Holiday Gift Guide

HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE This guide offers five wonderful gifts that both support Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance and honor your friends and loved ones. How this gift guide works: 1. Choose a gift to support Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance. Browse through the choices below to find the perfect gift for the person that has everything. You […]

Pueblos, Potsherds, and Policies: Managing the wilderness resource in a cultural landscape

Four Corners Lecture Series Who: Chris Barns What: Pueblos, Potsherds, and Policies: Managing the wilderness resource in a cultural landscape Wilderness, Wilderness Study Area, Eligible Wilderness, Land with Wilderness Characteristics. What do these terms denote, and how are cultural and wilderness resources managed together? Join us to find out! When: October 11, 2023  |  4-5 pm Where: […]

Screen Printing Demo

Screen Printing Demonstration by Karl Bautista.  August 19th | 12 pm Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center & Museum27501 CO-184, Dolores, CO 81323 Karl Bautista is a dedicated artist & print maker with over 20+ years of progressive experience in the field. Born and raised in the Land of Enchantment, Karl is a member of the Pueblo […]

FCLS: Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest

Four Corners Lecture Series: SCAAS Cultural Landscapes Survey Program by Greg Munson, Ray Williamson, Chris Dombrowski, Ric Alling & Mary Weahkee SCAAS has a strong and enduring interest in developing and deploying guidance on the use of new technologies to add standardized landscape orientation, feature detail and horizon data to archaeological site documentation form packages and […]

Intro to Night Sky Photography

Intro to Night Sky Photographyby Kurt Hillman September 6th | 7 pm Just in time to get you ready for our upcoming Star Party on September 15th, join us at the Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center & Museum for a FREE presentation about wide angle night photography (15-25mm lenses), Milky Way, Star Trails, etc. […]

Special Exhibit Grand Opening

September 8 | 5-7 pm Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center & Museum 27501 CO-184, Dolores, CO 81323 Grand opening reception for the new special exhibit My Calendar, featuring artwork by Stanton Englehart. Please join us for appetizers, live music, and a silent auction. Please RSVP We hope to see you there! Click here to […]

Moab’s Ancient Astronomers

Moab’s Ancient Astronomers by Rory Tyler September 13th | 4-5 pm Rory Tyler has been studying Moab’s ancient rock art for thirty years. Join us on September 13th at 4pm at the Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum as he talks about four sites in the Moab area that interact with Solstices and […]

Star Party

Join SCCA and the Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest at Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum, for an evening of astronomy, storytelling and presentations. Bring your own telescope or photography equipment to join in the fun! Please bring a red light flashlight if you can and your own chair if […]

FCLS: Dr. Ben Bellorado

Four Corners Lecture Series Who: Dr. Benjamin Bellorado What: Sandal Tracks and Social Identities in the Mesa Verde Region and Beyond For millennia, Ancestral Pueblo people used sandals made of yucca to traverse the canyons and mesas of the Mesa Verde Region. Over generations, distinctive sandal varieties developed for use by certain social groups and individuals with […]