across our community.
The Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region (a.k.a. COPPR) is the nonprofit local arts agency that serves the City of Colorado Springs and the greater Pikes Peak region (El Paso and Teller Counties) in Colorado. We work to ensure that the creative sector grows in economic vitality and depth of impact, that creative workers can thrive in our community, and that the arts are leveraged to positively address regional economic development, education, cultural tourism, and quality of life.
Beyond the Cultural Office's regional leadership & advocacy,
our programs focus on:
Our Mission
We champion our diverse creative community as a vital part of the region’s identity and economy through service, connection, and advocacy.
RECENT NEWS

Creative Flight Plan Workshop
The Cultural Office has partnered with executive coach JB Bolton of Bolton Co. to offer a first-of-its-kind, in-depth workshop for creative leaders in the Pikes

LEVEL UP! Lunch & Learn: How to Build a Thriving Organization
Running an organization — whether a small business, nonprofit, or community initiative — can feel overwhelming. Too many priorities. Not enough time. Constant pressure to

Rising Tide Society 2026 Business Refresh Retreat
COPPR is pleased to be the presenting sponsor for this full-day retreat for COS creative entrepreneurs. ✨ Business Refresh Retreat ✨ Saturday, Feb 7 from
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Events for December 2025
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Pots by the Pound
Jan 26 - Feb 01
Mon, Jan 26 @ 10:00 am
Tue, Jan 27 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Jan 28 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Jan 29 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Jan 30 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Jan 31 @ 10:00 am
Sun, Feb 1 @ 10:00 am
'Solastalgic Archive'
Jan 26 - Mar 08
Mon, Jan 26 @ 1:00 pm
Thu, Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm
Fri, Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm
Mon, Feb 2 @ 1:00 pm
Thu, Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm
Fri, Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm
Mon, Feb 9 @ 1:00 pm
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Featured artist Michelle Loftis
Jan 26 - Jan 31
Mon, Jan 26 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Jan 29 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Jan 30 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Jan 31 @ 10:00 am
Pots by the Pound
Jan 27 - Feb 01
Mon, Jan 26 @ 10:00 am
Tue, Jan 27 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Jan 28 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Jan 29 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Jan 30 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Jan 31 @ 10:00 am
Sun, Feb 1 @ 10:00 am
Marking Time: Commemorating the Past in the Pikes Peak Region
Jan 27 - Dec 29
Tue, Jan 27 @ 1:30 pm
Sat, Jan 31 @ 11:00 am
Tue, Mar 3 @ 1:30 pm
Sat, Mar 7 @ 11:00 am
Tue, Mar 10 @ 1:30 pm
Sat, Mar 14 @ 11:00 am
Tue, Mar 17 @ 1:30 pm
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2026: Sparky LeBold, a Retrospective
Jan 27 - Jan 31
Tue, Jan 27 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Jan 28 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Jan 29 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Jan 30 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Jan 31 @ 10:00 am
2026: Sparky LeBold, a Retrospective
Jan 28 - Jan 31
Tue, Jan 27 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Jan 28 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Jan 29 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Jan 30 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Jan 31 @ 10:00 am
Pots by the Pound
Jan 28 - Feb 01
Mon, Jan 26 @ 10:00 am
Tue, Jan 27 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Jan 28 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Jan 29 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Jan 30 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Jan 31 @ 10:00 am
Sun, Feb 1 @ 10:00 am
'Solastalgic Archive'
Jan 29 - Mar 08
Mon, Jan 26 @ 1:00 pm
Thu, Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm
Fri, Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm
Mon, Feb 2 @ 1:00 pm
Thu, Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm
Fri, Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm
Mon, Feb 9 @ 1:00 pm
...
2026: Sparky LeBold, a Retrospective
Jan 29 - Jan 31
Tue, Jan 27 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Jan 28 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Jan 29 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Jan 30 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Jan 31 @ 10:00 am
Jan 26, 2026 - Feb 01, 2026
Pots by the Pound
Presented by Commonwheel Artists Co-op at Commonwheel Artists Co-op Manitou Springs, CO
Each year, Commonwheel members and local guest artists from the Pikes Peak region clear out their studio inventory for this special annual event in January. Beautiful pottery, original art, photography, prints, textiles, and jewelry will the Creek Side Gallery and shoppers will find incredible discounted prices. Come early for the best selection! Then come back again, as we constantly restock the Creek Side Gallery with new items through out the month of January. There is no need to pre- apply. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region's one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.
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Jan 26, 2026 - Mar 08, 2026
'Solastalgic Archive'
Presented by Ent Center for the Arts at Ent Center for the Arts Colorado Springs, CO
Conceived by artist Nina Elder, the Solastalgic Archive holds materials that contextualize and give breadth to the experience of living and making in this time of accelerated change. The evolving archive of objects, images, and conceptual actions collects ephemera of memory, creation, forgetting, destruction, preciousness and transience offered by contributors. It is an evolving, changing, temporal entity that will continue to grow as it is enriched by additions connected to each host venue. Beginning in 2019 with more than 40 artists, and continuing to grow throughout it’s many showings, Elder invites fellow climate conscious artists, scholars and public intellectuals, as well as farmers, spiritual practitioners, indigenous leaders, and activists to contribute something that represents the “solastalgic”. Much like the practicalities of a traditional time capsule, each submission has had only one physical requirement: it must fit in a medium flat rate USPS postal box; boxes in which the exhibition’s objects continue to be carefully stored and moved from venue to venue. The Solastalgic Archive holds contributions from a vast array of people, each asked to consider what connects them to the passage time. Unlike other museum collections, the Solastalgic Archive holds deeply personal items as well as things that change or disappear over time. Harnessing solastalgia as the archives’ organizing principle, the collections exemplify transformation rather than permanence, fleeting relationships rather than immutable. By allowing emotions and ephemerality to displace institutional indifference and contrived eternities, this space enlivens the passage of time. Installed in GOCA’s Project Space, the Solastalgic Archive will evolve over the course of the exhibition…
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Jan 26, 2026 - Jan 31, 2026
Featured artist Michelle Loftis
Presented by Green Horse Gallery at Green Horse Gallery Manitou Springs, CO
In her sculpture “Can’t You See What You Are Doing?” Loftis addresses the current administration’s clean energy rollbacks that have accelerated the climate crisis and will have a devastating impact on every American, especially the most vulnerable. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region's one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.
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Jan 27, 2026 - Feb 01, 2026
Pots by the Pound
Presented by Commonwheel Artists Co-op at Commonwheel Artists Co-op Manitou Springs, CO
Each year, Commonwheel members and local guest artists from the Pikes Peak region clear out their studio inventory for this special annual event in January. Beautiful pottery, original art, photography, prints, textiles, and jewelry will the Creek Side Gallery and shoppers will find incredible discounted prices. Come early for the best selection! Then come back again, as we constantly restock the Creek Side Gallery with new items through out the month of January. There is no need to pre- apply. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region's one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.
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Jan 27, 2026 - Dec 29, 2026
Marking Time: Commemorating the Past in the Pikes Peak Region
Presented by Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum at Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum Colorado Springs, CO
Throughout 2026, join the CSPM in the commemoration of America 250 - Colorado 150 - anniversaries observing the signing of the Declaration of Independence and Colorado’s entrance into the Union. Join a knowledgeable guide on this 1-hour tour, exploring how we have "marked time" throughout the history of Colorado Springs. Consider different regional anniversaries through objects and stories, and reflect on your own memories and observations of important events and dates. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region's one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.
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Jan 27, 2026 - Jan 31, 2026
2026: Sparky LeBold, a Retrospective
Presented by Cottonwood Center for the Arts at Cottonwood Center for the Arts Colorado Springs, CO
About the Artist: LeBold has made a name for himself both in America and abroad over the course of his stellar career. Since graduating from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California (1986), he has been inducted into Who's Who in American Art (2002), has held fifteen One-Man Shows across America and in Europe, and recognized as a National Artist of Portugal, where townspeople of Sesimbra have lovingly nicknamed him “Picasso Americano”. LeBold's oil paintings are inspired by the beauty he has experienced while traveling all over the world. His ability to translate what we see in nature onto canvases large and small has resonated with corporate and private collectors for the past 41 years and captured the attention of The Artist’s Magazine when they listed him as “one of the top 50 landscape painters in America”. LeBold’s work is full of emotion and spirit, reflecting his desire to communicate and raise awareness for the beauty in nature that we may overlook. His images hold your attention, touch your soul and leave an imprint that lingers. Not to mention, he has a sweet ponytail. This is who I am...as honest as I can be. I consider this to be the most important Show of my career...a prelude of where I have traveled and a lighted tunnel to where I am trying to land. This Show is about giving what I have without exception and hoping to find an audience to accept it; and if not, I lay my worth…
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Jan 28, 2026 - Jan 31, 2026
2026: Sparky LeBold, a Retrospective
Presented by Cottonwood Center for the Arts at Cottonwood Center for the Arts Colorado Springs, CO
About the Artist: LeBold has made a name for himself both in America and abroad over the course of his stellar career. Since graduating from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California (1986), he has been inducted into Who's Who in American Art (2002), has held fifteen One-Man Shows across America and in Europe, and recognized as a National Artist of Portugal, where townspeople of Sesimbra have lovingly nicknamed him “Picasso Americano”. LeBold's oil paintings are inspired by the beauty he has experienced while traveling all over the world. His ability to translate what we see in nature onto canvases large and small has resonated with corporate and private collectors for the past 41 years and captured the attention of The Artist’s Magazine when they listed him as “one of the top 50 landscape painters in America”. LeBold’s work is full of emotion and spirit, reflecting his desire to communicate and raise awareness for the beauty in nature that we may overlook. His images hold your attention, touch your soul and leave an imprint that lingers. Not to mention, he has a sweet ponytail. This is who I am...as honest as I can be. I consider this to be the most important Show of my career...a prelude of where I have traveled and a lighted tunnel to where I am trying to land. This Show is about giving what I have without exception and hoping to find an audience to accept it; and if not, I lay my worth…
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Jan 28, 2026 - Feb 01, 2026
Pots by the Pound
Presented by Commonwheel Artists Co-op at Commonwheel Artists Co-op Manitou Springs, CO
Each year, Commonwheel members and local guest artists from the Pikes Peak region clear out their studio inventory for this special annual event in January. Beautiful pottery, original art, photography, prints, textiles, and jewelry will the Creek Side Gallery and shoppers will find incredible discounted prices. Come early for the best selection! Then come back again, as we constantly restock the Creek Side Gallery with new items through out the month of January. There is no need to pre- apply. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region's one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.
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Jan 28, 2026
Veronica Swift
Presented by Phil Long Music Hall at Bourbon Brothers at Phil Long Music Hall at Bourbon Brothers Colorado Springs, CO
Veronica Swift’s self-titled album marks a bold new chapter for one of the most versatile vocalists of her generation. Known for her virtuosic jazz performances, Swift expands far beyond the genre—blending opera, classical music, bossa nova, blues, rock, funk, and more into what she calls a “transgenre” sound. A Mack Avenue Records artist and finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, Swift has earned widespread acclaim for albums like Confessions and This Bitter Earth. With Veronica Swift, she fully embraces her artistic range, delivering powerful, genre-defying performances that audiences have enthusiastically embraced on the road. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region's one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.
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Jan 29, 2026 - Mar 08, 2026
'Solastalgic Archive'
Presented by Ent Center for the Arts at Ent Center for the Arts Colorado Springs, CO
Conceived by artist Nina Elder, the Solastalgic Archive holds materials that contextualize and give breadth to the experience of living and making in this time of accelerated change. The evolving archive of objects, images, and conceptual actions collects ephemera of memory, creation, forgetting, destruction, preciousness and transience offered by contributors. It is an evolving, changing, temporal entity that will continue to grow as it is enriched by additions connected to each host venue. Beginning in 2019 with more than 40 artists, and continuing to grow throughout it’s many showings, Elder invites fellow climate conscious artists, scholars and public intellectuals, as well as farmers, spiritual practitioners, indigenous leaders, and activists to contribute something that represents the “solastalgic”. Much like the practicalities of a traditional time capsule, each submission has had only one physical requirement: it must fit in a medium flat rate USPS postal box; boxes in which the exhibition’s objects continue to be carefully stored and moved from venue to venue. The Solastalgic Archive holds contributions from a vast array of people, each asked to consider what connects them to the passage time. Unlike other museum collections, the Solastalgic Archive holds deeply personal items as well as things that change or disappear over time. Harnessing solastalgia as the archives’ organizing principle, the collections exemplify transformation rather than permanence, fleeting relationships rather than immutable. By allowing emotions and ephemerality to displace institutional indifference and contrived eternities, this space enlivens the passage of time. Installed in GOCA’s Project Space, the Solastalgic Archive will evolve over the course of the exhibition…
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Jan 29, 2026
Scotty Mccreery
Presented by Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts at Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts Colorado Springs, CO
Scotty McCreery has been a household name for nearly half his life, ever since making history in 2011 as both the first country artist and the youngest male artist of any genre to debut his first studio album, the Platinum-certified Clear as Day, at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. With his forthcoming album Rise and Fall set for release May 10, featuring his sixth No. 1 single “Cab in a Solo” and 12 additional tracks, McCreery explores classic themes of heartbreak, rowdy nights, nostalgia, faith, newfound joy, fatherhood, and enduring love, and through it all, felt comfortable being himself, resulting in a project full of electrified twang, rich baritone vocals and insightful storytelling. The 30-year-old has sold more than 4 million albums and achieved 5 consecutive No.1 hits: the RIAA Platinum-certified “Damn Strait,” the RIAA Gold certified “You Time,” the RIAA Gold certified “In Between,” the RIAA Platinum certified “This is It,” and the RIAA Triple Platinum certified ‘Five More Minutes.” The North Carolina native has earned one Triple Platinum, five Platinum and four Gold singles; one Platinum and two Gold albums; won the 10th season of “American Idol” in 2011 at age 17; was named the ACM New Artist of the Year in 2011; won the CMT Music Award for Breakthrough Video of the Year (“The Trouble with Girls”) in 2012; and BMI Awards for writing One of the Top 50 Country Songs of the Year five times (in 2015 for “See You Tonight,” in 2018 for “Five More…
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Jan 29, 2026 - Jan 31, 2026
2026: Sparky LeBold, a Retrospective
Presented by Cottonwood Center for the Arts at Cottonwood Center for the Arts Colorado Springs, CO
About the Artist: LeBold has made a name for himself both in America and abroad over the course of his stellar career. Since graduating from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California (1986), he has been inducted into Who's Who in American Art (2002), has held fifteen One-Man Shows across America and in Europe, and recognized as a National Artist of Portugal, where townspeople of Sesimbra have lovingly nicknamed him “Picasso Americano”. LeBold's oil paintings are inspired by the beauty he has experienced while traveling all over the world. His ability to translate what we see in nature onto canvases large and small has resonated with corporate and private collectors for the past 41 years and captured the attention of The Artist’s Magazine when they listed him as “one of the top 50 landscape painters in America”. LeBold’s work is full of emotion and spirit, reflecting his desire to communicate and raise awareness for the beauty in nature that we may overlook. His images hold your attention, touch your soul and leave an imprint that lingers. Not to mention, he has a sweet ponytail. This is who I am...as honest as I can be. I consider this to be the most important Show of my career...a prelude of where I have traveled and a lighted tunnel to where I am trying to land. This Show is about giving what I have without exception and hoping to find an audience to accept it; and if not, I lay my worth…
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