Shows & Awards
Current/Upcoming Shows and Exhibitions:
3 Square Gallery
2415 Donella Ct, Suite 110 Fort Collins, Colorado 80524
Saturday, October 25, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday, October 26, 12:00 - 5:00 pm
About the tour:
"Presented by the City of Fort Collins’ Cultural Services Department, the Fort Collins Artist Studio Tour and Sale is a free self-guided tour of local artist studios revealing the mysteries of the creative process to families and individuals in and around Fort Collins. Through art demonstrations and educational displays right in the artists' studios, visitors will meet the artists, buy original artworks, and learn about how and where artists create pottery, jewelry, photography, painting, sculpture, fiber arts, and more! The included artists reflect the amazing, creative talent right in our own community."
Cost: FREE and open to the public.
More Info and Official Map of Participating Artists
Past Exhibitions:
2025
Thompson Valley Art League Annual Member Show. Lincoln Gallery, Loveland, Colorado. 2/7/25 -- 3/7/25 Award of Merit, Watercolor Category
Art in the Park, Loveland, Colorado 8/9/25 -- 8/10/25
Thompson Valley Art League Regional Show. Lincoln Gallery, Loveland, Colorado 9/12/25 -- 10/2/25
Masters of Light: Plein Air 25 National Exhibition, 3 Square Art Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado. 9/5/25 - 10/17/25.
Plein Air Artists of Colorado 28th Annual National Juried Exhibition at Washington Hall, Central City, Colorado. 8/25/25 -- 10/5/25.
2024
Plein Air Showcase at The Gardens at Spring Creek. Fort Collins, Colorado. 10/12/24
Masters of Light: Plein Air 24 National Exhibition. 3 Square Art Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado. 9/6/24-10/4/24
Cache & Cocktails; a charity event for the Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area. Greeley, Colorado. 6/20/24
Snaplands Annual Range Tour at Roberts Ranch. Livermore, Colorado 6/12/24
2023
"Shades
of Spring" The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, Colorado. 4/20/23
-- 6/3/23
"CaRt23: Contemporary Art in Realism,
2nd International Exhibition"
3 Square Art Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado. 7/28/23 -- 9/1/23.
Ricki Klages, Judge.
Plein
Air Artists of Colorado 26th Annual National Juried Exhibition at the
Blumenschein Museum in
Taos, New Mexico 10/2/23 -- 11/5/23. Richard Alan Nichols,
Judge.
2021
“An
Inkling of Art -- An Online Miniature Show” Fort Collins, Colorado.
11/27/21
--
11/30/21
2019
"Expressions:
A Summer Art Exhibition and Sale" Fort Collins, Colorado.
7/24/19 -- 8/3/19
Plein Air
Exhibition, Steamboat Springs Art Museum, Steamboat Springs,
Colorado. 9/20/19 -- 9/27/19
2018
"Be
Still My Heart: An Exhibition" Wolverine Farm Letterpress &
Publick House, Fort Collins, Colorado. 2/2/18 - 2/25/18
Select
paintings from "Birds of the Rockies", Gary Keimig's
Gallery of Western Art, Dubois, Wyoming. 6/19
Solo
Show, "Winged Visions", Wolverine Farm Letterpress &
Publick House, Fort Collins, Colorado 7/6/18 - 7/29/18
"Expressions:
A Summer Art Exhibit and Sale",
Fort Collins, Colorado. 7/25/18
- 8/4/18
Susan
K. Black Foundation Small Works Show, Dubois, Wyoming. 9/17/18 -
9/21/18 SKB
board members, judges.
2017
Chasing
Light Invitational, Fort Collins, Colorado. 12/1/17-12/9/17
Susan
K. Black Foundation Small Works Show, Dubois, Wyoming.
9/18/17-9/23/17 SKB board members, judges.
"Expressions:
A Summer Art Exhibit and Sale",
Fort Collins, Colorado.
7/26/17-8/5/17
2016
Chasing
Light Invitational, Fort Collins, Colorado. 12/2/16-12/13/16.
Susan
K. Black Foundation Small Works Show, Dubois, Wyoming.
9/15/16-9/19/16 SKB board members, judges.
"Expressions:
A Summer Art Exhibit and Sale",
Fort Collins, Colorado
8/3/16-8/6/16
2015
Chasing
Light Invitational, Fort Collins, Colorado.
12/2/15-12/13/15.
"Texture,
Gesture & Flow IV" Plein Air Artists of Colorado Group
Exhibition, Grand Lake Gallery, Grand Lake, Colorado. 9/26/15.
Susan
K. Black Foundation Small Works Show, Dubois, Wyoming.
9/15/15-9/17/15
“No
Strings Attached” Victor R. Small House Gallery, Clinton, North
Carolina, 6/25/15-8/27/15 Grace W. Ho, exhibitor.
Plein
Air Artists of Colorado 19th Annual National Juried Exhibition,
Boulder, Colorado. 7/30/15-8/30/15. Lorenzo Chavez, Judge.
Thompson
Valley Art League's Regional Fine Arts Show, Loveland, Colorado.
6/1/15-7/3/15.
Janeen
Schissler, judge.
Thompson
Valley Art League's SweetArt Show,
Loveland,
Colorado. 2/1/15-2/26/15.
Diane
Woods, judge.
2014
Chasing
Light Invitational, Fort Collins, Colorado. 12/3/14-12/13/14
Susan
K. Black Foundation Small Works Show, Dubois, Wyoming.
9/15/14-9/17/14 John Seerey-Lester, judge.
Artist's
Association of Northern Colorado Fall Show, Fort Collins, Colorado.
9/5/14-9/30/14 Nancy Erskine, judge.
Thompson Valley
Art League's SweetArt Show, Loveland, Colorado. 2/1/14-2/28/14
Jeanne Mackenzie, judge.
2013
Chasing
Light Invitational, Fort Collins, Colorado. 12/4/13 -
12/7/13
Colorado Plein Air Festival Exhibition,
Denver, Colorado. 11/5/13 - 12/31/13
Thompson
Valley Art League's Regional Fine Arts Show, Loveland, Colorado.
6/3/13 - 6/28/13.
Glenwood Springs Art Guild's Fall Art
Festival, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. 9/26/13 –
9/30/13
Andrea Kemp, Pati Stagcar, and Lee Shapiro, judges.
2012
Three
artist exhibition, Loveland Music Shop, Loveland, Colorado.
10/10/12-12/29/12.
Art For Life show, Frederic C. Hamilton
Family Art Gallery at Children's Hospital, Denver, Colorado. 5/14/12
-6/12/12.
AANC's Small Works show, Reader's Cove, Fort
Collins, Colorado. 11/18/11-1/3/12
2011
AANC's
Annual Floral Art Show, Fort Collins.
5/11.
Art
For Life show, Frederic C. Hamilton Family Art Gallery at Children's
Hospital, Denver. 5/11.
AANC's Worker's Show at 148 W. Oak
Street, Fort Collins. 2/2/11 -- 2/23/11.
2010
AANC's
Small Works Art Show, 11/18/10 -- 1/5/11 at Reader's Cove, Fort
Collins. Lani Vlaanderen, judge.
Seven artist
exhibition, "11/11: A Parallel Moment" NoCo Artists art
show, 11/11/10 at the Armory Hall, Fort Collins.
AANC's
Capture the County Fine Art Show, 10/1-10/12/10 at Old Firehouse
Books, Fort Collins.
Thompson Valley Art League
Juried Fine Art Show, 7/30-8/30/10 at Lincoln Gallery, Loveland.
Robert Spooner, judge.
Artist's Association of Northern
Colorado's Celebration of Color show at Old Firehouse Books, Fort
Collins. 6/4-6/15/10. Billie Coleson, judge.
Art For
Life show and Charity Auction, Frederic C. Hamilton Family Art
Gallery at Children's Hospital, Denver. 5/3 - 5/30/10.
Certifications
NHI101x:
Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural
History Illustration, University of Newcastle, Australia.
3/31/21
2016
Mentorship Program, Jay Moore.
Projects
Illustrator
for the children's novel series, “AVES” by C.J. Berry, 2012 --
2016
Art
For Life, Children's Hospital, Denver. (Mentoring
program.)
2010-2013.
Awards
2025
Thompson Valley Art League Annual Member Show. Lincoln Gallery, Loveland, Colorado.
Artistic Merit Award
2024
Masters of Light: Plein Air 24 National Exhibition. 3 Square Art Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Honorable Mention
2016
Susan
K. Black Foundation Small Works Show, Dubois, Wyoming.
1st
Place, Watercolor Category
2015
Thompson Valley Art League Regional Fine Arts Show, Loveland, Colorado.
Honorable
Mention, Watercolor Category.
Thompson Valley Art League
SweetArt Show, Loveland, Colorado.
2nd Place, Watercolor
Category.
2014
TVAL's
SweetArt Show, Loveland, Colorado.
1st Place, Watercolor
Category
Susan K. Black Foundation Small Works Show,
Dubois, Wyoming.
3rd Place, Watercolor Category
2013
GSAG's
Fall Art Festival, Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
1st Place,
Advanced Category, Oils (Animals)
2012
AANC's
Small Works Art Show, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Best In
Show
2010
AANC's
Small Works Art Show, Fort Collins, Colorado.
1st Place:
Watercolor Category
Honorable Mention, Mixed Media