Fine Arts Center

Balloonacy
2023-11-04 14:00 - 15:00, 2023-10-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-10-29 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Imagine a single balloon changing one person’s life forever. Balloonacy is tender, uplifting show for the little ones (and the big ones, too). Sweet, inventive and packed with physical comedy, this play explores the power of friendship and shows how, with a little imagination and acceptance, companionship is everywhere.
Performed on Saturdays at 10 a.m. & 2 p.m. and Sundays at 12 p.m. & 4 p.m.

FAC Member "Law and Disorder" Downtown History Stroll & Speakeasy Cocktail Tasting
2023-11-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
This event is SOLD OUT. To be placed on a waitlist please call our front desk at (719) 634-5581 or email fac@coloradocollege.edu.
This tour is open to members of the FAC. Not a member? Join today.
Law & Disorder explores how Colorado Springs officials fought to remain a “dry town” in “wet times,” the captivating story of how local law enforcement, concerned citizens and the Gazette newspaper worked to run the KKK out of town in the 1920s, and an infamous gun battle with train robbers in the streets of downtown.
Two tours available:

Tour only (no cocktail tasting): $5 per person. Tour meets at 2:15 p.m. at Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum Annex in the Plaza of the Rockies (121 S. Tejon St, Suite 100). Tour lasts approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Tour and cocktail tasting at Brooklyn’s on Boulder: $13 per person. Tour meets at 2:00 p.m. at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum Annex in the Plaza of the Rockies (121 S. Tejon St, Suite 100). SPACE IS VERY LIMITED. Tour lasts approximately 2 hours.

Join a knowledgeable guide from the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum for this .7 mile downtown stroll. Each tour group, with or without the cocktail tasting, starts at The Pioneers Museum Annex in the Plaza of the Rockies (121 S. Tejon St, Suite 100) and ends at Brooklyn’s on Boulder (110 E Boulder St).
Image: Colorado City Saloon, ca. 1900. Courtesy of Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

Drawing Animals
2023-11-29 16:15 - 17:45 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Do you love animals? This course is an introduction to drawing animals of all types. They are all around us and are endlessly fascinating to watch and draw. This course will show you the basics of drawing any animal and help you understand anatomy so that you can confidently draw the animal world. Supplies will be provided.
Ages 9-12

Elf the Musical
2023-11-30 19:30 - 22:00, 2023-12-03 14:00 - 16:30, 2023-12-06 19:00 - 21:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
A title known the world over, Elf The Musical is a must-produce holiday musical that can easily become an annual tradition for any theatre. Based on the cherished 2003 New Line Cinema hit, Elf features songs by Tony Award nominees Matthew Sklar (The Wedding Singer) and Chad Beguelin (Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway), with a book by Tony Award winners, Thomas Meehan (Annie, The Producers, Hairspray) and Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone).

FAC Member Tour: Mi Gente with Dr. Karen Roybal
2023-12-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Dr. Karen Roybal, Associate Professor of Southwest Studies at Colorado College, will lead a tour of Mi Gente: Manifestations of Community in the Southwest, curated by Savannah Pennell (former Assistant Curator of Collections at the FAC). During this tour, Dr. Roybal will invite participants to observe how the fluidity of borders is expressed through the artworks included in Mi Gente. She’ll also discuss how the objects in the exhibit honor a distinct sense of place that centers the Greater Southwest and make visible the region’s cultural syncretism and complex history.
Please RSVP
Make a night of it! Stick around after the tour for our First Friday Art Party.

First Friday Art Party
2023-12-01 17:00 - 20:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Join us for our First Friday celebration from 5–8 p.m. Enjoy the stunning ambiance offered by the FAC’s chic, historic venue.

FREE museum admission
Art in Deco Lounge by John Odlin
Another Way is Possible opening reception in Hybl Gallery and the courtyard
Music by Spur
# of flesh pop-up photographic exhibition in Kircher Gallery
Drinks and snacks available for purchase
FREE downtown shuttle, THE ZEB, running along Tejon Street to downtown art galleries

About Another Way is Possible
RAWtools is a local organization dedicated to helping people solve their problems without guns and violence. Their work is focused on community involvement in the process of turning guns into garden tools and art. Another Way is Possible, on view in the Hybl Gallery December 2023-January 2024, contains items that tell the story of the transformation of guns to garden tools, art, jewelry, and other things. The opening reception will involve live metal forging demonstrations in the FAC’s courtyard.
About Spur
Spur (Travis Duncan and Jerry Cordova) have been playing their unique blend of Americana folk music at locations around the Pikes Peak region over the past year. Jerry joined Travis on piccolo guitar for the release of his solo album, From the Mouth of Pikes Cave, at Gold Camp Brewing in December of 2017. Since then they’ve played at the ROLL Bike Art Festival at Buffalo Lodge, the Starlight Spectacular, the Muscular Sclerosis Alliance Benefit Concert at Hillside Gardens, Pikes Peak Art Council, Council of Neighbors and Organizations, Tap Traders, and Trails End Taphouse.
About # of flesh
A one-night only pop-up photographic exhibition of personal projects from 12 student photographers from University of Colorado Colorado Springs, on view in the Kircher Gallery. Artists identified a topic that is meaningful and resonant for them, and committed to being immersed and focused on that topic for the semester-long project. Themes for the projects include: examination of the carceral state on loved ones who live on the outside; rural resilience; the experiences and bonds of siblings that live together as adults; Black joy and liberation; visions of disassociation; gentrification; the human body as a site of strength and contemporary beauty; alternate visions of life’s outcomes if other paths were taken; what living with a diagnosis looks like to both the person assigned it and those that are closest to that person; dreams lost to Covid; what stagnancy and being stuck could look like if it was a living entity; and confronting the deep fear of being alone for one’s life.

Acrylic Painting Class
2023-11-18 13:00 - 15:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
In this class we will learn the fundamentals of creating successful compositions with acrylic paint on canvas as the medium. The class will focus on two projects for each student consisting of medium canvases. How to start, and how to finish a painting will be covered as well as accuracy and detailing. Subject matter will include a landscape, a portrait, and an architectural rendering as the options available for the students to work on.

Adults

Behind-the-Scenes Sunday
2023-12-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Ever wonder, “how’d they do that?”? Well, unbox your inner theatre nerd with the Fine Arts Center Theatre Company staff for a thorough look at the special effects, backstage spaces, costume, and scene shops. This event will begin immediately following the Dec. 3, 2 p.m. performance of Elf The Musical.
This event is free and open to the public; no reservations required.

Film Screening: American Homeboy
2023-12-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N. Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
American Homeboy is a documentary film directed by Brandon Loran Maxwell that explores the complex origins of pachuco and cholo culture which sprouted from American soil more than 100 years ago in response to wartime sentiment, social alienation, and government discrimination only to become a pop culture phenomenon.
The film screening will be followed by a conversation and light reception. This event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are encouraged as space is limited.
Please RSVP
This program is co-presented by the Colorado College Southwest Studies Department and the Fine Arts Center Museum in conjunction with Mi Gente: Manifestations of Community in the Southwest.

Museum Free Day
2023-05-13 10:00 - 17:00, 2023-05-19 10:00 - 20:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Museum Free Days are offered the second Saturday and third Friday of each month. See what’s on view in the museum

Canceled: Yoga at the FAC
2023-12-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
This event has been canceled
Join us for a one-hour yoga class with instructor Misty Banta in our beautiful glass-walled Smith Family gallery. Participants are invited to stay and enjoy the museum for free after class. All experience levels welcome.
Please bring your own mat. Water is allowed during class, but not in the museum galleries. Suggested donation of $10 to benefit the Fine Arts Center (you’ll also have the option to donate at class).

Ice Cream & Clay
2023-12-09 14:00 - 15:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Who doesn’t love a big bowl of ice cream? Join us to learn how to make homemade ice cream and discover about how John Krakauer, founder of Josh & John’s, started the best ice cream parlor in town. When it’s time for the taste test, you’ll get to pick out a custom bowl made by CC clay artists to eat your ice cream out of and take home. This event is great for families and anyone who loves ice cream.
Tickets: $30, includes ice cream and custom bowl to take home.
Register foR ICE CREAM & CLAY

Songs in the Key of J.
2023-10-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Join us all season long in the Deco Lounge as local favorite J. Chang-Tablada sings and shares stories from the piano following 5 p.m. mainstage performances. Donations will be accepted.
Misery Oct. 21, 2023
Elf the Musical Dec. 9 & 30, 2023
Water by the Spoonful Feb. 24, 2024
Rent May 11 & 25, 2024
J. Chang-Tablada is a Korean-Filipino-Irish-American musician, storyteller, and photographer. One of Colorado Springs’ most beloved and prolific Music Directors, J. Chang-Tablada is known for his work with the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Theatreworks, and Millibo Art Theatre. An accomplished entertainer in his own right, J. frequently takes the stage singing and sharing stories from the piano, with recent performances at 54 Below in New York City, at the Green Box Arts Festival with his “Sing-a-long with Jerry McCauley and Friends” concerts last summer, and with his debut holiday album “Naughty & Nice” concerts last December.

Ask the Actors
2023-12-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Curious about the lifestyle of a theatre professional? What’s it take to slip into a character night after night? Stay in your seats after the show for a curated discussion with the cast and creatives and satiate your curiosity. This event will begin immediately following the Dec. 10, 2 p.m. performance of Elf The Musical.
This event is free and open to the public; no reservations required.

Unframing Dalí
2023-12-15 13:00 - 16:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Swing by the Agents of Care gallery from 1-4 p.m. to watch museum collections staff unframe several works by artist Salvador Dalí. Unframing art can often lead to exciting discoveries including sketches and incomplete drafts on the reverse of works, hidden inscriptions, and more. Museum staff will discuss why we store some works framed while unframing others, and how unframed art is protected and kept safe. This is a drop-in program that is free and open to the public.
