Virginia Woolf Thursday evening "At Homes" that became known as the "Thursday Club", a vision of recreating Trinity College ("Cambridge in London"). This circle formed the nucleus of the intellectual circle of writers and artists known as the Bloomsbury Group. Later it would include John Maynard Keynes (1907), Duncan Grant (1908), E. M. Forster (1910), Roger Fry (1910), Leonard Woolf (1911) and David Garnett (1914). In 1905 Virginia and Adrian visited Portugal and Spain, Clive Bell proposed to Vanessa, but was declined, while Virginia began teaching evening classes at Morley College and Vanessa added another event to their calendar with the "Friday
Western Colorado Center for the Arts the Art Center's ceramics studio. The Art Center, as it is commonly known, can trace its roots back to the Beaux Arts Club, which was formed by a small group of people interested in painting during the 1920s. After a lull during the Depression and World War II, the group renewed its activities under a new name, the Fine Arts Association. In February 1953, the group became incorporated as the Mesa County Art Center. In 1957, the organization was granted 501(c)(3) status, and in January 1968, members voted to change the name to the Western Colorado Center for the Arts.