Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Theatre Company at Colorado College

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Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado Higher
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Location	30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, Colorado
Coordinates	38°50′45″Northward 104°49′32″W  /  38.84583°Northward 104.82556°W  / 38.84583; -104.82556 Coordinates: 38°fifty′45″N 104°49′32″W  /  38.84583°N 104.82556°W  / 38.84583; -104.82556
Area	1.6 acres (0.65 ha)
Built	1936
Architect	Meem, John Gaw; Rogers, Platt
Architectural fashion	Art Deco
Website	fac.coloradocollege.edu
NRHP referenceNo.	86001455[1]
Added to NRHP	July 03, 1986

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado Higher (FAC) is an arts center located only north of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado. Located on the same city cake are the American Numismatic Association and part of the campus of Colorado College.

The center uses a thick red outline of a square as its logo.

History [edit]

With $600,000, Alice Bemis Taylor funded the 1936 construction of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and provided a $400,000 donation for an endowment. Constructed during the Great Depression, Taylor saw the project equally a means of employment for unemployed laborers. Taylor donated her extensive Indian and Hispanic fine art and her collection of 6,000 volumes of Americana. She envisioned a place that would be accessible to all people, with no admission accuse.^{[two] [three]} The Broadmoor Art Academy previously stood on the grounds of the current art middle, on land donated by Julie Penrose.^[4] Elizabeth Sage Hare as well collaborated with Taylor and Penrose on the center, the nation'southward first combined art museum, art school and performing arts venue.^[5]

The Fine Arts Middle was designed by New Mexico architect John Gaw Meem in a revolutionary pattern combining modernism and indigenous Pueblo style architecture Pueblo Revival Manner and Castilian Colonial into "Santa Fe Style" architecture. In 1940, Meem's nigh mod blueprint earned a Silver Medal at the 5th Quadrennial Pan American Congress of Compages. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[5]

At the original Grand Opening in April 1936, Martha Graham performed Lamentation-Trip the light fantastic of Sorrow;^[half-dozen] Frank Lloyd Wright lectured about the building, Manuel de Falla performed an opera with life-size marionettes, and Alexander Calder created the phase pattern for a sung dialog, Eric Satie'south "Socrate."^[7] Among the fine art school's instructors were Boardman Robinson, Adolf Dehn, and Jean Charlot.^[8]

On July 1, 2017, the center become the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Eye at Colorado College.^[nine]

Clarification [edit]

The Fine Arts Center is a modern poured concrete Pueblo-inspired structure that integrates Southwestern, Art Deco and Archetype architectural elements. Information technology has one, two and, for the theatre wing tower, iv stories. Within the building are galleries, art studios, performing fine art facilities including a 400-seat theater, a music room, retail store and storage and office infinite. The murals on the outside of the building were produced by Boardman Robinson and Frank Mechau.^[5] The auditorium includes three aluminum relief panels over the doors depicting Pueblo and Hopi Indian Kachina masks, all past noted Denver sculptor, Arnold Rönnebeck, murals in the original theater lounge (now eating place) by Andrew Dasburg, Kenneth Adams, and Ward Lockwood, and a downstairs lounge mural by Archie Musick.^[10]

For the National Register of Celebrated Places, information technology was described as follows:

Its monolithic pueblo massing, its undisguised modern use of concrete, aluminum and glass; its southwestern details, its Native American designs abstracted into Art Deco ornamentation; its streamlined elegance; and its classical proportions - all consequence in a timeless character - with central roots to the region and the fourth dimension also as manifesting an innovative architectural reflection of the building'south underlying office, which is to preserve civilization and to honor the contemporary.^[5]

It borders Monument Valley Park and has a view of Pikes Peak. It is about the city's business district, in a combined residential and office building zone, in the Colorado Higher campus. Its well-preserved state, reflects the initial building structure with maintenance and restoration.^[five]

Arts heart [edit]

The multi-purpose heart includes:

• Art Museum - Several galleries, where the permanent collection of Southwest fine art is displayed, in addition to other permanent works besides as an annual calendar of curated and traveling shows.^[11]
• The Fine Arts Center Theatre Company produces comedies, dramas and musicals. It also hosts music and trip the light fantastic toe events and film festivals.^{[12] [13]}
• Bemis School of Fine art offers fine art education to the local customs, with classes for adults and children. Four times a yr it holds costless "Family unit Adventure Days".^{[12] [14]}
• A retail shop and lounge^[11]

Admission is costless to members, students and teachers.^{[xiii] [xv]}

Notable pieces and exhibits [edit]

Mural on exterior of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Middle

• Dale Chihuly chandeliers.^[11]
• One of the country's "strongest collections" of Native American, Latin American and Hispanic American art.^[13]
• Notable artists inside the FAC permanent collection include: John Singer Sargent, Georgia O'Keeffe, Richard Diebenkorn, Walt Kuhn,^{[sixteen] [thirteen]} and Ansel Adams.^[sixteen]

Theater [edit]

The center was constructed with a performing arts theater.^[9] In 2006, the center was expanded by more than 48,000 square feet. A new wing was constructed adjacent to the Centre's Bemis Schoolhouse of Fine art to add together studio space for classrooms and rehearsal spaces for the theatre. A new building was constructed that provides additional exhibition infinite for the Center's museum. There are big expanses of gallery spaces reserved exclusively for American Indian, Latin American and American fine art. It was designed by builder David Tryba and congenital to American Alliance of Museums standards.^{[17] [eighteen] [xix]}

Notable students [edit]

• Robert Beauchamp^[twenty]
• Eric Bransby^[21]
• James Duard Marshall
• Veronica Helfensteller^[22]

Run across also [edit]

• National Register of Celebrated Places listings in El Paso County, Colorado

References [edit]

1. ^ "National Register Information Organization". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March thirteen, 2009.
2. ^ "Dream City Vision 2020: Alice Bemis Taylor". The Gazette. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
3. ^ "Judson Moss Bemis House - NRHP Nomination Form". National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
4. ^ Linda DuVal; Banks; Laurence Parent (14 June 2011). Insiders' Guide® to Colorado Springs. Globe Pequot Press. p. 28. ISBN978-0-7627-6936-0 . Retrieved July 3, 2013.
5. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Colorado Springs Fine Arts Middle - NRHP Nomination Class". National Annals of Celebrated Places. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
6. ^ Sharyn R. Udall (xix June 2012). Dance and American Fine art: A Long Embrace. University of Wisconsin Pres. p. 29. ISBN978-0-299-28803-7 . Retrieved July iii, 2013.
7. ^ "An Extremely G Opening". Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. February 9, 2007. Archived from the original on March 30, 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
8. ^ 75th Anniversary, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, retrieved July iii, 2013
9. ^ ^{a b} yongli (2017-12-11). "Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center". coloradoencyclopedia.org . Retrieved 2022-03-fifteen .
10. ^ https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/86001455_text^{[ blank URL PDF ]}
11. ^ ^{a b c} Linda DuVal; Banks; Laurence Parent (fourteen June 2011). Insiders' Guide® to Colorado Springs. Globe Pequot Press. p. 87. ISBN978-0-7627-6936-0 . Retrieved July three, 2013.
12. ^ ^{a b} Linda DuVal; Banks; Laurence Parent (14 June 2011). Insiders' Guide® to Colorado Springs. Earth Pequot Press. p. 97. ISBN978-0-7627-6936-0 . Retrieved July iii, 2013.
13. ^ ^{a b c d} "Fine Arts Center Brochure" (PDF). Colorado Springs Fine Arts Heart. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 24, 2012. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
14. ^ "FAD'due south at the FAC". Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre. Retrieved Nov sixteen, 2015.
15. ^ "Admission". Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Archived from the original on July 13, 2013. Retrieved July iii, 2013.
16. ^ ^{a b} "75th Anniversary". Colorado Springs Fine Arts Middle. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
17. ^ Michael Paglia (Baronial 2, 2007). "Well Done: The new Colorado Springs Fine Arts Eye expansion gives plenty of reasons to applaud". Westword Magazine. pp. 1–ii. Retrieved July three, 2013.
18. ^ "Building Expansion: The new edifice is at present open!". Colorado Springs Fine Arts Heart. Archived from the original on half dozen Oct 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
19. ^ "Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, USA". Guide4Tourist. January 17, 2013. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July three, 2013.
20. ^ Paul Cummings (1975). "Oral history interview with Robert Beauchamp, 1975 Jan. xvi". Oral history interview. Archives of American Art. Retrieved 30 Jun 2011.
21. ^ "Printing Release - Update on the 75 thursday Anniversary landscape created by local art fable" (PDF). Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2013.
22. ^ Sherrod, Katie (2007). Grace & Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women. TCU Press. p. 168. ISBN978-0-87565-352-5.

External links [edit]

• The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Heart

perkinsfornam.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs_Fine_Arts_Center

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