Featured Life Imitates Art
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Strike a Pose! Statues and Sculptures
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesMembers: Let’s take a walk among the statues and sculptures that fill our galleries and lawn. With some imagination and playful thinking, we’ll bring these solid shapes to life through stories, movement, and conversation. This event is part of our Art Explorer Tours, a special tour series just for kids, while their adults tag along […]
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Member Moments: Inside the Collection Bronze Cleaning
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesMembers: Get ready for a captivating afternoon at this exclusive Agents of Care member event. Watch as our collections staff restore our bronze sculpture, Resting at the Spring by Alan Houser, cleaning away green oxidation, then rewaxing and sealing the work. Feeling adventurous? Don a pair of gloves and join in on the action, helping […]
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Courtyard Cleanup: Help Clean Artworks in our Courtyard
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesIt’s sculpture cleaning season! Join the FAC collections team for a special day of sculpture care. Visitors are invited to watch staff clean and wax the bronze sculptures in the museum courtyard. Feeling adventurous? Visitors are welcome to don a pair of gloves and help us clean the sculptures! This drop-in program is free and open […]
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Yoga at the FAC
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesJoin us for yoga with instructor Dominika Kamionka in our beautiful glass-walled Smith Family gallery. Participants are invited to stay and enjoy the museum for free after class. All experience levels are welcome. Please bring your own mat. Water is allowed during class, but not in the museum galleries if you choose to visit. Suggested […]
Featured Hadestown Teen Edition
Hadestown Teen Edition
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United States
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Thread Talks! Alisa Banks: Unerased
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesMembers: Step into an exhibit full of fabric, memory, and unexpected stories. We’ll explore how personal objects can spark big questions and discover how art can speak without saying a word. Along the way, we’ll follow our noses too — sniffing and discovering a variety of scents that bring the artworks to life in surprising […]
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Member Tour: Architecture of the FAC
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesMembers: Explore the architectural legacy of John Gaw Meem, an influential American architect based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Meem is best known for his pioneering work in the Pueblo Revival Style and advocacy for Regionalism against international modernism. Our tour, led by local architectural historian Chuck Benson, delves into Meem's innovative fusion of Art […]
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First Friday Art Party
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesJoin us for our First Friday Art Party from 5–8 p.m. Enjoy live music from guitarist Colin McAllister in the stunning ambiance offered by our chic, historic venue. Free museum admission, including all current exhibitions Drinks and snacks available for purchase in the Deco Lounge FREE downtown shuttle, THE ZEB, running along Tejon Street to downtown art galleries […]
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FAC Members Law & Disorder Downtown History Stroll
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesFAC Members: We’ve partnered with the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum for this half-mile guided stroll through downtown Colorado Springs. Explore how Colorado Springs officials fought to remain a “dry town” in “wet times,” the captivating story of how the Colorado Springs Citizens Committee worked to run the KKK out of town in the 1920s, and […]
Featured Museum Free Day
Museum Free Day
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesMuseum Free Days are offered the second Saturday and third Friday of each month. See what’s on view in the museum
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A Touchy Subject: How Human Interaction Impacts Art
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesJoin the museum collections team in the Agents of Care gallery for a special behind-the-scenes program exploring how human interaction impacts museum collections. Through observation and discussion, we’ll explore the lasting effects human touch can have on artwork. This program provides an insight into how museums care for objects and how visitors contribute to the […]
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Squaring the Circle — with Quilts!
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesImagine five friends in a quilting circle decide to make five quilts in a "round robin" sort of way. Is it possible to find a way to pass quilts among five people so that each person works on each quilt, and no person passes to the same person twice? The pursuit of an answer leads […]
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Thread Talks! Alisa Banks: Unerased
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesMembers: Step into an exhibit full of fabric, memory, and unexpected stories. We’ll explore how personal objects can spark big questions and discover how art can speak without saying a word. Along the way, we’ll follow our noses too — sniffing and discovering a variety of scents that bring the artworks to life in surprising […]
Featured Yoga at the FAC
Yoga at the FAC
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesJoin us for yoga with instructor Dominika Kamionka in our beautiful glass-walled Smith Family gallery. Participants are invited to stay and enjoy the museum after class. All experience levels are welcome. Tickets $12 per person (includes museum admission) FAC Members receive a 10% discount! Not a member? Join today TICKETS Please bring your own mat. Water […]
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Backpacks & Bites
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United States
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Member Moments: Exhibition Preview Morning
Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesFAC Members: Join us at our members-only preview of Gathering Place: Permanent Collection Reinstallation before it opens to the public! Mingle with FAC staff and explore the exhibition at your own pace. We’ll also have a complimentary selection of coffee, tea, and breakfast bites for you to enjoy! Can't make it? The exhibition will be […]