The best artisan holiday market in the Roaring Fork Valley is now open through Christmas Eve. Each year Carbondale Arts transforms the gallery into a 5-week long hoiday market featuring 65 local and regional creators and small businesses.

Open Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm
Sundays (December only) 11am-4pm
*with additional holiday hours and activations

The sculptures have been installed! We’re delighted to share the work of three local sculptors; Leah Aegerter, Chris Erickson, and Brad Reed Nelson to complement five murals that were painted in the spring at the Gateway Public Art Project at the entrance to Carbondale.

Open to youth 14-19, the Field\Work, is an opportunity to explore and make work related to place and identity. Participants will explore Carbondale and their relationship to it through making art with local artists.

Applications are open through December 6th

Carbondale Arts presents the 46th Annual Valley Visual Art Show, opening Friday, January 17, 2025 and will be on exhibition afterwards each weekday (10am-5pm) at our gallery space located inside The Launchpad (76 S 4th Street) through February 20, 2025.

Entry forms are now open with a submission deadline of December 2, 2024.

Join us for November’s First Friday, celebrating Día de los Muertos, the largest valley-wide honoring of this holiday. Contribute your mementos to the community ofrenda!

There will be performances and face-painting, a community procession and performances by Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Folklórico, Mezcla Socials Dance, Roaring Fork Youth Orchestra and more, not to be missed!

Now accepting designer applications for the 2025 Fashion Show. The submission deadline is December 4, 2024. Clothing must be sustainably created using primarily (75%) organic or sustainably tagged fabrics, up-cycled and/or recycled materials and made by designer or in a fair trade and/or locally-sourced scenario.

Each year the gallery space transforms into a shop filled with artisan goods created by local and regional artists from all over the Roaring Fork Valley and the state of Colorado. Goods typically include handmade candles and cards, jewelry and chocolates, ceramics and soaps, and more! 

Applications are now open with a submission deadline of September 30.

It would take a really long time to thank everyone in Carbondale who supported Mountain Fair in some way. But believe that we felt and honored your energetic contributions, it’s in the magic that makes this event each year. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Shout out for the all hardworking supervisors and super crew volunteers, as well as businesses that took care of us and all these folks leading up to, and during the Fair. Our appreciation runs deep!

We're delighted to share the winning design for the 53rd Mountain Fair (happening July 26-28, 2024), created by local artist Kirsten Hix. Congrats Kirsten!⁠

Since 2019 she has completed four murals at Sunlight Mountain. She won the Basalt Public Arts Commission Mural Contest in 2023 and was selected to create a mural at the Basalt Pool, which was completed in May of 2024.

The first wave of art installation for the Gateway Public Art Project begins later this week. Five Colorado muralists will be painting over the course of the next two weeks on site at the new Central Self Storage on Highway 133.  Later this year, sculptures will be installed by three Roaring Fork Valley artists.

Carbondale Arts is elated to continue offering the Artist Fellowship Program again in 2024. This fellowship can help an artist develop a vision, buy supplies, or rent rehearsal/studio space; it can help with residency/workshop fees or for marketing purposes. The uses are limitless, but the requests should be specific.

Thanks to the Wolfpack Foundation and Carbondale Arts supporters we are able to offer $8000 in funding this year - four successful applicants will be awarded $2000. Applications are due June 3, learn more here.

Mountain Fair is accepting applications for Oasis Activity Vendors as well as the Valley Artists Booth. The Oasis will be moving onto Main Street and expanding into a family block party due to the renovation of the Carbondale pool. Mountain Fair is seeking partners such as schools, arts programs, and youth organizations to get involved and set up their own family-friendly activity tent or area. The Valley Artists Booth is a great way to display and sell artwork in a cooperative and inexpensive way, open to current (or new!) Carbondale Arts members residing within an “816” area code. Both applications are due May 15.