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Saturday, Oct 12 |
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FUNDRAISERS/BENEFITS
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FALL PLANT SALE AND TREE AUCTION
9:00am-2:00pm, 2775 Hwy 50, Grand Junction, CO 81503
Mesa County Area Master Gardeners are hosting a
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fall plant sale and tree auction. Perennials, shrubs, and trees will be available for purchase. Also available are gardening books, hypertufa pots, and baked goods! Come by the CSU Extension office at the Mesa County Fairgrounds to check it out!
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VISUAL ARTS
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GRAND VALLEY OPEN STUDIOS TOUR
Visual Arts
10:00am-4:00pm,
For three special days this autumn, twenty-five
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Grand Valley fine artists are extending an exclusive invitation to the public. They are opening the doors of their private studios. From the large purpose-built studio, to the small adaptive workspace, each artist studio is a unique world.
With a variety of tools, lighting, and work space, every studio allows artistic ideas and inspiration to take life. Each studio is organized to accommodate individual artists’ own special processes and techniques. The studio is where the artist spends hours, months or even years working to create art that only takes seconds to view!
Map in hand – or phone in hand – you are an explorer. Discover hidden nooks and amazing views of the Grand Valley. Visit places you didn’t dream existed, enter private sanctuaries of artistic creativity, impressive home galleries, and witness in-progress demonstrations. Expand your knowledge and appreciation of our valley’s amazingly talented and generous art community. Take the opportunity to purchase an original piece of art.
Brochures can be found at The Art Center, Visit Grand Junction, GJ Parks and Recreation Office, various art galleries and online.
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Sunday, Oct 13 |
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VISUAL ARTS
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GRAND VALLEY OPEN STUDIOS TOUR
Visual Arts
10:00am-4:00pm,
For three special days this autumn, twenty-five
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Grand Valley fine artists are extending an exclusive invitation to the public. They are opening the doors of their private studios. From the large purpose-built studio, to the small adaptive workspace, each artist studio is a unique world.
With a variety of tools, lighting, and work space, every studio allows artistic ideas and inspiration to take life. Each studio is organized to accommodate individual artists’ own special processes and techniques. The studio is where the artist spends hours, months or even years working to create art that only takes seconds to view!
Map in hand – or phone in hand – you are an explorer. Discover hidden nooks and amazing views of the Grand Valley. Visit places you didn’t dream existed, enter private sanctuaries of artistic creativity, impressive home galleries, and witness in-progress demonstrations. Expand your knowledge and appreciation of our valley’s amazingly talented and generous art community. Take the opportunity to purchase an original piece of art.
Brochures can be found at The Art Center, Visit Grand Junction, GJ Parks and Recreation Office, various art galleries and online.
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GENERAL
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GRAND VALLEY HARVEST FESTIVAL
11:00am-1:00pm, Sherwood Park, northeast side
Join us to celebrate the gifts of sunshine and
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rain that brought us so much beautiful food this summer. Bring offerings of fruit, flowers and bread as well as a potluck dish.
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Thursday, Oct 17 |
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VISUAL ARTS
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ARTOBER FEST
10:00am-3:00pm, Colorado Mesa University, Delta Field, 1100 North Avenue Grand Junction, Colorado 81501
The CMU Department of Art and Design would like
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to invite everyone to join them at their fifth annual Artober Fest, on Thursday, October 17 from 10AM-3PM, on the Delta Field just east of the Fine Arts building. Tours of the art building will be held throughout the day and MED (Mesa Emerging Designers) Will be giving away 2019 Artober T-Shirts to everyone who visits each booth and completes the Artober punch card, while supplies last. Painting students will facilitate a Sidewalk Chalk Contest, limited to five teams or individuals, with prizes awarded to the top three. Chalk provided. Pre-registration required: please email sgarner@coloradomesa.edu by October 14 to register. MED will have a Temporary Graffiti Wall; spray paint provided. The MED store will be providing schwag for purchase as well. The Ceramics Faculty and students will demonstrate wheel throwing and will teach anyone who is interested in trying. Wheels and clay will be available for beginners to try wheel throwing. There are “Blind Wheel Throwing” and “One Hand Wheel Throwing” contests with prizes! Clay Club will have an assortment of student ceramics pieces for sale. The AFP&MD Clubs and Department proudly presents... • Bake sale with free popcorn. • Portraits and caricatures by our talented illustrators for $5. • Polymer clay décor and coloring sheets by our talented illustrators and animators. • “Green Screen Magic” portraits for $5 or $20 for a T-shirt. • T-Shirts printed with 8x10 photograph prints of local landmarks taken by AFP&MD photographers for $20. The Print Maker’s Guild will be demonstrating live printing of woodcuts onto T-shirts and other apparel. These items will be for sale. Bring your own T-shirts to be printed and receive a discount. Sculpture Guild will cast sculptures in molten iron during an Iron Pour. They will begin pouring around 10AM and won’t stop until all the molds are poured. There will be opportunities to win sculpture related prizes throughout the day! All proceeds from sales during Artober Fest benefit the individual student-run art clubs. If you have any questions about Artober Fest please visit our website or contact Ashtonn Means with the CMU Art and Design department at 970-248-1833 or ameans@coloradomesa.edu
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Friday, Oct 18 |
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MUSIC
VISUAL ARTS
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TODDLER TIME 10 AM - 1 PM
Purchase tickets here
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FUNDRAISERS/BENEFITS
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CHANGING TIDES
6:30pm-8:30pm, 1455 N 12th St.
Dr. Joanna C. Carey will join EUREKA! for one
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night to discuss the state of the global climate and its impact on rates of sea level rise and sea ice loss. An assistant professor of Environmental Science at Babson College, Dr. Carey has an educational background at Virginia Tech, Yale and Boston University. She has had considerable involvement in the study and research of ecosystem processes in the context of rapid global change.
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MUSIC
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ROCK N SWING
7:00pm-9:00pm, 905 Struthers Ave
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STILLHOUSE JUNKIES
7:30pm-9:30pm, 1310 Ute Ave, Grand Junction Colorado
Born in a distillery in Durango, CO, Stillhouse
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Junkies play a delirious, head-spinning mixture of original roots, blues, funk, swing, and bluegrass music. Stillhouse Junkies will be performing LIVE at the KAFM Radio Room on Friday, October 18th at 7:30 p.m.
Stillhouse Junkies is a trio comprised of Alissa Wolf on fiddle and guitar, Cody Tinnin on bass and banjo, and Fred Kosak on guitar and mandolin. With all three band members sharing vocal duties and swapping instruments, the Junkies conjure a wide range of tonal landscapes that pay tribute to the iconic sounds of Gillian Welch, the Allman Brothers, Tim O'Brien, the Wood Brothers, John Hiatt, and countless others while breaking new musical ground with their genre-bending original material.
Tickets are $20 at the door and may be purchased by calling (970) 241-8801, or online at www.kafmradio.org. The Radio Room is located at 1310 Ute Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81501.
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MUSIC
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SHEL CONCERT
9:00pm-10:00pm, 1455 N 12th St.
Following EUREKA!'s "Changing
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Tides" event on October 18th, indie-folk band SHEL will perform in the Colorado Mesa University Meyer Ballroom. Natives of Fort Collins, Colorado, SHEL band members include the four Holbrook sisters, Sarah, Hannah, Eva and Liza. Relocating from Fort Collins to Nashville Tennessee, SHEL has toured across the United States, as well as Europe.
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