At 4 p.m. on a Second Saturday, the sidewalk outside EASEL Co Art Space fills up before the doors do. People check phones, glance up Broadway toward Blue Tile Gallery, then decide whether it's worth moving the car twice in one evening. That hesitation used to be the whole ballgame on South Broadway. This summer it changed, and the reason has less to do with the art on the walls than with a bus route the city added in June.
Here's what most people miss about Second Saturday: it isn't one event pretending to be complicated. It's three separate events, run by three separate organizers, that happen to land on the same date and got flattened into a single calendar listing. Treat it as one thing and you'll show up at the wrong time for the wrong part. Treat it as three, and the day opens up.
The Morning Belongs to Two Different Markets
Before any gallery unlocks a door, South Broadway is already running two markets that have nothing to do with each other.
The Old School Cool Vintage Market sets up at Festival Street, right where South Broadway meets West Hampden, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It's a partnership between the Englewood Downtown Development Authority and Old School Cool, and it's booked through November. This is secondhand clothing, upcycled fashion, antiques, the kind of stall-to-stall browsing that rewards showing up early before the good jackets are gone.
A few blocks over, in the Chase Tower parking lot at 333 W. Hampden Ave, Denver Celiacs runs a Gluten Free Farmer's Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the same Second Saturdays: June 13, July 11, August 8, September 12, October 10. It's the only market of its kind in Colorado, stocked with food trucks, produce, and prepared goods that skip the usual grocery aisle workaround. If you've been driving to Boulder for this, you can stop.
Neither market has anything to do with the art walk that starts hours later. That's the first thing the calendar hides.
Then the Afternoon Opens Up, If You Know Where to Look
Between the markets closing and the galleries opening, there's a gap most residents fill by going home. A better option sits a few blocks north: the Museum of Outdoor Arts has nearly 40 sculptures on public view around downtown Englewood, with no appointment needed and no ticket to buy. Founded in 1981 by developer John W. Madden Jr., his wife Marjorie, and their daughter Cynthia Madden Leitner, it was one of the earliest programs in Colorado to put site-specific sculpture directly into public space rather than behind museum walls. A self-guided walk through that collection is a genuinely underused way to spend the hour before the art walk starts, and most people who live within a mile of it have never done it.
The Evening Is Where the Bus Comes In
The art walk itself starts at 4 p.m. and runs year round, led by Nicole Korbe of EASEL Co Art Space, which houses her NKollectiv Gallery at 3485 S. Broadway, and Hayley Schneider of SeeSaw Gallery. Timothea Biermann's Blue Tile Gallery, further north at 3944 S. Broadway, is part of the rotation too, along with stops like Los Fantasmas, Access Gallery, and Ink Lounge, a screenprint design studio that shows up on the shuttle route.
Korbe started the whole thing in March 2025 after moving her gallery to Englewood from Denver's Santa Fe Arts District, where galleries sit close enough to walk between. Englewood's don't. That gap was the honest problem with Second Saturday from the start, and Korbe said as much when the city finally addressed it this year.
"In Englewood, it's just a bit more spread out. So the bert bus is really going to help us with that."
The fix arrived in June 2026: a dedicated free shuttle, running only on Second Saturdays, funded through a partnership between the city's bert transit system (Bringing Englewood Riders Together) and RTD. The Economic Development Department and Cultural Arts Commission put up the money specifically to move people gallery to gallery without asking them to find parking three separate times in one night. The first run coincided with the June 13 Second Saturday, and the route covers stops most people wouldn't think to connect to an art walk: Englewood and Malley Recreation Centers, Belleview Park.
Without that shuttle, Second Saturday was an evening you did in pieces, usually just one gallery, because driving to a second one felt like too much trouble for a Tuesday-adjacent Saturday. With it, the whole spread becomes one continuous loop.
What a Full Day Actually Looks Like Now
If you're building the day from scratch, here's the order that matches how the pieces actually run:
- 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Gluten Free Farmer's Market at the Chase Tower lot, 333 W. Hampden Ave
- 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Old School Cool Vintage Market at Festival Street, South Broadway and West Hampden
- Early afternoon A self-guided pass through the Museum of Outdoor Arts sculptures downtown
- 4 p.m. onward The Second Saturday Art Walk, hopping galleries by shuttle instead of by car: EASEL/NKollectiv, SeeSaw, Blue Tile, and whichever satellite spaces are hosting that month
None of that requires knowing anyone or planning ahead. It requires knowing the schedule is three things stacked on one date, not one thing with a long description.
Why the Spread-Out Part Was Never the Real Problem
It's worth sitting with why this took until 2026 to fix. Biermann, who took over Blue Tile Gallery in December 2024, has said the point of Second Saturday was always to build something Englewood didn't have yet: a recognizable creative identity to go with the restaurant openings and business turnover already reshaping South Broadway. A once-a-month gallery hop does that work slowly, one visitor at a time, and only if visitors can actually get from stop to stop without the friction outweighing the payoff. For over a year, that friction was a car and a parking spot. Now it's a bus that shows up on schedule.
That's the piece worth knowing if you already live here and have filed Second Saturday under "things I mean to do eventually." The event didn't get bigger. The distance between its parts finally got shorter.
I'm Brandon Kass, and I spend a lot of my own Saturdays walking these same blocks. If South Broadway's evolution has you curious about what else is changing in Englewood, or you just want more dispatches like this one before the next Second Saturday rolls around, come find the rest of my Englewood coverage on the site.
