Members from the Northern El Paso County Watercolor Group are happy to be bringing their talents to the Garden of the Gods Visitor Center.

Professional watercolor works in a great variety of subjects, sizes and prices; all featuring the beauty of the Pikes Peak Region.

Find decor for the autumn season or a gift for the upcoming holidays.

Fountain Creek Nature Center hosts a Rotating Art Exhibit which features the works of a local artist or photographer. All items are nature-related and local to Colorado. These pieces can be purchased to support the creative and El Paso County Nature Centers in their mission of connecting people to their natural and cultural resources.

Mary Madison of Black Forest is the featured artist for the month of October.

Come check out her unique tapestries and fiber-art creations before they're gone!

Discover what life was like for the early pioneers, mountain men, and settlers who transformed the Colorado Springs region at our educational historic sites.

Tickets may be purchased at the Ranch or online.

Visit the General Store to enjoy some old-fashioned sodas and candy, and take home some delightful Ranch-made souvenirs.

An Art Show for Suicide and Mental Health Awareness.

I'll Be There. This powerful exhibition of local artists including Lance Green, Don Goede, Bill Young, Kim Nguyen and more, shines a light on mental health and suicide awareness, featuring poignant artworks reflecting the struggles and triumphs often kept behind closed doors.

Each piece serves as a reminder that no one is alone in their journey—together, we can foster understanding, empathy, and connection. Join us for an evening of inspiration, conversation, and community as we celebrate resilience and support mental health initiatives.

Mark your calendars and be part of the movement. Your presence matters. Let’s create a dialogue, spread awareness, and inspire hope.

Every October is Arts Month. Every October is our Benefit Month at Academy Art & Frame Co. with a show dedicated to supporting a non-profit organization in our region. Heartbeat, a Colorado Springs organization that’s mission is to offer empathy, comfort, relief from isolation, and to role model healthy adjustment to the loss in a safe, judgment-free environment to anyone touched by suicide, will be the art exhibits beneficiary this year. 20% of all sales from the show will go to Heartbeat. Because together, we can be there for one another.

Alhamdu | Muslim Futurism is an evolving multidisciplinary exhibition and archive created by MIPSTERZ featuring a variety of work from paintings, photography, illustrations and sculptures to installations, digital media, soundscapes, film, virtual reality, and interactive experiences. ALHAMDU—an exhibition three years in the making at the Fine Arts Center—explores Muslim Futurism, a cultural and artistic approach that learns from Afrofuturism, a movement visualizing alternate and liberating futures of Black bodies. Muslim Futurism also incorporates ideas drawn from global resistance and liberation movements (e.g., Palestinian, Sudanese, Rohingya, Uyghur—to name a few), as well as Islamic understandings of love and justice to imagine a flourishing Muslim future for all. This immersive art exhibition and associated programs explore five themes: imagination, identity, community, resistance, and liberation. Each theme is explored from an artistic, community, and academic lens considering what “Muslim Futurism” means, draws from, and works toward.

About MIPSTERZ
MIPSTERZ is a non-traditional arts and culture collective for emerging Muslim, Muslim-adjacent, and allied creatives. We enable and amplify creative voices by presenting and producing cultural alternatives. MIPSTERZ helps marginalized creators build, collaborate, or experiment with diverse folks who share a common connection to a larger tradition. The collective has featured work in popular media and academia to museums and art spaces—bringing multi-dimensional third-culture-inspired voices and stories to the forefront. Learn more about MIPSTERZ

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art’s Building Bridges Program. The mission of the Building Bridges Program is to support national efforts, working with U.S. Muslims, to increase mutual understanding and well-being among diverse populations for the benefit of building stronger, inclusive communities. Support for ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM at the Fine Arts Center is provided by the Catharine and Bart Holaday Endowment for Interactive Art.

The Manitou Springs Heritage Center and Museum announces its featured exhibits,  “Van Briggle: What Is the Manitou Connection?” and "The Garden of the Gods Pottery".

See one of the largest exhibits of Van Briggle pottery in the Pikes Peak region. Learn more about Artus and Anne Van Briggle’s creation of this iconic and award-winning pottery works and its connection to historic Manitou Springs. See dozens of beautifully designed pottery creations crafted by America’s longest-running pottery works, Van Briggle Pottery.

Eric Hellman was hired by Nemadji Pottery and Tile to create and design its first line of  Nemadji Pottery. Hellman designed pieces "glazed" by floating oil-base colors on water and dipping his pots into this concoction. At his pottery works known as The Garden of the Gods Pottery, he was one of the early craftsmen in the Colorado Springs area.

Visit our free museum. For more information, call (719) 685-1454, email: ManitouHeritage@gmail.com, or visit www.manitouspringsheritagecenter.org

“The Photography of E.S. Curtis and Roland Reed-Historic and Contemporary First Nation Images” 

The Manitou Springs Heritage Center and Museum proudly announces its exhibit, “The Photography of E.S. Curtis and Roland Reed-Historic and Contemporary First Nation Images”.

Celebrate our town’s diversity and Indigenous communities during Indigenous People’s Weekend in Manitou Springs with this community-building exhibit that contrasts and compares historic and contemporary First Nation photography.

Experience the iconic photogravures of Curtis and Reed and contemporary images as seen through the camera lens of indigenous photographers, Amanda Jones, Manny Hawkwing Pulido, Kenny Frost and world-famous filmmaker, photographer and lecturer Larry Cesspooch.

Mr. Cesspooch will be leading the Opening Ceremony. These First Nation Images are representative of the photographers’ tribes, families, friends and the landscapes and depict their way of life and communities.  See our collections of kachinas, fetishes, pottery and artwork of indigenous peoples living throughout the West.

Teachers, alumni and visitors come see why Manitou Springs is much more than a tourist attraction.

The exhibit features Manitou Springs High School stories which focus on “Then and Now” themes and community building. Stories include “100 Years Ago (1924 – 2024)”, a school building history timeline, then and now prom dress fashions, cheerleading and technology. Also included are a Manitou family spotlight for the Zellhoefers, a tribute to Professor Richardson and class photo slideshows. This exhibit ties the past to the present for kids, parents and grandparents while promoting our city’s unique sense of community.

The exhibit explains the role railroads have played in the development of our town’s history through our presentation of images, artifacts and video.

Learn about the five railroads that served our town including Manitou’s Lost Railroad and the railroads that helped build the West. The Denver & Rio Grande Railway with its Manitou Spur and the Colorado Midland Railway brought tourists from all over the country to visit Manitou Springs. Tour Manitou and the Pikes Peak region while experiencing video rides on the Manitou Incline, the Red Mountain Incline Railway and the Pikes Peak Cog Railway.

Join us for our 60th Annual Fall Holiday Arts and Crafts show at the historic Black Forest Community Center.

The fall show is the perfect place to shop for unique hand crafted items for that special someone on your Christmas or other holiday gift-giving list! Local artisans will be showing many new and unique gifts, fine art and decor for your home. Additionally, our culinary artists are busy preparing a huge selection of autumn-themed culinary delights! Pumpkin and spice, anyone! The show promises to be Spooktacular.

The Black Forest Arts & Crafts Guild promotes and pursues activities in fine arts, decorative arts and crafts, and culinary endeavors. Our artisan and culinary members sell their work which includes quilts & afghans, baby items, paintings, pottery, jewelry, woodworking, stained glass, dolls, stitchery, note cards, baked goods, jams & jellies, candles and much more! The Black Forest Arts & Crafts Guild is a Colorado non-profit organization, that maintains a Scholarship Fund to help local students go to school. The scholarship is funded not only by a donation from the guild but other members of our community.

For more information about the show, guild members and pictures of the show, see us at bfacg.org or www.facebook.com/BFACG.

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16 piece Big Band!

Fred Johnson, an acclaimed jazz vocalist, sacred chanter, storyteller, author and arts educator, has opened for both Aretha Franklin and Dr. Deepak Chopra demonstrating his remarkable versatility as an artist and healer. He is recognized globally for his work in the health and wellness community and his extensive work in international Interfaith peace and reconciliation.

Ashley Cornelius, the first Black Pikes Peak Region Poet Laureate, is a nationally recognized and multi-award-winning spoken-word poet, facilitator, cultural worker and keynote speaker. She believes that mental health is paramount, and poetry and performance are a way to support mindfulness and coping skills.

Suzanne Costello has toured internationally as a dance/theater director, choreographer, and performer. Working at the forefront of the Arts & Health field, she has offered her Caring for the Caregiver program for caregivers across all spectrums of the caregiving field for over thirty years.

All come, free to all.
Free parking available.
Refreshments provided.

Brewery Bingo every Wednesday!

Free to play & Win prizes. Come for a game ~ Stay for them all.

Don't miss the excitement!

Bring your friends, enjoy some great beer, and get ready for a night of Bingo at Mash Mechanix Brewing!

Trivia Night at Goat Patch Brewing Company - every Wednesday from 6-8 pm

Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur's quest to find the Holy Grail. Inspired by the classic comedy film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the musical also diverts a bit from more traditional versions of the legend.

The Grammy-Award Catalyst Quartet will perform at Packard Hall at Colorado College, as part of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival's 2024-25 Intermezzo Season.

Intermezzo Season "keeps the music alive" for Colorado Springs chamber music lovers in between the Festival's full season held every summer in June.

The Catalyst Quartet was hailed by The New York Times at its Carnegie Hall debut as “invariably energetic and finely burnished… playing with earthy vigor." The ensemble was founded by the internationally acclaimed Sphinx Organization in 2010. Its members -- Karla Donehew Perez, violin; Abi Fayette, violin; Paul Laraia, viola; and Karlos Rodriguez, cello -- believe in the unity that can be achieved through music and imagine their programs and projects with this in mind, redefining and reimagining the classical music experience.

The Catalyst Quartet, known for “perfect ensemble unity” and “unequaled class of execution” (Lincoln Journal Star), has toured widely throughout the United States and abroad, including sold-out performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., at Chicago’s Harris Theater, Miami’s New World Center, and Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in New York.

The Colorado College Summer Music Festival provides the highest caliber, inclusive educational experience for pre-professional musicians, connecting them with preeminent performance faculty as they prepare to launch rewarding careers, while simultaneously providing vibrant and diverse concerts celebrating legacy, contemporary, and underrepresented classical music and thereby enriching the community of the Pikes Peak region.

Drag Queen HunNay Flava Hosts Bingo every Wednesday. Fast paced Bingo games with prizes from shots to churros and cookies!

Come eat dinner, have cocktails, and enjoy the family friendly game night hosted at Munchies!

Fun for Everyone!

UPDATE: Online only on www.truenorthartgallery.com until further notice due to a fire in a neighboring business. Future gallery hour updates will be posted on website.

Each member artist, along with several alumni members, share their interpretation of the theme "portrait" in the gallery's first group exhibit. Artists use their own medium, some stretching beyond their normal aesthetics, to create work in this theme.

Drawing inspiration from her early fall hikes and mountain adventures, her recent canvases are almost giddy with color and movement.

"The Aspens Show- New Works" continues through the end of October at Laura Reilly Fine Art Gallery and Studio and online at laurareilly.com.

Our festival is designed for families with kids of all ages, offering a safe and welcoming environment to celebrate the Halloween season indoors where it's warm.

Local businesses are transformed into Treat Stations providing:

• Games activities.
• Crafts for all ages
• Sensory Friendly Hour 2:30 pm-3:30 pm.
• Costume contests at 5:45 pm.
• Karaoke DJ & dance party.
• Bounce houses & face painting
• Photo booths.
• Prizes, & More.
• Plus visit the Upper 90 Tavern an onsite Pub & Restaurant.

Together we will create a memorable experience for families to enjoy together, making this Halloween one to remember! Sponsor shout outs in our fb discussion, our fb pages, and all other social media outlets.
Mark your calendars, put on your best costume, and get ready for a howling good time!

See you there

You are invited to Mall-O-Ween! Join the Citadel Mall shops for a fashion show, art contest, kid-safe trick-or-treating, and more! There will be prizes throughout the evening along with live music and community resources booth for you to enjoy. Bring the whole family and enjoy an evening at the Citadel Mall!