Fine Arts Center

FAC Theatre School Cabaret
2021-05-07 - 2021-05-16 | Virtual
We’re excited to present our very first FAC Theatre School Cabaret! Our young thespians have been hard at work this spring devising work to share with you. This virtual cabaret includes singing, dancing, poetry, and more, all performed by students from our Budding Thespians, Emerging Artists, and Youth Rep classes.

Jeron Braxton: Glucose and Octane
2021-03-25 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Stemming from a collaboration with Colorado College’s Black Student Union launched in Black History Month, the Fine Arts Center is proud to present a special curated installation of digital work from self-taught artist and award-winning filmmaker Jeron Braxton.
On view now in the FAC museum’s Hybl Screening Room, the installation consists of 2 Sundance Festival award-winning animated videos.
Glucose is a short film investigating the colonial history of sugar as the engine of the slave trade.
Octane deals with the modern commodification of black bodies bringing to light some of the darker aspects to seemingly harmless consumerism.
Each runs approximately 6 and 14 minutes.
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Mobile Arts Truck unveiling
2021-05-07 16:00 - 20:00 | CO
Catch the unveiling of CC’s New Mobile Arts Truck at 116 E. Boulder St. The FAC is a key collaborator for the NEW CC Mobile Arts truck which serves to foster relationships across the Colorado Springs community and with CC students, faculty, and staff. “The goal is to highlight creative ways for weaving Block Plan teaching, community engagement, and creative expression through a hands-on teaching and learning experience,” says Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Naomi Pueo Wood. A featured program of City As A Venue, the May 7 Mobile Arts Truck unveiling event is set in conjunction with the First Fridays Art Walk.
See event details on Facebook

Libation Creations: Spring Edition
2021-05-11 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
Artmaking Happy Hour Series
The days are getting longer, the sun is shining brighter, and blooms are beginning to recolor our world. That’s right, spring is in the air! Revitalize and celebrate with artist Linda Sagastume and mixologist Angelina Rice whose springtime creations will inspire as we usher in new beginnings.
Here’s what to expect-
Step 1: Angelina will guide you through mixing a delicious Spring-inspired Strawberry-Mint Gin Spritz cocktail in a step-by-step demonstration, live from her winery, Mesa Winds, in Hotchkiss, Colorado. (Directions for a non-alcoholic version also provided.)
Step 2: Drink in hand, follow along with Linda as you create vibrant painted paper flowers using items you probably already have around the house.
Step 3: Sit back, sip, and admire your creations!
Share along with your artsy happy hour loving friends & family! No skills necessary. This is a fun live event and participants are encouraged to engage and ask questions along the way. You’ll receive a list of drink ingredients and art supplies upon registration.
FAC Members: $5; Non-members: $10
Register for this Libation Creation Event

Ansel Adams: Masterworks
2021-05-28 - 2021-09-04 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Ansel Adams: Masterworks features a collection of forty-eight photographs from the “Museum Set.” Included in this presentation are many of the breathtaking landscapes—taken at national parks in California, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Texas—for which the artist is best known. The exhibition also features examples that speak to the breadth of Adams’ interest, such as architectural structures, natural landscapes, cultural sites, and portraits taken across Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico, and New York. Together, these works represent a selection of the artist’s most famous and best-loved photographs and encompass the full scope of his life’s work.

Summer Music Festival: Outdoor Festival Celebration
2021-06-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Monument Valley Park, 170 W Cache La Poudre St, Colorado Springs, 80903, United States
Featuring the CC Summer Music Festival Orchestra with works by Copland, Prokofiev, and Beethoven.
Free and open to all!
With very special guests The Reminders
A rare and remarkable musical duo with undeniable magical chemistry, The Reminders transcend the bounds of expectation to uplift and entertain. They seamlessly blend razor sharp rhythms and raw, soulful vocals with reggae-tinged hip-hop beats to highlight their relevant and inspiring messages. The couple shares a partnership in both music and life as Samir and Aja have been married for over a decade.
The Reminders have been recognized and applauded for their work internationally through concerts, tours, music awards, TV and radio appearances. Having shared the stage with artists such as Snoop Dogg, Nas, Big Boi, and touring with Ms. Lauryn Hill.
More information about the Summer Music Festival

City as a Venue: Front Range Fables
2021-06-26 10:00 - 14:00 | CO
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

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

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).

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

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.

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
