Carbondale Creative District

06/01/2026

This week is June's First Friday | LOCAL PRIDE, in the heart of the Carbondale Creative District! Enjoy extended hours and special events at local shops, galleries, and restaurants. Plus a 🏳️‍🌈 Pride Parade, 🎶 live music, 🍔 food trucks, 🎨 street activities, and 🎯 games with community booths. June 5, 5-8pm.

Here's the deets:
🌈 👨‍🎤 Local Pride Street Party & Live Music by Emotional Rescue | Main & Snowmass 5:30-8:30pm
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Carbondale Pride Parade | Main & Weant | Line Up, 6pm & Parade, 6:30pm
🌱🚙 CLEER hosts an EV Ride & Drive | Carbondale Town Hall, 4-8pm
🏳️‍🌈🍹 Pride drink specials, Surfside giveaway, and live music | Carbondale Tavern, 4-6pm
🌈 👯 Two-Part Drag Show with Roaring Fork Divas | Sprazzo, 4:45pm ; Beerworks, 5:30pm
🌈 🪩 KDNK Volunteer DJ Spin Live | Main & Weant Blvd, 5-8pm
🎉 🍩 One-year Anniversary Party with Aspen Mini Donuts, special tastings, and live music | Mountain Tide Provisions Co., 5-8pm
💜 🍻 Member Appreciation Party & Gallery Exhibition Visceral Alchemy (with live tattooing) | Carbondale Arts, 5-7pm
🏳️‍🌈 💜 Rainbow friendship bracelet creation station, photo booth, & Human Rights Campaign benefit | Nido Boutique, 5-8pm
🕺💃 Street Line Dance & Jam with Dance Initiative | Main St., 5-8pm
🎉 🍸 Viva Marble Anniversary Party with live music, dance, paella and a streetside mechanical bull | Marble Distilling, 5-10pm
🏳️‍🌈 🌮 Pride Patio Party with live music and fantastic food trucks | Townline Trucks, 5-10pm
🥂 Reception of Pairings | Carbondale Clay Center, 6-8pm
🏳️‍🌈🕺 Pride Parade After Party with live DJs | Beerworks, 6-10pm
🎸🎶 Live music by Brooklyn-based band Mojohand | Steves Guitars, 8pm
🎨 Art Around Town | Self-Guided Sculpture Tour

🛑 Main Street is closed to thru traffic from Weant Blvd to Snowmass Ave. 2nd and 3rd Streets will remain open for cross traffic.

Full details or sign up to volunteer at https://www.carbondalearts.com/upcoming-events/june-first-fridayhttps://www.carbondalearts.com/upcoming-events/june-first-friday

05/27/2026

Most of us have frequented "Carbondale's Living Room" also known as Carbondale Beer Works , who also just celebrated a decade of serving the community. As this month's District feature, we hear from owner Patrice Fuller on gained insights and highlights of business ownership.

"I always knew that when I owned my own business I would use my platform to help others. Being open to using my business to help others makes people feel comfortable asking me. It's easy to write a check, but I prefer hosting an event to help. That way you can hear the story of the person or group needing assistance. Everyone feels more connected to and involved in the process."

Read the full interview here: https://www.carbondalearts.com/featured-creatives/serving-community-for-a-decade

05/19/2026

Farewell 2025 sculptures, the new rotation has started getting installed! The Town of Carbondale Public Art Commission's annual "Art Around Town" Art Walk & Artist Reception is coming up on Thursday, June 4th, 5:30-7:00pm.

The Art Walk begins at Town Hall. The walking tour to the new 15 sculptures, located along the Rio Grande Trail as well as Main Street, will be newly displayed with many of the artists in attendance to highlight their work. An artist reception follows at 7:00pm at Marble Distillery.

05/18/2026

Keep your eye out for the new sculptures!

The first sculpture of Carbondale’s 2026 Art Around Town Artwalk was installed Wednesday at the intersection of Fourth and Main streets, marking the beginning of over a dozen new installations scheduled for the next month. ...

05/11/2026

On display through the end of June, check out new paintings by artist Robert Burch at Bonfire Coffee in Carbondale, a rotating art program partnership with Carbondale Arts

Robert Burch [b. 1991] is an experimental artist unbound by medium or physical location. He creates wherever he is; the mountains of Colorado, New York City, Asheville, Barcelona etc. As a life-long skateboarder and creative, he is an engaged participant in counter cultural worldviews and artistic practices. His work is rooted in analog processes however, Robert completed a degree in graphic design [School of Visual Arts, NYC, 2022] and has since combined motifs developed across mediums to carve out a style and voice for himself. He has lived in Carbondale off and on since 2007, and has probably consumed over 1000 Dos burritos.

Learn more about Robert at RobertGBurch.com.

04/27/2026

Dance Initiative brought back Folklórico dance classes to the Roaring Fork Valley this month after the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet ended the longstanding program. Now, some of its old students are stepping up as the next generation of teachers.

04/27/2026

May First Friday kicks off Carbondale’s summer season of events with a Block Party! Main Street becomes a pedestrian corridor, and local shops, galleries, restaurants will have extended hours and special events; plus the 16th annual Family Block Party, the Carbondale Rotary Club’s Fireball Drop Fundraiser, AND the Bonedale Flea Market. Find live music, food trucks, and activities and games up and down this Block Party on Main Street!

👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 16th Annual Family Block Party | 4th St. Plaza & Chacos Park, 4-8 pm

🍹 Spritz Into Spring Patio Party with creative kids activities | Sprazzo, 4-8 pm

👗👖 Bonedale Flea Market | Main St between 3rd & 2nd St, 4:30-8pm

🔥 Carbondale Rotary Fireball Drop | 598 Main St, 5pm

🎨 Carbondale Arts exhibitions Material Haiku MMXXVI & Kindred Spirits | Launchpad, 5-7pm

🎸Music by C.A.R.P., photo booth & chalk mural | Nido Boutique, 5-8 pm

💗Mom Appreciation Station and trunk show with Aspen Dream | Mountain Tide Provisions Co, 5-8pm

🍻 10th Anniversary Party on the Patio with live music with Hanna Von B & The Wowzers | Carbondale Beerworks, 5:30-11pm

🖌 Carbondale Clay Center hosts throwing demos & kids clay painting Main Street Gallery, 6-8pm

👻 Typical Ghost plays live on the patio | Townline Trucks, 7-10pm

🧚‍♀️ Opening Night of For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday | TRTC, 7:30pm.

👐 Sign up to volunteer during First Fridays!

🛑 Main St. is closed to thru traffic from Weant Blvd. to 2nd St, and 3rd St. remains open for cross traffic.

04/16/2026

We’re in a special place of the time continuum with local artist, cycle enthusiast, and community member extraordinaire, Darin Binion. Darin is well known amongst local organizations for his epic volunteer spirit, sunny disposition, and creative nature.

“Volunteering in Carbondale brings you together with like-minded community members and allows you to really be an active part of the community.”

“Living in Carbondale we are blessed with endless amounts of cycling and artistic opportunities. Trail networks like Prince Creek and Red Hill offer great mountain biking while being able to ride to the trailhead from home. Many local artists incorporate cycling as a release for idea generation, many of my ideas have come about during a mountain bike ride. Carbondale blends artistic and active communities together in so many fun events throughout the year.”

Read Darin’s full interview here: https://www.carbondalearts.com/featured-creatives/community-is-a-verb

04/15/2026

Now through the end of April at Bonfire Coffee, local artists Leslie Schramer. She is the artist behind PAWSitivity Prints, a small local business specializing in pet-centric artwork, notecards, prints, and apparel.

Leslie generously donates 10% of her proceeds to C.A.R.E., (); while also donating her time via weekly volunteer shifts with their shelter animals. A corporate events planner by day, she founded PAWSitivity Prints during the Covid years and continues to grow her artistic passion. (Fun fact: Leslie was a Studio Art minor in college!) Leslie also loves painting the iconic Aspen tree landscapes of the Roaring Fork Valley and recently has started dabbling in textured art.

For more information .

04/01/2026

It's April, and First Friday is this week! April First Friday features extended hours and special events at local shops, galleries, and restaurants. This month we Spring Into Wellness, with a health and wellness symposium hosted by the Center for Human Flourishing at the Carbondale Recreation Center. Main Street becomes a pedestrian corridor with games and activities by community booths. Windy City Eats pop up and KDNK volunteer DJ’s will be spinning live in Chacos Park.

🌱 Spring Into Wellness symposium hosted by The Center For Human Flourishing | The Carbondale Recreation Center, 5-8 p.m.
🌱 Carbondale Arts gallery activation of “Sweet Excess” by William Lanzillo | The Launchpad, 5-7 p.m.
🌱 Streetside corn hole | Mountain Tide Provisions Co., 5-8pm
🌱 KDNK Volunteer DJ’s Spin Live | Chacos Park, 5-8 p.m.
🌱 Nibbles, sips & First Friday specials on wellness & self care goods | Nido Boutique, 5-8pm
🌱 Reception of “Chromatic Harmony” hosted by the Carbondale Clay Center | Main Street Gallery, 5:30-8:30pm
🌱 DIY Birdhouses hosted by Lauren Sterritt of The Craft Chalet | Rootz Salon, 6-8 p.m.
🌱 Live music by Stevie Lizard | Townline Trucks, 7-10 p.m.

Main Street is closed to thru traffic from 5-9pm from Weant Blvd to 2nd St. Additionally, 4th Street will be closed from Garfield to Main Street from 4-9pm.

Sign up at to volunteer at https://www.carbondalearts.com/first-friday