Heller Center at UCCS

Information on Dot Days

***Join us for Dot Days Community Festival: Our Place in Nature! Sept 3-13***

Organized by the UCCS Heller Center for Arts & Humanities in partnership with a range of community organizations and campus units, Dot Days Community Festival honors the contributions of Dorothy “Dot” Heller to the broader community. Held at several locations around town, the festival is free of charge and open to all members of our community, with a wide variety of activities for community members of all ages. This year's festival (September 3-13) focuses on the theme Our Place in Nature. We will investigate what it means to consider a more relational understanding of the role humans play within our ecological systems. How can we shift our experiences and understandings of the world we live in by considering ourselves part of that world? What possibilities might this approach open for us as we all work toward a livable planetary future?

Partner organizations include the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, Food to Power/Hillside Hub, Control Group Productions, Wakáška Yuza, Concrete Couch, Youth Documentary Academy, Rocky Mountain Women’s Film, the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate, Colorado College, Bone Stories Collective, Brave Irene’s, Hey Neighbors!, and a variety of community artists and musicians, as well as campus programs, faculty, and students.

What We Do

Exterior of the Heller Center building

The Heller Center promotes creative and intellectual engagement for the arts, humanities, and social sciences.  We do this through fellowships, salon talks, exhibits, workshops, theatrical performances, and several other programs.  The property includes two Pueblo Revival Historic Structures, a small art gallery/studio, a 34-acre nature preserve, and an art and artifact collection.  The property once belonged to Larry and Dorothy Heller, a mid-twentieth century socialite couple in Colorado Springs.  Larry (1905-1983) was a prominent regional artist.  Dorothy (1905-1999) was one of the first women to work for the Colorado Springs Police Department. 

The Center works to inspire interdisciplinary conversations across the UCCS campus, and to heighten the arts, humanities, and social sciences in Colorado Springs.  All of the Heller Center’s events are free and open to the public. 

Vision & Mission

Vice Chancellor Susan Szpyrka escorts guests at the Heller Center

Our Vision 

The Heller Center is vital to the arts, humanities, social sciences, and culture of the UCCS campus and the Pikes Peak region, providing creative space and collaborative programming for the community, students, and visiting artists and scholars. 

Our Mission 

The Heller Center for Arts & Humanities at UCCS preserves, engages, and explores the West of the imagination.

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