Center for the Arts Crested Butte
Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Chantil and the Dukes of Art
Center for the Arts Crested Butte 606 Sixth Street, Crested Butte, CO, United StatesChantil Dukart is an award-winning contemporary jazz pianist and vocalist with roots in the Tsimshian and Sugpiaq tribes of Alaska. Dukart has performed with leading voices in contemporary music, including Esperanza Spalding, Nikki Glaspie (Beyoncé, Dumpstaphunk), Michael Pilot (Hamilton) and Guggenheim fellow Nicholas Galanin at notable venues including the Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian, Kuumbwa Jazz […]
Alpenglow: Local Music featuring Floyd Bauler and Big Love Car Wash
Center for the Arts Crested Butte 606 Sixth Street, Crested Butte, CO, United StatesFloyd Bauler, The True-Blue Troubadour Living life on the road out of a worn down guitar case, Floyd Bauler’s songs tell true and tall tales of his friends, his old dog Penny, and all of his wild adventures. His stories come alive in his music and his shows are places of connection, where everyone can […]
Bertha: Grateful Drag
Center for the Arts Crested Butte 606 Sixth Street, Crested Butte, CO, United StatesDoors 7:00pm | Show 8:00pm 2 full sets of Grateful Dead music. Hosted by special guest Slymm Jymm and benefiting Bread & Roses Legal Center + Rainbow Youth Center. BERTHA: Grateful Drag is the world’s first Grateful Dead tribute band in drag—an all-star collective of queer and allied East Nashville talent, rocking full wigs and full face for a […]
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Gallery Reception
Center for the Arts Crested Butte 606 Sixth Street, Crested Butte, CO, United StatesExhibition: May 22-July 27 Join us for the opening reception of this fantastic show! Featuring a robust bar menu as well as complimentary house wine or beer. Pioneers of digital imaging, Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill have spent over four decades exploring photography, video, and multimedia art, earning prestigious awards like the Guggenheim Fellowship and […]
Mountain Words Festival
Center for the Arts Crested Butte 606 Sixth Street, Crested Butte, CO, United StatesThe Mountain Words Festival is a multi-day literary celebration at nine-thousand feet, featuring readings, workshops, kids' events, parties, panel discussions, live theater, and more. 2025 Schedule of Events Learn more at mtnwords.org
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
Center for the Arts Crested Butte 606 Sixth Street, Crested Butte, CO, United StatesReception: May 22 | 4-6pm Pioneers of digital imaging, Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill have spent over four decades exploring photography, video, and multimedia art, earning prestigious awards like the Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple NEA Fellowships. Their work, featured in major museums across the U.S., merges technology, nature, and human perception in striking ways. Held […]
Cocktail Seminar: The Tipsy Typewriter
Center for the Arts Crested Butte 606 Sixth Street, Crested Butte, CO, United StatesRaise a glass to literary greats with an evening of cocktails inspired by the masters of the written word and taught by Renee Newton of Montanya Rum Distillers. On the eve of the Mountain Words Literary Festival, we’ll shake, stir, and sip our way through the Hemingway Daiquiri, Fitzgerald Fizz, and Poe Punch—each crafted with […]
Professional Development Workshop: Branding and Marketing
Center for the Arts Crested Butte 606 Sixth Street, Crested Butte, CO, United StatesLiza (Lou) Scher is a Marketing Strategist with the Sterling-Rice Group in Boulder, Colorado. She also holds a degree in integrative design and architecture with a focus on art for social change. When she’s not stunning clients or explaining the nuances of pop culture to Gen X colleagues, she might be playing ultimate frisbee, skiing […]
Greater Tuna
Center for the Arts Crested Butte 606 Sixth Street, Crested Butte, CO, United StatesFirebird Theatre and The Center are proud to present a one-night-only staged reading of Jaston Williams’, Joe Sears’, and Ed Howard’s rip-roaring Texan farce Greater Tuna. Directed by Domenico Marinucci, the play stars two actors as twenty citizens of the fictional “third-smallest” town in the Lone Star State.
Crested Butte Community School Art Exhibition
Center for the Arts Crested Butte 606 Sixth Street, Crested Butte, CO, United StatesGallery Reception: May 3 | 5-7pm Led under the instruction of Nathan Motsinger, these talented AP Art students are ready and excited to show the community all the hard work they have put into their artwork over the past year. From deeply personal themes to bold experimentation with style and medium, this show offers a […]