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  • A woman squats with a toddler on her lap as they both look at an art piece made from heaps of orange gauze. A man with a baby stroller looks on.

    Ana María Hernando’s Mover montañas / Moving A Mountain

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    Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United States

    In conjunction with the FAC Museum’s presentation of Ana María Hernando’s exhibition Cantando Bajito (Singing Softly), please join us for a special performance of Mover montañas / Moving A Mountain, activated by local performers from Colorado Springs. The performance will begin in Hernando’s exhibition Cantando Bajito (Singing Softly) and move throughout the museum. Please reach out with any accessibility needs. This […]

  • Emmanuel Martinez paints a mural

    Reimagining Cultural Preservation: Strategies to Restore and Preserve Community Murals

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    Join the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and the Chicana/o/x Murals of Colorado Project for a three-hour online seminar. This interactive session will focus on the significance of historic and legacy community murals and tools for their restoration and preservation. Participants will learn about protecting and restoring murals and engage in discussions about their unique […]

  • Santos Care Project

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    Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United States

    Join museum staff to learn about the ongoing project to care for and digitize the museum’s collection of santos (artistic representations of saints and holy figures). The FAC cares for approximately 1,200 santos spanning over two centuries of practice, largely from southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. Discover how the museum is digitizing and protecting […]

  • A little girl holds up a card she created at Family Adventure Day

    Family Adventure Day

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    Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United States

    Bring the whole family for a FREE day of creativity, play, and hands-on discovery at Family Adventure Day! Enjoy live aerialist performances by Elizabeth Fluharty, explore art-making stations like pinwheel and sunflower wand crafting, rock painting inspired by Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard, and a Colorado-themed activity led by Linda Sagastume. Watch […]

  • A sculpture made from found objects. The base is constructed of blue bottles and the top of gold items, including a duck, a hand mirror, and an ornate candlestick.

    Member Tour: Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard

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    Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United States

    Members: Experience Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard through the eyes of an artist. Join local artist Phil Vallejo—whose work is featured in the exhibition—for a gallery walk that explores the show from his personal perspective as a maker. As you move through the galleries together, Phil will share reflections on the artworks, creative process, […]

  • Museum staff transport Portrait of Miss Elsie Palmer by John Singer Sargent

    Member Moments: Traveling the Collection

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    Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United States

    Members: Do you like to travel in the summer? So does our art! Join museum staff in the Agents of Care gallery for a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to safely pack, transport, and install artworks from the museum’s collection when they travel on loan to other museums. Learn how these remarkable pieces make […]

  • Josh T Franco performs Scriptorium con safos: Yard. He poses next to a display of books and magazines on the ground held down by large painted rocks.

    Scriptorium con safos: Yard

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    Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United States

    Join in for a special live performance of Scriptorium con safos: Yard by Josh T Franco, which will take place in the FAC Museum’s exhibition Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard. The performance demonstrates Franco’s practice of making art history by hand. This event is included with museum admission. Space is limited–please […]

  • bronze sculptures of people

    Outdoor Art Month

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    Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United States

    Please join the Museum team at the Fine Arts Center select Wednesday mornings in July as they conduct annual sculpture cleanings! Each cleaning will begin at 8:30 am with a brief introduction to the artists and their works, and cleaning will continue until 11:30 am. Visitors are welcome to watch museum staff as they work, […]