Colorado Springs sits at the foot of Pikes Peak and contains, somewhat improbably, one of the finest art museums in the Mountain West - the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, a 1936 Art Deco building that houses a strong permanent collection of American art with particular depth in the work of New Mexican artist Gustave Baumann and early Southwestern modernists. The city's gallery scene extends into the Old Colorado City arts district along West Colorado Avenue, where Victorian-era storefronts house working studios and galleries that draw from the surrounding military and tourist communities as well as serious regional collectors. Manitou Springs, just west of the city, adds another cluster of galleries and studios in a quirky mountain resort town.
Museum Colorado Springs · Colorado Springs
A stunning Art Deco museum at Colorado College with one of the Southwest's finest permanent collections, including Native American and Hispanic art, alongside major traveling exhibitions and performing arts.
Cultural Center Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs' vibrant community arts center with 50+ working studios, rotating gallery exhibitions, and arts education for artists of all levels.
Gallery Colorado Springs · Colorado Springs
Celebrating the majestic landscapes of the Rocky Mountain region, this gallery presents plein air paintings, photography, and sculpture inspired by Pikes Peak, the Great Plains, and the Colorado high country.
Cultural Center Colorado Springs · Colorado Springs
The primary arts advocacy organization for the Pikes Peak region, supporting local artists through grants, exhibitions, and public programming that celebrate the creative heritage of southern Colorado.
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The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College is the crown of the city's institutional art world, housed in a 1936 John L. Mauran-designed building that blends Art Deco with Southwestern Pueblo Revival architecture in a way that is uniquely beautiful. The permanent collection has particular depth in Southwestern and Western American art, with outstanding holdings in New Mexico modernism and works by artists of the Taos Society. The museum's Taylor Museum for Southwestern Studies holds significant collections of Hispanic folk art, Pueblo and Diné pottery, and katsina figures. Old Colorado City, the former territorial capital of Colorado before statehood, is home to a compact gallery district along West Colorado Avenue with galleries specializing in landscape painting, bronze sculpture, and craft in the Western tradition. The Cottonwood Center for the Arts provides affordable studio space to more than fifty working artists in the city. The stunning scenery of the Pikes Peak region, Garden of the Gods, the canyon country of the Rampart Range, gives the landscape art produced here a distinctive grandeur.