Center for the Arts Calendar

LITERARY ARTS

Wildflower Festival

9:00am, Rainbow Park Pavilion

Learn how to keep your own nature journal, developing the skills to make the art of nature journaling a lifelong practice. Nature journaling makes more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am,

Itching to record some of the magic of the wildflowers? Learn to hand-carve unique stamps and use them to embellish your own folded mini book! Using more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Designed for Rising 6th - Rising 9th Graders

10:00am, The Art Studio; 111 Elk Ave Crested Butte, CO 81224

Henna Design Henna tattoos are a beautiful example of self-expression. People of ancient India and Egypt used this temporary tattooing for more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

1:00pm,

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...

TOUR DE FORKS

6:00pm, Private Home in Crested Butte

Theatrical Evening with Food & Flair Sous Chef Ian Scott of Revelden (Crested Butte, CO), and performance art by Crested Butte Mountain more...

ALSO AT THE CENTER

“WHAT COMES AFTER TRUMP (ASSUMING WE ALL SURVIVE)?

7:00pm, Center for the Arts, 606 6th Street, Crested Butte

Speaker: CHARLES J. SYKES “WHAT COMES AFTER TRUMP (ASSUMING WE ALL SURVIVE)?”? Charles Sykes is a well-known conservative more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

9:00am, The Art Studio; 111 Elk Ave Crested Butte, CO 81224

Open Wheel Throwing Join a weekly three-hour session with instruction on the wheel. Start your own journey into the joy of clay, or continue to the more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am,

Whether your travel involves a passport, simply heading down the block, backpacking or biking many miles, it is exciting to capture and record the more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

3:00pm,

Cyanotype is a historical process fromt the 1800s where non-toxic chemicals and exposure to sunshine are used to "print" photographic more...

MUSIC

Crested Butte Music Festival

7:30pm, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

The Crested Butte Opera Studio and the CBMF Symphony join forces for Bernstein in Song, an installment in this year’s Bernstein 100 more...

LITERARY ARTS

Wildflower Festival

9:00am, Nordic center

Join us for an exploration of your own backyard! Learn how to keep your own nature journal to capture the hidden beauty in urban settings. Enjoy a more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am,

Using Alter Ego Dyes, learn a two dye in one bath technique to create a beautiful, 54-inch, dual colored, silk cut velvet scarf with fringe and a more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Where's Bambi?

3:00pm, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

Join local watercolor artist, Suzanne Pierson, for a step-by-step watercolor painting class during afternoon happy hour on the Center’s Outdoor more...

GALLERIES

Artist Reception

5:00pm,

“Fair Weather Future” is a collection of new works by multi-disciplinary Colorado artist Robert G. Burch. Burch has spent the last decade more...

MUSIC

Crested Butte Music Festival

7:30pm, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

Familiar with Fluxus? You don’t have to be to enjoy this hands-on event. Here’s what you need to know: Fluxus is an international and more...

TOUR DE FORKS

9:00am,

Luncheon Among the Aspens Chef / Owner Dana Zobs & Chef / Owner Stacee VanAernem of Crested Butte’s Personal Chefs (Crested more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:15am,

Simple Sketch Series Have you always wished you could do a quick sketch of that wildflower but felt inhibited? This “Simple Sketch more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

10:00am, The Art Studio; 111 Elk Ave Crested Butte, CO 81224

Learn the art of glass bead making with Carbondale artist Robert Burch. This workshop will start with a lecture of the different facets of glass more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

12:30pm, The Art Studio; 111 Elk Ave Crested Butte, CO 81224

Learn the art of glass bead making with Carbondale artist Robert Burch. This workshop will start with a lecture of the different facets of glass more...

LITERARY ARTS

4:00pm,

Meet fellow writers in the Valley! The Crested Butte Writers’ Network (CBWN) was formed to bring together CB’s literary sector and more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

5:30pm,

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

Crested Butte Music Festival

7:30pm, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

The Colorado has been hailed as one of the most profound documentaries in recent memory. This beautiful film explores the complex relationship more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Wildflower Festival Art Classes

9:00am,

Do you secretly judge a book by its cover? Do you start twitching to get your hands on a textured, layered, colorful, fabulous art journal? Here is more...

MUSIC

Crested Butte Music Festival

7:30pm, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

Violinist Charles Yang returns to Crested Butte Music Festival to solo with the CBMF Symphony Orchestra, performing one of Bernstein’s more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

9:00am-1:00pm, The Art Studio; 111 Elk Ave Crested Butte, CO 81224

Local oil painter, Dawn Cohen, shares her expertise in plein air oil painting over three Mondays this July. Dawn is well known for her plein air more...

MUSIC

5:30pm, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

Denver-based blues quartet Dragondeer mixes a hybrid of Mississippi Delta blues with 1960’s psychedelic rock, blistering harmonica and raw more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

9:00am-1:00pm, The Art Studio; 111 Elk Ave Crested Butte, CO 81224

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Designed for Rising 6th - Rising 9th Graders

10:00am, The Art Studio; 111 Elk Ave Crested Butte, CO 81224

Oil Painting Local well-known plein air oil painter, Dawn Cohen, leads students through an oil painting, step-by-step, to a final, frameable more...

PERFORMING ARTS

Crested Butte Music Festival

11:00am, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

The Crested Butte Opera Studio, CBMF Symphony Orchestra, conductor Brian Garman and director Joshua Major join forces to bring Verdi’s comedic more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

Cyanotype & Champagne

4:00pm, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

Each Tuesday this summer on the Center’s Outdoor Stage, a team of our talented instructors present a rotating series of classes similar to our more...

ALSO AT THE CENTER

“THE VOTING BOOTH: BE THERE, OR BE SQUARE”

7:00pm, Center for the Arts, 606 6th Street, Crested Butte

Speaker: ELLEN SWEETS “THE VOTING BOOTH: BE THERE, OR BE SQUARE”? Ellen Sweets is a journalist formerly with the Denver Post more...

9:00am,

In its 19th year, Writing the Rockies is one of the largest and most diverse writers’ conferences in the region with workshops and discussions more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

9:00am, The Art Studio; 111 Elk Ave Crested Butte, CO 81224

Open Wheel Throwing Join a weekly three-hour session with instruction on the wheel. Start your own journey into the joy of clay, or continue to the more...

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES

9:00am-1:00pm, The Art Studio; 111 Elk Ave Crested Butte, CO 81224

FILM

Crested Butte Film Festival

8:00pm,

Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, director Eugene Jarecki takes Elvis' 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across the country more...