Cultural Events Calendar

Join us for a conversation in Schermer Meeting Hall at Anderson Ranch Arts Center with Visiting Artist Arcmanoro Niles. A studio tour will immediately follow.

Visiting Artist lectures are free, open to the public, and available in person or via livestream.

Arcmanoro Niles (b. 1989, Washington, D.C.; lives and works in New York, NY) makes vivid, brightly-hued paintings that expand our understanding of traditional genre painting and portraiture. Niles offers a window into seemingly mundane moments of daily life―a child seated at the table for breakfast, a man about to get into his car, a couple in their bedroom―with subjects drawn from photographs of friends and relatives and from memories of his past.

Join us for a conversation in Schermer Meeting Hall at Anderson Ranch Arts Center with Visiting Artist Torbjörn Vejvi.

Visiting Artist lectures are free, open to the public, and available in person or via livestream.

Torbjörn Vejvi (b. 1972), raised on a self-sufficient farm in Southern Sweden, brings a tactile sensibility to his sculptural practice, obliquely shaped by a childhood of raising sheep and weaving. Over the past decade, he’s shifted from abstract sculpture to functional, hand-turned wooden lamps and candleholders; as with his sculptural practice, he transforms everyday materials through meticulous craftsmanship and vibrant color.

Join us for a conversation in Schermer Meeting Hall at Anderson Ranch Arts Center with Visiting Artist Diana Heise.

Visiting Artist lectures are free, open to the public, and available in person or via livestream.

Diana Heise is a socially engaged research-based artist working at the intersections of performance, eco-feminism and experimental lens-based image practices, committed to aesthetic pursuits that cultivate awareness, resilience and attuned regeneration. Heise is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts, a Performance Art Fund Grant from the Franklin Furnace Inc. as well as a Presidential Fellowship at the American University in Cairo.

This is a retrospective exhibition spanning 5 decades. Marcia begins with small paintings on wood panels, and continue with works on paper-namely monoprints, etchings, and woodcuts. The breadth of this time span shows recurring themes of her connection with the natural world; trees, whales, birds, dragonflies.

On view: March 13 to April 10, 2026
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, March 13 from 5 PM- 7 PM

Join us for a conversation in Schermer Meeting Hall at Anderson Ranch Arts Center with Visiting Artist Ana María Hernando. A studio tour will immediately follow.

Visiting Artist lectures are free, open to the public, and available in person or via livestream.

Ana María Hernando, from Argentina (b. 1959, Buenos Aires), is a Colorado-based multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the feminine, using empathy to make the invisible visible, and to question our preconceptions of the other and each other, including nature and the earth, their worth, and value. In her installations, Ana María uses textiles in abundance, and sometimes includes the work of women from around Latin America and beyond, from embroideries of cloistered nuns in Buenos Aires, to mountains of tulle, to the weavings and wares of Peruvian women from the Andes.

Join us for a conversation in Schermer Meeting Hall at Anderson Ranch Arts Center with Damien Davis.

Lectures are free, open to the public, and available in person or via livestream.

Damien Davis is a Newark-based artist and curator whose work recontextualizes cultural symbols to challenge identity and history. He has exhibited at institutions internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts and Design. Davis holds a Masters degree in Visual Arts Administration from NYU.

Join us for a conversation in Schermer Meeting Hall at Anderson Ranch Arts Center with Visiting Artist David Antonio Cruz.

Visiting Artist lectures are free, open to the public, and available in person or via livestream.

David Antonio Cruz uses painting and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black and queer bodies. Cruz is a professor and Concentration Head of Painting at Columbia University School of the Arts. He has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, National Portrait Gallery, ICA Philadelphia, and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculptor Grant. He received his MFA from Yale University.

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

“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