Fine Arts Center

Where the Saint Lives: Artist Talk with Delilah Montoya
2022-09-17 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Join us for an afternoon artist talk with Delilah Montoya, Chicana Photographer and featured artist in Where the Saint Lives. Event is free with museum admission and open to the public.
Delilah Montoya is a self-identified Chicana artist, works and lives in the U.S. Southwest of New Mexico and Texas. As an activist artist, she poses herself questions about identity, power, land, borders, gender, community, family, that she then explores through her art practice. She is an investigator of histories and lives; her primary subject is the human condition through time and territory as expressed through the lens of being a mestiza, a Chicana, someone who claims a hybrid identity and place both in terms of lineage and culture.
Delilah’s work is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles, CA; Houston Museum of Fine Art; Houston, TX; Mexican Museum; San Francisco, CA; The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY; and the Smithsonian Institute; Washington DC. Her awards include the USLAF Latinx Fellowship, Artadia Award and the Richard T. Castro Distinguished Professorship. She is a professor emeritus from the University of Houston, College of the Arts.
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Image: La Guadalupana (detail), Delilah Montoya, 1998, exhibition copy of photo mural, altar, courtesy the artist

Drawing Far and Wide: A Course on Perspective
2022-09-20 17:00 - 18:30 | Bemis School of Art, 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Class for ages 12-16. This course is all about perspective. Through indoor and outdoor exercises each week and two unique final projects (like a city block of haunted houses), you will develop the skills to create depth in any piece of art. Students with previous experience are welcome to join and hone their skills. We will cover 1-, 2-, and 3-point perspectives.

Libation Lecture: Unearthing Ancestral Knowledge
2022-09-21 17:30 - 18:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Unearthing Ancestral Knowledge: natural elements narrate the past and present
Coincides with with Breathing into the past: Crosscurrents in the Caribbean, on view in the museum from Sept. 9–Jan. 29.
Fabrics, corals, fruits and herbs connect the physical world with ancestral spirituality. Learn some of the ways we can look to natural materials to understand our current state of affairs and unearth buried histories from our colonial past and unfolding present.
This will be a multi-sensory experience where we will explore examples from the current exhibition, listen to music, and touch some of the natural elements that shape our sense of reality. You may be called to dance, taste, or smell in ways that you have not done before!
Themed drink: Cuba Libre
Lecturer: Dr. Naomi Pueo Wood,
NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities
Department Chair of of Spanish and Portuguese and Program Director of Feminist and Gender Studies at CC
Co-Director of CC Mobile Arts
All lectures are from 5:30-6:30 p.m. (Bar opens at 5 p.m.)
$10 for FAC members, $15 for non members, includes your first drink.
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Also, join us for the Libation Lecture in October, Dancing Paintings: An Interactive Guide to Abstract Expressionism

Block Printing
2022-09-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Bemis School of Art, 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Ages 6-9. Learn how to create prints by carving into Styrofoam. You will be introduced to the art of printmaking and learn about lines, patterns, and contrast. Explore printing on varied materials, such as paper and fabric, as well as how to use found objects in printing with ink.

Square Plates and Mugs
2022-09-23 09:00 - 12:00 | Bemis School of Art, 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Classes for ages 16-adult. Get square! Explore the exciting possibilities of building square plates and mugs. Learn to handbuild with soft pre-textured clay slabs using flat patterns that fold up into 3-dimensional forms to create dynamic and self-expressive plate and mug sets. Glazing for textured surfaces will be taught. Supplies will be provided.

Landscapes in Oil Pastels
2022-09-24 15:00 - 16:30 | Bemis School of Art, 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Ages 9-12. Enjoy creating your favorite landscapes with oil pastels. Learn to draw the various elements found in landscapes while discovering the importance of the direction of strokes and blending of colors. Study the concept of background and foreground, as well as light and shadow effects to create vibrant landscapes. Supplies will be provided.

FAC Member Tour: Breathe into the Past: Crosscurrents in the Caribbean
2022-10-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Join Katja Rivera, Curator of Contemporary Art, for a tour of our newest exhibition, Breathe into the Past: Crosscurrents in the Caribbean. The twelve featured artists in this exhibition hail from the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, coastal Colombia, and beyond. Their artworks offer insights into the complex histories that have influenced the present—sometimes on grand scales, at other times in subtler yet still undeniable ways.
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We ask for your precaution when visiting this exhibition. Many of the works are fragile and some contain explicit material, including references to violence, sounds of gunfire, nudity, and images of self-harm. Please be mindful of your needs when entering the space. A printed list of mental health and other related resources will be available.

Action/Abstraction Redefined tours
2022-10-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
In celebration of CC Homecoming & Family Weekend, join Learning and Engagement Intern Katie Norton for a tour of Action/Abstraction Redefined. Action/Abstraction Redefined is the first major traveling exhibition that analyzes modern Native American art from the mid-1940s through the 1970s that was inspired by Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, and Hard-edge painting. Discover how the artists in this exhibition, including George Morrison, Fritz Scholder, and T.C. Cannon, challenged stereotypical expectations of Native American art by experimenting with American modern art movements combined with art influences from their own cultural heritage.
Action/Abstraction Redefined is organized by IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM. Action/Abstraction Redefined was co-curated by Dr. Lara Evans, Professor of Art History, IAIA Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts Director; Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer, curator of collections, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts; and Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man, chief curator, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.
Support for this exhibition and its national tour is provided by Art Bridges.
Image: Mike Medicine Horse Zillioux, (Akimel O’odham/Cheyenne/Pawnee), The Day Jackson Pollack Became Christian (detail), 1974, acrylic, rawhide, salt on canvas, MoCNA Collection P-22

Recon Watchmen Raku Press Mold Masks with Visiting Artist, Virgil Ortiz
2022-10-10 12:30 - 2022-10-14 15:30 | Bemis School of Art, 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Using visual storytelling and sculpture, you’ll learn about the central cast of characters from Virgil Ortiz’s screenplay Revolt 1680/2180 and how they shape the fantastical world he’s creating through clay and multimedia art. Ortiz takes the participants of this workshop on a journey through the processes he used to create his latest characters—the Recon Watchmen. Using a raku clay body, press molds, and as many hand-carved details and embellishments as wanted, you will create your own version. Supplies and raku firings will be provided.
Level A – All levels welcome. Ages 16-Adult

Photographing with Vintage and Toy Cameras
2022-10-11 12:30 - 15:30 | Bemis School of Art, 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Class for ages 16-adult. Here is your chance to have some serious fun using an inexpensive plastic film camera or that vintage camera that’s been gathering dust. Learn how to use simple cameras, with their perceived flaws such as soft focus and vignetting, to create beautiful, inspiring images. This course is a terrific opportunity for those who may be new to the B&W darkroom to learn how to process film and make handcrafted gelatin-silver prints from your negatives.

Free Art Car Painting Events
2022-10-15 09:00 - 12:00 | Bemis School of Art, 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Have you ever seen an art covered car driving around town and wished you could create mobile art? Well now’s your chance to learn the steps to creating art on wheels with Cheyenne Teague! Come paint a car with us — all supplies provided!
The first morning session will help prep the car for spray painting, and the following morning session and both afternoon sessions will be focused on painting the car. Join us for one session or all of them!
Event is free but registration is required. Space is limited.
Dates & Times
Saturday, Oct 15, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and/or 1–4 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 16, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and/or 1–4 p.m.

Yoga at the FAC
2022-10-15 10:30 - 11:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Join teacher Amanda Smolinski from Soulshines Yoga for a one-hour yoga class 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).
SPACE IS LIMITED, PLEASE RSVP

FAC Member "Law and Disorder" Downtown History Stroll & Speakeasy Cocktail Tasting
2022-10-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Due to popular demand, we’ve again partnered with the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum for another downtown history stroll. This member only, “Law & Disorder” tour 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 2:00 p.m. at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Tour lasts approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Tour and cocktail tasting at Brooklyn’s on Boulder: $21. Tour meets at 2:15 p.m. at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. 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, start at the Pioneers Museum (215 S Tejon St) and end at Brooklyn’s on Boulder (110 E Boulder St). Wear comfortable walking shoes and be sure to dress for the weather.
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To be placed on a wait list, please email fac@coloradocollege.edu or call (719) 634-5581
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Image: Colorado City Saloon, ca. 1900. Courtesy of Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

FAC Happy Hour at Bell Brothers Brewing
2022-10-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Bell Brothers Brewing, 114 N Tejon St Suite 100, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Join us for the next stop in our new FAC happy hour series celebrating the “liquid arts.” No formal programming involved, just a casual gathering of FAC supporters getting out to socialize in new and different venues across our beautiful city. Highlighting local bars and restaurants in town, we hope to see you at Bell Brothers Brewing downtown.
FAC members and theatre subscribers will receive $2 off their first drink.
No RSVP needed. Event location: 114 N Tejon St Suite 100. We’ll also be handing out museum admission passes, so bring a friend! Stop by the FAC table to say hi!

Libation Lecture: Dancing Paintings
2022-10-20 17:30 - 18:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Dancing Paintings: An Interactive Guide to Abstract Expressionism
The lecture coincides with Action/Abstraction Redefined, an exhibition currently on view at the FAC.
For many years I had a secret: to understand works of art, I would have to dance them. Discreetly, of course, or risk being thrown out of the museum. Years later, I was surprised to learn that I am not alone: many art theorists, philosophers, and psychologists have investigated in detail how our instinctive physical responses to works of art provide us with critical information about what we see. In this gently interactive session, I will share some of the theories and practices that explore how leaning into this innate intelligence of our bodies can enrich our viewing experiences of art.
Drink: Tequila Sunrise
Lecturer: Jessica Hunter, Ph.D., Associate Director of Creativity & Innovation at CC
Bar opens at 5 p.m.
Tickets: $15 ($10 FAC members) includes your first drink
Libation Lecture Tickets

Tuned-In: The Soundtrack of Your Life with Molly Lord
2022-10-22 08:30 - 17:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Two wildly fun, life-changing days with very cool people and intriguing dialogue offer life-altering insights and deep music listening from Bach to Rock. Explore how six human behavior patterns (archetypes) –the Victim, Wanderer, Warrior, Caregiver, Innocent, and Magician–aim to run your life’s show. Discover how to choose music to positively direct that show to the outcome you desire.
Imagine directing the music you love to gain clarity, wisely read and respond to difficult situations and people, learn to hold onto joy when life is on a roll, and shape your state of mind, health, and even relationships. Yes, music can support it all! Thanks to a generous grant the reduced price is offered for a limited time.
Lunch and refreshments are included.

Crafts + Cocktails
2022-10-27 17:30 - 18:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
A fun filled evening of crafting awaits! Instructor Julia Barrett will provide supplies and step-by-step instructions to create your own macramé sunflower wall hanging, just in time for Fall! Space is limited so grab a friend and buy your tickets today!
Cash bar available. Attendees will receive free admission to the museum from 4-5 p.m. the day of the event. Bar will open at 5 p.m.
FAC members: $20
General admission: $30
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