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ARTS / CULTURE
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Love is sharing your art with the community. Armando Silva’s mural “Colores de la Comunidad” offers vibrant inspiration to Downtown Fort Collins.
FC MURAL PROJECT What happens when you put artists and art lovers together with the idea that “Every wall deserves ART”? You get collaboration and beautiful murals. You can’t miss them.
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Where art lives A VIBRANT AND DYNAMIC arts community thrives in Fort Collins where town and surrounding landscapes inspire artists living and working here.
Not content to be a passive player, the city transforms utilities boxes into murals, alleys into installations and water into the music of children playing.
Come see why the historic area of town has been officially certified as The Downtown Fort Collins Creative District by the State of Colorado.
PHOTO COURTESY GLOBAL VILLAGE MUSEUM
ART IS EVERYWHERE
The Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures showcases international folk art to inspire visitors to learn more about world cultures, people, art, and history in order to promote cultural understanding and peace.
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Drop into one or more of the many private galleries or The Museum of Art Fort Collins featuring a diverse showing of travelling exhibitions and the work of local and regional artists. On campus at Colorado State University, stop into Gregory Alicar Museum of Art to view the permanent collections or a current exhibition. Or check out Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising to learn about people and their textiles, dress and interior furnishings. Get into the act yourself
at Pinot’s Palette or Painting with a Twist where you can sip a glass of wine while you paint under the direction of an artist. Or dig in on a DIY project at Board & Brush workshop.
ON STAGE Catch a performance at one of the Lincoln Center stages where national and local acts play the main stage and local troupes, such as Open Stage and Debut Theatre, perform in the more intimate theater. Or check out the schedule at Bas Bleu Theatre, a beloved venue that was reclaimed as a performance space from a historic machine shop. On the classical end, Fort Collins enjoys an opera company, a symphony and a ballet troupe.
