Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS
Celebrating Arts Month 2022
The Ent Center for the Arts is more than just a stunning building on the backdrop of the UCCS campus. This first-class arts facility, located on the University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus, serves the community as a hub for the arts and an inspiration in academics. The vision for the facility was and is to foster a creative environment to house arts that will serve the Pikes Peak region, allowing artists to inspire and amplify one another rather than compete against one another. Art brings together diverse peoples and ideas in ways no other discipline can, and the Ent Center will be a pillar of the arts community within Colorado Springs.
Lumberjacks in Love
THEATREWORKS: Ent Center for the Arts
Thru October 9
Lumberjacks living in semi-unwashed bliss find their rustic bachelor lifestyle disrupted by the arrival of a spunky mail order bride. The ensuing musical madness celebrates the flannels we wear, the families we choose, and the unexpected twists that just might change everything.
Lumberjacks in Love promises a heart of gold wrapped in layers of cross-dressing, mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, high-country hijinks, and of course more flannel than Breckenridge in September. Featuring actors playing their own musical instruments, it’s the best musical you’ll see about lumberjacks this year, featuring perhaps the only song you’ll ever hear about “a buncha naked lumberjacks chopping down trees.” Don’t miss out! More information about the production.
ENT CENTER FOR THE ARTS
5225 N. Nevada Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Gregg Deal: Esoo Tubewade Nummetu
(This Land Is Ours)
GOCA: Ent Center for the Arts, Mary Walsh Sharpe Gallery
Thru December 11, 2022
Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) is a multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and self-described “disruptor” who lives and works in southern Colorado. A major solo exhibition at the Ent Center for the Art’s Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery site will feature new works in multiple series addressing Native identity and critiquing American society, politics, popular culture and history.
Deal’s art practice incorporates lifelong interests in punk music, street art and graphic styles, comic books and speculative superhero fiction. Deal presents a new paradigm that places the perception, narratives and voices of Indigenous people at the center of modern and historic storytelling, with romantic and damaging stereotypes of culture placed upon them upended and rejected by all. In “Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours),” Deal asserts that Native peoples and their cultures are still here and that we are all standing on the homelands of past and future Indigenous generations. More information about the exhibition.
ENT CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery &
Art WithOut Limits Public Sculpture
5225 N. Nevada Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Fall 2022 | Thursday – Saturday, 1-6PM
Visiting Artists & Critics Lecture: Gregg Deal
Tuesday, October 11, 6-7PM
Chapman Recital Hall
Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS
elin o’Hara slavick: Dark Archive
GOCA: Downtown
Thru October 7, 2022
Dark Archive is a solo exhibition by California-based artist elin o’Hara slavick. The title of the exhibition comes from the title for her forthcoming book about archives, photography, the intersection of technology, destruction and image-making, scientific research and discovery as a means of producing extraordinary photographs, and, as the artist states, “how violence and ruin are at the root of everything, even sometimes arresting beauty.” More information about the exhibition.
GOCA DOWNTOWN
121 S. Tejon Street, #100
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Fall 2022 | First Friday, 1- 8PM/First Saturday, 1-6PM
Patrons may also call 719-255-3504 to make an appointment outside of public hours to view an exhibition.
Mindful Movement Mondays
GOCA: Ent Center for the Arts, Mary Walsh Sharpe Gallery
Dates in October: 10/3, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31 at Noon
Join us for free, 1-hour mindful movement sessions every Monday during Arts Month at the Ent Center for the Arts! Open to all to attend–no UCCS affiliation required!
Mindful Movement Mondays is a nearly decade-long partnership between the Wellness & Recreation Center and the Galleries of Contemporary Art (GOCA) at UCCS. The program typically takes place indoors, set in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery of Contemporary Art space. Guest programming is inter-mixed with weekly yoga sessions with Dr. Debby Patz, certified yoga instructor, and counselor on staff of the UCCS Wellness & Recreation Center.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Debby Patz, PsyD, CAC III, E-RYT is a licensed clinical psychologist with a specialty in addictions. Debby is a firm believer that true health incorporates mind, body, and spirit. You can find her at the UCCS Recreation and Wellness Center, Mental Health Services, where she is a staff psychologist offering individual therapy as well as group yoga therapy. Debby has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and has taught in many venues since 2009, including a weekly class for the UCCS community for the past five years.
ENT CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery
5225 N. Nevada Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Limited mats, blocks, straps available to use, and water is provided.
ABOUT WELLNESS PROMOTION
Wellness Promotion is the public health and outreach division of the Recreation and Wellness Center. The program aims to foster a healthy environment to increase students’ success and well-being. All UCCS students have the right to make informed decisions about their health while at school and beyond, and the Recreation and Wellness Center supports students in helping develop the skills to do so through outreach programs, discussions, and events. In addition, the Center’s educational focus promotes understanding of the factors that improve health both for individuals and communities and supports those making health behavior changes. Learn more here.