Category: Lumonics

Four Years Ago Today: Denver Mayor’s Award

4 Years Ago Today: While it hadn’t been officially announced yet, Dorothy Tanner was notified that she was the recipient of the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Arts and Culture in the Innovation category for the City and County of Denver, 2018.  Denver Arts & Venues sent the Zerosun Creative team of James Joliat and …

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Lollipop has quite a history at Lumonics

One day in 1976, Bill Pinella, the sales rep for one of the companies we bought our acrylic glass (plexiglass) from, came by with two off- white geometric shapes. They were a different kind of plastic in the polycarbonate family. Bill said the company doesn’t know what to do with them, and thought that Dorothy …

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12 Men (1974) by Mel Tanner

12 Men (1974) by Mel TannerWhole & Its Parts One of our first restoration projects after Dorothy Tanner passed in 2020 was the 12 Men by Mel Tanner. Some of them needed some repair, and we converted them all to LED from incandescent. They are now in the performance space ( we only have room …

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Mel Tanner Series of Star Maps

Mel Tanner created what became a series of wall pieces that could be thought of as star maps or constellations. Like so many of Mel’s wall sculptures, the art works looked flat from a distance but as you got closer, there was so much depth. Here are photos of 4 of these Star Maps, created …

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