Second Saturdays sounds like a single art walk. It functions more like two separate ones, staged on the same evening in two ends of downtown Englewood that were never built to be crossed on foot.
Colorado Public Radio reported that the monthly gallery hop started in March 2025, when Nicole Korbe, who runs EASEL Co Art Space and its NKollectiv Gallery, called around to a few neighboring creative businesses with an idea: pick the second Saturday of every month, open studios and galleries at the same time, and give people a reason to come back on a schedule. Hayley Schneider of SeeSaw Gallery and Timi Biermann of Blue Tile Art Gallery were in from the start. More than thirty businesses have joined since, and by this spring a single artists' reception at NKollectiv was pulling roughly 175 people, according to Korbe.
The comparison Korbe reached for when explaining the event was Denver's Santa Fe Drive, where galleries sit close enough to hit several in one stroll. Englewood doesn't have that geometry. Colorado Public Radio quoted Korbe: "in Englewood, it's just a bit more spread out." Visiting more than one or two stops in an evening meant getting in the car, parking, walking through a gallery, then driving to the next one and repeating the whole sequence. That friction is exactly what shows up when you look at where the participating spaces actually sit.
Two Downtowns, Not One
Downtown Englewood is officially split into three sub-areas by the Englewood Downtown Development Authority: CityCenter, the Broadway corridor, and the Wellness District further east around Swedish Medical Center and Craig Hospital. Second Saturdays mostly plays out in the first two, and they don't overlap.
CityCenter sits around the Englewood Civic Center and the light rail station, built more than two decades ago on the site of the old Cinderella City mall as Colorado's first transit-oriented development. After the property went through foreclosure in 2018, the city has been filling empty office suites there through a program called CitySpark, which this year was recognized with a statewide Governor's Award for Excellence. That program is why CityCenter now holds one of six metro-area satellites of RedLine Contemporary Art Center, giving local artists studio space in what used to be vacant office space, alongside Los Fantasmas, which hosts visual arts exhibits and gatherings in the same stretch.
The Broadway corridor is a different pocket entirely, built around EASEL Co Art Space and NKollectiv, SeeSaw Gallery and Studios, Blue Tile Art Gallery, Ink Lounge, Western Sky Bar and Taproom, and Englewood Grand, among other stops. Past editions have paired a leaf-printing demo at EASEL with a free screen-printing workshop at Ink Lounge, a cocktail class at Englewood Grand, and a jazz set at Western Sky Bar, all running at overlapping times rather than in sequence.
| Downtown pocket | Anchor spaces | How you get there |
|---|---|---|
| CityCenter / Civic Center | RedLine Contemporary Art Center satellite, Los Fantasmas, CAST Colorado gallery | Englewood's light rail station, walkable from the Civic Center |
| Broadway corridor (Navajo and Kalamath, Belleview to Floyd) | EASEL Co Art Space/NKollectiv, SeeSaw Gallery, Blue Tile Art Gallery, Ink Lounge, Western Sky Bar, Englewood Grand | The free bert Second Saturdays shuttle, 10am to 9pm |
The Fix Was a Bus, Not a Move
Rather than ask galleries to relocate closer together, the city added transit. Englewood already runs a free shuttle system called bert, short for Bringing Englewood Riders Together, with one regular route. Starting in June 2026, a partnership between bert and RTD funded a second, dedicated bus just for Second Saturdays: a 36-passenger, wheelchair-accessible vehicle running a loop along Broadway, S. Navajo St., and S. Kalamath St., between Belleview Ave. and W. Floyd Ave., from 10am to 9pm.
The first month it ran, the shuttle stopped right outside NKollectiv, where visitors could see a show called "Found Narratives," pairing Hugh Daly's collage-and-painting work with Victoria Eubanks's layered prints of grasses and vines, before continuing on to Ink Lounge and out to Englewood and Malley Recreation Centers and Belleview Park. The bus didn't shrink the distance between CityCenter and Broadway. It just made the distance someone else's problem to solve, one loop at a time, all evening.
What's Actually on October 10
The next Second Saturday falls on October 10, and downtown Englewood's own event listing already has a specific anchor for it: the CAST Colorado gallery is opening "Duets," an exhibition of curated pairings put together by the studio artists of Carousel Arts and Studio 108. Each participating artist invited a peer to create alongside them, and the results go up side by side rather than in separate rooms. The opening reception runs from 6 to 9pm.
That show sits inside the same CitySpark footprint that houses the RedLine satellite and Los Fantasmas, meaning an evening built around CityCenter this month has a genuine reason to start there rather than treating it as a stop on the way to Broadway. Access Gallery and monthly Historic Englewood talks round out the CityCenter side of the calendar, while The Guild continues its small business workshops for anyone curious about how these spaces actually operate.
Planning the Evening Around the Loop, Not the Map
None of this changes if you try to plan the night the way most gallery hops work, driving from stop to stop and hunting for parking twice. It works if you pick one end to park at, either near the Civic Center or somewhere along the Broadway corridor, and use the shuttle to handle the rest. The loop runs all day, so there's no need to time an arrival around a single reception window the way the October 10 opening at CAST Colorado might otherwise suggest. Park once, either near the Civic Center or along Broadway, and let the bus handle the rest of the night.
If evenings like this are part of what makes you curious about the streets around downtown Englewood, Casey Perry Properties can talk through what's changing in this stretch of town, from the CityCenter redevelopment to the corridor these galleries call home.
