Cultural Events Calendar

Tattooers are incredible artists– they are constantly creating. Does their profession inform their personal artwork, or vice versa? Could one exist without the other? This invitational, group exhibition explores that relationship and looks at the fine art side of the tattooing industry. Curated by Sarah Overbeck and Matt Hays.

The opening reception is Friday, May 29, from 5-7 pm with curator and artist introductions at 5:30 pm.

Join the artists for a day of tattooing at The Launchpad! Saturday, May 30 from 11 am-6 pm (first-come, first-served, 18+).

Common Ground highlights the shared creative drive that unites Anderson Ranch staff artists whose diverse practices collectively shape the character of the Ranch community.” The show spans ceramics, sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking and mixed media.

We invite you to help us toast this new exhibition--our fifth!-- on Friday, June 12 from 4-6 pm at a celebratory exhibition opening. Team members will be stationed in the museum galleries, and Koko Bayer will be on site making art. Bauhauslers of all ages are welcome—bring friends, family, and enjoy drinks on the Bayer Center lawn.

Double Take features more than 70 works of art by Bayer, including many that are rarely seen and on loan from the Denver Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the George Eastman Museum in Rochester. The exhibition presents Bayer’s work in pairs and clusters to explore how the interdependency of mediums was central to his practice. This mode of dialogue reveals surprising thematic and formal continuities across varied bodies of work. Whether surrealist-inflected photomontages of the 1930s or vivid geometric abstractions of the 1970s, the exhibition examines new connective throughlines. With a fresh approach to this trailblazing and multi-disciplinary artist, Double Take offers a new understanding of his process, his development as an artist, and his sophisticated personal sign system.

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

Join us for a festive evening of art, conversation, and community as we celebrate the opening of All that is Close at the Red Brick Center for the Arts. Enjoy refreshments and experience glimpses into the infinite through the works of Pattie Lee Becker, Joanne Seongweon Lee, Agustina Flores Maini & Erin Rigney.

Admission: Free and open to the public

Verse in Print will be on view at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado from July 28, 2026 to September 3, 2026.

Started in 2020, Verse in Print unites four artists from across the United States, who are also professors and mothers. The artists in this group are Laura Crehuet Berman, Kelda Martensen, Althea Murphy-Price, and Carrie Scanga. Collectively, these artists share a dialogue based within tradition and innovation in their approach to print media. In this exhibition, they present their recent work on the themes of language, identity, regeneration, and the natural world.

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

This exhibition brings together butterfly-wing portraits from Benjamin Timpson’s Illuminated Lives with new experiments in glass, resin, and light. The portraits honor lives shaped by resilience and loss, while the newer works expand the inquiry into transparency, fragility, and transformation. Layered materials bend and refract light, suggesting both protection and exposure, and marking a new chapter in an ongoing meditation on memory, survival, and metamorphosis.