Colorado Arts Spotlight: Things to know and do around the state Aug. 2-4

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Nickolas Ruiz and Kate Hertz play a couple thrown for a loop by the birth of their very unusual daughter in Springs Ensemble Theatre’s production of “Smudge.”

Colfax Canvas Mural Festival Aurora Public Art 230913
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Artists have to navigate aerial lifts along the sidewalk as they paint walls sometimes two or three floors above street level leading up to the 2023 Colfax Canvas Mural Festival, Sept. 13, 2023.



three of the actors from Gin and Gothic pose looking straight into the camera.
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Frederick Remington’s “Mountain Man” statue in Evergreen
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Frederick Remington’s “Mountain Man” statue in Evergreen, July 8, 2020.

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Sir Logan boasts a jousing win at the Colorado Renaissance Festival in Larkspur. July 4, 2021.

Courtesy of Nebiyu Asfaw.