Museum of Art Fort Collins will host three new exhibitions at its opening reception from 6-8 p.m. on Jan. 22. All exhibitions will run through March 15, 2026.
The museum will feature “Installation Nation” in the main gallery and Lynnette Jung-Springberg Gallery. “Installation Nation” features the work of five regional artists: Nicole Banowetz (Denver), Ashley Hope Carlisle (Laramie, Wyo.), Chelsea Gilmore (Fort Collins), Katelynn Mai-Fusco (Greeley) and Abbie Powers (Loveland). The installation will explore the intersection of installation art, nature and the environment. Installation art, as a medium, moves beyond traditional art forms to incorporate sound, architecture and found objects to give an immersive and site-specific experience to the viewer.
The second exhibition will showcase Gretchen Marie Schaefer and Derrick Velasquez with “A Pendulum Oscillates About Its Lowest Point,” curated by Ilan Gutin and Jenny Nagashima and hosted by Dinghy Rig. Having worked as studio mates for many years, Schaefer and Velasquez share a sustained exchange that has shaped both practices through proximity, generosity and ongoing critique. This exhibition emerges from an interwoven relationship between the two artists developing their work in close conversation, where insight, influence and support circulate alongside difference instead of collapsing into it. Dinghy Rig is a collaborative artist-run art production and exhibition program launched by artists and Colorado State University art professors Aitor Lajarin-Encina and Marius Lehene…