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Crested Butte Center for the Arts

Crested Butte, CO

Mountain-town performing arts hub — full AV scope for theater and event venues.

Stage set for a concert with monitor wedges and the house reinforcement system in service.
Stage set for a concert with monitor wedges and the house reinforcement system in service.Photo: Mercer Aplin

About the project

A 300-seat arts center in a Colorado mountain town of roughly 1,500 people, the Center routinely sells out a calendar spanning visual art, theatre, literary events, and touring music. Being deep in the Rockies, renting gear to cover a gap is not a realistic option, so the installed systems had to be genuinely complete.

The house system was built to read as rider-friendly to visiting acts while remaining intuitive for local volunteers and staff. Beyond the hall, AV threads through the building — a lobby video wall that carries programmed media by day and the live performance feed by night, backstage stage-manager racks with intercom and program audio, and show-relay monitors keeping back-of-house on the same page.

Key specs

Sector
Performing Arts
Location
Crested Butte, CO
Role
AV systems design consultant
Firm of record
Threshold Acoustics, Chicago
Design team
Architect: Holzman Moss Bottino & Andrew Hadley; Theatre Consultant: Schuler Shook
Documentation
9 site photographs

Gallery

The performance hall from the balcony — catwalks, reflectors, and control booth glazing.
The performance hall from the balcony — catwalks, reflectors, and control booth glazing.Photo: Mercer Aplin
Rear of house showing the control booth, delay coverage, and overhead technical grid.
Rear of house showing the control booth, delay coverage, and overhead technical grid.Photo: Mercer Aplin
Flexible hall during fit-out, with side-wall treatment and mezzanine tech positions.
Flexible hall during fit-out, with side-wall treatment and mezzanine tech positions.Photo: Mercer Aplin
Commissioning at the front-of-house console during system tuning.
Commissioning at the front-of-house console during system tuning.Photo: Mercer Aplin
Lobby video wall carrying the live performance feed during an event.
Lobby video wall carrying the live performance feed during an event.Photo: Mercer Aplin
The Center for the Arts exterior in Crested Butte, Colorado.
The Center for the Arts exterior in Crested Butte, Colorado.Photo: Mercer Aplin
Backstage rack: stage manager panel, intercom, program audio, and paging.
Backstage rack: stage manager panel, intercom, program audio, and paging.Photo: Mercer Aplin
Back-of-house monitor and loudspeaker distributing the show relay feed.
Back-of-house monitor and loudspeaker distributing the show relay feed.Photo: Mercer Aplin

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