Cultural Events Calendar

The Aspen Sister Cities Committee is proud to announce the Celebration of the 60th Year of Friendship with Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The event will take place on September 24th, 2026 in the Paepke Auditorium at the Aspen Institute Campus, Aspen, Colorado.

More details coming soon!

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

In conversation with Jon Waterman, Miriam Horn discusses her new book—Homesick for a World Unknown—the first-ever biography of George Schaller, the founding father of wildlife science and conservation.

In conversation with Jon Waterman, Miriam Horn discusses her new book—Homesick for a World Unknown—the first-ever biography of George Schaller, the founding father of wildlife science and conservation.

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.

Join us for an evening of painting! We will watch a Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting video and follow along. We will use acrylics and a smaller canvas so you can take it home at the end of the event. All brushes, paints, canvas and required supplies are to be provided. Snacks and tea will be provided.

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

Join us for an evening of painting! We will watch a Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting video and follow along. We will use acrylics and a smaller canvas so you can take it home at the end of the event. All brushes, paints, canvas and required supplies are to be provided. Snacks and tea will be provided.