a new exhibit from local creators of fused glass sculpture and watermedia and batik paintings.
reservations recommended. $5-$10
an exhibition of work expressing the written word in celebration of National Poetry Month.
seeks entries for its upcoming show, Wily and Wonderful Things. Works celebrating the aesthetics of outsider art and steampunk will be considered, including painting, sculpture and worn art -- see URL for more information. Intake: May 23-24.
seeks all media for its upcoming, juried, outsider-art and steampunk show Wily and Wonderful Things. $5-$10
You're going to have to wait until July to see the back-from-the-dead Whose Line Is It Anyway? on TV, but you can get a dose of live improv humor tonight at 7:37 when Improv Colorado, our very own comedy troupe, takes the stage at Venue 515 (515 Manitou Ave., Manitou Springs, improvcolorado.com). The five members — which include, per their Native American names, Stands With a Grunt and Laughs at Own Jokes — will play Whose Line-style games that are all family-friendly, for $8 to $10 a ticket. Should the Colin Mochrie in you want to learn the ropes, attend an 11 a.m. Improv Workshop today, for $20. All experience levels welcome; contact the group directly at improvcolorado@gmail.com to sign up. — Edie Adelstein
$8-$101 Wednesday
art
Heard of the game "Consequences"? Or "Exquisite Corpse"? You have. You and your surrealist friends have folded a piece of paper into segments, and you've each drawn part of a figure, without seeing what everyone else has done. Then you've unfolded it and admired your weird creation. (And probably ate/drank/smoked something mysterious.) No? Well, that game is the conceit behind Senior Show 2013 now at GOCA 1420 (1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy., galleryuccs.org), wherein upcoming University of Colorado at Colorado Springs graduates (including new Business of Art Center curator/gallery manager Patrick Bohnen) show their stuff. It's free to visit, and up through May 25, Wednesdays through Saturdays. — Edie Adelstein
a workshop with Improv Colorado, open to every skill and experience level. E-mail for more information. $20
an indoor/outdoor art show with poetry readings, a movie screening, barbeque and live music by Grant Sabin and the Full Moon, Foster and War Parts.
an exhibition of digital artwork from Tony M. Fowler.
an all-ages open art session featuring random experimentations and creations with Concrete Couch. An open-mic music jam follows. Free
a multimedia collaborative show by Abigail Kreuser, Carole Reece and Marie David. In the Commons Gallery, paintings by Amanda Jean.