Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities
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The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is a multi-use cultural facility operated by the City of Arvada
, Colorado
, United States
, which opened in 1976. The Arvada Center is located 7.8 miles northwest of Denver
. The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is the eighth largest cultural attraction in the Denver metro area, and Colorado's third-largest theatre company. The Arvada Center comprises the Arvada History Museum, three theaters, art galleries, music, dance, and theater rehearsal rooms, classrooms, a conference center, and an amphitheater.
The Center offers classes in the visual
and performing arts
for people of all ages. The Arvada Center runs a summer theater program, composed of several stage plays and musicals performed by various companies, both run by the Center, as well as independently.
The Arvada Center is also home to the Arvada Center Chorale, a community chorus of about 70 singers that performs throughout the Denver area, and coordinates with various other musical ensembles in the area. The Chorale was run and administered by the Arvada Center directly until 2007, and works closely with the Center today to provide music to the community.
In December 2002 another expansion was approved, this expansion was designed by Fentress Bradburn Architects LTD at a cost of $69 million. Fentress Bradburn Architects Ltd. propsed this major expansion be carried out in two phases, but on October 4, 2004 the Arvada City Council voted to complete it in three phases.
The first phase included the completion of a small theater initially built in 1992, increasing the ballroom/conference facility seating from 500 to 750, providing storage space for hospitality services,providing rehearsal and storage space for performing arts,increasing exhibition space for the history museum and additional collection storage,refurbishing the existing interior,and
modifying site work including exterior lighting and signage upgrades. Phase 2 was completed in 2006 and it included construction of a new performing-arts shop, dedicated rehearsal space and self-contained dressing rooms with showers. New patios and gathering spots dot the area outside.
The second phase also saw expansion of the art gallery and history museum, improvements to the ballroom, additional rest- rooms, landscaping and 60 new parking spaces.
Phase 3 will not be completed until 2018
6901 Wadsworth Blvd
Arvada CO 80003-9985
Box Office:(720)898-7200
Box Office Fax:(720)898-7204
Arvada, Colorado
The City of Arvada is a Home Rule Municipality located in Jefferson and Adams counties in the Denver metropolitan area of the U.S. State of Colorado. Olde Town Arvada is located northwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver...
, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
, United States
United States
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, which opened in 1976. The Arvada Center is located 7.8 miles northwest of Denver
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
. The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is the eighth largest cultural attraction in the Denver metro area, and Colorado's third-largest theatre company. The Arvada Center comprises the Arvada History Museum, three theaters, art galleries, music, dance, and theater rehearsal rooms, classrooms, a conference center, and an amphitheater.
The Center offers classes in the visual
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
and performing arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
for people of all ages. The Arvada Center runs a summer theater program, composed of several stage plays and musicals performed by various companies, both run by the Center, as well as independently.
The Arvada Center is also home to the Arvada Center Chorale, a community chorus of about 70 singers that performs throughout the Denver area, and coordinates with various other musical ensembles in the area. The Chorale was run and administered by the Arvada Center directly until 2007, and works closely with the Center today to provide music to the community.
Expansion
After the Center opened there was demand for more space. In 1992 a major expansion was approved, and this nearly doubled the size of the center.In December 2002 another expansion was approved, this expansion was designed by Fentress Bradburn Architects LTD at a cost of $69 million. Fentress Bradburn Architects Ltd. propsed this major expansion be carried out in two phases, but on October 4, 2004 the Arvada City Council voted to complete it in three phases.
The first phase included the completion of a small theater initially built in 1992, increasing the ballroom/conference facility seating from 500 to 750, providing storage space for hospitality services,providing rehearsal and storage space for performing arts,increasing exhibition space for the history museum and additional collection storage,refurbishing the existing interior,and
modifying site work including exterior lighting and signage upgrades. Phase 2 was completed in 2006 and it included construction of a new performing-arts shop, dedicated rehearsal space and self-contained dressing rooms with showers. New patios and gathering spots dot the area outside.
The second phase also saw expansion of the art gallery and history museum, improvements to the ballroom, additional rest- rooms, landscaping and 60 new parking spaces.
Phase 3 will not be completed until 2018
Contact
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities6901 Wadsworth Blvd
Arvada CO 80003-9985
Box Office:(720)898-7200
Box Office Fax:(720)898-7204