Grain elevators as movie screens? Side Stories covers RiNo in custom films, digital art

Many street artists risk their lives to emblazon interstate exits and train cars with their work, while gallery hopefuls may toil their entire lives to reach the kind of audiences that billboard designers take for granted.

For the past few years, they’ve been meeting in the middle (of buildings, that is) in the River North Art District.

“As an artist, it’s pretty amazing to have your visuals projected on that scale,” Loveland-based Kendra Fleischman said of her work at last year’s Side Stories festival, which lit up Ardent Mills’ grain elevators. “I mean, you can’t get that scale in any gallery or museum. It’s just huge. But it’s also daunting at first.”