The Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center is an

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located in

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. Founded in 1972 as a multi-disciplinary center for the arts, it features

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, performing arts, and the

Buell Children's Museum The Buell Children's Museum is a children's museum in Pueblo, Colorado, United States that offers hands-on exhibits focusing on the arts, science and history. The Museum is accredited as a part of The Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center ...

. The Center is a multiple time, multiple category winner at the Best of Pueblo awards.

History

The Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center opened in 1972, with funding provided by the

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and

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. The original two-building complex housed a single gallery, a five hundred seat theater, studio/classroom spaces, a dance studio and a conference/banquet facility. In 1982, an expansion, funded by Puebloan Helen T. White, added three galleries, a

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and a small precursor

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. In 2000, a further expansion added the 12,000 square-foot, two-level ''Buell Children's Museum'' and the ''Jackson Sculpture Garden''.

Exhibitions

The art center features twenty-four new exhibitions a year in the Helen T. White Galleries. The King Gallery hosts the permanent collections.

Permanent

* Francis King Collection of

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* Ruth Gast Santos and Southwest Collection * Gene Kloss Collection * Regional

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Collection

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