Opening in the gallery May 24, Xerocks & Potholes by Lindsay Jones and Analog Nature, a collaborative show featuring works by Robert G. Burch and Rob Borchardt.
Both exhibitions will have an artists reception First Friday, June 7, from 5-7pm with an artist talk at 5:30pm.
Join us and the artists of the Gateway Public Art Project for a meet-and-greet at Mountain Heart Brewing, the first 50 folks will get a free beer, yay! Also, thanks to our friends at Land + Shelter there will be some light refreshments.
5:30-7pm
1841 Dolores Way
There are several events and activities happening in the heart of the Carbondale Creative District for June’s First Friday. Enjoy Carbondale’s new and incoming public art, celebrate our community and our love for the wilderness. Dance to live music, and more! Click here for details.
Sopris Music Fest features a lineup of local musicians, curated by Steve Standiford of Steve’s Guitars at Chacos Park.
Stay tuned for further details.
Join us every month in the heart of Carbondale’s Creative District to enjoy a wide range of local arts, galleries, shopping, award-winning restaurants and spirits, and live music and entertainment.
More details forthcoming.
Join us every month in the heart of Carbondale’s Creative District to enjoy a wide range of local arts, galleries, shopping, award-winning restaurants and spirits, and live music and entertainment.
More details forthcoming.
Join us for a celebration of spring, sustainability, community and our town flower, the dandelion! The Parade of Species starts at 10am, at 2nd & Main Streets in front of KDNK, continuing down Main to Sopris Park. There you will find over 50 vendors, artists, crafters, makers, farmers, ranchers, growers, non profits, and local businesses.
Live music at the stage will play all day, with games in between sets.
The Carbondale Family Block Party and Pride Parade is an annual family-friendly event to celebrate spring and welcome summer. In addition to great local food, music produced by valley youth, and activities for kids of all ages, this has become a platform for various non-profit organizations in our valley whose mission is to support kids, family, and inclusion to showcase their offerings and volunteer opportunities.
Local mixed media artist Ashley Mosher's solo exhibition "Intimate Landscapes" transmits, transforms, and transports the viewer through connection and awareness of their inner experience.
5Point Film is kicking off its 17th annual flagship festival with an art exhibition featuring special guests Tre'lan Michael and Renan Öztürk. Both artists are featured in film premieres at this year's festival and are known for pushing the envelope of creativity through their art.
Showcasing wellness practitioners and businesses who support the health and well-being of our community and beyond! Everyone is welcome to come to the Carbondale Rec Center between 5 and 8 pm.
Save the date for the best extravaganza of the spring! This event sells out annually with 600+ tickets sold per night, it's not to be missed!
This year’s theme is Fabulation: A Wild Romp Through the Future, diving into futuristic love and what a world immersed in AI might look like. Doors at 7pm, show begins at 8pm.
Join us every month in the heart of Carbondale’s Creative District to enjoy a wide range of local arts, galleries, shopping, award-winning restaurants and spirits, and live music and entertainment.
A collaborative exhibition featuring work by local painter/sculptor Chris Erickson and textile upholteress Claire Wright. Learn more about the exhibition here.
The opening reception with an artist talk is First Friday March 1, 5pm-7pm. The gallery is open weekdays 10am-5pm.
Join us every month in the heart of Carbondale’s Creative District to enjoy a wide range of local arts, galleries, shopping, award-winning restaurants and spirits, and live music and entertainment.
The Valley Visual Art Show (VVAS) is one of the longest-standing community art shows committed to showing the work of local artists. Beginning in 1980, the VVAS provides an opportunity for local artists to share their work with the community. This show is great for established and budding artists, or those new to the area.
Opening reception with the artists is Friday, January 19 5-7pm. On display through February 23.
The Salon is an award-winning performance series, hosted by Alya Howe. This performance, Caught by the Light of Creativity features 6 artists- music, dance, and comedy. For joy, for fun, for awakening; these insightful artists embody risk taking, putting their voices out on a limb.
Saturday, January 6
6:00pm–8:00pm at The Launchpad
Join us for the first First Friday of 2024 with the community skate night at Chacos Park in the heart of downtown.
The Carbondale Rec Center team will be serving up hot cocoa with marshmallows and/or hotdogs for roasting while supplies last.
Be sure to check out the Chacos Park Master Plan ideas booth to contribute your input, additional support from Colorado Extreme.
Load up on (local) holiday goodies! Jams, breads, winter veggies, cookies and more! The market will be open both Saturday (10-4) and Sunday (11-3) inside The Launchpad, alongside Deck the Walls.
December 16-17
Saturday 10am-4pm
Sunday 11am-3pm
There is nothing like the magic that live garland brings to a space. Come and spend two days at The Launchpad with Vallee Noone who has spent the last decade honing her techniques in creating a holiday wonderland. Everyone will make their own wreath from scratch, and strategy you can take home to decorate with confidence.
December 2+3 | 4:00 - 6:00PM
$100 Carbondale Arts members/ $125 non member. Supplies included.
Join Santa at Weant Blvd & Main Street at 5:30pm to Light Up the Forest Service tree and Main Street tree lights. Free hot cocoa and sugar cookies while supplies last. Free sleigh rides with Santa 5:45pm - 7:45pm (line up at 4th & Main street). Deck the Walls holiday market in the Carbondale Arts Gallery will be open until 7pm with live performances by Roaring Fork Youth Orchestra.
Caroling and community engagement in Chacos Park to receive public input about the Chacos Park Master Plan as well as the Carbondale Mobility and Access Plan.
Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms its gallery space into a shop filled with artisan goods created by local and regional artists from all over the Roaring Fork Valley and the state of Colorado. Goods typically include handmade candles and cards, jewelry and chocolates, ceramics and soaps and more!
Carbondale Arts members are invited to get first dibs at the Holiday Market as well as enjoy a night of merriment, seasonal goodies and updates on all the great things we’ve been doing and what we have coming up!
Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms its gallery space into a shop filled with artisan goods created by local and regional artists from all over the Roaring Fork Valley and the state of Colorado.
Join us for November’s First Friday, celebrating Día de los Muertos, the largest valley-wide honoring of this holiday. Contribute your mementos to the community ofrenda!
There will be performances and face-painting, a community procession and performances by Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Folklórico, Mezcla Socials Dance, Roaring Fork Youth Orchestra and more, not to be missed!
Para Mi Madre is a juried invitational exhibition inviting Latino artists to create a visual representation of a love letter or an ode to the concept of la madre, the mother. Curated by Vanessa Porras and juried by Tony Ortega and Armando Silva.
On display September 29 – November 3. The opening reception will be First Friday October 6, 5-8pm and will close on November's First Friday Día de los Muertos celebration. The gallery is open weekdays 10am-5pm.
Carbondale Arts' gallery is open late this Friday, September 15, from 5-8pm! Meet Shelly Franklin, ceramicist and abstract floral artist, who is part of "Seen/UnSeen: an invitation to presence" on display now through September 21. Free and open to the public!
Learn more about “Seen/UnSeen” here.
Join us for a unique European-inspired event at the Thompson Barn in River Valley Ranch. The Schubert MiniFest shines a light on the intimate connection between music and nature, while celebrating the rich diversity of artistic styles and cultural backgrounds in our place and time. Indulge yourselves in two 75-minute sets of chamber music with a 90-minute intermission to enjoy a picnic with an idyllic backdrop of Mt. Sopris on the RVR grounds (PYOP, pack your own picnic). Leave 2023 behind, we’re going back to 1800s Vienna!
Carbondale Arts presents 2 new exhibitions opening Friday, August 18, from 5-7pm and an artist talk beginning at 5:30pm. “Tiny Shiny Guild” is an invitational show curated by Natasha Seedorf featuring the work of 17 Colorado Mountain College jewelry and metalsmithing students and instructors. “Seen/unSeen: an invitation to presence” features abstract painters Staci Dickerson & Brenda Peters alongside floral artist Shelly Franklin who join together to highlight the liberation that abstract work inspires & to explore the beautiful differences these three artists can create.
Both exhibitions are open through September 21. The Carbondale Arts gallery is open to the public weekdays 10am-5pm.
Our favorite summertime tradition returns to Sopris Park. 120+ unique vendors and artisans. Enthusiastic contests and performances! Live music all weekend long.
Supported and run by 300+ volunteers (thank you!) free for all, everyone welcome!
Presenting two new exhibitions opening in the gallery; "Use is Beauty" by Justin Squier, featuring mixed media sculpture as well as "The Unimagined Place" featuring artwork by Carbondale Clay Center Residents Brian Chen and Gabby Gawreluk. There will be an opening reception First Friday, July 7 from 5-7pm with an artist talk at 5:30pm. Both shows will be on display through August 10, weekdays 10am-5pm. Learn more
Presenting “Stone Entropy” featuring three local marble sculptors all living and working within the Crystal River Valley: Chet Haring, Luke Leone, and Gregory Tonozzi, who will exhibit new works both inside the gallery space as well as outside in The Launchpad’s sculpture gardens.
The show runs May 26 - June 27, and the community is invited to the opening reception on First Friday, June 2, from 5-7pm at The Launchpad, with an artist talk at 5:30pm. The gallery is open weekdays 10am-5pm.
This event is SOLD OUT.
Join us as we celebrate one of our favorite local artists and humans, Brian Colley at this one-night-only event. We can't wait to dress up, giggle and cheer Brian on for his artistic offerings to this new feature film, "Paint".
If you’d like to attend, please reach out to sarah@carbondalearts.com to join a waitlist.
Join us for a symposium covering the role and impact of the arts in our region. This gathering will feature workshops, networking and opportunities to engage in conversations with state-level partners, including Colorado Creative Industries, Colorado Business Committee on the Arts, as well as local experts in funding for nonprofits, Latinx engagement and opportunities and challenges facing us all locally and Statewide.
Carbondale Arts presents “FROM THE CENTER: Maps, Wefts, Shifts, Hoops” a group exhibition curated by Marcia Weese at the Carbondale Arts Gallery, on display April 14 - May 18, 2023. Featured artists include Elizabeth Newman, Emily Payne, Augusta Talbot, and Marcia Weese.
The community is invited to the opening reception on Friday, April 14, from 5-7pm inside The Launchpad, with an artist talk at 5:30pm.
The Carbondale Arts Gallery is open weekdays 10am-5pm
Celebrate SAW’s group exhibition with a closing reception on Thursday, April 6, from 5-7pm. Artists will give a talk about their work in this show starting around 5:30pm. Light refreshments provided. Thanks for supporting our local creatives!
It’s back, baby! At long last the fashion show returns to Carbondale! Green Is the New Black is an alluring, dynamic show featuring both local and regional designers and models, dancers and performers with multimedia storytelling. Transforming the Carbondale Rec Center into a glitzy fashion house, this event sells out annually with 600+ tickets sold per night. It's not to be missed!
*SOLD OUT*
Thursday, March 9 Doors 7:30pm
Friday March 10, Saturday March 11 Doors at 7:00pm
SHOWTIME: 8:00pm
Lots going on with the SAW artists in March & April! Join them for weekly gallery activations each Thursday from 5-6:30pm!
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