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Welcome to COCOA!

The Colorado Coalition of Artists is a non-profit artist cooperative. CoCOA was started by artists and is self sustained by the members who volunteer and participate. CoCOA unifies artists in the community and provides a common meeting ground where artistic products are worked on, displayed and sold. This cooperative encourages an enriching and creative environment for artistic expression and dialogue for artists and the community.
CoCOA Offers: • Painting Classes • Drawing Classes • Non-Instructed Figure Sessions • Free Portrait Session • Gallery Space • Art Workshops • Exhibition Opportunities
CoCOA Member Art Events
CoCOA member show Ongoing at The Lyric Cinema Cafe 300 E. Mountain Avenue Bas Bleu Theatre Company 401 Pine
The Local Emerging Artists Show at Gallery 101 at Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art 201 S. College Ave CoCOA Member, Laura Brent is included in this show with several other emergent Artists. Show Runs Through March 7th. 
"The 2 Woman Art Show" A benefit Art Show for Crossroads Safehouse Featuring Artwork by Heather Burger, a CoCOA member and Coco Russell Feb 1- March 3rd
At The Roundhouse Art Gallery 116 N. College Ave #3 
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Look for us at our new location in the Poudre River Arts Center at 402 North College Avenue
Upcoming shows:
March Frank Stanley

Bring your Own Moustache CoCOA Gallery Presents "Motors, Mustaches and Masterpieces" a show by Frank Stanley, a local artist. The show will continue through March 29, 2008
A Message from the Director
If you are thinking of getting involved, or want to learn more, please contact us at 221-3019, or email info@cocoaart.com. As CoCOA grows, new opportunities for interactions occur, unifying artists in the community, and boosting creativity and thought. Together we can make it great! Enjoy.
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Houdon and Voltaire January 15, 2008
I'm laptopping you from beside a life-sized bust of Voltaire by Houdon. It's in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Variations of the piece exist in other places around the world, so seeing it again is like meeting up with an old friend. Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) was well known for his plasters, marbles and bronzes of the titled and talented. When the popular philosopher of the 18th Century Enlightenment was 84, Houdon managed to get him in for one last sitting. Voltaire soon after died, and Houdon produced this masterwork. Voltaire, half smiling, appears to be looking at his thoughts--perhaps at the tragicomic failings and follies of humanity. His eyes twinkle with wisdom, wit and intelligent doubt. The upper lids are sliced with mannerist lashes, giving the eyes a disarmingly real, almost wet, look. His toothless mouth appears about to speak. He was, after all, the man who said: * The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. * The secret of the arts is to correct nature. * Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. * The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. * Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. * Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. * Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. As for Houdon, he too was a man of simplicity, high spirits and openness of mind. A witty conversationalist and raconteur, he'd go anywhere at any time for a mask of life or death. He knew everyone--princes, dukes, kings, queens, philosophers, composers, authors, architects, popes and painters. He even knew the gods, goddesses and saints, and found time to sculpt Jefferson, Washington and Franklin. The last time I saw this Voltaire, he was all in gold in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. I always see simplicity and directness. Houdon was an "easy worker," light on his feet and casual with his tools. Life affirmation and spontaneity were his religion. A statue of St. Bruno caused Clement XIV to make the well-known remark, "He would even speak, did not the Rule of his Order compel silence."
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