September 3, 2025 - September 7, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Artist: Vivian Lynn

People interested in art recognize that every brush stroke of Renoir, Seurat, Kathleen Petyarre, Clifford Possum, to name a few, use each stroke or dab of their brush, to put together the parts of a story, a powerful story. I've studied these artist, and many more in my decades as a designer, painter, artist. In my many years living in Australia I became a student of Aboriginal art and folklore and my current work is now heavily influence by this concept of using a brush stroke, a point of paint, to create the work in this exhibition. Perhaps a new take on pointillism.  My inspiration comes from photos from space, the natural world around us and the graphic lines in our urban landscape.

September 3, 2025 - September 7, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Artist Group: Northern Colorado Artist

Photo Credit: "Cottonwoods in the Snow"

Exhibition Reception: September 5, 2025, 4pm - 6pm, featuring a demonstration in pastel by the current President of the Pastel Society of Colorado, Jeannette Stutzmann of Evergreen, CO at 4pm. 

Northern Colorado Artists are presenting a show of local art, much of it from Plein Air painting in local areas. The show features 18 artists with a variety of media; pastel, oil, acrylic and watercolor of northern Colorado scenes.

Artists will be demonstrating their techniques on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Awards will be announced on Friday September 5, 2025 at 6pm.

Upcoming Changes to the Fort Fund Grant Program

Beginning in 2026, the Fort Fund Grant Program will undergo several important updates to better serve our arts and culture community.

To help guide you through these changes and answer your questions, we invite you to attend one of our upcoming public meetings:

• September 10 | 5:00–6:00 PM | Center for Creativity, Blue Spruce Room

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September 10, 2025 - September 14, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Exhibition Reception: September 10, 2025 | 5pm - 7:30pm

Artist: Natasha Ruby

A mixed exhibition of narrative illustrations (children's book spreads, oracle deck, and character art) paired with intuitive abstract and botanical works. Together, these paintings reflect a journey through pain, joy, and creative recovery.

September 10, 2025 - September 14, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

September 17, 2025 - September 21, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

September 24, 2025 - September 28, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Exhibition Reception: September 12, 2025, 6pm - 8pm

We are honoring the early Hispanic and Mexican baseball players, many that came out of the beet fields of Fort Collins, which made significant contribution.

Everyday, 2.5 million videos are uploaded to Youtube, 95 million Instagram posts are made, and 500 million new Tweets are uploaded. How are you going to stand out?

In this oversaturated social media environment, we have more creators and shorter attention spans than ever. You need a strategy to organically grow your audience online.

You don’t need an agent, you can start building your audience right now. In this class, you will learn the first principles of running a social media campaign. No matter the platform you use, these strategies will help promote your online content or product. You’ll leave the class with a personalized content plan for social media.

Be your biggest fan!

Date: September 16, 2025

Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Class size: 10 people maximum

Cost: $40 for non-members, $20 for FCPM members (Creator level and under), and free for FCPM Producer level members. 

Instructor, Nate Keen

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September 17, 2025 - September 21, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Exhibition Reception: Sunday June 21, 2025 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm

Artist: Roxiere

Although I was born in the remote Argentine Patagonia, many moons ago, life mysteriously brought me back home to a place then unknown, the Coloradoan Rocky mountains.

Since my first steps in visual arts, I felt particularly fascinated by abstract art. The use of large formats, energetic motions, and the combination of media added degrees of freedom and helped me build complex topographies with nested details in texture and points of concentration. A connection between the world of motion and change, and color is achieved through those topographies. They are characterized by geometric structures that freeze time and trigger the imagination of the observer to dynamically connect nature and abstraction.

www.roxiere.com

September 20, 2025 | 10:30am - 11:30am

The Realm presents BOUNDARIES: ALREADY ENOUGH. Come enjoy a morning of live music framed by spoken word and embodied through community art. Doors open at 10:10am, programming begins promptly at 10:30, stay and mingle afterward. Bring your own sketchbook, journal, knitting or other creative work or engage in our community art offering. The Realm is dedicated to inclusivity and accessibility in programming and concept.

September 24, 2025 - September 28, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Exhibition Reception: September 25, 2025 | 6pm-8pm

Artist: Brita LaTona

The Plant Allies Project is the collaborative vision of Brita and Alison LaTona. Featuring visual art and Rocky Mountain Plant Medicine, it aims to reconnect humans with the plant world, and awaken a remembrance that Plants are our Allies. Allies in healing ourselves and in repairing our relationship to nature. Through this project, we aim to also be Allies of the Plants. Preserving and honoring their medicine and environments, and sharing their messages with the world.

Join us for this exhibit of original paintings by Brita LaTona, with wildcrafted plant herbal tinctures and flower essences.

Intro to the FCPM Studio Light Board 

An intro class on how to operate FC Public Media’s new studio lighting system. 

Date: September 26, 2025

Time: 6p-8p

Class size: 4 students 

Cost: $50 for non-members. $25 for FCPM members (Creator level and under), and free for FCPM Producer Level members.

What the class covers: 

This class will train students how to operate FC Public Media’s state of the art studio lighting system, including but not limited to:

• Basic studio safety.

• Light board layout and operation.

• Studio light layout and operation.

• Changing light color and intensity.

• Focusing light beams. 

• Selecting light colors for effect and mood.

Instructor, Bryan McIntyre 

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October 1, 2025 - October 5, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

October 8, 2025 - October 12, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Artist: Michael S. Ryan & Michael J. Ryan

October 15, 2025 - October 19, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

October 22, 2025 - October 26, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Exhibition Reception: Saturday, October 17, 2025, 6pm - 8pm

Presented by the City of Fort Collins’ Cultural Services Department, the Fort Collins Artist Studio Tour and Sale is a free self-guided tour of local artist studios revealing the mysteries of the creative process to families and individuals in and around Fort Collins. Through art demonstrations and educational displays right in the artists' studios, visitors will meet the artists, buy original artworks, and learn about how and where artists create pottery, jewelry, photography, painting, sculpture, fiber arts, and more! The included artists reflect the amazing, creative talent right in our own community.

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October 29, 2025 - November 2, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Artists: Patti Smith and others

November 5, 2025 - November 9, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Artist: Johnny Plastini & Robert DiGrappa

November 5, 2025 - November 9, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

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November 12, 2025 - November 16, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Artist: Hazel Shelton

November 12, 2025 - November 16, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Artist: Gil Whitley

November 12, 2025 - November 16, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

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November 19, 2025 - November 23, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Artist: Claire Havenhill

November 19, 2025 - November 23, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

Artist: Tess Baur

November 19, 2025 - November 23, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

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November 26, 2025 - November 30, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

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December 3, 2025 - December 7, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

December 3, 2025 - December 7, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

December 3, 2025 - December 7, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

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December 10, 2025 - December 14, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

December 10, 2025 - December 14, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

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December 17, 2025 - December 21, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

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December 24, 2025 - December 28, 2025 | 12pm - 6pm

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December 31, 2025 - January 4, 2026 | 12pm - 6pm

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