Fine Arts Center

Action Words: Spoken Word
2022-01-18 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Virtual
Presenting an evening of spoken word inspired by the legacy of Dr. King, on FAC Connect.
Featuring Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius, Albuquerque Slam Champion Mercedez Holtry, and Writer & Activist Angela Kong Colorado College class of 2017.
Hosted by FAC Executive Director and Poet Idris Goodwin, this special event brings together three dynamic poets with ties to the region. Beaming in from three different cities, they will share original spoken word poetry inspired by the messages and legacy of Dr. King.
Live streamed Tuesday, January 18 at 7:30 p.m. MST on FAC Connect

This event is part of a week-long celebration of the legacy of Dr. King organized by Colorado College. View full event list on the Colorado College website.

CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE ENSEMBLE
2022-01-17 - 2022-01-21 | FAC Digital, CO, United States
In honor of the 2022 Martin Luther King Day Celebrations
CHECK CASHING DAY and STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life’s difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This event is part of a week-long celebration of the legacy of Dr. King organized by Colorado College. View full event list on the Colorado College website.

Museum Free Day
2022-01-15 10:00 - 16:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
In celebration of the new exhibition Kukuli Velarde: CORPUS, we are offering free museum admission on Saturday, January 15. Reservations are required.

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Kukuli Velarde: CORPUS
2022-01-14 - 2022-04-09 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
An installation of sculpture and textiles that encourages reflection on the meaning of survival in the face of colonialism by blending Indigenous and European aesthetics in a critical representation of the celebration of Corpus Christi in Peru.
Image: Patrón Santiago, 2012, Low fire clay, underglazes, casein paint, gold leaf. 33 x 19.3 x 10.45 in., Inspired by work from the Tiwanaku culture (Bolivia). Images courtesy the artist.

First Friday
2021-12-03 16:30 - 20:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Join us for a First Friday celebration at the FAC! Museum admission is FREE from 5-8 p.m. Drinks and small plates will be available in Deco Lounge (credit card payments only).
In the Ladyfingers shop: Local designer Noel Dolan will be in the shop hand lettering custom ornaments
On stage: Celebrate the opening of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
In the museum: Catch Ronny Quevedo: at the line before it closes Dec. 4
There will be live music and performances by Colorado College students in the exhibition Ronny Quevedo: at the line. Performing on the floor installation, at the line, students will respond to the themes of movement, fragmentation, and displacement which are exhibited throughout Ronny Quevedo’s work. Come watch these performances and experience the exhibition in its final days at the FAC. Performances begin at 4:30 p.m. and run until 7 p.m.
Performance schedule:
4:30-4:45 – Primo Seat
4:50-5:05 – Leo Patternity
5:10-5:25 – Twit
5:30-5:45 – Tenderheart
5:50-6:05 – Rocky Mountain Tops
6:10-6:25 – Funk Off!
6:30-6:45 – Tiny Tomboy

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Museum Free Day
2021-11-24 10:00 - 16:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
The FAC will be closed for Fall Break Thursday Nov. 25 and Fri Nov. 26, so our second free day of the month has been moved to Wednesday, Nov. 24. Reservations required. IMPORTANT COVID-19 guidelines, policies, and reservations

Move, Make, Create, Commune: A Master Class with Juni One Set
2021-11-20 13:00 - 16:00 | Ormao Dance Company, 10 S Spruce St, Colorado Springs, CO, 80905, United States
Ormao Dance Company – 10 S. Spruce St.
This class will explore what it means to be moved through deep listening and the guidance of sound and imagery. We let go of our individual will to manifest shapes and surrender to the richness of the present. We let art awaken us to our soul center. Our trainings are rooted in butoh dance, physical theater, improvisation, music, and visual art. We will practice tuning into what the space, our body’s subtle energies, and our physical memories can move through us. We will practice both playfulness as well as pushing ourselves to our edge. We will hone our embodiment and observation, bearing witness to each other’s discoveries. In addition to dancers and performers, creative and curious people from all walks of life and all levels of training and ability are welcome. This workshop is designed for people who love to move and be moved, exploring their emotions and being playful.
18+ age | 20 person capacity | please review Ormao’s safety precautions
Free! Registration required

JUNI ONE SET STATEMENT
Our work is intensely collaborative, rooted in the deepest respect and love we hold for one another. Through an intentional, transformational process, we build a world within which we can be free. Our bodies live in fear, in the shadows of beginning-less violence, in joy and in care. Through ritual and embodiment, we find openings for healing and growth and invite others to arrive. We are trying to tell a story we never want to end.
JUNI ONE SET is Eddy Kwon (Brooklyn), Senga Nengudi (Colorado Springs), and Degenerate Art Ensemble’s Haruko Crow Nishimura & Joshua Kohl (Seattle).

BIOS
Eddy Kwon (they/them) is a violinist/violist, vocalist, composer, improviser, dancer, and interdisciplinary performing artist based in Brooklyn. They are a United States Artists Ford Fellow, Van Lier Fellow at Roulette Intermedium, Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and Johnson Fellow for Artists Transforming Communities at Americans For The Arts. In addition to an evolving, interdisciplinary solo practice, they collaborate with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Tomeka Reid, Susan Alcorn, Du Yun, and Carla Kihlstedt. They have performed throughout the Americas and Europe, including the Kennedy Center, Big Ears Festival, SESC Pompeia, Barbican Centre, Berlin Jazz Festival, Festival Banlieues Bleues, and more. Recent commissions include the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, National Performance Network, Bang on a Can, Roulette Intermedium, and Colorado College.
Senga Nengudi’s (she/her) media-spanning oeuvre draws on a range of influences including free jazz and spoken word, Yoruba mythology, Japanese art and theater, Brazilian Constructivism, and African ritual. Characterized by experimentation with process, material, and form, Nengudi’s work challenges and reimagines the traditional narratives of Post-Minimalism and Conceptual Art, while reframing the broader histories of both feminism and the Black Power Movement. Nengudi has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2021) the Denver Art Museum (2020); Henry Moore Institute (2018); the Baltimore Museum of Art (2018); Art + Practice, Los Angeles (2018); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2017); and the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (2017). She has also been featured in significant group exhibitions, including Another Energy: The Power to Continue Challenging-16 Women Artists from Around the World (2021) Mori Art Museum-Tokyo, Japan; Soul of a Nation (2017); Viva Arte Viva, the 57th Venice Biennale (2017); We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 (2017); Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art (2012); Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980(2011); WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007); and the 54th Carnegie International (2007). sengasenga.com
Haruko Crow Nishimura & Joshua Kohl of Degenerate Art Ensemble
The duo creates performance work infused with the energy of live music and driven by their own style of visceral movement theater and dance. Their work has been featured in 12 countries presenting large scale experimental theater and dance installation projects, concerts, site-transforming spectacles, and ongoing public experimentations. Some highlights of their work include being commissioned by director Robert Wilson to interpret his work Einstein on the Beach performed at the Baryshnikov Center, a site specific collaboration with Olson Kundig Architects for the 50th Anniversary of the Seattle Worlds Fair at the Seattle Center, a composition and solo dance with the Kronos Quartet which was also performed as part of 95 Rituals — a celebration of Anna Halprin’s 95th birthday at SF’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Crow and Joshua were joint recipients of the 2020 Artist Trust & Dale Chihuly Foundation’s Artist Innovators Award. Haruko Crow was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in choreography and Joshua’s work was awarded a Music Theatre Now award at the Swedish Biennale. In 2016 they teamed up with the legendary Czech Rock group Uz Jsme Doma for the creation of an epic orchestral work inspired by the group’s music at the Archa Theatre in Prague with the South Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra. Their recent work Skeleton Flower was shown at the Spotlight USA Festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, the International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Mexico City and will have its New York premiere in June of 2022.

Top photograph by Wolf Daniel courtesy of Roulette Intermedium

Beading Basics
2021-09-20 10:00 - 13:00 | Bemis School of Art, 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Learn the techniques the professionals use to design, create, and finish earrings, necklaces, and bracelets. Create unique pieces to enhance your wardrobe, give as gifts, or create jewelry to sell. You will also learn techniques to repair vintage favorites to be worn again or revamp them into something new. Supply List online. Ages 16–Adult
Instructor: Ona-Marie Engle
Level 0 – This class is for the true beginner with no prior experience in the medium.

Refine Your Black & White Darkroom Printing Skills
2021-11-03 14:00 - 17:00 | Bemis School of Art, 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Spend three hours learning to refine your black and white darkroom printing skills with private instruction in contrast filters, split-filter printing, and/or cropping/positioning for artful presentations depending on the student’s skill level and goals. This darkroom experience will help you bring your printing skills to the next level and you will be encouraged to produce prints that you will be excited to enter in photography exhibitions and competitions. Supply list online. Ages 16–Adult
Instructor: Angela Crews
Level 1 – This class is for those with some familiarity with the medium. This could include informal use of medium outside of the classroom.

In Conversation: at the line
2021-11-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N. Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Please join us for a roundtable conversation with artist Ronny Quevedo, Victoria I. Lyall, Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas at the Denver Art Museum, and Jorge Rivas Pérez, Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum, who will discuss Quevedo’s work in context of the exhibition ReVisión: Art in the Americas at the Denver Art Museum. The conversation will be moderated by FAC Curator of Contemporary Art Katja Rivera.
This event will take place in CC’s Cornerstone screening room.
Free! reservations are required

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Ronny Quevedo is a 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellow. The Joan Mitchell Fellowship is awarded annually to 15 US-based artists making exceptional work; the fellowship provides financial support interwoven with professional development to support artists’ long-term success.
Image: Ronny Quevedo, quipu (detail), 2017, Screen print, contact paper, and enamel on paper, Private Collection

Día de los Muertos
2021-11-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Join in our special community gathering for Día de los Muertos, the traditional celebration, originating in Mexico and celebrated throughout north and south America. A celebration of life, El día de los Muertos demonstrates remembrance, love, and respect for those who have gone before us.

R.I.POWER: Cleo Parker Robinson Dance
2021-10-30 19:30 - 21:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
ONE NIGHT ONLY – The Fine Arts Center and CC Theatre & Dance proudly present the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, with special performances from Justice Miles and Colorado College Dance Workshop for a powerful tribute to the human experience. Using the universal language of dance to honor the African Diaspora, Denver-based Cleo Parker Robinson Dance explores the human condition, champions social justice, unites people of all ages and races, and ultimately celebrates the complexity of life through movement.

Guadalupe in the Guestroom
2021-10-03 14:00 - 16:00, 2021-09-30 19:30 - 21:00, 2021-10-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Guadalupe in the Guest Room chronicles a funny and heartfelt story of shared grief and love between two people separated by a language barrier, ultimately proving that understanding doesn’t always require speaking the same language.
Guadalupe is living in the guest room of her son-in-law, Steve, while she works to translate from English to Spanish the children’s books her deceased daughter has written. Overcome with grief and separated by a language barrier, the unlikely housemates struggle to communicate. As Guadalupe and Steve begin watching a television show together, they bond in unexpected ways, leading them to learn that understanding doesn’t always require speaking the same language. Guadalupe in the Guest Room is a funny and heartfelt celebration of new beginnings, breaking barriers, and the healing power of telenovelas.

Words Matter When Language Becomes Art
2021-10-20 10:00 - 16:00 | Bemis School of Art, 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Study a variety of ways to include language in visual art in this thought-provoking class. The words can be a background, create a subtle message, be a graphic element or pattern, or become the central element of the artwork. We will look at contemporary artists who use language in their work. We will explore Christopher Wool, Barbara Kruger, and Jenny Holzer as well as looking back at how the Dadaists used language in their powerful collages. By discussing contemporary and historical use of words as art, students will not only learn how—but also why—to use text in their art making. Supply list online. Ages 16–Adult
Instructor: Laura Raborn
Level II – This class is for those who have taken at least one class in the medium. Student should be comfortable with the basics of how to use and manipulate the medium.
