Whether people understand it or not," he said. Street art is exactly what it sounds like, including his on a wall in downtown Aurora. But the urban expression is sometimes misunderstood.

The projects were commissioned by Aurora Public Art, a city division that oversees the Pierce Center and more than 40 public art pieces, including wall murals, sculptures and utility-box murals.

The Aurora Public Art Commission is holding a hearing Wednesday on a new mural downtown. But don’t tell Kim Granholm, owner of Aurora Fastprint, 54 E. Galena Blvd., who commissioned the artwo… ...

"The Inuit taught me how to survive in the Arctic, read the weather and, most of all, they taught me patience," Nicklen says on his Web site.