Steamboat Springs Arts & Entertainment Guide
 Steamboat wears a cowboy hat well, but it also has an incredibly artsy side, offering a huge assortment of galleries, music festivals, and cultural events. Explore the galleries, and you will find Western portraits, landscapes, sculptures, hand-crafted furnishings and exotic rugs. Whether it's an oil or watercolor painting or a breathtaking photograph, you will be sure to find a piece of art that moves and inspires you! Visit the Art Depot, Steamboat's historic train station with art exhibits on display.
The year-round Strings in the Mountains Music Festival highlights a dazzling array of performances, from cabaret and blue grass, to chamber music and indie-folk-pop.
For more information about any of Steamboat’s Arts and Entertainment options, please contact our concierge.
Don’t Miss - Art Galleries:
Steamboat Springs Arts Council
http://www.steamboatspringsarts.com
P.O. Box 774284
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477
Working with over 30 local arts organizations, The Steamboat Springs Arts Council produces a year-round calendar of cultural events. Dance concerts, exhibits, theater productions, conferences, classes and music performances take place in big and small venues all over town. Check the local paper, The Steamboat Pilot, for listings, or go to the council’s web site for a complete calendar of events.
The Artists' Gallery of Steamboat
http://www.steamboatgallery.com
1009 Lincoln Avenue
Downtown Steamboat Springs, Colorado
26 local Steamboat Springs artists own a share of the gallery and rotate into the front room monthly.
Steamboat Art Museum
http://www.steamboatartmuseum.com
807 Lincoln Avenue
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
The mission of the Steamboat Art Museum is to collect, preserve, and present fine art to the public, with a primary focus on Northwestern Colorado.
Tread of Pioneers Museum
Tread of Pioneers Museum website
977 12th Street
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Tucked away in a 1908 Queen Anne Victorian home, this museum houses an extensive collection of Native American artifacts and cowboy memorabilia. Several exhibits explore the history of Routt County, pioneer life, and the history of skiing in Steamboat Springs.
Don’t Miss - Entertainment:
Emerald City Opera
www.emeraldcityopera.org
320 Lincoln Ave. Suite H
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
The mission of the Emerald City Opera is to enhance the quality of life in Steamboat Springs and Northwest Colorado through opera presentations and the promotion of education and awareness of opera and the vocal arts. Forging collaborations between local artists and world-class performers, the Emerald City Opera promotes appreciation of and participation in musical opportunities.
Northwest Ballet
http://www.northwest-ballet.com
Northwest Ballet has helped to shape culture in the Yampa Valley by providing local dancers of all ages with year-round professional instruction. Members also produce and perform in high caliber dance productions, comparable to those in much larger communities. Northwest Ballet Studio is also home now home to Rocky Mountain Dance, Yampa Valley Ceili Society, Children's Danceworks, Music Together, Urban Edge Dance, & the Oak St Performing Arts Company~offering classes for toddlers-adult and courses through the Colorado Mountain College.
The Potter’s Wheel
www.potterswheelsteamboat.com
2780 Acre Lane
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
The Potter's Wheel is a paint your own pottery studio featuring a huge selection of functional and children’s pottery with seventy colors with which to decorate them. The studio keeps a pro on hand at all times to help stumbling novices with decorating techniques, stamps, and stencils and a library of ideas and inspiration. Pieces are fired and ready to go within a week.
Strings in the Mountains Music Festival
900 Strings Road
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Strings, a nationally recognized music festival, presents over 70 performances of chamber music, jazz, rock, country, bluegrass, world rhythms, and many other genres every summer since 1988. Artists include Grammy winners and nominees, major competition winners and principal players from the most renowned orchestras.
Yampa River Botanic Park
Yampa River Botanic Park website
1000 Pamela Lane
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Nestled on the banks of the Yampa River, these picturesque gardens feature several ponds and a variety of native and exotic plants. In the summer the park features free noontime classical music concerts each Thursday.
Steamboat Arts and Crafts Gym
http://www.steamboatartsandcraftsgym.com
1280 13th Street, Unit K.
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Steamboat Arts & Crafts Gym is a learning/recreational/retail/service center that is best described as a “community creative gym”. It is a place to create, commune and contain a workout for your “inner artist”. Retail arts/crafts products are sold based on demand. The art gym concept is modeled after a regular gym, providing space, various kinds of equipment, classes, and private studio space to create the projects you want to finish, start or to try something new. There is a locker system in place for those wishing to store their projects in a safe environment. Workshops, seminars and classes are taught by local and regional artists and crafters who want to share what they have with those who want to learn.
The Silver Lining - Jewelry, Beads and Charms
Torian Plum Plaza,
1855 Ski Time Square Drive
Steamboat Springs, CO
The original "Make it Yourself" bead shop! Create your own earrings, necklaces, bracelets and more at the custom design counter. A huge selection of gems & beads from around the world. All ages and abilities welcome! They are also experts at making jewelry to order, so you don't have to. Browse their vast collection of pendants, charms, and other designer accessories. Affordable luxuries for all jewelry lovers! Their customers say "This is the shop you should visit first on your trip to Steamboat, because you will be back again and again!" ResortQuest guests can receive a discount on jewelry, beads and charms - just request a coupon from the concierge!
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