Tag: colorado springs fine arts center
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Colorado Springs play reimagines Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson as women in season opener
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s spring of 2021 in London, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick are about to meet. But this time they’re women. In playwright Kate Hamill’s “Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B,” Dr. Joan Watson, a recent divorcee, absconds to London after…
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New video installation in Colorado Springs chronicles Puerto Rican snow stunt
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There are no snow days in Puerto Rico. But for a few years in the 1950s, around Christmas, snow did make its way to the tropical island. Children rode sleds and had snowball fights for the first time. The moisture didn’t come at the hands…
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Pikes Pick: Take an art class at Bemis School of Art in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Channel that going back to school energy this fall by taking an art class at Bemis School of Art at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. Registration is open now for all sorts…
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Pikes Pick: Colorado Springs youth theater program does ‘Hadestown’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Just because they’re young doesn’t mean they can’t belt. The Youth Repertory Ensemble at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College will perform singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s Tony Award-winning musical, “Hadestown,” as the culmination of…
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New exhibit showcases Colorado Springs Modernist Mary Chenoweth
Mary Chenoweth’s passport must have looked as abstract as her art. The groundbreaking Colorado Springs modernist indulged her wanderlust throughout her life, up until a few years before she died at 80 in 1999 in Sidney, Neb., where she moved after retiring from a 30-year career as an art educator at Colorado Springs Fine Arts…
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Your guide to free or cheap outdoor concerts in the Pikes Peak region this summer
In an increasingly expensive world it’s nice to have the simple pleasure of a free or low-priced outdoor summer concert to fall back on. And the Pikes Peak region serves them up on the regular throughout the summer. This year explore a new musical genre, park or venue. You never know, you might find a…
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Pikes Pick: Take advantage of free days at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
When a museum offers free days, you take them up on it. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center has two free days every month: second Saturdays and third Fridays. Worth checking out this month is the exhibit “Alhamdu | Muslim Futurism” by MIPSTERZ, an arts and culture collective for Muslim, Muslim-adjacent and creative allies. The national…
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Boos, bugs, pumpkins and more: Halloween events happening around the Pikes Peak region this fall
October is for lovers. Halloween lovers, that is. Activities abound for those who love a creepy crawly, spooky story or simply the sight of a perfectly plump pumpkin: • Halloween Booo With the Bugs: Don’t fret, none of the tropical insects you see at the John May Museum Center will creep and crawl over your…
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Tibetan Buddhist monks, mandala show impermanence of life | Live Well
Being a monk with a mandala might seem challenging to a non-monk. After days of painstaking work, placing colored grains in an intricate geometric pattern on a large mat, the sand painting is destroyed. Whoosh, just like that, the monks sweep the mandala into a dusty pile, carry it to a body of water, dump…
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How a single stamp nearly saved the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center from financial ruin
This is an untold story, known by only a few Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center insiders, about how a tiny postage stamp nearly saved the center from financial ruin. In March 2013, the U.S. Postal Service released a new line of postage stamps dedicated to Modern Art in America that featured “Fog Horns” by Arthur…