RubyFIRE: Shared Visions

Featuring Shared Visions, Ars Nova Singers’ signature collaborative project, connecting Colorado visual, literary, and musical artists in chains of inspiration.

We’re igniting the Colorado arts scene! For our 4th Shared Visions venture, we start by assembling a gallery of 21 visual art works by seven Colorado artists. Next, we invite Colorado poets to engage with this art and respond to its inspiration with original poems that we compile into an anthology. Four Colorado composers are then commissioned to incorporate this anthology into new music for chorus. Finally, our performances will gather all these Colorado creatives together – and then the artworks will truly sing! The cycle is complete when YOU, the audience, join us to bring this new art to life.

Our 2026 chains of inspiration:

Artwork: “Ring of Fire” by Scott Fraser