exhibits
current exhibit
2025 Annual Earth Exhibit
Apr 26, 2025, 5:00 PM – Jun 14, 2025, 7:00 PM
Experience a Showcase of Earth Inspired Art from Local, Regional, and National Artists
Visit us to see EARTH, the Museum of Friends’ annual spring exhibition celebrating nature, reflection, and renewal. Our Community Healing Tree is an interactive art installation inviting you to contribute a word, image, or intention for personal and collective healing. Free and open to the public.
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Elizabeth Hansen, Ezra Li Eismont, Ella Evans, Leatrice Linden, Richard Mehringer, Joe Linfesty, Ray Espinoza, Hannah Standeven, Neal Robinson, Brendt Berger, Heidi Eversley, Sue Martinez, Maria Cocchiarelli, Reba Savageau, Marissa Martinez, Heather R. Hernandez, Lisa Durham & Hella Songbeetle
upcoming exhibits
BRENDT BERGER: LIFE ON THE MOON
MAIN EXHIBIT HALL: July 4 - September 30,2025
KENNY SCHNEIDER
2ND FLOOR: July 4 - September 30,2025
Details coming soon, stay tuned!
TOM VAIL
MAIN EXHIBIT HALL: October 18,2025 - March 15, 2026
Details coming soon, stay tuned!
permanent collection
past exhibits
2024 Gala Fundraiser Art Exhibit and Sale
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Visit the Roof and Dick Building for the extended Art Sale, now through February 15, 2025, and claim your favorite piece. Every purchase directly supports the Building Preservation Fund, helping to protect this beloved cultural landmark for future generations. Join us in preserving art, history, and our community!
We are immensely grateful to our sponsors, including St. Lifer Art, Inc., CHAFA, Downtown Colorado Inc., Trinidad State College, SECOM, Staples, Crafty Canary Brewery, Fox Theater, Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center, San Isabel Electric Association, and Huerfano County, whose steadfast commitment to the arts and community made the 2024 Gala possible. ​
Below you can explore artwork
in the 2024 Gala Fundraiser Art Sale
We are grateful to all the artists who donated their artwork for Gala Art Sale.
All revenue from sales will go towards the rehabilitation of the Roof and Dick building.
July 4th 2024 through September 30th 2024
Mary Frances Judge’s exhibit Spiritual Light will be on view in the Main 1 st floor galleries. She is an artist who has created many paintings over the last fifty years, which have been exhibited in solo and group-shows in prestigious galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad. She has been profiled in The New York Times, and her work has been acclaimed in numerous periodicalsand art journals. Born in Minneapolis, MN, Mary Frances Judge became an Ursuline nun in 1958. As a nun, Mary Frances Judge gained qualities that were essential to being an artist: the capacity to live minimally; the ability to make a commitment and stick to it; and the capacity to devote herself to larger issues bigger than herself. She found inspiration while traveling in Italy and lived for over thirty years in New York City as a practicing artist. Mary Frances Judge will be in attendance for the opening on July 4 th from 4 to 8 pm, please come out and welcome her.
Richard Mock’s exhibit Spiritual Life will be on view at MoF on the 2 nd floor. Richard Mock 91944 to July 28, 2006) was a printmaker, painter, sculptor, muralist and editorial cartoonist. Mock was best known for his linocut illustrations that appeared on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times and from 1980 through 1996. The works on view at MoF have been donated by his sister Bonnie Mock and husband Anthony Turr and represent the later part of Richard’s life. Richard Mock was born in Long Beach, California in 1944. Mock earned his bachelor’s degree, studying lithography and block printing at the University of Michigan. Settling in New York City in 1968, Mock had exhibitions at 112 Greene Street, the Whitney Museum, Exit Art and before his death at the Sideshow Gallery in RedHook, Brooklyn. Mock’s paintings, prints, drawings and small sculptures are on view at the Museum of Friends as he was a dear friend to both founders. Mock was named the official portrait painter of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York.
Maria Cocchiarelli
Undeniable Nature
December 16th 2023 - March 16th 2024
I am fascinated by Ms.Cocchiarelli’s artwork, mainly her child-like innocence and bravado which manifests by trying anything new, like the “Public Health is a Puzzle” mural across the street from the Museum or the Rainbow Pet Hospital mural in Kansas City. I am continually astounded by her ability to come clean, no holds barred, her sheer ability to suspend her mind and pull-off the most miraculous and colorful works of art. Another thing I have noticed is her need to include the whole enchilada whether writing a grant for MoF or taking a photograph of her landscape. She is never content with just one word or one photo. It appears to be an on-going vision that includes both the seen and unseen. In this survey she has pulled out all the stops surprising even me by unrolling two or three large works not seen since they were painted. The magnitude of her range as an artist in everything she does is on display here for the discerning eye.
Brendt Berger, Walsenburg, December 2023
Museum on Main Street's
Crossroads: Change in Rural America
by the Smithonian Institute
August 26 through October 8, 2023
Opening reception on Saturday
August 26, 2023 from 5-7 PM
“Crossroads” explores how rural American communities changed in the 20th century. The exhibition looks at that remarkable societal change and how rural Americans responded. Our goal is to get every school age child in Huerfano County to see this exhibit!
Created by the Smithsonian Institution's Museum on Main Street
