Pagosa Springs sits in the southern San Juan Mountains along the San Juan River, a small mountain town known for its hot springs and increasingly recognized as an emerging arts destination in southwestern Colorado. The Pagosa Arts Council and the annual Pagosa Springs Plein Air event have helped build a creative community around the extraordinary landscape of the San Juan Basin - high desert, mountain meadows, and the peaks of the Weminuche Wilderness. Galleries along Pagosa Street and in the surrounding Hot Springs Boulevard area show work rooted in the landscape of southwestern Colorado, with a community of working artists who have chosen Pagosa Springs for the same reasons landscape painters have always chosen remote and beautiful places: the light is extraordinary, and the cost of a working life is still manageable.
Artist Studio Pagosa Springs · Pagosa Springs
The working studio and gallery of sculptor Chad Haspels, whose fine art bronzes and mixed-media works are inspired by the spirit and life of the natural world - offering collectors direct access to a distinctive Colorado sculptor with deep roots in the Southwest landscape.
Museum Pagosa Springs · Pagosa Springs
The home and studio museum of Fred Harman - creator of the Red Ryder comic strip and co-founder of the Cowboy Artists of America - preserving over 50 original paintings, comic strip originals, and Western memorabilia in the authentic studio where Harman worked, making it one of Colorado's most intimate Western art experiences.
Gallery Historic Downtown · Pagosa Springs
A Pagosa Springs fine art gallery operated by artist Summer Spitsbergen, featuring original paintings of breathtaking river scenes, wildlife, the Wild West, and Native American subjects - one of the Four Corners' most distinctive one-artist galleries, located in the heart of historic downtown Pagosa Springs.
Gallery Downtown · Pagosa Springs
A Pagosa Springs gallery specializing in contemporary Southwestern jewelry and Native American craft - offering handmade one-of-a-kind pieces by Diné, Hopi, Zuni, and Apache artists alongside local artisan jewelry, pottery, Kachinas, painting, and sculpture in historic downtown.
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Pagosa Springs sits at 7,100 feet at the confluence of the San Juan River and the Piedra River, surrounded by the extraordinary alpine scenery of the San Juan Mountains. The town's name comes from the Ute word for "healing waters," a reference to the Great Pagosa Hot Springs, which emerge from one of the world's deepest geothermal springs and have drawn visitors for centuries. The area's beauty, dramatic mountain peaks, aspen-covered hillsides, and the San Juan River winding through town, has attracted painters and photographers who work in the plein air tradition that flourishes throughout the mountain West. The town's galleries serve both local residents and the substantial tourist traffic generated by the hot springs resort and the nearby Wolf Creek Ski Area. The proximity of the Ancestral Puebloan sites of the San Juan Basin, including Chimney Rock National Monument just to the east, gives Pagosa Springs' art scene a connection to the deep Indigenous artistic heritage of the Four Corners region.