Get ready for another fun art night at The Loft presented by local Manitou Springs artist Jared Thompson on First Friday February 6th, 2026. The experience includes one coffee/ special drink by The Loft, a canvas, paint, brushes and a palette (You get to keep the brush set, canvas and palette). Jared will provide instruction […]
🎨 New Release: Miramont Castle – A Six-Foot Tribute to Manitou’s Iconic Landmark 🏰 I’m thrilled to announce the completion of my largest and most detailed painting to date: a six-foot wide original acrylic on canvas honoring the whimsical charm and rich history of Miramont Castle in Manitou Springs, Colorado. This piece was a true […]
Giving Back to the Community Manitou Creative donates 5% of all sales—both online and in-store—to five local non-profit organizations: Incline Friends Southern Colorado Robotics Pikes Peak Bulletin Happy Cats Haven Manitou Springs Heritage Museum “With the opportunity to grow Manitou Creative and become part of the vibrant downtown retail scene, I’m staying grounded in the […]
I am excited to share that I am collaborating again with the Manitou Springs Heritage Center. They have selected my acrylic painting/mixed media image titled “Pikes Peak Paradise” to be used for their next jigsaw puzzle fundraiser. The Heritage Center is currently undergoing renovation and will reopen in June 2024. I am grateful to the […]
Since early this year I have been on the board of directors for the non-profit newspaper organization The Pikes Peak Bulletin. I help the organization with website hosting, email account management, posting the weekly digital edition newspapers and keeping the online community calendar up to date. I was asked by our fearless leader Lyn Ettinger-Harwell […]
I was sitting in with one of my favorite local bands playing my saxophone with Family Elephant at the Armadillo Ranch in Manitou Springs, Colorado on the evening of Manitou’s amazing mardi gras parade called Carnivale. I had been roller skating in the parade earlier, it had been an amazing and long day. The band kicked […]
I am pleased to share that I received the Movers and Shakers award in the 2023 Manni Awards ceremony. In 2019, I started volunteering my artistic, graphic design, photography, and website building skills to the local community of Manitou Springs. This decision came after I became a stay-at-home father and a full-time homemaker. I have […]
Not my best pics ever taken but hey, they’re free! In order to download a picture, click on the picture to expand it from the gallery view. Then click on the “i” information icon in the lower right, then click “view full size”. From there you can right click and save the image. Great job […]
The Manitou Springs Heritage Center is delighted to offer their second Manitou Springs Jigsaw Puzzle. Painted by local artist Jared Thompson, the painting gives an artistic rendering of Manitou Springs with some of the key historic features emphasized. A combination of maps and imagination were used to set the layout of the town in a […]
The Manitou Springs Library is moving to the Manitou Arts Center temporarily while the situation with the old Carnegie building is resolved. Recently a task force was created by Manitou residents to work together to save the library and to raise funds to update the building to become ADA compliant. The task force is submitting […]