Events

The Bascom’s Holiday Market offers festive gifts, creative workshops, and seasonal cheer through December 27.

Celebrating four decades of creativity, The Bascom honors its roots while inspiring the Plateau’s future.

The Bascom reflects on a year of creative outreach, expressing gratitude to the donors, artists, and community members who make its mission of accessible, empowering art possible.

The Bascom’s Holiday Market returns with artful gifts and creative traditions.

This fall, The Bascom unveils three dynamic exhibitions that celebrate legacy, local history, and the art of contemporary ceramics—inviting all to connect through creativity.

On Sunday, September 7, Highlands PAC hosts the 33rd Annual Bel Canto Recital—an afternoon of world-class opera and timeless song, raising funds for The Bascom and local music education. The performance begins at 4:00 P.M., followed by a gala dinner.

The Art League’s next meeting takes place Monday, September 29 on The Bascom Terrace, with social time at 4:30 P.M. and the meeting at 5:00 P.M. Guest speaker Lila McAlpin—Red Ribbon winner at this summer’s Colors Fine Art Show—will share her plein air process and offer a live painting demo. Free and open to all.

This fall, The Bascom invites you to explore the expressive power of ceramic sculpture at the 15th Annual Clay Symposium, September 26–27. With artist demos, a keynote, and a gallery exhibition, it’s a weekend where clay meets story, form, and imagination.

Shannon Woodford, this month’s cover artist and winner of The Bascom’s 2025 Dazzling Dahlia Festival Poster Design Contest, transforms rooms into radiant gardens with her luminous oil florals.