How to Explore Art in Colorado Springs with Joy Armstrong and Scott RC Levy

Joy Armstrong is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (FAC). She is the winner of the Colorado Springs Business Journal’s Women of Influence Award for 2016. She holds a Masters of Art degree in Art History, and she’s the recipient of the “Excellence in Curatorship” and the “Creative, Intriguing, Astonishing” awards from the Pikes Peak Arts Council. Locally, she has been deeply involved with GOCA, Harley’s Hope Foundation, and Imagination Celebration.

Scott Levy is the Executive Director of Performing Arts and Producing Artistic Director of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Theatre Company. He is a producer, director, and performer with experience off Broadway, in New York, at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and in over 60 cities across North America. He too has won two Pikes Peak Arts Council awards. Under his leadership, the FAC Theatre Company became the largest professional theatre in Southern Colorado and has been named the Best Theatre Company in the Springs by The Gazette for the past two years.

Ideas and Topics Discussed in this episode:

• How Joy and Scott’s career paths led them to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
• The responsibilities Scott and Joy each have at the Fine Arts Center and how they work with local talent
• Visual art and how everybody can enjoy it
• The process of putting together a live production
• How they engage with audience members and members of the community
• Joy and Scott’s advice to people looking to work in the performing and visual arts
• Tips on how to understand and appreciate art

Links and Resources:

• www.csfineartscenter.org
• Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center phone: 719.634.558
• Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center on social media
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

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