The name of the Colorado Springs shadowcast is borrowed from the famous Dr. Frank-N-Furter line: “I see you shiver with antici … pation!”

Watch: Like Stories of Old

After a performance season cut short last year by COVID, THEATREdART is back to officially mark the start of spooky season — and bring haunted history lessons to the city.

Watch: The Harder They Fall

Neil Fenton is a full-time artist and father; in fact, he shares his studio space with a toddler.

Guadalupe, a Mexican mother, loses her daughter, Claudia. She stays in her son-in-law Steve’s guest room as she translates the children’s books her daughter wrote. The two, grieving under the same roof but separated by a language barrier, are ultimately brought together by a telenovela, El A…

Read: 8 must-read books by wrongly convicted writers 

Eighteen months on the pandemic roller coaster have brought on all sorts of pent-up demand — the almost frantic need for in-the-flesh contact with people outside our pods and the connection to the human spirit that we get from the arts. Welcome to the Indy’s fall state-of-the-arts update, wh…

Autumn Equinox occurs today, Sept. 22, at 1:21 p.m. our time, ushering in a season of crunchy leaf hikes, Halloween prep and the dreaded pumpkin spice. Curious minds will find the science behind the event at EarthSky (tinyurl.com/E-Sky21), but those who are just determined to do some serious…

There are so many powerful descriptors that could precede Ashley Cornelius’ name — award-winning spoken word poet, therapist who uses poetry for healing, member of Colorado Springs Business Journal’s Rising Star Class of 2021, Best Artist winner in the Indy’s 2019 Best Of competition, co-dir…

READ: Animal Dreams

Play: Life is Strange: True Colors

For nearly 30 years, Floyd Tunson taught at Palmer High School — and when he wasn’t teaching art, he was making it.

A man sits in a prison cell. To his right are white sneakers, propped up against the wall. On the shelf above him sit protein powder, books, a meticulous arrangement of energy drinks, and in the upper corner, an unmistakable bright green bag — Flamin’ Hot Limón Doritos. This painting is but …

Read: The School of Life: An Emotional Education

Kristy Kensinger quit her freelance graphic design job in January 2020, months before the pandemic turned the world upside down.

Read: The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Watch: Fear Street

Byeongdoo Moon and Hyewon Sim met in their early 20s at a pre-university art academy in South Korea. Decades later, they are still artists; along the way, they’ve accumulated other identities: husband, wife, parents, and as of last November, Colorado Springs residents. “She’s my first love,”…

Read: Bag Man

For the Tudors, art was never much of a choice.

Drive just about 10 miles west of Colorado Springs, and you’ll come across Green Mountain Falls, a small town tucked away in a narrow mountain valley, below a highway and surrounded by forest.

For most of us, this time last year marked the beginning of the Summer That Time Forgot. Nearly everywhere was locked down, there was little to do with our hard-earned money except stuff it under a mattress and everyone was avoiding each other like, well… the plague.

PLAY: Backbone

This may be Louis Rodriguez’s first official exhibit, but he is certainly no stranger to the art world.

PLAY: Of Bird and Cage

‘We’ve got to stand up for the people who have been abused by our brothers,” says Ronald Patrick Raab, CSC, the pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Colorado Springs. Raab’s artwork, which addresses clerical sexual abuse and misconduct within the church, is currently on display at Cottonwood Cen…

LISTEN: Season 3 of On Something

Like many artists, painter Carol McIntyre’s path to artistic success hasn’t exactly been linear. As a young college student fearful about the future, she gave up her artistic aspirations for a career in educational psychology. The choice, while safe, wasn’t easy. While she excelled in her ne…