La Alma Lincoln Park Branches Out With “Tree Tales” Installation

While La Alma Lincoln Park is known for murals created over the past several decades — as well as the big First Friday events in galleries and venues along Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe — younger artists are getting in on the action, too.

For the past year, Colorado artist Melody Epperson has been working on a visual and sound installation project named “Tree Tales,” collaborating with the Arts Street program that’s located half a block from La Alma Lincoln Park. As part of the project, eight young artists painted yellow, orange and red flags that now adorn the branches of eight trees in the installation; each one includes a digital recording of a story about the tree recorded by the artist that visitors can find online via QR codes.

The young artists involved in the project…