Two Lane Past
2019-08-09 - 2019-08-11 | Art Lab Fort Collins, 239 Linden St, Fort Collins, CO, 80524, United States
Two Lane Past is a series of personal postcards of the thousands of miles Michael Still has spent exploring two lane backroads of the west. This collection is a rest stop on his continuing journey. This exhibit features selected new works from early 2019 travels in the Southwest.
Open Hours:
9th: 3:00pm – 8:00pm
10th:12:00pm – 8:00pm
11th: 12:00pm to 6:00pm

SPLASH Queer Comic Con
2019-08-15 14:00 - 2019-08-16 22:00 (America/Denver)
Details to come!

Asylum
2019-08-24 12:00 - 21:00
Asylum is an art exhibition that explores the ups and downs of mental health. With mediums including photography, painting, jewelry and collage, our group of female artists are attempting to convey how mental health has affected either their own lives or the lives of those around them. The Bad Broad Collective is a group of women who are bringing to light the work of other female artists, and this is their second show.

Community Breathwork
2019-08-28 19:00 - 21:30
Breathwork is a deep breathing exercise that helps activate a process of healing deep wounds, whether it be
physical or emotional trauma, We hold space for each other, Breathwork can also spark amazing creativity;
creativity in art, writing, creative solutions to problems. You can come out of Breathwork space feeling freed of
tension. Don’t be afraid to dig deep and pull up those deep rooted feelings.

Board Vibes
2019-09-06 - 2019-09-08
Board Vibes was created because we believe everyone should try to be a good steward of our
Earth. Our “canvases” of choice are used, upcycled snowboards, skateboards, surfboards, and
skis. We keep (or sometimes take) these items from the landfill, transforming them into
unique, one of a kind pieces of art. We find inspiration in nature, the Colorado culture, and
the joy that creating art brings to people from all walks of life. It is our great pleasure to help
others learn the healing that artistic expression brings. Come see how we have given these
retired boards new lives!
Friday 6-9pm
Saturday and Sunday 3-7pm

Kelly Kilmer Art Journaling Workshop Weekend
2019-09-12 - 2019-09-15
Kelly Kilmer is an art journaling/mixed media artist and teacher who believes that there is an artist in each and every one of us. Kelly’s classes are designed specifically to bring out that artist through use of paint, paper, pens, and many other tools. During Kelly’s workshops, you’ll learn bookmaking, collage, and painting techniques, and you’ll use a plethora of journaling prompts to express yourself. Kelly’s workshops are always about inspiring creativity, generating ideas and learning how to see. The ideas can be translated into a variety of art forms. Use your art journal “as is” or for a springboard of inspiration for other art forms and living a creative life!

There are 5 different classes of varying lengths which will be held on the evening of 9/12, in the morning and evening on 9/13, and then all day 9/14 and 9/15. Take one class or take them all! Descriptions of each workshop, supply lists, registration info, and other details can be found at https://alwaysbcreating.com/teachers/kelly-kilmer/

Schools Out Nature Art Workshop
2019-09-20 09:00 - 16:00
Wild Roots Studio offers day camps on most of the days PSD is out of session. Join us from 9am
– 4pm for our Schools Out Art Day Camps! In these camps we will create art from natural and
recycled materials, take in sustainability lessons and enjoy nature walks along the Poudre River.
This year’s day camps will be held at The Art Lab located in Old Town Fort Collins. The Art Lab
will provide our camp’s home-base, from there we will journey off on shorts nature walks to
Heritage Center Park Camp; Buckman Park to explore and collect nature for our crafts.

Public Open House
2019-09-30 16:00 - 18:00
The City of Fort Collins has undertaken an effort to renovate Linden Street between Walnut and Jefferson Streets. The project is intended to create a “flexible” street that can be converted into a pedestrian plaza for special events. The project team is hosting a design workshop to provide an update on current design and encourage feedback from local businesses and residents from 4 P.M. to 6 P.M. on September 30, 2019.

Yūgen
2019-10-04 18:00 - 21:00
Yūgen is a one-night-only art show featuring my most recent works so please invite your friends to come enjoy food, art, and creativity!

Yūgen is a Japanese aesthetic concept that essentially means “a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe …and the sad beauty of human suffering” That being said, this body of work was focused on exploring themes of beauty, tragedy, power, and personal identity. By exposing the human spirit through my own unique lens, I hope to push the viewer to question their own relationship to such themes.

Art
2019-10-05 17:00 - 21:00
What is Art?
Art is a practice that occurs in every part of the world, influencing and encapsulating moments in time. Within this field viewers can see a society’s culture, history, religion, innovation, mistakes, and future. Despite arts influential and inclusive nature, there has yet to be a definitive answer of what it is and what it is not. The artist in this exhibition are asked to define what art is to them by using their own unique perception and techniques.
Show: 5pm to 9pm

Sketchy Halloween Show setup
2019-10-10

The 2nd Annual Sketchy Halloween Show
2019-10-11 - 2019-10-13
The veil is lifting early this year – let the spirits move you to the 2nd annual Sketchy Halloween Show!
Featuring spooky art and wicked creations from Sara Heideman of The Sketchy Neighborhood, Heather Hallberg of Hallberg Fine Art, and other local creepy peeps.
While the art will be for sale, you won’t have to sell your soul to enjoy the show — just step inside and take a peek, won’t you?
We’ll have all the tricks and treats your little beating heart desires…

FoCo Book Fest 2019
2019-10-17 11:00 - 2019-10-20 16:00
FoCo Writers Read 11am-4pm October 19th at Art Lab Fort Collins

The FoCo Book Fest, October 18 & 19, 2019, is a free, two-day literary festival that features a new topic of interest to our community each year. This year’s festival is a literary feast for the foodie in all of us! We celebrate the pleasures of the palate, catch up on gastronomic zeitgeists, and examine the future of food. The event features local and national authors, food visionaries, and culinary experts who are not afraid to challenge the way we think about food and our food systems. The Festival hosts author presentations, panel discussions, book signings, writers’ workshops, readings, book talks, and more at venues throughout downtown Fort Collins and the River District. Poudre River Public Library District produces the festival in partnership with Colorado State University’s Morgan Library, and also receives financial support from businesses, organizations, and individuals.

FREE to attend. All welcome and details at: www.focobookfest.org

Cacao Art & Sound Ceremony
2019-10-23 18:00 - 20:30
We invite you to join us in ceremony for a holistic exploration of the subtle creative energies within the body.
Our 7 Quartz Crystal Tones Chakra singing bowls will ease us into a deep sense of vibrational harmony. This Ceremony also invites in the wisdom of CBD tincture and Sacred Ceremonial Cacao as optional enhancements and allies.
Through intentional alignment of the energetic body, we begin to find an overall sense of physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. From this place of alignment we quiet the mind and to listen to the heart, receiving its loving wisdom and guidance as we prepare to enter a new year.
Our ceremony concludes with a Manifestation Board art project so we may dream our lives into reality!
Ceremony begins August 6th at 6:00pm. Visit our Instagram page at @coloradocacaocollective and our FaceBook page at Colorado Cacao Collective to learn more.
Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cacao-sound-ceremony-tickets-78703992761

The World Ender's Return
2019-10-25 16:00 - 21:00
A conceptual pop-art installation acknowledges a story of renewal and relapse, illustrating the World Ender himself, along with Gem & Inu, all dressed for the season upon dramatic 2D wood shapes, colored like candy. Exhibiting new work by Elizabeth Grace, The World Ender is Back for Halloween explores the artist’s visions of anxiety, grief and goodness in existence–using their characters and cartoons and taking angles of story-telling and monster-slaying. As though these sparkledogs could slay dragons, or their old friends.

Dia De Los Muertos Sugar Skulls
2019-10-26 19:00 - 21:00
Gather, Socialize and Get Inspired. In the spirit of Dia De Los Muertos we will be painting sugar skulls. We will be using acrylic paint on paper mache skulls.
We provide a personal art station, all materials and individualized instruction.
You bring your creativity and take home a unique piece
of art!
Get tickets through Eventbrite:
https://bit.ly/2TVRT9t

Communities and Conservation: Art Exhibit
2019-10-27 17:00 - 21:00
This showcase will be a unique opportunity for students who traveled abroad to South Africa last summer to share their art and experience with the community.
Drawings, photographs, digital art, poems, vlogs, etc will be displayed.
As these students go on to work for Pivotal Places, a student-run nonprofit, they will begin fundraising to support the people in South Africa, as well as future students who embark on this journey.
Some art pieces will be for sale and all proceeds will go to supporting the non-profit and its cause.

Thinking Outside the Studio
2019-10-28 10:00 - 2019-10-30 20:00
“Thinking Outside the Studio” by Jennifer Brakefield and Scott Lenaway showcases the efforts of both artists to experiment with different ways of creating work beyond the traditional in-studio process. Traditional painting and printmaking rely on predictable processes, perfect lighting and ideal materials. Over the course of the past year and a half the artists have opted to remove the predictability that comes from the safety of working in a studio setting and instead have sought out non-traditional materials, sources and inspiration. This exhibition includes work made En Plein-Air often with limited materials and palettes, prints and drawings made on recycled materials and woodcuts made with weathered wood blocks.
Monday – Wednesday: 10am – 8pm

Vicariously Mine: Living Life Through the Lens of Social Media
2019-11-01 16:00 - 22:00
A group show: Local artists will create art based on the life they experience through the social media posts of friends, colleges, and complete strangers. What can we learn from other people’s experiences? Can we trust what we see? And how does what we see online affect our own lives.

Nov 1 6-10pm
Nov 2 10am-6pm
Nov 3 10am-6pm

Little Artists
2019-11-05 10:00 - 11:00
Little Artists is a series of art classes for 3-5 year olds. It’s all about exploring the different processes and materials of making art. Each day will have a different theme and each student will get their own supplies to create with.
11/5: Paper Making , 11/12: Sculpture Making, 11/19: Paint Play, 11/26: Art Boxes
This is a drop-off class. Parents are always welcome to stay. Please make sure kiddos are potty-trained.
Pre-registration is required: https://artcrewblog.weebly.com/classes.html

Focals setup
2019-11-07 18:00 - 22:00
setup 6-10pm

Focals – A Photography Exhibition
2019-11-08 17:00 - 2019-11-10 22:00
Photography at CSU’s Fall Gallery is an exhibition of the photography from over 25 CSU students and artists. Members of Photography at CSU will be showing off their best work from travels internationally, across the state of Colorado, and from the campus of Colorado State University. Live photography printing will take place and this event is open to the public! The gallery will be open from 5-10PM on Friday and Saturday, and 5-9PM on Sunday evening.

Nature Art Camp
2019-11-11 08:00 - 22:00
Wild Roots Studio offers camps during PSD breaks. Join us from 8am
– 10pm for our Schools Out Art Day Camps! In these camps we will create art from natural & recycled materials, take in sustainability lessons and enjoy nature walks along the Poudre River.
This years day camps will be held at The Art Lab located in Old Town Fort Collins. The Art Lab
will provide our camps home-base, from there we will journey off on shorts nature walks to
Heritage Center Park & Buckman Park to explore and collect nature for our crafts.

Pop Up Art Carts Board Meeting
2019-11-13 17:00 - 19:00
end of summer season wrap-up and Holiday Market planning

Up the Tempo
2019-11-14 - 2019-11-17
RJ Mello uses acrylic on canvas to incorporate the characteristics of voodoo practice, music expression, and vibrant colors to capture life in the Jazz era of New Orleans. The artist drew in her own personal experience in Louisiana which specifically inspired the color choices as well as the use of street lamps and music.
Come walk through and experience the visual sensations this art gallery has to offer. The five-dollar entry fee at the door includes free beverages and snacks. Light music as well as seating and interactive activities will be available. All original artwork and postcards will be up for sale as well as an option to pre-order prints. This gallery-style experience will not only leave you with a new piece to hang at home, it will leave you feeling the real cultural aspects of New Orleans in the 1910’s.
Thursday & Friday 5-10pm
Saturday 12-3pm
Sunday 12-6pm

Children's Pottery & Nature Art Workshop
2019-11-16 16:00 - 20:00
Sunday, November 3rd 10am-2pm @ Wild Roots Art Barn
Saturday, November 16th 4-8pm @ The Art Lab Fort Collins
Join us in November for a two-day pottery and nature art workshop series. This workshop includes Sunday, November 3rd, 10am-2pm workshop held at the Wild Roots Art Barn and Saturday, November 16th 4-8pm (Parents Night Out) held at the Art Lab in Old Town Fort Collins. In these classes we will be creating pottery and other nature-based art crafts. Projects made in the class can be kept as keepsakes or perfect gifts to be given away for the holidays. This class is aimed for kids 5-10.
The Sunday class will be held at the Wild Roots Art Barn (see directions below). Please pack a water bottle and lunch for your child. During this class we will be making nature crafts and working with pottery.
In the Saturday evening class we will be finishing our art projects and enjoying autumn inspired stories. Please pack a water bottle, lunch box dinner (dinner option will be also be offered for an extra charge) and cozy making items (stuffies, blanket and pillow). We will be providing popcorn and cider to enjoy during storytelling time!
The two days allow us time to dry our pottery to apply glaze on the last class before being fired at Smokestack Pottery. Finished pottery pieces will be picked up after the last class at a specified date and location.
For more information visit: http://www.wildrootsstudio.com/art-workshops

Ridgeview Classical Schools setup
2019-11-21 12:00 - 15:00
setup noon-3pm

Ridgeview Classical School Student Exhibition
2019-11-22 - 2019-11-24
This is a student exhibition presented by Ridgeview Classical School. The show will showcase art created by students from grades 7 to 12. This will be a free event so please come and show support for the artists of the future!
6pm to 9pm Friday
3pm to 9pm Saturday

Closed for Holiday
2019-11-28

Pop Up Art Carts Holiday Market
2019-11-29 - 2019-12-02
Cartists will be popping up inside Art Lab for the biggest shopping weekend of the year — the Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving.
Saturday 10am – 6pm
Sunday 11am – 5pm
