Center for the Arts Calendar

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

9:00am, The Art Studio

Try your hand at throwing on the wheel or brush up your skills in altering, hand-building and sculpting. With weekly three-hour sessions, take one more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am, The Art Studio

Look more closely and work with pens, watercolor and pencils to capture the essence of an object. We will play with pens, watercolor and pencils, more...

GALLERIES

5:00pm, Center for the Arts Crested Butte

Using traditional photography methods such as wet plate collodion and large format sheet film, Matthew has set out to capture the western landscapes more...

PERFORMING ARTS

8:00pm, Center for the Arts Crested Butte

July 7th Show 8:00 pm Door 7:30 pm Tickets $25 Early Bird Tickets $40 Regular Tickets $45 Buy Tickets Celebrating its 47th more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am, The Art Studio

Capture your adventures with simple techniques in collage and mixed media to create satisfying travel journals filled with pages of your unique more...

FILM

3:00pm, Center for the Arts Crested Butte

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

5:00pm, The Art Studio

Celebrate the festivities this wildflower season by creating your own wildflower garden! Students will use Kool-Aid, watercolor, and other mediums to more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am, The Art Studio

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to make art in the outdoors, surrounded by wildflowers, trees, and breathtaking landscape. During a more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

1:00pm,

Appreciate the process of mural painting by creating your own colorful wildflower mini mural. Guided by local Gunnison artist, Molly Darby, students more...

MUSIC

8:00pm, Center for the Arts Crested Butte

July 9th Show 8:00 pm Doors 7:30 pm Early Bird Tickets $20 (through 7/2) Regular Tickets $25 Buy Tickets The HillBenders have always more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

9:00am, The Art Studio

Show up at a pre-announced garden or trailside location where the blooms are going off! After registration and a few days in advance of class, you more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

10:00am, The Art Studio

Precious Metal Clay (PMC) is a crafting medium with the consistency of polymer clay, comprised of very small particles of silver. Using wildflowers more...

MUSIC

Alpenglow

5:30pm, Center for the Arts Crested Butte

It’s a little raw, a bit loud, unapologetic and honest. It’s blue-collar, Carhartt-wearing, hard-working, PBR beer-drinking rock and roll more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am, The Art Studio

Creating an art journal practice is a joyful way to access your unique creative expression. Anyone can find success with simple materials and an more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

1:00pm, The Art Studio

Using a photographic process developed in the early 1800s, learn to produce and hand-tint cyanotype photos with local artist and owner of the more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflowers

5:30pm, Center for the Arts Crested Butte

Join painter and instructor, Becky Chappell on the Center’s Outdoor Stage for an exciting step-by-step acrylic painting class – a perfect more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am, The Art Studio

Spend the afternoon capturing the beautiful shapes and colors of Crested Butte’s amazing flowers through drawing with chalk pastels on thick, more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am, The Art Studio

Learn how to make life-like wildflowers from sugar paste and fondant. Explore the proper handling of sugar paste and fondant, learn to use of a more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Middle School Art Workshop

10:00am, The Art Studio

Wednesday July12 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Jewelry Making. $45 + $10 supply fee Jewelry making has been such a huge hit, that Blair is offering it more...

ALSO AT THE CENTER

Nan Aron - The Fight to Save the Federal Judiciar

7:30pm, Center for the Arts Crested Butte

Nan Aron is nationally recognized for her vast expertise in public interest Law, the federal judiciary, and citizen participation in public policy. more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am, The Art Studio

Spend time among the Crested Butte wildflowers and dramatic mountain scenery, during a short hike, with artist and Nature Connected life coach, Ivy more...

TOUR DE FORKS

5:30pm,

Enjoy a glass of fine wine and soak in the soothing cadences of the trout-rich Taylor River from the spacious lawn at Wilder on the Taylor, a working more...

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am,

Look more closely and work with pens, watercolor and pencils to capture the essence of an object. We will play with pens, watercolor and pencils, more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

9:00am, The Art Studio

Try your hand at throwing on the wheel or brush up your skills in altering, hand-building and sculpting. With weekly three-hour sessions, take one more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

5:30pm, The Art Studio

Join in an evening of creativity and fun with a guided painting session using local wildflowers as the subject. If you have always wanted to paint, more...

FILM

7:00pm, Center for the Arts Crested Butte

DOCUMENTARY, 100 mins Join local celebrities Dean Dillon and Cole Claassen for a few best-selling Country tunes and a documentary film about its more...

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am, The Art Studio

Using resist and an array of vibrant permanent dyes, paint wildflowers on a 52-inch hemmed silk scarf. Start by stretching and pinning the scarf on more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am, The Art Studio

Do you love the luscious colors and rich textures that are part of your mountain experience? In this two-day Art Immersion we will create our own more...

MUSIC

A night in the village

8:00pm, Center for the Arts Crested Butte

July 15th Show 8:00 pm Doors 7:30 pm Early Bird Tickets $40 (through 7/8) Regular Tickets $45 Buy Tickets Trevor Hall’s music more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

9:00am, The Art Studio

Show up at a pre-announced garden or trailside location where the blooms are going off! After registration and a few days in advance of class, you more...

MUSIC

Alpenglow

5:30pm, Center for the Arts Crested Butte

Colorado country group The Tyler Walker Band consistently woos the Front Range as the winners of 97.9’s “Big Country’s Got more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Aurora Borealis

5:30pm, Center for the Arts Crested Butte

Join painter and instructor, Becky Chappell on the Center’s Outdoor Stage for an exciting step-by-step acrylic painting class – a perfect more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wednesdays at Western

9:30am, The Art Studio

Learn wash, perspective and color techniques, plus fun new tips and demos, while painting en plein air in this fun and easy class. Instructor: more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Middle School Art Workshop

10:00am, The Art Studio

Wednesday July19 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Design Your Own Beauty Product Line. $45 + $25 supply fee Feel like a true entrepreneur and make homemade more...

TOUR DE FORKS

6:00pm,

The famous Tipple House of Prospect reveals the rich mining heritage of this area through its materials, design and layout while simultaneously more...