewood/Denver area. Runyon said the project team is asking the hired artist to seek approval from tribal representatives for imagery and text. She told commissioners that, after discussion with a Ute representative, the team decided to retain sepia toning on one historic image because a tribal representative said colorizing that image could be inappropriate.
Runyon described production choices under consideration: printing the artwork as removable wall coverings (wallpaper) versus mounting printed backgrounds with physical frames to add depth. She said the artist painted an original work on canvas that will be digitized for enlargement and that communications staff and the library scanned material from a local history book used in the design. The team also identified an on-wall city notices sign that will need relocation so it does not block mural sight lines.
Commissioners asked about cultural terminology and provenance. Louisa Alvarez asked whether the project will use terms such as “Native,” “Indian” or “Indigenous” consistently; Runyon said final wording will be submitted for tribal review and city communications editing. Commissioners asked staff to double-check street-name histories used in a museum-style column, and to consult History Colorado and a Denver Latin American history museum if needed. Runyon said communications will copy-edit and pare the explanatory text.
Logistics discussed included: text point size (document built at half scale with body text at 30 pt, which would scale to about 60 pt at final size), potential frame approaches (frames without glass to avoid glare), and that smaller framed pieces would likely start near 12-by-18 inches at display scale. Runyon asked the commission for feedback and said she would return with an updated deck after further tribal consultations and communications edits.
