The Art Base

Explore.Make.Create - Art Around the World: with Rebecca Stirling
2026-07-20 09:30 - 2026-07-24 15:30 (America/Denver) | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
July 20 – 24, 2026
Monday – Thursday, 9:30AM – 3:30PM, Friday, 9:30AM – 12:00PM
Grades: 2 – 5
Pack your imagination and get ready to travel with art! You’ll explore creative styles, patterns, and projects inspired by places around the world—then make your own colorful masterpieces along the way. Paint, draw, collage, and build as you create art inspired by maps, landmarks, animals, celebrations, and designs from different cultures. Every day is a new “destination” with hands-on projects and lots of creativity—plus plenty of artwork to bring home from your world art adventure!
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Waves, Wonders & Mermaids - Ocean Explore: with Brooke Bartlett
2026-07-21 09:00 - 2026-07-23 12:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
July 21 – 23, 2026
Tuesday – Thursday, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
PreK (ages 4 +)
Dive into an underwater adventure—mermaids included! You’ll explore the ocean world and create sea-sparkly art inspired by waves, coral reefs, and amazing sea creatures. Design mermaids (and merfolk!), paint swirling water, build colorful fish and jellyfish, and make “treasures” you’d find on the sea floor. We’ll use paint, collage, and simple sculpture—plus shimmery materials for extra ocean magic. Come ready to imagine, create, and leave with a bundle of under-the-sea masterpieces!
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Color.Cosmos.Creatures - Art + Science: with Lillian McIntyre and Sophie Catto
2026-07-27 09:30 - 2026-07-31 15:30 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
July 27 – 31, 2026
Monday – Thursday, 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM, Friday, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Grades 2 – 4
A collaboration with Aspen Science Center – held at the Art Base
Dive into a week of messy experiments and masterpiece-making! You’ll mix art and science as you explore anatomy and biology, create color-chemistry art (including chromatography), engineer creative builds, and make projects inspired by fossils, space, and planets. Get ready to test, tinker, splash, and discover—then head home with a stack of amazing creations.
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Wildlife Explorers: with Brooke Bartlett
2026-07-28 09:00 - 2026-07-30 12:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
July 28 – 30, 2026
Tuesday – Thursday, 9:00AM – 12:00PM
PreK (ages 4 – 6)
Grab your explorer hat and head out on an art adventure! You’ll create art inspired by wild animals from forests, rivers, mountains, and meadows—think bears, foxes, owls, deer, fish, and more. Paint big animal shapes, collage furry and feathery textures, build masks and puppets, and sculpt tiny creatures with clay. You’ll stamp tracks, make habitat scenes, and use bright colors to bring your wildlife discoveries to life. Get ready to make a little mess, try new materials, and take home a whole collection of wild masterpieces!
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Hues + Brews - 4x4 Community Canvas – A Collaborative Art Experience
2026-07-28 18:00 - 20:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
All levels welcome
Supplies included
Come join Aspen Out for a night of creativity and community collaboration!
Inspired by our upcoming 10×10 Name Unseen exhibition and silent auction, each participant will create a unique 4″ × 4″ artwork using a variety of materials and techniques.
Rather than taking your piece home, your artwork will become part of a larger community installation displayed in the Art Base gallery during our annual pARTy fundraiser. Together, these individual creations will form a vibrant mosaic that celebrates the many artists, makers, and supporters who help make the Art Base such a special place.
As part of our rotating Art Commons initiative, this project invites everyone, regardless of experience, to slow down, create, and contribute to something larger than themselves.
No experience necessary. All supplies are provided.
4th Tuesday LGBTQIA+ Art & Social Night
On the 4th Tuesday of each month, local LGBTQIA+ community and allies gather to socialize, make art, network, and have fun—optionally with an adult beverage. Enjoy a rotating mix of creative projects in a variety of media; no art experience needed. Come as you are, meet new friends, and explore creativity in a welcoming, low-pressure space.

Sponsored by ASPEN OUT

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Young at heART - Every Thursday
2026-07-30 12:45 - 14:15 | Eagle County Community Center, 20 Eagle County Dr, El Jebel, CO, 81623, United States
Thursdays, 12:45 PM – 2:15 PM
$10 supply fee suggested
Eagle County Building in Willits/El Jebel
Unleash your creativity in a fun, engaging, and inspiring senior art class where the only limit is your imagination!
Each session focuses on playful and easy-to-learn techniques, including watercolor painting, acrylics, pastels and more! Classes are perfect for all skill levels. Enjoy a stress-free artistic outlet designed to nurture your creativity while having fun.
No registration necessary. Just arrive the day of ready to create!
Upcoming Classes:
July 30 – Carter Johnson: Watercolor
Aug 6 – TBD
Aug 13 – TBD
August 20 – Tish McFee: Drippy Trees (Liquid Watercolors)

Exhibition: 10x10 Name Unseen 2026
2026-07-31 11:00 - 2026-08-15 17:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
Bidding opens at 10 AM on Friday, July 31 – must register with a credit card of file
Opening Reception: Friday, July 31, from 5 PM- 7 PM
Artist Only Reception: Friday, July 31, 4 PM- 4 PM
On view: July 31 to August 15, 2026

The 10×10 Name Unseen Silent Auction is an exhibition showcasing local artists who have generously donated a 10×10 artwork. All panels are available for bidding starting at $100. All proceeds from the auction and pARTy go to support the Art Base’s efforts to make art and creativity available to all.
BIDDING IN THE AUCTION:

Bidding begins at 10 AM on July 31 and closes at 6:30 PM on August 15.
Opening Reception Friday, July 31, 5 – 7 PM.
All bidding will take place on your mobile device.
You will receive a text message if you have been outbid on an item.
All winning bidders will have their credit card on file charged once the auction closes.

Our sincere gratitude to all of the talented 10×10 artists.
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Opening Reception: 10x10 Name Unseen 2026
2026-07-31 17:00 - 19:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States

Build, Design, Create: with Sophie Catto
2026-08-03 09:30 - 2026-08-07 15:30 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
August 3 – 7, 2026
Monday – Thursday, 9:30AM – 3:30PM
Grades: 2nd +
Build, Invent, and Imagine! You’ll design and construct buildings, vehicles, machines, butterflies, ladybugs—anything you can dream up. Using cardboard, recycled materials, simple tools, tape, glue, and lots of creative problem-solving, you’ll plan, prototype, and bring big ideas to life, then paint, customize, and add details to make each project uniquely your own.
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Plants & Potions: Collaboration with ACES at Rock Bottom Ranch
2026-08-03 09:30 - 2026-08-07 15:30 | Rock Bottom Ranch, 2001 Hooks Spur Rd, Basalt, 81621, United States
August 3 – 7, 2026
Monday – Friday, 9:30AM – 3:30PM
Grades 3 – 4
This camp will be held at Rock Bottom Ranch
This week of Plants and Potions is taught in collaboration with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES). Each day, campers will spend the morning with ACES educators exploring hands-on activities aligned with the camp’s theme. In the afternoon, TAB educators will guide creative art projects that build on and connect to the concepts introduced earlier in the day. These collaboration camps are perfect for children that love spending time in nature and making art!
Step into a world of wonder where nature is your laboratory! During Plants & Potions, campers will dive into hands-on adventures that blend plant science with a touch of whimsy and wizardry. Campers will build their skills in plant identification, brew sun teas, paint with plants, and experiment with reaction potions. Leave this week with a better understanding of the hidden benefits and uses of plants that makes them magical.
Registration through ACES (opens February 19). https://aspennature.jumbula.com/summer-camp

Gnome Adventure: Collaboration with ACES at Rock Bottom Ranch
2026-08-03 09:30 - 2026-08-07 15:30 | Rock Bottom Ranch, 2001 Hooks Spur Rd, Basalt, 81621, United States
August 3 – 7, 2026
Monday – Friday, 9:30AM – 3:30PM
Grades 1 – 2
This camp will be held at Rock Bottom Ranch
This week of Gnome Adventures is taught in collaboration with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES). Each day, campers will spend the morning with ACES educators exploring hands-on activities aligned with the camp’s theme. In the afternoon, TAB educators will guide creative art projects that build on and connect to the concepts introduced earlier in the day. These collaboration camps are perfect for children that love spending time in nature and making art!
Magic abounds at Rock Bottom Ranch and when you walk around our secret paths, you’ll find out why! Explore the forests, wetlands, gardens, pastures, and ponds at the ranch while looking for secret messages left behind by gnomes. Woodland Gnomes, Farm Gnomes, Garden Gnomes….you’ll learn the ways of our magical friends and even build your own gnome home!
Registration through ACES opens February 19. https://aspennature.jumbula.com/summer-camp

Wagging Tails & Whiskers: with Brooke Bartlett
2026-08-04 09:00 - 2026-08-06 12:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
August 4 – 6, 2026
Tuesday – Thursday, 9:00AM – 12:00PM
Art Show on Thursday at 11:45AM
Pre-K (ages 4+)
Get ready to make art inspired by all your favorite animals—pets, critters, and fuzzy friends of every kind! You’ll explore bright colors, fun textures, and big imagination while trying new art supplies in a kid-friendly, hands-on studio. Expect a little mess, lots of giggles, and plenty of artwork to take home!
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Young at heART - Every Thursday
2026-08-06 12:45 - 14:15 | Eagle County Community Center, 20 Eagle County Dr, El Jebel, CO, 81623, United States
Thursdays, 12:45 PM – 2:15 PM
$10 supply fee suggested
Eagle County Building in Willits/El Jebel
Unleash your creativity in a fun, engaging, and inspiring senior art class where the only limit is your imagination!
Each session focuses on playful and easy-to-learn techniques, including watercolor painting, acrylics, pastels and more! Classes are perfect for all skill levels. Enjoy a stress-free artistic outlet designed to nurture your creativity while having fun.
No registration necessary. Just arrive the day of ready to create!
Upcoming Classes:
Aug 6 – Marti Barbour, TBD

Aug 13 – Missy Prudden, Watercolor
August 20 – Tish McFee: Drippy Trees (Liquid Watercolors)

Creek Critters: Collaboration with ACES at Rock Bottom Ranch
2026-08-10 09:30 - 2026-08-14 15:30 | Rock Bottom Ranch, 2001 Hooks Spur Rd, Basalt, 81621, United States
August 10 – 14, 2026
Monday – Friday, 9:30AM – 3:30PM
Grades 3 – 4
This camp will be held at Rock Bottom Ranch
This week of Creek Critters is taught in collaboration with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES). Each day, campers will spend the morning with ACES educators exploring hands-on activities aligned with the camp’s theme. In the afternoon, TAB educators will guide creative art projects that build on and connect to the concepts introduced earlier in the day. These collaboration camps are perfect for children that love spending time in nature and making art!
Creek Critters invites young explorers to discover the hidden wonders of our wetlands. From macroinvertebrates to muskrats, each day will be dripping with new discoveries.This camp is perfect for kids that like to get a little muddy and experience science through hands-on activities, stories, and games.
Registration through ACES (Opens February 19). https://aspennature.jumbula.com/summer-camp

Winged Wonders: A collaboration with ACES at Rock Bottom Ranch
2026-08-10 09:30 - 2026-08-14 15:30 | Rock Bottom Ranch, 2001 Hooks Spur Rd, Basalt, 81621, United States
August 10 – 14, 2026
Monday – Friday, 9:30AM – 3:30PM
Grades 1 – 2 (2026/2027 school year)
This camp will be held at Rock Bottom Ranch
This week of Winged Wonders is taught in collaboration with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES). Each day, campers will spend the morning with ACES educators exploring hands-on activities aligned with the camp’s theme. In the afternoon, TAB educators will guide creative art projects that build on and connect to the concepts introduced earlier in the day. These collaboration camps are perfect for children that love spending time in nature and making art!
Winged Wonders camp invites young naturalists to explore our incredible world of flying creatures. From dragonflies on the pond to herons in the rookery, Rock Bottom Ranch is home to flyers galore! We’ll dive into the ‘why’ behind wings, make wing-themed art, and soar through different flight-themed challenges.
Registration through ACES opens February 19. https://aspennature.org/activity/aces-summer-camp-2026/

Young at heART - Every Thursday
2026-08-13 12:45 - 14:15 | Eagle County Community Center, 20 Eagle County Dr, El Jebel, CO, 81623, United States
Thursdays, 12:45 PM – 2:15 PM
$10 supply fee suggested
Eagle County Building in Willits/El Jebel
Unleash your creativity in a fun, engaging, and inspiring senior art class where the only limit is your imagination!
Each session focuses on playful and easy-to-learn techniques, including watercolor painting, acrylics, pastels and more! Classes are perfect for all skill levels. Enjoy a stress-free artistic outlet designed to nurture your creativity while having fun.
No registration necessary. Just arrive the day of ready to create!
Upcoming Classes:
Aug 13 – Missy Prudden, Watercolor
August 20 – Tish McFee: Drippy Trees (Liquid Watercolors)

Young at heART - Every Thursday
2026-08-20 12:45 - 14:15 | Eagle County Community Center, 20 Eagle County Dr, El Jebel, CO, 81623, United States
Thursdays, 12:45 PM – 2:15 PM
$10 supply fee suggested
Eagle County Building in Willits/El Jebel
Unleash your creativity in a fun, engaging, and inspiring senior art class where the only limit is your imagination!
Each session focuses on playful and easy-to-learn techniques, including watercolor painting, acrylics, pastels and more! Classes are perfect for all skill levels. Enjoy a stress-free artistic outlet designed to nurture your creativity while having fun.
No registration necessary. Just arrive the day of ready to create!
Upcoming Classes:
August 20 – Tish McFee: Drippy Trees (Liquid Watercolors)

Hues + Brews - Pastel Landscapes: with Brooke Bartlett
2026-08-25 18:00 - 20:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
All levels welcome
Supplies included
Bright colors, soft textures, and beautiful landscapes—what’s not to love? Come explore the magic of soft pastels as you learn easy techniques for blending, layering, and creating vibrant scenery. This relaxed, no-pressure class is perfect for trying something new and having fun with art.
4th Tuesday LGBTQIA+ Art & Social Night
On the 4th Tuesday of each month, local LGBTQIA+ community and allies gather to socialize, make art, network, and have fun—optionally with an adult beverage. Enjoy a rotating mix of creative projects in a variety of media; no art experience needed. Come as you are, meet new friends, and explore creativity in a welcoming, low-pressure space.

Sponsored by ASPEN OUT

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Exhibition: Sam Harvey, Hunter Hogan, and Sara Ransford
2026-08-28 11:00 - 2026-09-25 17:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
Opening Reception: Friday, August 28, from 5 PM- 7 PM
Artist Talk: Friday, August 28 at 5:30 PM
On view: August 28 to September 25, 2026

The Art Base is pleased to present A Sense of Place, a new exhibition featuring artists Sam Harvey, Hunter Hogan, and Sara Ransford. Though each artist works from a unique perspective, the exhibition reveals the many ways place can be interpreted as something deeply personal and continually evolving.
For Hogan and Ransford, artists who have spent decades living and working in the Roaring Fork Valley, the landscape is far more than scenery. Mountains, rivers, gardens, and canyon walls become points of departure for work that explores both the external environment and the internal landscapes of experience and identity.

Sara Ransford’s paper clay sculptures emerge from years of exploring the mountains, rivers, and canyons of the American West. Influenced by the forces of erosion, deposition, and water’s relentless ability to reshape the earth, her layered forms mirror both geological time and the emotional accumulation of lived experience. The repeated building, exposing, and revealing within her sculptures echoes the ways personal histories become embedded over time. Also debuting in this exhibition is a new series of ceramic trays developed during artist residencies over the past four years, where experimentation with multiple clay bodies and remnants of Japanese processes opened new avenues of exploration.
Hunter Hogan approaches place through observation of the living world. Her paintings are built from drawings, digital studies, and layers of gouache that evolve through an intuitive process in the studio. Recent works were inspired by three months spent in South Africa, where gardens, vegetation, and patterns found in nature became catalysts for abstraction. Rather than painting landscapes directly, Hogan distills the experience of being immersed in them, creating works that evoke the quiet complexity of the natural world.

For Sam Harvey, making is a way of responding to space and place. Working without a predetermined outcome, he allows each object to emerge through an ongoing dialogue with clay, testing ideas through making, remaking, and refining. Practical realities, including the scale of his kiln and the physical limits of the material itself, become active collaborators in the work. Clay, drawn from the earth, is both responsive and unpredictable; it can bend, break, or fail, reminding us that some aspects of making can be controlled while others remain unknowable. Harvey continually asks how far a form can be pushed in a particular time and place, inventing techniques as needed while exploring volume, body, and structure. His sculptures often recall walls, vessels, monuments, and ancient built forms, where hard edges retain the softness inherent to clay and become anchors for the space they occupy.
Although their practices differ, meaningful connections emerge throughout the exhibition. Ransford’s layered geological forms, Hogan’s botanical abstractions, and Harvey’s sculptural objects each explore how place is built, remembered, and experienced. Together, the artists reveal that our relationship with place is never static; it is continually shaped by time, experimentation, limitation, discovery, and renewal.
A Sense of Place invites viewers to slow down and reflect on their own connections to the spaces they inhabit and the places that continue to shape and inspire them.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by CCY Architects and Kathy Honea

Thank you to our generous 2026 Annual Exhibition Sponsor, Alpine Bank

Opening Reception: Sam Harvey, Hunter Hogan, and Sara Ransford
2026-08-28 17:00 - 19:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States

Watercolor Wednesdays - Techniques, Methods & Creative Exploration: with Rebecca Stirling
2026-09-09 10:00 - 12:30 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
September 9, 16, 23, 30, 2026 (4 classes)
Wednesdays, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
All Skill Levels Welcome
Supplies Provided
Discover watercolor’s versatility in a skill-building, creatively rich course. Learn wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, salt texture, and wax resist, plus paint handling, layering, and composition. Build confidence with guided exercises, then create finished pieces: a landscape, floral portrait, and expressive watercolor collage. All levels welcome—experiment, refine your style, and deepen your understanding of watercolor as a medium of personal expression.
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Week of Watercolor: with Sarah Peterson
2026-09-14 10:00 - 2026-09-18 15:30 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
September 14 – 18, 2026
Monday – Friday, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Join artist Sarah Peterson for a weeklong immersive watercolor class that deepens your understanding of the medium’s materials, methods, and magic. Embrace watercolor’s unpredictability while learning strategies to guide and refine it, including Alla Prima (wet-on-wet) for fresh, translucent results. With individualized instruction and hands-on guidance, beginners feel supported and returning artists feel challenged. Come expand skills, loosen up, and enjoy dedicated creative time.
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Elements of Landscape Painting in Watercolor or Acrylics: with Dave Notor
2026-09-15 10:00 - 12:30 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
September 15, 22, 29 and October 6, 2026
Tuesdays, 10:00AM – 12:30PM
$150
No experience required
Supplies provided

Explore the essential elements that bring landscapes to life in this four-session painting series. Working in either acrylics or watercolors, students will learn how to design composition, mix colors, create depth and add finishing touches. Through demonstrations, guided exercises, and individual instruction, artists of all levels will develop the skills and confidence to paint compelling landscapes from reference photos or imagination.
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Art Lunch: Sam Harvey, Hunter Hogan, and Sara Ransford
2026-09-18 12:00 - 13:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
ART LUNCH with the artists Sam Harvey, Hunter Hogan, and Sara Ransford
Friday, September 18
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
In the Art Base gallery

Join us for Art Lunch with our exhibiting artist, Savanna LaBauve, as we dine and discuss art and anything else! This is a great chance to walk through their current exhibition, Echoes, and ask questions or connect.
Art Lunch is our routine excuse to gather around the table. Bring a bagged lunch and let conversation roam. Some weeks we’ll toss in a discussion prompt to get things rolling, but mostly it’s about food, company, and a potluck of ideas.

Opening Reception: Friday, August 28, from 5 PM- 7 PM
Artist Talk: Friday, August 28 at 5:30 PM
On view: August 28 to September 25, 2026
The Art Base is pleased to present A Sense of Place, a new exhibition featuring artists Sam Harvey, Hunter Hogan, and Sara Ransford. Though each artist works from a unique perspective, the exhibition reveals the many ways place can be interpreted as something deeply personal and continually evolving.
For Hogan and Ransford, artists who have spent decades living and working in the Roaring Fork Valley, the landscape is far more than scenery. Mountains, rivers, gardens, and canyon walls become points of departure for work that explores both the external environment and the internal landscapes of experience and identity.

Sara Ransford’s paper clay sculptures emerge from years of exploring the mountains, rivers, and canyons of the American West. Influenced by the forces of erosion, deposition, and water’s relentless ability to reshape the earth, her layered forms mirror both geological time and the emotional accumulation of lived experience. The repeated building, exposing, and revealing within her sculptures echoes the ways personal histories become embedded over time. Also debuting in this exhibition is a new series of ceramic trays developed during artist residencies over the past four years, where experimentation with multiple clay bodies and remnants of Japanese processes opened new avenues of exploration.
Hunter Hogan approaches place through observation of the living world. Her paintings are built from drawings, digital studies, and layers of gouache that evolve through an intuitive process in the studio. Recent works were inspired by three months spent in South Africa, where gardens, vegetation, and patterns found in nature became catalysts for abstraction. Rather than painting landscapes directly, Hogan distills the experience of being immersed in them, creating works that evoke the quiet complexity of the natural world.

For Sam Harvey, making is a way of responding to space and place. Working without a predetermined outcome, he allows each object to emerge through an ongoing dialogue with clay, testing ideas through making, remaking, and refining. Practical realities, including the scale of his kiln and the physical limits of the material itself, become active collaborators in the work. Clay, drawn from the earth, is both responsive and unpredictable; it can bend, break, or fail, reminding us that some aspects of making can be controlled while others remain unknowable. Harvey continually asks how far a form can be pushed in a particular time and place, inventing techniques as needed while exploring volume, body, and structure. His sculptures often recall walls, vessels, monuments, and ancient built forms, where hard edges retain the softness inherent to clay and become anchors for the space they occupy.
Although their practices differ, meaningful connections emerge throughout the exhibition. Ransford’s layered geological forms, Hogan’s botanical abstractions, and Harvey’s sculptural objects each explore how place is built, remembered, and experienced. Together, the artists reveal that our relationship with place is never static; it is continually shaped by time, experimentation, limitation, discovery, and renewal.
A Sense of Place invites viewers to slow down and reflect on their own connections to the spaces they inhabit and the places that continue to shape and inspire them.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by CCY Architects and Kathy Honea

Thank you to our generous 2026 Annual Exhibition Sponsor, Alpine Bank

Plants, Printing & Paint: with Hunter Hogan
2026-09-19 16:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
September 19 – 20, 2026
Saturday and Sunday, 12:00PM – 4:00PM
$145
All skill levels welcome, supplies provided
Create beautiful layered botanical artworks using real plant and flower clippings, tea bag paper, and acrylic paint.
In this workshop, participants will print delicate garden foliage onto tea bag paper and then layer the cured prints over small acrylic paintings. As the paper is adhered to the surface, it becomes translucent, allowing the botanical images to appear as though they are floating above the painted background. Additional paint can be applied over the layers to enhance color, texture, and depth.
Please bring a small produce or zip-top bag filled with soft plant clippings from your garden, yard, or a favorite walking path. Ideal materials are approximately 5–6 inches long and should be flexible and non-woody. Please avoid thorny plants, thick stems, or heavily textured foliage. Additional plant materials will be provided.
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Week of Watercolor: with Sarah Peterson
2026-09-21 10:00 - 2026-09-25 15:30 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
September 21 – 25, 2026
Monday – Friday, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Join artist Sarah Peterson for a weeklong immersive watercolor class that deepens your understanding of the medium’s materials, methods, and magic. Embrace watercolor’s unpredictability while learning strategies to guide and refine it, including Alla Prima (wet-on-wet) for fresh, translucent results. With individualized instruction and hands-on guidance, beginners feel supported and returning artists feel challenged. Come expand skills, loosen up, and enjoy dedicated creative time.
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Hues + Brews - Motivational Watercolor: with Sophie Catto
2026-09-22 18:00 - 20:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
All levels welcome
Supplies included
Welcome back to Hues and Brews! In this watercolor workshop, we’ll create art that feels genuinely encouraging—because inspiration should be personal.
Using the familiar “motivational poster” concept as a starting point, participants will explore the images, words, and ideas that truly motivate them. Rather than relying on generic designs, you’ll create expressive, personalized watercolor cards and posters that reflect your own sense of humor, hopes, and sources of encouragement.
These pieces make meaningful gifts, but more importantly, they’re reminders made for you. If you’re looking for a creative outlet with a positive twist, this workshop is for you.
4th Tuesday LGBTQIA+ Art & Social Night
On the 4th Tuesday of each month, local LGBTQIA+ community and allies gather to socialize, make art, network, and have fun—optionally with an adult beverage. Enjoy a rotating mix of creative projects in a variety of media; no art experience needed. Come as you are, meet new friends, and explore creativity in a welcoming, low-pressure space.

Sponsored by ASPEN OUT

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Classical Oil Painting II: with Matt Hays
2026-10-01 13:00 - 15:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
Classical Oil Painting – Part II
October 1 – November 5, 2026
Thursdays, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
All Skill Levels
Supplies Provided
Explore the full painting process from start to finish, with an emphasis on using light to create depth, atmosphere, and life. Learn surface prep and why it matters, then dive into underpainting, grisaille, and the slow build of color through glazing and finishing. With demos, guided practice, and individual feedback, you’ll strengthen values, form, and luminosity at every stage—great for oil beginners or painters refining their process. You will choose your own image to paint in this class.
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Classical Oil Painting I: with Matt Hays
2026-10-01 17:30 - 19:30 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
Classical Oil Painting I
October 1 – November 5, 2026
Thursdays, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
$225
All Skill Levels
Supplies Provided
Explore the full painting process from start to finish, with an emphasis on using layers and light to create depth, atmosphere, and life. Learn surface prep and why it matters, then dive into underpainting, grisaille, and the slow build of color through glazing and finishing. With demos, guided practice, and individual feedback, you’ll strengthen values, form, and luminosity at every stage—great for oil beginners or painters refining their process.
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Exhibition: David Clark "Mt Sopris in Black and White"
2026-10-02 11:00 - 2026-10-30 17:00 | The Art Base, 174 Midland Ave., Basalt, CO, 81621, United States
On view: October 2 to October 30, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, October 2 from 5 PM- 7 PM
Artist Talk: Friday, October 2 at 5:30 PM

This exhibition features a curated selection of 12-14 of the artist’s most compelling black-and-white photographs of Mount Sopris, captured over the past 15 years. Each image is presented as a metal print ranging from 20×30 to 30×45 inches, including both horizontal and vertical compositions, with several works offered as multi-panel installations. The display will also highlight a series of distinctive “Raised Texture Ink” metal prints, which introduce a subtle three-dimensional quality to otherwise traditional photographic surfaces. The final arrangement will occupy approximately half of the gallery space, with the number and scale of works tailored to the exhibition layout.

Thank you to our generous 2026 Annual Exhibition Sponsor, Alpine Bank
