Fine Arts Center

Celebrate 100 Years with the FAC
2019-10-12 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (galleries open until 7:30 p.m.)
Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO 80903
FREE and open to the public
Join us as we celebrate the Broadmoor Art Academy’s official birthday and the opening of The Broadmoor Art Academy and Its Legacy, 1919-1970, an FAC Legacy Series exhibition that brings together hundreds of works from dozens of local, national, private, and public collections, interpreted by some of the finest regional art historians.
This community celebration will include FREE museum admission, artist demonstrations, informal gallery discussions in various exhibitions throughout the day, a special film screening, hands-on art activities from the Bemis School of Art, food trucks, sweet birthday treats and more!
Additional ticketed theatre events for the day include:
10 a.m. Busytown performance in Music Room
1 p.m. Busytown performance in Music Room
7:30 p.m. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time performance on the Mainstage
Pre-theatre dining:
Taste restaurant at the FAC features vibrant flavors, sustainable ingredients, and incredible mountain views. Executive chef Edward Salazar creates special menus themed to each Main Stage theatre production. Full menu available online; call (719) 634-5583 for reservations. Details
Special Membership Offer:
For a limited time only, the FAC will offer a special 100th Anniversary Medallion Club family membership for $100, which includes a special FAC branded gift! Details
Special Theatre Subscription Offer:
The FAC is offering a special 100th anniversary theatre subscription for first-time subscribers for only $100 which includes one ticket to each of the five Mainstage productions: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Sound of Music, The Bridges of Madison County, Silent Sky and In the Heights. Details
Further details on anniversary related events and happenings can be found here

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2019-09-26 19:30 - 21:30, 2019-10-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-09-29 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Fifteen-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain. He is exceptional at mathematics but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched, and he distrusts strangers. It’s seven minutes after midnight and Christopher stands beside his neighbor’s dead dog, Wellington, who has been speared with a garden fork. Finding himself under suspicion, Christopher is determined to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington, and he carefully records each fact of the crime. His detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a thrilling journey that upturns his world.

Busytown: The Musical
2019-09-15 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-09-21 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-09-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Busytown is always buzzing with activity, but what do people do all day? That’s where Huckle Cat comes in – he’ll take us on a tour of his great neighborhood, and there is so much to see and do, and so many wonderful friends to visit. Huckle shows us how Farmer Pig and Grocer Cat work together to bring food to the town. Construction Worker and his crew build new houses, and Firechief and the gang keep them safe. Isn’t it wonderful how everyone works together to keep Busytown busy?

Annual Gala
2019-09-07 17:30 - 23:30 | CO
The Gala is our biggest party of the year. As we celebrate the close of our first century and welcome the next, you can expect this one to be particularly special with incredible food, entertainment and of course … ART! It’s the perfect occasion to take stock of the great things the FAC has seen over the past 100 years, and raise a glass to the future.

A Concert with Laura Ortman
2019-08-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Packard Hall, 5 W Cache la Poudre St, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) is a Brooklyn, NY composer, musician, and artist. She plays violin, Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, pedal steel guitar, sings through a megaphone, and makes field recordings.
Ortman’s music is known for compositions that alternate lyrical intimacy with layered improvisation, often experimenting with four-track tapes and remixing her own audio catalog in an evolving dialogue with herself.
Parking available in the Bemis School of Art lot behind Packard Hall (818 Pelham Place).

Melanie Yazzie: Finding Oneself Again and Again
2019-08-24 - 2020-02-23 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Melanie Yazzie is informed by the Diné philosophy of hozho — translated as blessings, beauty, and harmony. After experiencing illness, she challenged herself to create artworks that find ways to heal from and to balance the negative effects of settler colonialism that Indigenous people live with on a daily basis. Her earlier works focused on calling attention to the harsh realities of racism, poverty, and loss of home territories. She continues to acknowledge these struggles, but now layers her artworks with recuperative images. As a Mellon Foundation Artist in Residence at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College in 2018, Yazzie began using printing plates recovered from a 1939 book project about Diné healing practices. By layering the fractional images of the color-separation plates with her own iconography formed from memories of people and places, Yazzie asserts the ongoing significance of Indigenous knowledge. This exhibition presents recent works created during the Mellon Foundation residency and over the course of a very productive time following her experience at Colorado Springs.

Disaster! A Youth Rep Ensemble Production
2019-07-25 19:00 - 21:30 | CO
Audiences and critics are wild for this hilarious homage to the era of bell-bottoms, platform shoes and the hustle. With larger-than-life characters, snappy dialogue, and some of the most recognizable songs of the ’70s (Knock on Wood, Hooked on a Feeling, Sky High, and Hot Stuff, to name a few), Disaster! will have you dancing in your seats and rolling in the aisles. Tickets are only $10!
