Yampa Valley Arts

10/23/2025

Steamboat Dance Theatre is hosting their auditions for their annual community show starting October 24 and 25. Make the process easier on yourself and preregister online here: https://steamboatdancetheatre.org/concert-performer-information/

This is a once a year opportunity to add a little more creativity in your life. Anyone is allowed to audition and all experience levels are welcome!

10/09/2025

Whether you’re married, dating, or just great friends — join Warehome Studios for some fun in the mud.
Their Couples Pottery Class is the perfect mix of creativity and connection. You’ll learn the basics of throwing on the potter’s wheel, enjoy your favorite drinks, and get your hands dirty together.

Bring your own snacks and beverages.
All materials provided (aprons too).
Wear clothes you don’t mind getting messy.
Ages 18 and older.
Advanced registration required: www.warehomestudios.com/classshop/datenight

Spots fill fast — grab your partner or your bestie and join us for a night to remember!

10/08/2025

Colorado painter David Harms is a big fan of plein air. "The event is a week of extreme pleasure year after year for a variety of reasons," he says. "The fall scenery never disappoints and in 'the land of a thousand paintings' every day of painting is glorious! Above all though, is the event itself, and each and every person on staff and the executives at Steamboat Art Museum - top notch, classy and thorough in every way. And the venue is second to none. I can't begin to describe how much I look forward to it every single fabulous autumn season!"

Be sure to check out the Plein Air 2025 reception! Find all of the information here: steamboatartmuseum.org/sam-events/opening-reception-awards-and-sale-at-sam/
And find more of David's work here: davidharms.com

10/03/2025

🎃October's First Friday Artwalk is today!🎃 Be sure to go see all of the locations along the artwalk to get your full experience. along with being an amazing gallery, Wild Horse Gallery offers a wide range of services including free art consultations, local installations for pieces bought from the gallery, art commissions and more!
Find more information here: wildhorsegallery.com

10/01/2025

Up Elk River Road, near Hahns Peak Village, sits a beautiful barn built as an artists' studio haven. Filled with collections of art, and studios for both Shirley Stocks and her husband, Richard Galusha, the two have created something wonderful that embodies the past, present and future of their art.

Read more about Shirley and Richard's beautiful art barn here: https://www.yampavalleyarts.com/stories-spotlights/post/2342729/inside-the-etching-studio. Story by Haley Watkins.
Image: Shirley Stocks in her North Routt studio with her 1904 Sturgis press.

10/01/2025

Downtown Steamboat Springs doesn’t just tell its story through historic storefronts or the curve of the Yampa River. It tells it on the walls. Once bare brick, cement underpasses and forgotten alleys, these surfaces have become canvases where the community gathers, paints and leaves behind pieces of itself.

Read more about Steamboat's amazing murals here: https://www.yampavalleyarts.com/stories-spotlights/post/2342599/writing-on-the-walls-take-a-mural-tour-in-steamboat-springs
Image: Yampa is Wild by Jill Bergman at 911 Yampa Street on a rainy day.

09/27/2025

🌊 Yampa Yearnings isn’t just another nature book—it’s a love letter to one of America’s most endangered rivers. The Yampa River is the last free-flowing tributary to the Colorado River Basin, and it still retains its natural rhythm. But it’s under serious threat from development, climate change, and competing water demands.

This book is both a celebration and a call to action. By raising awareness and inspiring people to care, we can give this river a fighting chance. 💙

📖 Learn more about the project—or support the cause—here:
👉 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yampayearnings/yampa-yearnings-ode-to-one-of-the-wests-last-wild-rivers?ref=ksr_email_creator_launch

A new book by Eugene Buchanan, heralding northwest Colorado’s Yampa River, the last remaining free-flowing tributary to the Colorado.

09/25/2025

Denise Bohart Brown’s upcoming exhibit delves into the concept of messages—bits of information we encounter daily and choose to believe, reject, embrace or question. Through abstract kiln-formed glass creations, Denise Bohart Glass Artist explores the multitude of messages we receive from culture, social media, friends, family and even ourselves.

The exhibit also features figurative art inspired by drawings created during Steamboat Creates figure drawing sessions, offering a dynamic and thought-provoking perspective on communication and interpretation.

The exhibit begins October 2025 at Bliss Hall. Find more information Steamboat Creates upcoming shows here: https://www.steamboatcreates.org/events/steamboat-creates-events/upcoming-shows/

09/23/2025

The Steamboat Art Museum is hosting it's annual Plein Air event starting this Saturday at the Steamboat Farmers Market! Check out their list of events for the next week. 🎨🗻

9/20: Quick Draw at the Steamboat Farmers Market | 9-11 a.m.
- Paintings being sold, starting at 11:30 a.m.
9/21: Mountain Views at the base and on top of the mountain at Steamboat Resort | 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
9/24: Art on the Rocks at Mythology Distillery | 4:30-6:30 p.m.
9/25: Plein Air Perspectives at SAM | 12-1:30 p.m.
9/26: Opening Reception, Sale and Rewards at SAM | 4-6 p.m.
9/27-9/29: Art Workshop with Gail Denton at SAM | 9 a.m.-4p.m.

Find more information here: https://steamboatartmuseum.org/plein-air/

09/23/2025

This week, artists will be competing in two categories, professional and open in the Steamboat Art Museum Plein Air 2025 competition. The 2025 judge is Pennsylvania artist Brienne M. Brown Fine Art, for whom the fall plein air event marks her first visit to Steamboat.

“I’m very excited,” she says. In her free time she loves painting outdoors as much as she loves working in her studio. She says the challenges with plein air painting are the changing weather and light. “Time is a factor,” she says. “I treat it as a great learning experience. You only have so much time. You have to make decisions quickly: What is the most important element? The limited time can stop you from fiddling too much."

09/18/2025

Hot Tuna has been rocking the blues-rock world for over 60 years! Founded by Jefferson Airplane legends Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady, they keep fans hooked with their electric mix of blues, rock and epic jams. 🔥🎶

Make sure to go see them at Strings Music Festival Steamboat Springs, CO on Friday, September 19 starting at 7:00 pm.
Image: Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady preforming. Photo by Jeff Fasano Photography

09/16/2025

DID YOU KNOW that Steamboat Springs was ranked #2 on SMU's Arts Vibrancy index? 🎭🎨🖌💃🕺🎶🎻🎤🎹✒️📖

SMU DataArts analyzes 13 key indicators across three main categories: supply, demand and public support for the arts. These indicators include metrics such as the number of arts providers, arts dollars, government support and socioeconomic factors.
To see more information about the rankings you can go here: https://culturaldata.org/arts-vibrancy-2024/the-top-40-list/