HAPPY HOUR STAND-UP
Get your laugh on at our gut-busting stand-up comedy hour upstairs in our Music Room at 6 p.m. Due to adult content, this event is suitable for 18+.
Get your laugh on at our gut-busting stand-up comedy hour upstairs in our Music Room at 6 p.m. Due to adult content, this event is suitable for 18+.
Did you know the 300-foot sandstone rocks in the Garden of the Gods park were once sand dunes? Explore working with ink and watercolor in this beautiful environment. During this on-location class, we’ll take photos, talk about composition, and create small studies in our sketchbooks. Learn to work with ink to sketch the rocks and […]
Join us for our summer pop-up yoga series with Jessica C Patterson, owner and director of Root: Center for Yoga & Sacred Studies, assisted by Holly Horter Sunday mornings, 9:30-10:45 a.m., Outside (weather permitting) July 28 (live music) benefiting Inside|Out Youth Services August 11 (with LIVE cello!) benefiting Eating Disorder Foundation Sept 15 (with LIVE […]
In celebration of the Broadmoor Art Academy's 100th anniversary join local artist Erin Gillespie in the courtyard or sculpture garden of the Fine Arts Center for drawing and painting the figure directly from a live model through long and short poses, as well as demonstrations and examples of contemporary and classical figure drawing. Demonstrations will […]
This member-only lecture series offers an educational twist to the traditional happy hour. Each lecture will explore an aspect of the amazing art and featured artists from various FAC exhibitions served up with a themed drink to help you really dive deep into the topic.
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 […]
Surrounded by the Garden of the Gods or Rockledge Ranch, we’ll walk through the process of plein air painting from start to finish. Learn how to create a strong composition, sketch and block in values, and eventually add color and details to finish their landscape painting. Some experience in preferred painting medium is required. In […]
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 […]