Fine Arts Center

Virtual: Beyond Reality
2020-09-26 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Denver) | Virtual
Are you feeling a little tired of strict realism in your paintings, but just don’t know how to break away? In this virtual course, you will be lead through exercises designed to bring more abstraction, excitement, & passion to your work. This course includes live Zoom class sessions & pre-recorded content. Adults

Of Spacious Skies: An Audio Play Anthology Series
2020-09-17 | FAC Digital, CO, United States
Using the Golden Age of Radio Plays as the jumping off point, our intrepid team of artists, has created 12 weekly episodes of a series which highlights the past, present and future of Colorado Springs, with Pikes Peak as our center point. While it is best to experience the series as released, and recognized as a complete omnibus, each 15-minute episode can be listened to individually and in any order.

FAC Theatre School Live Q&A
2020-09-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
Learn more about the Fine Arts Center Theatre School’s NEW Fall session.

Innovative and comprehensive professional theatre training programs for students ages 5-adult starting soon!

Fall classes include popular favorites like Budding Thespians, Emerging Artists, Youth Rep Ensemble, and our Adult Dance Class, alongside unique new offerings like Play Club! and Yoga for the Creative Spirit.

Q&A for interested students and parents with FAC Theater School Director Nathan Halvorson and teaching artist staff.

Ask A Curator Day
2020-09-16 | Virtual
#AskaCurator is an international social media event that gives the public access to the passionate experts who work in museums, galleries, and heritage sites around the world. Queries from years past include:

What’s the most interesting thing you’ve seen on the back of a painting/artwork?
If you could add any object to your collection, what would it be?
Do art curators secretly wish they had dinosaurs?

Blair Huff, Michael Lorusso, and Katja Rivera will be representing the FAC. They’ll be taking over our Instagram for the day and doing a short Facebook/YouTube live during lunch.
JOIN THE FUN
Tag the FAC and use the hashtag #AskaCurator to submit a question. Like and share your favorite questions!

Virtual: Japanese Calligraphy, Brush Mark-Making & Sumi-Ink Drawing
2020-09-12 13:30 - 16:00 | Virtual
In this virtual workshop, you’ll be introduced to the basic Japanese calligraphy strokes as well as some free-style variations. Learn to practice words in Japanese letters and Kanji (Chinese characters) and be encouraged to explore ways to use the strokes of calligraphy and ink-drawing in your own unique way. This class includes live Zoom sessions and studio hours with the instructors. This course is in collaboration with the Colorado College Art Department. Ages 16-Adult

The Santos Story: A First Friday Conversation
2020-09-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College is home to a nationally-renowned collection of Hispanic and Native American art, including a collection of santos (religious representations of saints) from New Mexico and southern Colorado. Join FAC staff and the creative team behind a recent 3×3 Project focused on the history of the collection as they reassess the preservation, curation, and the display (or non-display of) sacred objects. Together they will explore possibilities for recontextualizing the past and reimagining future care for the collection of santos, centering its creators and their descendants as makers and negotiators of its meaning. Panelists include Miguel Gandert, Robyn Haynie, Jessica Kahkoska, Polly Nordstrand, Anita Rodriguez, and Rebecca Tucker.

FAC Theatre Live Stream
2020-08-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
Join us for a live stream conversation with the FAC Theatre Company, featuring the writers for our upcoming audio play series, Of Spacious Skies.

The Arts & Social Action
2020-07-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Join us for an online community discussion on the arts and social action. The panel will be moderated by FAC director Idris Goodwin, and we’ll converse with local artists and arts administrators.

Virtual: Zine Making
2020-06-23 17:00 - 19:00, 2020-06-16 17:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
Get creative while expressing yourself in a cool and unique way. In this virtual class, learn the history of zine making from 80s punk culture to fashion and poetry. Explore basic zine building skills and create your own works to share and distribute. After class, take advantage of additional open studio time to work on your project. Ages 12-16

Indigenous Futurities: Dancing Earth in CyberSpace
2020-06-18 19:30 - 20:30 | Virtual
One of our 3×3 Projects teams is live streaming a virtual performance Thursday, June 18 at 7:30 pm MDT. Indigenous Futurities: Dancing Earth in Cyberspace is presented by a team of visionary artists who reveal cyberspace as a realm of ritual to reimagine the future. This collaboration includes contemporary Indigenous dance from the artists of Dancing Earth and music from gifted multi-instrumentalist QVLN. They explore themes of ritual, recreation, and human connection, looking to ancestral stories of creation after destruction to guide us forward.

Sketchbook in Quarantine: Virtual Zoom Studio
2020-04-27 14:00 - 15:00 | FAC Digital, CO, United States
Throughout history, artists have always kept visual diaries of their ideas and surroundings. In this online class, we will explore what that means to us during this challenging time of COVID-19. Using basic art supplies and items at hand, you will learn some techniques for exploring, playing and recording your environment in a sketchbook. We will cover mark making, pattern generating and meditative techniques for making art during this stressful time. We will meet virtually but also have opportunities to view a variety of instructor-created videos with plenty of time to create and share your work. At this time of isolation, we encourage families to work together. Ages 6-Adult

Streaming: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
2020-05-01 - 2020-05-07 | FAC Digital, CO, United States
One Week Only: Watch the full production of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane! Edward Tulane is an expensive toy rabbit made of china. He is loved by a little girl named Abilene, but Edward doesn’t care. He is vain and self-centered. He has no interest in anyone other than himself. On an ocean voyage, Edward is accidentally thrown overboard and sinks to the bottom of the sea. So begins his journey – a journey over which he has no control, for he is a toy rabbit.

The Bridges of Madison County
2020-02-16 14:00 - 16:00, 2020-02-13 19:30 - 21:30, 2020-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
The Tony Award-Winning New Musical on stage Feb. 13-March 1. Francesca Johnson, a beautiful Italian woman who married an American soldier to flee war-ravaged Italy, looks forward to a rare four days alone on her Iowa farm when her family heads to the 1965 State Fair. When ruggedly handsome, National Geographic photographer, Robert Kincaid, pulls into her driveway seeking directions, though, what happens in those four days may very well alter the course of Francesca’s life.

Artist and Curator Dialogue with artist Rebecca Belmore and curator Wanda Nanibush
2020-02-21 17:30 - 18:30 | Packard Hall, 5 W Cache la Poudre St, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Please note the time for this event has changed to 5:30 p.m.
This artist and curator dialogue is Free and open to the Public
The Fine Arts Center is proud to present the US debut of Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental, a major solo exhibition of works by internationally recognized multi-disciplinary artist Rebecca Belmore. Join us for a conversation with artist Rebecca Belmore and exhibition curator Wanda Nanibush.
A member of Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe), Belmore has given voice in her work to social and political issues for over 30 years, employing a visual language that is both poetic and provocative to contend with subjects such as water and land rights, women’s lives and dignity, and state violence against Indigenous people. Belmore was the first Indigenous artist to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale (2005).

Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental
2020-02-21 - 2020-12-05 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
This major solo exhibition of Rebecca Belmore shows that she is one of the most important contemporary artists working along the border of art and politics. One of Canada’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Belmore creates artworks that respond to the pressing concerns of our time with beauty, sensitivity and resilience. The exhibition is the largest survey of Belmore’s work ever presented, featuring photography, sculpture and media installations from the past three decades.
