Fine Arts Center

Working
2021-08-25 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Denver) | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the men and women that the world so often takes for granted: the schoolteacher, the phone operator, the server, the millworker, the mason, and the stay-at-home parent, just to name a few.

Where Did We Sit on the Bus?
2021-08-12 20:00 - 21:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Where Did We Sit on the Bus? is an electric one-person show pulsing with Latin rhythms, rap, hip-hop, spoken word, and live looping. During a third grade lesson on the Civil Rights movement and Rosa Parks, a Latinx student raises their hand to ask, “Where did we sit on the bus?” and their teacher can’t answer the question. This thrilling production examines what it means to be Latinx through the eyes of a child, turned teenager, turned adult.

Pleasing Pitchers
2021-07-30 10:00 - 13:00 | Bemis School of Art, 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Seize this opportunity to engage in a mindful, semiprivate studio experience. Learn slab construction and glazing techniques to handbuild a pleasing large, medium, or small pitcher from textured clay slabs. Move from flat to freestanding using simple measurements and flat patterns. Add coiled decorations, pinched flowers,
or animal forms to your pitcher bodies, handles, and spouts. Wow your friends with your pleasing pitcher! Supply list online. Maximum number of students from the same household: 4. Ages 16–Adult
Instructor: Rui Haagen

City as a Venue: Front Range Fables
2021-06-26 10:00 - 14:00
Three fantastical fairy tales based on historic events in the Pike’s Peak region, to entertain, educate, and foster empathy. By filtering these stories through the lens of Fairy Tale and Fable, we invite students to experience history in a very approachable manner. These plays are written by three local playwrights and will be cast with 15 local actors. Each play will be performed 3 times allowing for many families to socially distance view the productions in each location. June 26 FAC Outdoor Stage | July 3 | Hillside Community Center | July 10 | Meadows Park | July 17 | Acacia Park Bandshell | July 24 | Deerfield Hills Community Center | Aug. 7 | Concrete Coyote
Pre-registration encouraged

First Friday at the FAC | Papel Chicano Dos final weekend
2021-08-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Join us for a special outdoor First Friday at the FAC August 6, 5-8 p.m.
Free and open to the public, meet us in the FAC parking lot to hear from Dr. Nancy Ríos, CC Department of Southwest Studies about the FAC outdoor murals from internationally renowned muralist, painter and sculptor Emanuel Martinez. Stay to celebrate the closing of the exhibition Papel Chicano Dos: Works on Paper from the Collection of Cheech Marin. Enjoy access to museum galleries, an outdoor bar, hands-on art activities from Bemis School of Art, dancing and DJ’d music made possible by CC Mobile Arts.
Please note: This event is taking place outdoors in the FAC parking lot, check the weather and plan accordingly. Bring a chair if you’d like, but with the jams our guest DJ will be spinning we hope to see you all on your feet dancing in celebration of summer, community, and the arts.

She Loves Me
2021-07-29 20:00 - 21:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Considered by many to be the most charming musical ever written, She Loves Me is a warm romantic comedy with an endearing innocence and a touch of old-world elegance. The Mikos Lazlos play Parfuemerie, on which it is based, has inspired many adaptations, including the beloved film You’ve Got Mail starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.

Ceramic Serving Set
2021-07-24 10:00 - 13:00 | Bemis School of Art, 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Dive into this crash course in ceramics, using handbuilding techniques to create your own tableware. You will be presented with project ideas from which you will design, create, and glaze a small set of unique utilitarian ware based on the slab, coil, strap, and molding techniques demonstrated. Supply list online. Maximum number of students from the same household: 5. Adults
Instructor: Cara McKinley

Beyond the Surface: Ansel Adams Reconsidered
2021-07-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
Ansel Adams is often celebrated for his formal contributions to the history of fine art photography as well as his environmental advocacy. In this roundtable conversation, Dr. Tara Kohn, Dr. Carlos Alonso Nugent and Dr. Karen Roybal bring a new perspective to the work of Adams, pushing beyond the surfaces of his images to address the ways his work frames questions about environmental unconsciousness, histories of dispossession, fractured identities, and legacies of violence. The conversation is moderated by Katja Rivera, Curator of Contemporary Art.
This virtual event will be live streamed on social media. Details to come.
Tara Kohn is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History at Wells College. She was the 2017–18 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art History at Bowdoin College, and her research has also been supported by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her writing has appeared in American Art, Jewish Translation/Translating Jewishness—a volume she also co-edited—and Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, among other places. Her article “Elevated: Along the Fringes of 291 Fifth Avenue” was named Honorable Mention for the 2019 Director’s Essay Prize at the National Portrait Gallery. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Ancestral Time: Toward a Global History of the Photographic Book. She is based in Ithaca, New York.
Dr. Carlos Alonso Nugent is an Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, where he will teach courses on U.S. literature and culture, Latinx literature and culture, critical race and ethnic studies, and the environmental humanities. Among other venues, Nugent has published in American Literature, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and Modernism/Modernity Print Plus; in 2020, he received the Norman Foerster Prize for the Best Essay of the Year in American Literature. At present, Nugent is working on two books: in the first, he shows how “imagined environments” have shaped the U.S.–Mexico borderlands since the mid-19th century, and in the second, he traces a tradition of “Latinx ecomedia” back to the colonial period. Nugent received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2020, and held a Mellon Fellowship at Stanford University in 2020–21. He grew up in Tucson, Arizona.
Karen R. Roybal is an assistant professor of Southwest Studies at Colorado College. Her specializations include Southwest Studies, Archival Studies, Chicanx and Latinx literature and history, and Cultural Studies. She teaches courses in literature, arts and culture, archival studies, Southwest/Borderlands history, and environmental justice. Dr. Roybal is the author of Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). Her most recent project is New Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo, co-edited with Dr. Bernadine Hernández (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021).

A Conversation with Cheech Marin
2021-07-07 16:30 - 17:30 | Virtual
