South West Native American Exhibit Fine Arts Center Colroado Springs

United States historic place

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre at Colorado Higher
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The master entrance
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Location	xxx Due west. Dale St., Colorado Springs, Colorado
Coordinates	38°50′45″North 104°49′32″Due west  /  38.84583°North 104.82556°Due west  / 38.84583; -104.82556 Coordinates: 38°50′45″N 104°49′32″W  /  38.84583°N 104.82556°W  / 38.84583; -104.82556
Expanse	1.6 acres (0.65 ha)
Built	1936
Builder	Meem, John Gaw; Rogers, Platt
Architectural manner	Fine 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 block are the American Numismatic Association and part of the campus of Colorado Higher.

The heart 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 Eye and provided a $400,000 donation for an endowment. Constructed during the Great Depression, Taylor saw the project as a means of employment for unemployed laborers. Taylor donated her extensive Indian and Hispanic art and her collection of vi,000 volumes of Americana. She envisioned a place that would be accessible to all people, with no admission accuse.^{[2] [iii]} The Broadmoor Fine art Academy previously stood on the grounds of the electric current art center, on state donated by Julie Penrose.^[4] Elizabeth Sage Hare likewise collaborated with Taylor and Penrose on the heart, the nation's first combined art museum, art school and performing arts venue.^[5]

The Fine Arts Middle was designed past New United mexican states builder John Gaw Meem in a revolutionary design combining modernism and indigenous Pueblo manner architecture Pueblo Revival Style and Castilian Colonial into "Santa Fe Style" compages. In 1940, Meem'south most modern design earned a Silver Medal at the Fifth Quadrennial Pan American Congress of Architecture. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[v]

At the original Grand Opening in April 1936, Martha Graham performed Lamentation-Trip the light fantastic toe of Sorrow;^[vi] 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's "Socrate."^[seven] Among the art school's instructors were Boardman Robinson, Adolf Dehn, and Jean Charlot.^[8]

On July ane, 2017, the center become the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre at Colorado College.^[9]

Description [edit]

The Fine Arts Heart is a modern poured concrete Pueblo-inspired structure that integrates Southwestern, Art Deco and Classic architectural elements. It has i, two and, for the theatre fly tower, four stories. Within the edifice are galleries, fine art studios, performing fine art facilities including a 400-seat theater, a music room, retail shop and storage and office space. The murals on the exterior of the building were produced past 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 restaurant) by Andrew Dasburg, Kenneth Adams, and Ward Lockwood, and a downstairs lounge landscape past Archie Musick.^[10]

For the National Register of Historic 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 Fine art Deco ornamentation; its streamlined elegance; and its classical proportions - all result in a timeless graphic symbol - with key roots to the region and the time besides as manifesting an innovative architectural reflection of the building's underlying function, which is to preserve culture and to honor the gimmicky.^[5]

It borders Monument Valley Park and has a view of Pikes Superlative. It is near the metropolis'south business commune, in a combined residential and part building zone, in the Colorado Higher campus. Its well-preserved state, reflects the initial building structure with maintenance and restoration.^[v]

Arts eye [edit]

The multi-purpose centre includes:

• Art Museum - Several galleries, where the permanent collection of Southwest art is displayed, in add-on to other permanent works besides equally an annual agenda of curated and traveling shows.^[11]
• The Fine Arts Center Theatre Company produces comedies, dramas and musicals. It besides hosts music and dance events and film festivals.^{[12] [xiii]}
• Bemis School of Art offers art instruction to the local customs, with classes for adults and children. Four times a yr it holds free "Family Gamble Days".^{[12] [14]}
• A retail shop and lounge^[11]

Admission is complimentary to members, students and teachers.^{[xiii] [15]}

Notable pieces and exhibits [edit]

Mural on exterior of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Middle

• Dale Chihuly chandeliers.^[11]
• One of the country'south "strongest collections" of Native American, Latin American and Hispanic American art.^[13]
• Notable artists within the FAC permanent drove include: John Singer Sargent, Georgia O'Keeffe, Richard Diebenkorn, Walt Kuhn,^{[xvi] [13]} and Ansel Adams.^[16]

Theater [edit]

The middle was constructed with a performing arts theater.^[9] In 2006, the centre was expanded by more than 48,000 foursquare feet. A new wing was constructed adjacent to the Eye's Bemis School of Art to add studio space for classrooms and rehearsal spaces for the theatre. A new building was constructed that provides additional exhibition space for the Eye's museum. There are large expanses of gallery spaces reserved exclusively for American Indian, Latin American and American art. It was designed by architect David Tryba and built to American Alliance of Museums standards.^{[17] [xviii] [19]}

Notable students [edit]

• Robert Beauchamp^[20]
• Eric Bransby^[21]
• James Duard Marshall
• Veronica Helfensteller^[22]

Run across too [edit]

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

References [edit]

1. ^ "National Register Data System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March xiii, 2009.
2. ^ "Dream City Vision 2020: Alice Bemis Taylor". The Gazette. Retrieved June iii, 2013.
3. ^ "Judson Moss Bemis House - NRHP Nomination Form". National Annals of Historic Places. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
4. ^ Linda DuVal; Banks; Laurence Parent (fourteen June 2011). Insiders' Guide® to Colorado Springs. Globe Pequot Printing. p. 28. ISBN978-0-7627-6936-0 . Retrieved July 3, 2013.
5. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Colorado Springs Fine Arts Middle - NRHP Nomination Grade". National Annals of Historic Places. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
6. ^ Sharyn R. Udall (19 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 Grand 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 Eye, retrieved July 3, 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 (14 June 2011). Insiders' Guide® to Colorado Springs. Globe Pequot Printing. p. 87. ISBN978-0-7627-6936-0 . Retrieved July iii, 2013.
12. ^ ^{a b} Linda DuVal; Banks; Laurence Parent (14 June 2011). Insiders' Guide® to Colorado Springs. Globe Pequot Press. p. 97. ISBN978-0-7627-6936-0 . Retrieved July 3, 2013.
13. ^ ^{a b c d} "Fine Arts Eye Brochure" (PDF). Colorado Springs Fine Arts Heart. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 24, 2012. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
14. ^ "FAD'southward at the FAC". Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Retrieved November xvi, 2015.
15. ^ "Admission". Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre. Archived from the original on July 13, 2013. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
16. ^ ^{a b} "75th Anniversary". Colorado Springs Fine Arts Heart. 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. 1–2. Retrieved July three, 2013.
18. ^ "Building Expansion: The new building is at present open up!". Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre. Archived from the original on half-dozen Oct 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
19. ^ "Colorado Springs Fine Arts Eye, Colorado Springs, Us". Guide4Tourist. January 17, 2013. Archived from the original on March four, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
20. ^ Paul Cummings (1975). "Oral history interview with Robert Beauchamp, 1975 Jan. xvi". Oral history interview. Athenaeum of American Fine art. Retrieved 30 Jun 2011.
21. ^ "Press Release - Update on the 75 th Anniversary landscape created past 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 Middle

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

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