Colorado Creates grants to further the arts in 28 Colorado counties
On Tuesday, Colorado Creative Industries (CCI), a division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT), announced the FY2023 recipients of the Colorado Creates Grant Program. A total of 121 grants will distribute $834,500 to arts organizations and communities across 28 Colorado counties, many of them rural counties, including Custer and Fremont counties. Absent from the awards were Lake, Chaffee and Park counties.
“Now more than ever, the arts create community and bring people together to experience joy and celebration. Colorado Creates grants provide critical support to arts and cultural organizations across the state as they provide these opportunities,” said CCI Director Margaret Hunt. “Over time, we have also seen that these grants position recipients to apply for and receive additional funding, extending the impact even further. We’re proud to help communities bring their visions to life.”
In this grant cycle, 46 percent of grant funds were awarded to rural communities. The recipient category that received the highest number of grants represented Colorado’s smallest arts and cultural organizations—those operating with less than $100,000 annually.
Receiving awards in this immediate region were the Florence Arts Council and the Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts.
In neighboring Gunnison County two arts organizations received grants: the Crested Butte Music Festival and the Gunnison Council for the Arts, dba Gunnison Arts Center,
Colorado Creates is CCI’s oldest grant program, providing critical financial support to nonprofit cultural organizations and government agencies of all sizes as they produce arts and cultural activities that enhance quality of life and bring jobs to their communities. As part of the award, grant recipients will be eligible for a second round of funding within 12 months after submitting a mid-cycle report. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis and the next application deadline for Colorado Creates is spring 2023.
A complete list of this year’s grant recipients by county is below:
Alamosa
Alamosa Live Music Association
Arapahoe
David Taylor’s Zikr Dance Ensemble
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts
Littleton Town Hall Arts Center
Museum of Outdoor Arts
Opera Colorado
Boulder
Ars Nova Singers
Boulder Community Broadcast Association, dba KGNU
Boulder Opera
Boulder Symphony
CenterStage Theatre Company
Colorado MahlerFest
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Dairy Arts Center
EcoArts Connections
eTown
Local Theatre Company
Motus Theater
NoBo Art District
Stories on Stage
Studio Arts Boulder
The Catamounts, NFP
Third Law Dance
Broomfield
BackStory Theatre
Broomfield Council on the Arts & Humanities
Custer
Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts
Delta
Blue Sage Center for the Arts
Denver
Augustana Arts, Inc.
Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado
Buntport Theater
Clyfford Still Museum
Colorado Business Committee for the Arts
Colorado Hebrew Chorale
Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestras
Denver Architecture Foundation
Denver Art Museum
Denver Children’s Choir
Denver Film
Education Through Music-Colorado
Friends of Chamber Music
Gift of Jazz
International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management
Mile High Freedom Bands
Museo de las Americas
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
National Honor Band Association
Pop Culture Classroom
Rocky Mountain Public Media, Inc.
SeriesFest
TEPE Incorporated
Union Hall
Warm Cookies of the Revolution
Douglas
Parker Arts
Eagle
The Art Base
Elbert
Brink Literacy Project
El Paso
Chamber Orchestra of the Springs
Cheyenne Mountain Public Broadcast House, Inc.
Colorado College Summer Music Festival
Colorado Springs Community Cultural Collective at the City Auditorium
Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra
Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble
Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region
Regents of the University of Colorado on behalf of the University of Colorado of Colorado Springs, Galleries of Contemporary Art
Regents of the University of Colorado on behalf of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Theatreworks
Fremont
Florence Arts Council
Garfield
Carbondale Clay Center
Roaring Fork Music Society
Grand
Grand Concerts, Inc.
Gunnison
Crested Butte Music Festival
Gunnison Council for the Arts, dba Gunnison Arts Center
Jefferson
Athena Project
Central City Opera
Chicano Humanities and Arts Council
Conifer’s StageDoor Theatre
Control Group Productions
Evergreen Children’s Chorale
Evergreen Jazz Festival
Fiesta Colorado Dance Company
Foothills Art Center
Ovation West Performing Arts
Kit Carson
Prairie Cultural Commons
La Plata
3rd Ave Arts
Dancing Spirit Community Arts Center
Durango Choral Society
Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering Inc.
Imaginary Friends
Music in the Mountains
Larimer
Bas Bleu Theatre Company
Canyon Concert Ballet
Colorado State University – ACT Human Rights Film Festival
Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra
Fort Collins Musicians Association
Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University
IMPACT Dance Company
International Keyboard Odyssiad & Festival
Larimer Choral Society
Museum of Art | Fort Collins, Inc.
Northern Colorado Intertribal Pow-wow Association, Inc.
OpenStage Theatre and Company
Rocky Ridge Music Center Foundation
The Center for Fine Art Photography
Mesa
MusicSpark
Ouray
The Ridgway Chautauqua Society
Pitkin
Anderson Ranch
Aspen Film
Pueblo
Grupo Folklorico Del Pueblo
Pueblo Children’s Chorale
Rio Blanco
The TANK Center for Sonic Arts, Inc.
Routt
Colorado New Play Festival
Steamboat Symphony Orchestra / Friends of the Orchestra
Strings Music Festival
Yampa Valley Choral Society
Yampa Valley Performing Arts Council, dba Piknik Theatre
Summit
Backstage Theatre
Breckenridge Film Festival
San Miguel
Rocky Mountain Arts DBA Telluride Fire Festival
Sheridan Arts Foundation
Weld
The Stampede Troupe
University of Northern Colorado Foundation
For more information, visit coloradocreativeindustries.org.
Featured image: Image courtesy of Salida Council for the Arts.
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