Take classes and release your inner artist!

Do you want to expand your artistic knowledge through lessons, classes or cross-discipline training? These lists will help you begin to navigate the vast number of artists, schools, instructors and resources for arts learning in Fort Collins.  The Creative District is just north of Colorado State University’s University Center for the Arts, which provides many opportunities for learning the arts including their innovative LEAP Institute for the Arts. This is not a comprehensive list, but helps you start navigating places to learn!

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Art, Painting & Pottery

• Art Lab Fort Collins
• Board and Brush Fort Collins
• Burn: Candle Bar
• Museum of Art Fort Collins
• Petrichor Collective
• The Pottery Studio – City of Fort Collins
• Pinot’s Palette
• Smokestack Pottery
• VanCo School of Art

• Not located in Downtown
• 3 Square Art
• Beautiful Mud Pottery Studio
• Blue Moose Art Gallery
• Create a Craft
• Daggett Glass Studios
• Flingin’ Pots
• Flying Colors Art School
• Northern Colorado Potters Guild
• Northern Colorado Stained Glass Supply
• Painting with a Twist
• Sandlily Studio
• Studio H
• Wild Roots Studio

Cooking and Foodie Experiences

• Cooking Studio of Fort Collins
• Fort Collins Foodie Walk
• Gardens on Spring Creek – Garden to Fork Classes (seasonal)
• Ginger and Baker – Teaching Kitchen
• Old Town Food Tours
• Recreator – City of Fort Collins Recreator (cooking classes)
• Secret Food Tours
• Taste of Old Town Fort Collins Tour

Craft, Jewelry and Woodworking

• Art Lab Fort Collins
• Board and Brush
• Fort Collins Creator Hub
• Mad Hare Press
• Petrichor Collective
• Sweet Malarkey – Small Press
• Wolverine Farm

• Not located in Downtown
• Blue Moose Art Gallery
• Colorado Shoe School
• Melina Be

Dance Lessons & Circus Arts

• Argentine Tango – Tango.org
• Cat’s Corner Swing Dance
• City of Fort Collins Recreator – Dance Classes
• Friends of Traditional Dance
• NoCo Swing Dance
• Rio Grande Salsa Night
• Salsa Dancing at Scrumpy’s Cider

• Not located in Downtown
• Canyon Concert Ballet
• Contemporary Dance Academy
• Dance Express
• Dance Afrik – African Drum and Dance Collective
• Fort Collins Circus Center
• Front Range Classical Ballet Academy
• Full Expression Dance
• Grupo de Danza Quetzalcoatl
• High Country Conservatory of Music & Dance
• FoCo Flava Hip Hop
• Immersion Dance Center
• Impact Dance
• Impulse Dance and Fitness
• Okay Dance
• McTeggart Irish Dancers
• Mountain Kids
• Smooth Dance Connection
• Studio West Dance Center
• The Studio Company
• Learn all the latest in the dance world in town at Fort Collins Dance Scene (facebook page)

Fiber Arts

• Jukebox Quilts
• Lambspun of Colorado
• My Sister Knits

• Not located in Downtown
• Colorado Shoe School
• Double K Diamond Llamas and Fiber
• Melina Be
• Your Daily Fiber

Music, Vocal, Film & Sound Production

• Art Lab Fort Collins
• FC Public Media
• Harkin Piano Studio

• Not located in Downtown
• Blast N Scrap
• Bonnie and Taylor Sims
• Colorado Voice Studios
• Elise’s Vocal Lessons
• Foundation Music School
• Owl Mountain Music
• School of Rock
• Urban Monk Studios

Theater/Acting Lessons

• Bas Bleu Theatre Company
• Debut Theatre Company
• Fort Collins Children’s Theatre Company
• Green Room Acting Studio (virtual)
• Kids Do It All: Summer Theatre Camp – CSU Theatre Dept

Multiple Discipline Colleges, Institutions & Programs

• Colorado State University (Architecture, Art, Dance, Landscape, Music, Theatre & much more!)
• The Fort Collins Recreator (Art, Dance, Music, Pottery, Theatre & much more!)
• Front Range Community College – Larimer County (Architecture, Art, Dance, Music, Theatre & much more!)
• University Center for the Arts – CSU