Center for the Arts Calendar

LITERARY ARTS

5:00pm, Public House

Lordy, lordy look who’s 40! Join the Crested Butte Magazine team and contributors for a community-wide celebration marking 40 years of more...

SPECIAL EVENTS

6:00pm, The Lodge at Mountaineer Square

Highlighting the intersections of visual, performance and culinary arts, the ARTrageous Gala is an immersive, interactive experience with the art more...

MUSIC

Crested Butte Music Festival

8:00pm, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

Natalia Zukerman is a renowned singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and member of a famous musical family. This one-woman showcase allows her to more...

MUSIC

Crested Butte Music Festival

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

Two of the famed Zukerman women, Eugenia (flute) and Arianna (soprano), team-up for an unforgettable night of song. Eugenia makes a triumphant return more...

VISUAL ARTS

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

Would you like to add text to your mixed media or art journal work? Wondering how to add meaning using letter forms that are unique and personal, yet more...

MUSIC

8:00pm, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

A timeless and classic folk singer, Amy Speace applies her rich and lovely voice to luminously smart songs. In this special benefit concert for the more...

TOUR DE FORKS

5:30pm,

FORE-AY INTO FILM Chef Kalon Wall of Revelden (Crested Butte, CO) with Crested Butte Film Festival selected shorts highlighting works and more...

MUSIC

5:30pm,

A one-man orchestra with no electronic effects or loop pedal, Lipbone Redding uses his lips as a vibrating trombone, combining his signature sound more...

VISUAL ARTS

Designed for Rising 6th - Rising 9th Graders

12:00pm, The Art Studio; 111 Elk Ave Crested Butte, CO 81224

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

VISUAL ARTS

Wood Panels & Whiskey

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...

CULINARY ARTS

6:30pm,

Explore the keys to tasting wine and pairing it with complimentary foods in this discussion, demonstration-style, tasting and eating course. Too many more...

ALSO AT THE CENTER

“WHY THE HISTORY OF THE PRESIDENCY MATTERS FOR TH

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

Speaker: JEREMI SURI “WHY THE HISTORY OF THE PRESIDENCY MATTERS FOR THE PAST AND FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY”? Jeremy Sure is a more...

VISUAL ARTS

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...

CULINARY ARTS

5:30pm, 9380

Learn all about “Cape Dutch” cuisine with a native South African chef. Known for creative preparations of meats, preserves, pickling, more...

VISUAL ARTS

Hummingbird

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...

FILM

Crested Butte Film Festival

7:00pm, Center for the Arts

Starring James Franco and his brother Dave, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of Hollywood nobodies Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero, more...

TOUR DE FORKS

10:00am,

NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BRUNCH Chef / Owner Curtis Higgins of Elk Avenue Prime (Crested Butte, CO), and music by the Tin Men at the home of Maureen and more...

MUSIC

5:30pm, Red Mountain Park

New Orleans’ Tin Men are America's premier sousaphone, washboard and guitar trio. Together they explore a truly eclectic array of North more...

VISUAL ARTS

Cocktails & Canvases

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...

GALLERIES

Audrey Anderson: “Discovering My Dreams”

5:30pm, Center for the Arts Crested Butte

Artist Audrey Anderson believes that we are the Land, and the Land is Us - and that Magic is all around us, all the time. Her work strives to more...

VISUAL ARTS

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...

SPECIAL EVENTS

9:00am, The Club at Crested Butte

The Center for the Arts Golf Classic Four-Person Scramble at the Club at Crested Butte 9:00-11:00 am Registration Tee Prize Shopping more...

MUSIC

8:00pm, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

Virtuoso Robert Randolph’s unprecedented prowess on the pedal steel guitar has Rolling Stone calling him one of the “100 Greatest more...

LITERARY ARTS

8:00am,

Do you feel overwhelmed by the beauty of the landscape that surrounds us but aren’t quite sure how to express it? Do you have something to say more...

TOUR DE FORKS

5:30pm,

CATCH OF THE DAY Chef Ivan Giani of the Boxer Corporation (Crested Butte, CO) at The Reserve on the East River. When: August 25th, more...

LITERARY ARTS

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

The Literary Arts Department presents an evening with award winning author, Craig Childs. Childs will present on his latest book, ATLAS OF A LOST more...

PERFORMING ARTS

Comedy

8:00pm, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

The undeniably likeable comedian Josh Blue centers much of his self-deprecating act around having Cerebral Palsy, breaking down stereotypes of people more...

LITERARY ARTS

6:00pm, Public House

The Literary Arts Department welcomes writers, readers and anyone with a professional interest in literature to their monthly networking event. Make more...

FILM

Crested Butte Film Festival

7:00pm, Center for the Arts

Four and one-half hours long and told over two music-filled nights, Long Strange Trip traces the remarkable, tempestuous career of the Grateful Dead. more...

VISUAL ARTS

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...

FILM

Crested Butte Film Festival

7:00pm, Center for the Arts

Four and one-half hours long and told over two music-filled nights, Long Strange Trip traces the remarkable, tempestuous career of the Grateful Dead. more...

VISUAL ARTS

Aspens

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...

LITERARY ARTS

Story Crawl; A Progressive Book Read

6:00pm,

Story Crawl; A Progressive Book Reading on Bikes with Matthew Taylor. Thursday, August 30. 6:00 p.m. Free Pedal along with humorist and more...

MUSIC

8:00pm, Crested Butte Center for the Arts; 606 6th Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224

Powerfully soulful, Amy Helm (daughter of musical icon Levon Helm of The Band) is blessed with a deeply expressive voice and an uncanny songwriting more...

LITERARY ARTS

with Matthew Taylor

1:00pm,

Whether it’s gearing up for the Vinotok Liar’s Night, or simply the desire to tell a really great story – this workshop gives you more...