Carbondale Arts is excited to be a part of Colorado Gives Day for the second year in a row! We believe now more than ever is the time to shop and GIVE locally to non-profits that are important and relevant to the vibrancy of our community. People looking to support Carbondale Arts can donate on December 8th or earlier by scheduling a donation on ColoradoGives.org

This Sunday! November 22 | 11am-4pm
Join local farmers, makers, and bakers for a pop-up market for your Thanksgiving dinner needs and delights! There will be a separate entrance from Deck the Walls and to keep everyone as safe and distanced as possible we’re only allowing 8 shoppers at one-time. Keep an eye out for another Pop-Up Market December 19-20.

Carbondale Arts is leading a collective effort to bring an important and vital message to this valley. The creative industries have been some of the most impacted and hardest hit during the pandemic. YOU can make a difference by giving your money locally. This may be in the form of joining a membership of one of your favorite non profit organizations, donations or shopping locally as opposed to online. Visit ArtsThroughItAllRFV.org to learn more.

Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms the R2 Gallery into a shop filled with artisanal 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 jam, ceramics and soaps and more!

Get details HERE!

The Valley Visual Art Show is one of the longest-standing community art shows committed to showing the work of local artists. VVAS began in 1980 as a venue for local artists to share their artwork with the public. VVAS provides an opportunity for artists new to the area, or budding artists. The show has become a salute to the wide variety of artistic talents in our area. In effort to professionally exhibit artwork in our gallery space we can only accept 50 entries (1 per artist). Entries are taken on a lottery basis. Get the details!

Learn the basics of creating art in Virtual Reality. There will be a two hour demonstration and exploration at three different locations through out the Roaring Fork Valley. We will focus on two programs; Google Tilt Brush and Oculus Medium. See how these programs can be used to bring your creations into actual reality with 3D printing!

Join Carbondale Arts and Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV) for a day of stewardship and creativity on the Rio Grande ARTway. Celebrating 25 years of RFOV, volunteers will help put the gardens to bed for the winter while local artists lead a mandala making activity with garden materials along the ARTway.

October 18th 11am - 2pm

Carbondale Arts presents 2 new exhibitions at the R2 Gallery, which is now open for up to 10 visitors at a time. Both shows are on display through November 9.

The Carbondale Arts R2 Gallery is now open to the public 10am-5pm each weekday. Though there will be no formal opening receptions for any exhibitions for the foreseeable future, we hope you will continue to support the artists featured in the R2 Gallery and Artique gift shop.

The tally of 2020 versus the world feels very uneven at this point, doesn't it? We wish we had better news and initially hoped postponement would be the answer, but we know that cancelling the show is the only option at this point. All ticket holders should have received an email detailing the options to either donate to arts education or receive a refund for your ticket purchase (either partially or in full). Click here for more details.

Help us keep our favorite monster in Carbondale! Since its premiere, "Carzilla" has been exhibited outside of The Launchpad, but it now needs a forever home. "Carzilla", created by Carbondale’s Brian Colley, brings climate change to life with humor, nostalgia, and audacity. The billboard was created with AIR-INK, a new technology that transforms carbon emissions into high-quality artists’ ink, for CORE’s (Community Office of Resource Efficiency) Imagine Climate Billboard Project that debuted earlier this year. Our goal is to raise $3,500 for "Carzilla" so that he can stay in Carbondale! Proceeds will support Carbondale Arts and CORE. Visit our campaign page or text CARZILLA to 44-321

Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms the R2 Gallery into a shop filled with artisanal 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 jam, ceramics and soaps and more! November 19- December 30! Artist/vendor applications are available online and due October 12. Click here for more details.

With much excitement and anticipation the design for the Youth Art Park has begun! Local Landscape Architect and member of the Carbondale Arts Board, Nicholas DiFrank will be updating the design and managing the project, which was originally conceptualized and designed by students of Carbondale Middle School with help from Andrea Korber of Land+Shelter and Kurt Peterson of Forum Phi. On September 9th Carbondale Arts held a public Zoom meeting and presentation on the possibilities of the park to get feedback and direction. The presentation was recorded for continued public access, along with the plan documents and design explorations, available on CarbondaleCreativeDistrict.com.

Carbondale Arts has teamed up with four local artists to design and paint a community mural reflecting the themes that the people of Carbondale feel are most important to them. The mural will be located on the east-facing side of the Century Link building on South 4th Street, at the corner of Main Street, downtown in the heart of Carbondale's Creative District.

Work will begin spring 2021. Artists Gayle Embrey, Brian Colley, Vanessa Porras and Steve Keohane have worked up a design based upon input gathered from a survey conducted in the spring in which 155 community members responded to questions.

Carbondale Arts presents two exhibitions opening Friday, September 4th with an outdoor artist talk beginning at 5:30pm. Parallel by mixed media artists Wewer Keohane and Andrew Roberts-Gray along with a solo exhibition, “Self-Reflected Universe” by Brian Colley.

R2 Gallery will be open until 7pm that evening and can host up to 10 visitors at a time (masks and social distancing enforced). Both exhibitions will be on display September 4 - October 2

While many are anxiously awaiting a fancy new updated grocery store, we’re excited to see the new mural that was recently installed at it’s new residence above the entrance of the soon-to-open City Market on Hwy 133. Cheers to Reina Katzenburger and Andrew Roberts-Gray on a successful collaboration!

The CCP is a collaborative #lovelocal project aimed at supporting an economic recovery in the Roaring Fork Valley. 30 local businesses have offered up deals, discounts and offerings listed inside, which are then stamped once they are redeemed. Take a tour of our local craft breweries, coffee shops, retail and jewelry! Enjoy discounts on chocolate or a free side of bacon! Available at The Launchpad (or online!) now available for $25!

The Fair must go on! A dedicated team of Carbondale Arts staff, volunteers and Fair lovers have united to find creative solutions for this year’s version of our favorite summertime tradition. Details and a schedule of events are continuing to roll out and are available now. Photo by Eric Allen.

The July exhibit at R2 Gallery, The Flash Card Project, is a group show featuring 50+ RFV artists. All artwork will be up for auction online through July 29.

We are beyond excited and thrilled to share with you the winning design for the 49th Annual Carbondale Mountain Fair. This design is by one of our most talented youth artists, Jade Meyer.

Carbondale’s new City Market, a Kroger Co. store slated to open this fall, has selected two local artists, Andrew Roberts-Gray and Reina Katzenberger, to create a 16' x 5' mural inside the new store.