Fine Arts Center

Museum Free Day
2023-05-13 10:00 - 17:00, 2023-05-19 10:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | 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
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
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.
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Elf the Musical
2023-11-30 19:30 - 22:00, 2023-12-03 14:00 - 16:30, 2023-12-06 19:00 - 21:30
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).

Songs in the Key of J.
2023-10-21 19:00 - 20:00
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
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
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.

FAC Member tour: Another Way is Possible
2024-01-05 16:00 - 17:00
Join Mike Martin, Executive Director/Founder of RAWtools, for a tour of Another Way is Possible, an exhibit that contains items made out of broken gun parts, thus telling the story of the transformation of guns to garden tools, art, jewelry, and other lovely things. This exhibit represents work made in the RAWtools shop in Colorado Springs, in addition by local and statewide partners, and dozens of blacksmiths, makers, and communities around the United States.
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.
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Make a night of it! Stick around after the tour for our First Friday Art Party.

First Friday Art Party
2024-01-05 17:00 - 20:00
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
Music by Bryant Jones
Drinks and snacks available for purchase
FREE downtown shuttle, THE ZEB, running along Tejon Street to downtown art galleries

About Bryant Jones
Bryant Jones has been playing keyboards for more than 50 years. It’s the connective thread through a life of changes. He started in the late Sixties playing a keyboard his father bought for his 14th birthday. One year later, on his 15th birthday, life took an unconscionable, unalterable turn. Coming up on his 65th birthday this month, Bryant sat down with Humanitou. He shares how he came to live and play improvisationally, about his musical influences and a day working alongside one of them. He talks about being rescued from a mental hospital by a cousin, embracing the love and peace of the counterculture, and playing his way (almost) to the top of Pikes Peak.

After Hours at the FAC with Gray Duck Productions
2024-01-12 19:30 - 22:00
Join us for a set of two bands—Broth and Hoopla—performing in Taste Restaurant. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and performances start at 8 p.m. The bar in Deco Lounge will be open until 10 p.m.
Free and open to the public. Donations to support FAC programs are greatly appreciated.

Family Adventure Day
2024-01-13 10:00 - 13:00
Pop in between 10 a.m–1 p.m. to check out what the Fine Arts Center has to offer and explore your creativity in drawing, painting, and sculpture! Family Adventure Day will offer a variety of hands-on art projects in the Bemis School of Art studio classrooms, along with artist demonstrations and interactive, self-guided activities. Bemis instructors will help guide you to awaken your art-making skills or show you new possibilities in art making. And while you are here, make sure to check out Museum Free Day. Museum Free Days are just that, an opportunity for the public to enjoy our galleries free of charge.
This is event is free and all ages and skill levels are welcome! Donations are welcome.
Members get early access at 9:30 a.m.! Not a member? Join today for as little at $5 a month!
