Jennifer Mulson

The nonprofit Concrete Couch will host its second annual Concrete Couchella, a music and art event featuring about 20 bands, mostly from the Pikes Peak region. It’s Friday through Sunday at Concrete Coyote Community Park.

The Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region’s 13th annual Arts Month will feature about 250 events across El Paso and Teller counties throughout October. Participants can sign up for a bingo card that earns them prizes every time they attend an event or make a creative stop.

Manitou Springs Heritage Center will once again offer its free Sunday Night Frights series in October.

October’s new exhibits and art events include a skate deck art show, a neighborhood art walk and First Fridays in downtown and Old Colorado City.

Dorothy “Dot” Heller was a connoisseur of the arts and humanities. Married to the acclaimed Colorado Springs artist Larry Heller, Dot also led a noteworthy life, becoming the city’s fifth social investigator, and essentially an officer, with the Colorado Springs Police Department in 1914. The couple lived in a white adobe ranch house east of […]

– Commonwheel Art Festival by Commonwheel Artists Co-Op: Instead of forest bathing, why not art bathing? Walk the outdoor aisles of the annual Labor Day weekend festival and allow it to nourish you with hundreds of pieces of fine art and contemporary crafts by dozens of artists in all mediums, including pottery, painting, photography, glass […]

Park After Dark: You’ve been on the Royal Gorge Bridge under the high sun, but the ambiance hits differently during golden hour. For three hours, visitors will have access to select rides and attractions while listening to live music. The evening ends with a drone show, 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Royal Gorge Bridge & Park, Cañon […]

The candles are lit, the Mason jars are filled with roses and the cologne has been spritzed. Men and women hover in a dimly lit upstairs room at the downtown food hall COATI on a rainy Wednesday night in late July. The atmosphere is dense with humidity, pheromones, anticipation, anxiety and a tinge of desire, […]

A pair of wood ducks and their ducklings were the last birds to roost inside Lexie Sierra-Martinez’s heart. She and a gaggle of other bird lovers took in the adorable sighting at Pella Crossing in Boulder County while Sierra-Martinez co-led the most recent outing of the Denver and Front Range chapter of the Feminist Bird […]

Mysticism runs through David Vincent’s veins like blood. To wander through the artist’s new exhibit is to be immersed in his dreams, visions and spiritual experiences. “Heart Speak,” his new show of abstract paintings, will hang at the Manitou Art Center in Manitou Springs through Aug. 29. His abstracts have been shown at Surface Gallery, […]