Fine Arts Center

World of WearableArt™
2019-06-22 10:00 - 2019-09-22 17:00 (America/Denver) | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
This year marks the 31st anniversary of the World of WearableArt™ (known as WOW®), New Zealand’s largest arts show. WOW® is an international design competition that attracts hundreds of entries, with an annual awards show that presents the finalist garments in a theatrical extravaganza that collides at the intersection of fashion and art. The rules of the competition encourage anything that is in any way wearable, as long as it is original, beautifully designed, and well-made, resulting in garments that are constructed from an extraordinary array of traditional and unconventional materials. The challenge: take art off the wall and adorn onto the human form. The 32 award-winning garments presented in this exhibition represent some of the most original, provocative, and unorthodox objects in the WOW Museum collection, demonstrating what designers from a wide variety of occupations can imagine when they are released from the constraints of “fashion” and are encouraged to see the human body as a blank canvas. “Think of an Alexander McQueen show meets the Nutcracker on crack and then take it up a notch.” –Huffington Post

Sashay
2019-06-22 19:00 - 23:00 | CO
Join us for an evening of exceptional design, cocktails, appetizers, music, and entertainment!
Launched in 2015 with a runway show of garments in the style of artwork by Georgia O’Keeffe, Sashay is back, this time featuring unique wearable art pieces inspired by World of WearableArt™ (WOW). The traveling exhibition that will grace the galleries of the Fine Arts Center this summer draws from WOW’s New Zealand museum, boasting a permanent collection of the international competition’s winners and finalists over the last 30 years. Join us for an evening of exceptional design and dress to impress in your most outrageous and creative attire! Buy Tickets

Stand-Up Comedy Class
2019-06-13 19:00 - 20:30 | CO
This course is designed primarily to teach the tools of humor writing for live stand-up performance. Students will deconstruct the performances of stand-up comedians, learn the foundations from which modern comedy stems, and work to develop their own voice. The course will culminate in a live stand-up performance at the Fine Arts Center showcasing students’ original work. Ages 18+

FAC Closed for Independence Day
2019-07-04 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Please note: the FAC will be closed on July 4 in observance of Independence Day.

Capture Light: Interpret Values & Shapes with Desmond O’Hagan
2019-07-06 09:30 - 2019-07-07 16:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
In celebration of the Broadmoor Art Academy’s 100th anniversary join visiting artist Desmond O’Hagan in this workshop designed to help you reach the next level in your pastel and/or oil painting journey. Daily demonstrations will emphasize composition, developing technique through a more painterly approach, and the importance of light, values, and contrasts. Additional topics explored in the workshop include solving common painting problems, experimenting with new approaches to painting, working from photographs, studio lighting, and framing pastels and oils. This course is designed for you to work at your own pace while enjoying the experience of painting with pastels and/or oils. Some experience in preferred painting medium is highly recommended.

Vegan Market
2019-07-07 11:00 - 15:00 | CO
The Colorado Springs Summer Vegan Market is scheduled for Sunday, July 7 from 11 a.m. to 3p.m. Eat, drink, shop | 100% Vegan | Free Admission

Painting Florals & Landscapes in Alcohol Inks
2019-07-13 10:00 - 16:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Paint vividly colored landscapes and florals using alcohol inks on a slick painting surface with little to no drawing necessary. The instructor will present and demonstrate a painting of florals in the morning and a painting of a landscape/seascape in the afternoon. You’ll have ample time both before and after lunch to complete several small paintings using the techniques presented while working one-on-one with the instructor. All skill levels are welcome.

In celebration of the Broadmoor Art Academy’s 100th anniversary this opportunity reminiscent of the experiences visitors would’ve had at the BAA.

One-Act Play Reading
2019-07-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Presenting Aria Da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay, written in 1920 in homage to The Academy Players of the Broadmoor Art Academy, the FAC Theatre Company will perform special one-act play readings in the museum galleries in celebration of our 100th Anniversary. Free and open to the public in the Loo Gallery.
The play that caught the attention of the critics on the second bill of the 1919-1920 season at the Provincetown Playhouse, was Aria da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay. An unusual play structurally, a pastoral bookended with a harlequinade, it is unique in that it was perceived by most to be an anti-war statement, and yet can also be seen as an more universal portrayal of the human condition. The play defies being set in a given time period and the playwright allows juxtapositions within the play to speak louder than the writing of any political statements could have accomplished. The characters are portrayed as being controlled by a script not of their own making, and yet ultimately prove to be powerless to step away from it. The play’s oblique approach actually gives its message power and its simplicity of staging was perfect for it to be premiered by the Provincetown Players.

Deconstructing Broadway with Seth Rudetsky
2019-07-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Sirius/XM radio’s Broadway host Seth Rudetsky is bringing his hilarious one-man show to Colorado Springs! Deconstructing Broadway is described as a combination of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” “The Tony Awards,” and “The Daily Show.” Fun Fact: Seth is ALSO the author of Disaster!

Figure Drawing & Painting at the FAC
2019-07-19 13:00 - 15:00, 2019-08-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
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 be done in graphite, charcoal, and paint from gestures to finished works. Minimal art supplies and easels will be provided for participants. Bring your own box of tools if you wish. Free and all ages welcome!
Please check in at the Fine Arts Center’s front desk for event location.

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!

Text Without Type
2019-07-26 09:30 - 2019-07-28 15:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
In celebration of the Broadmoor Art Academy’s 100th anniversary learn to use non-traditional letterpress and relief printmaking techniques to explore the visual, material, conceptual, and poetic possibilities of text. We’ll be working at The Press at Colorado College, with Aaron Cohick, but the class will focus on “low-tech” processes for all skill levels that can be adapted for use outside of a letterpress studio: linoleum/paper relief, collagraph, stencil printing, pressure printing, pochoir, monoprints, and collage. Each student will produce a small print of their own combining various techniques, and/or a set of print samples.

Pop Up Yoga
2019-07-28 09:30 - 10:45 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
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 cello!) benefiting The Women’s Resource Agency
Inspired by the exhibition, World of WearableArt™. As community, we will celebrate the body, and honor our diverse and unique forms of self-expression. Live music from Lisa Schoenstein in Aug and Sept.
Each class will benefit a local organization, whose mission and work support a deeper understanding of the embodied self.
These Donation-based classes include museum admission, and all donations go toward the featured organization.
Please bring your yoga mat and any props you might want to have on hand, and let’s breathe with the seasons and experience the FAC in a whole new light!

3 MOVEMENTS Pop-up performance
2019-08-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
3 Movements is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, multi-sensory, three part installation and performance that takes place over the course of three evenings at three different exhibiting spaces in Colorado Springs. The installations and performances will be free and open to the public, and encourage participants to engage directly with the pop up environment and the interpersonal interactions taking place inside the temporary structures.
Each site focuses on and isolate specific modes of interaction that are commonplace encounters in everyday life. 3 Movements takes place in constructed environments that are at once private and public to embrace the fluidity of personal and shared encounters with others, whether experienced personally or passively observed. In this controlled interactive space, the performer (JD Sell) encourages participants to become acutely aware of the different levels of physical contact one may experience in a day, from brushing shoulders, to making eye contact or holding hands.
3 Movements is comprised of a collaboration between JD Sell, installation artist and lead performer/activator; Kate Perdoni, Mitchell Macura and Alex Koshack, soundscape designers and performers; and Alix Garcia, Su Kaiden Cho and Aaron Graves, moving-suit designers.
Free and open to the public

HAPPY HOUR STAND-UP
2019-08-02 18:00 - 19:30 | CO
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+.

Garden of the Gods Ink & Watercolor
2019-08-03 09:00 - 16:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
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 landscape and color your sketches with quick layers of watercolor. Adult class in celebration of the Broadmoor Art Academy’s 100th Anniversary.

Libation Lectures
2019-08-22 17:15 - 18:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
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: 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.

Plein Air Landscape Painting
2019-08-28 09:00 - 2019-08-30 11:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
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 celebration of the Broadmoor Art Academy’s 100th anniversary this opportunity reminiscent of the experiences visitors would’ve had at the Broadmoor Art Academy.

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).

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.
