Downtown Fort Collins Creative District

Want to shop local this season? Support artists and makers! Check out all of the fabulous Downtown Fort Collins shops and these makers markets! (Tag below if we missed one too!)

Happy Thanksgiving! Can you find the turkey in this beautiful transformer cabinet mural by Ren Burke (Bird In Hand Studio) ? We are extremely grateful for all the creative people in our community, all the public art, murals, musicians, galleries, artists, theatres, filmmakers, venues, dancers, writers, painters, composers, sculptors, art teachers, makers and creative leaders! 🦃❤️

Music pops up everywhere down here! A wonderful classical serenade by these two young musicians under the holiday lights, perfect.

Foodie dreams can come true in Downtown Fort Collins! Are you a budding chef? A foodie? Love to take cooking classes? Downtown Fort Collins is filled with culinary creativity just waiting for you— cooking & baking classes, FC Foodie Walk, gourmet food tours, kitchen and spice shops, spirits and brew tastings, and right now dine out as part of Bon Appetit Week!

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Make sure to come to Old Town Square this Thursday for the 3rd annual Dia de Mu***os Celebration, join The BIPOC Alliance and the community in honoring the ancestors with an community altar, hand made flowers, lots of dance performances, live mariachi music, a processional through Downtown Fort Collins, and much more! Get all the details at https://www.bipocalliance.org/diademuertos

Fall fun is here! Check out all the cool things happening this weekend — including Canyon Concert Ballet’s Dracula, Night at the Museum Mystery event at Museum of Art Fort Collins , a Yart Sale at Wolverine Farm Publick House, the Dia de Mu***os altar exhibit at Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, ghost tours by Fort Collins Tours and an epic music lineup at Badass Babe Fest at Washington's FoCo just to name a few! Let us know what other cool things you are up to this weekend! … … … … …

We love all the fall colors! Make sure to walk around Downtown Fort Collins to enjoy them this week 🍂 🍁 — ‘cause it might snow this Saturday!

There’s a new raccoon in town! Check out the latest mural by Chris Mightyfineart Bates located in Tenney Court Alley— he includes elements of Fort Collins in every colorful corner!

So beautiful- did you see the double rainbow yesterday 🌈 🌈?

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It’s a double rainbow kinda of day here in downtown 🌈

Cool art event alert! The Annual Fort Collins Artist Studio and Sale is coming up next weekend! Presented by the City of Fort Collins’ Cultural Services Department, the Tour and Sale is a free self-guided tour of local artist studios revealing the mysteries of the creative process. See art demonstrations, educational displays, purchase art, and meet the artists in their studios! Free to attend, October 21 & 22 — and make to check out the preview show opening this Friday at the The Lincoln Center gallery! See all the details, interactive map and more at https://www.fcgov.com/creativecenter/studiotour! … … … … … …

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We are so proud to be in CSU Ram country 🐏 And we love all the creativity that students bring to our community! Colorado State University 💚

This is going to be a fantastic workshop by Fort Collins Mural Project at the Old Town Poudre Library!

FREE WORKSHOP! ⁣
Sponsored by Fort Fund.⁣
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Come learn how to protect your art with confidence with the very knowledgeable, open, and down to earth Brian Hanning & David Pyle. ⁣
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Brian is an attorney and owner of Hanning Law. David is a multifaceted artist, author, and Art Management Professor at CSU. ⁣
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With moderator Jess Bean our Executive Director and a 20 yr muralist. ⁣
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Between the 3 of them, they hope to answer all your questions and more.⁣
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Space is limited so please reserve a seat through the “Workshops” link in our bio. ⁣
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Ten years ago Fort Collins hosted the NoCo stage finish line of the USA Pro Challenge cycling tour! It was a cool route from Rocky Mountain National Park, through Masonville, over Horsetooth dam, across Bingham Hill, down Mountain Ave and rolling into Old Town Square! This wonderful art in Public Places Transformer Cabinet Mural by Mary Harnett commemorates this epic cycling moment in Fort Collins history! Its located at Re*****on and Magnolia Streets.

Bas Bleu is looking new! As part of the Fort Collins Mural Project, artist Markus Puskar painted a fantastic collection of whimsical tarot card murals inspired by his dog and muse, Pretzel! See them yourselves at Bas Bleu Theatre Company on a Willow and Pine Streets!

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Murals are coming to life on walls all through Downtown Fort Collins as part of Fort Collins Mural Project festival week! This colorful mural is being painted by Rorey King ( ) in the beautiful alley at Equinox Brewing - stroll by to see all of Rorey’s painting in action!

Do you love the murals around town? Well this week Fort Collins is getting several more, thanks to the Fort Collins Mural Project! They have artist talks, a party, cool bike tour, and live painting all week long! Check out the many locations through town and Downtown Fort Collins at Odell Brewing Co, The Lyric, Equinox Brewing and so many more!

Pop quiz! Anyone know where this door is in Downtown Fort Collins? And why it might lead to nowhere?

The final Thursday Night Live of 2023! Madeline Hawthorne was wonderful and we all loved the summer of live music- thank you Bohemian Nights!

Welcome to Downtown!

Independent bookstore opens on Old Town Square A Fort Collins short-story writer who created a traveling book fair recently opened her own independent bookstore on Old Town Square.

Have you seen the latest piano mural painted by Natalia Popham (.art )? Pianos About Town feature lots of new and talented artists in town! Read all about them at Art in Public Places!

Pretty romantic, even for a Monday night:) ❤️❤️❤️❤️. We love our Downtown, it’s pretty special.