Dream City 2020 closes Friday at the MODERN

Dream City 2020 closes this Friday at the FAC MODERN. The exhibition features vintage photography from the Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum and art inspired by those photos created by local artists like Jay Miller and Laura Ben-Amots and students from FutureSelf. Admission is free to the public.

Gazette: A wide-angle view of arts

New Gazette arts writer, Tracy Mobley-Martinez, attended the opening of Dream City 2020: Through the Eyes of the Artist, Past, Present and Future, and asked attendees what role will arts play in Colorado Springs in 2020.

Artist Marica Hefti said, "I think a very large one, not just because I'm an optimist. But since I came to Colorado Springs in 1991, there was literally one commercial art gallery. Can you imagine that? But then they came, all kinds of galleries came and went. ... Once - I used to say ‘if,' but now I say ‘once' - once you have a whole country buying original arts, there will not be enough artists in the world to satisfy it all. And why not start in the Springs?"