Cultural Events Calendar

The Claudette Carter ARTMentorship (CCAM) is a free five-month program that connects aspiring young artists with experienced local mentors to explore the value of the artistic process. The program culminates in a group exhibition at the Art Base.

CCAM is open to high school sophomores, juniors, seniors, and homeschool students. Each mentor-mentee pair works together to build strong communication skills, solve creative challenges, and, most importantly, make art!

On view: April 17 to May 1, 2026
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, April 17 from 5 PM- 7 PM

Artist talk with ACES April 2026 Wilderness Resident at Toklat Melissa Johnson

Experience the magic of the Castle Creek Valley through the eyes of artist and ACES’ Wilderness Resident at Toklat Melissa (Missy) Johnson. Join us for an evening of storytelling and art as Missy shares her illustrated residency journal—a month-long creative piece capturing Toklat’s natural wonders, culinary heritage, and legacy of simplicity, resilience, and stewardship.

The ACES Wilderness Residency at Toklat is designed to advance and share the work of one individual, working at the intersection of environmental challenges and artistic expression, offering them unencumbered time to think, work, and create in an inspirational setting. These four-week residences are situated at 9,500 feet in the historic Castle Creek Valley at the Catto Center at Toklat.

“I find uncommon nuances in everyday occurrences & unlikely intersections. Noting the change in density of a shadow when one overlaps another. The power of multiples as a unit versus the fragility of an individual piece. The repetition of lines throughout our surroundings specifically parallels or in a grid formation. The obscurity of transparent layers. With these observations in mind, I make ceramic objects, both functional & sculptural.”

On view: May 8 to June 6, 2026
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, May 8 from 5 PM- 7 PM

Molly Altman’s ceramic sculptures explore the fragile balance between resilience and impermanence in the natural world. Working with flora gathered from the Carbondale landscape & flowers, leaves, vines, and grasses, she dips these materials in porcelain and fires them, transforming organic forms into delicate, ghostlike structures.

Sabrina Piersol’s paintings emerge from a spark of inspiration,a loose sketch, a color palette, or a single natural form, before unfolding into an intuitive, responsive process. Guided by presence and improvisation, she follows each mark as it appears, allowing the composition to evolve with the same unpredictability and openness found in meditation.

On view: June 12 to July 24, 2026
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, June 12 from 5 PM- 7 PM

The 10_10 Name Unseen Silent Auction is an exhibition showcasing local artists who have generously donated a 10_10 artwork. All panels are available for bidding starting at $100. All proceeds from the auction and pARTy go to support the Art Base’s efforts to make art and creativity available to all.

On view: July 31 to August 15, 2026
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, July 31 from 5 PM- 7 PM

Together, Sam, Hunter, and Sara have a more than twenty five year connection to the Roaring Fork Valley and Western Colorado. Being connected to the land has been paramount to our development as artists and human beings. Hunter Hogan’s works on canvas, Sara Ransford’s paper clay wall pieces and Sam’s clay constructions all connect on various levels, their individual voices interpreting the landscape, their view of the natural world and experiences connecting them as artists.

On view: August 28 to September 25, 2026
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, August 28, from 5 PM- 7 PM

This exhibition features a curated selection of 12-14 of the artist’s most compelling black-and-white photographs of Mount Sopris, captured over the past 15 years. Each image is presented as a metal print ranging from 20×30 to 30×45 inches, including both horizontal and vertical compositions, with several works offered as multi-panel installations.

On view: October 2 to October 30, 2026
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, October 2 from 5 PM- 7 PM

Rooted in traditional representational painting, Kinsley’s style has evolved to amplify Nature’s sensual forms, some obvious, others obscure. One curator calls his work “voluptuous.”

In oil, he paints his smaller pieces plein air. Larger pieces begin as field sketches that establish composition, which he amplifies in the studio as sinuous natural shapes. These two-steps allow him to see on-site the convergence of subtle shapes that photos often miss, then interpret and refine the shapes more deliberatively in the studio.

On view: October 2 to October 30, 2026
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, October 2 from 5 PM- 7 PM

Chris Hassig (b. 1987) is an artist and community leader based in Carbondale, Colorado, whose intricate drawings and prints blur the boundaries between landscape, abstraction, and imagined worlds. Rooted in a lifelong fascination with mapping and mark-making, Hassig’s work ranges from expansive multi-panel etchings of his fictional country, Saiopor, to densely detailed ink drawings inspired by close observations of nature.

On view: November 6 to December 4, 2026
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, November 6 from 5 PM- 7 PM

Rachel Becker brings a series that explores weaving, webs, and networks as structures that connect, hold, and move vital energy. Constructed from found and foraged materials: branches, plant fibers, fishing line, and produce netting, the lightweight hanging sculptures reference nets, tapestries, and natural systems. Installed as an immersive canopy, the works invite visitors to step inside the visible and invisible networks that shape our world, from mycelial pathways to the “World Wide Web.”

On view: November 6 to December 4, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, November 6 from 5 PM- 7 PM