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UPDATE: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2021 run of the free First Friday Shuttle Bus has been cancelled.
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Cottonwood Center for the Arts is a community impact organization located in downtown Colorado Springs. Their mission is to engage the Pikes Peak Region in art through learning, exhibits, and performances, hosting a diverse and creative community of work spaces for artists.
The first park donated to the City of Colorado Springs in 1891, Acacia Park serves as a central hub of activity in the downtown Colorado Springs area. Located within easy walking distance of most of downtown, the park hosts events of all kinds and is especially vibrant during the summer months.
Boulder Street and the surrounding area is home to many great downtown businesses, including art galleries, restaurants, and bars.
The Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, built in 1936, grew out of and expanded on the mission of the esteemed Broadmoor Art Academy to become one of the only multi-discipline arts institutions in the nation. Today it remains an amazing rarity — a museum, theater, and art school, essentially an entire arts district, under one roof.
The Arts Depot District Galleries are located in an early 20th-century granary near the railroad tracks, in the original part of downtown Colorado Springs. The district features three separate gallery spaces.
Colorado City (now Old Colorado City) was established in 1859 during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush as a supply town and commercial staging area. Though now part of Colorado Springs and no longer a town of its own, Old Colorado City continues as a charming and historic center of galleries, retail, restaurants, and commerce.
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Colorado City (now Old Colorado City) was established in 1859 during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush as a supply town and commercial staging area. Though now part of Colorado Springs and no longer a town of its own, Old Colorado City continues as a charming and historic center of galleries, retail, restaurants, and commerce.
To commemorate the opening of the Manitou Mineral Water Company, Jerome B. Wheeler, had the Wheeler Clock built in 1890. The goddess Hebe represents the purported youth-giving properties of Manitou Springs water, which used to flow from the sculpture.
The western part of downtown Manitou Springs offers various gallery, retail, and restaurant spaces within a short walk.
Music, theatre, pottery, printmaking, and other loud, slightly dangerous and intensely messy events happen here daily. Locals and tourists alike flock to our galleries, studios, exhibition space, classrooms and delicious café. Our spacious facilities can also accommodate events, conferences and offices. Experiences are unlimited – how will you enjoy the MAC?
