Our Story & Vision

Some people carve their names and those of the people they love into the trunks of trees. Others etch their names into stones and rocks, or erect marble or bronze statues. It’s a way to memorialize and pay tribute to people or to a place, and their heritage. Bronze statues are particularly associated with the West. The Capitol Avenue bronze project will pay tribute to the pioneering spirit of the people of Cheyenne and Wyoming, the special place in the history of the West, and be a permanent example of dignity of classic art in public places.

The Capitol Avenue bronze project is an idea more than a decade in development. Originally conceived by Harvey Deselms, a Cheyenne gallerist and lifelong advocate of art in public places, the project will place a bronze statue on every corner of Capitol Avenue from the remodeled Union Pacific Train Depot on Lincolnway up to the Capitol building, 28 statues in total. The statues will feature western figures, people and wildlife, scenes from every day life that delight the imagination, all that honorably represent the experience of Cheyenne and Wyoming and its people. [Read More]