Meet 2023 AiS Grantee: The Ouray International Film Festival! OIFF exists to bring excellent films and filmmakers to the San Juan Mountains where we enrich the local artistic culture through our four-day annual summer event. Learn all about OIFF and how their Arts in Society grant supports their mission.
Meet 2023 AiS Grantee: Storytellers of the Ancestral Red Road! Storytellers of the Ancestral Red Road (SOAR) is a Southern Colorado collective of traditional Indigenous teachers and allies. Learn all about SOAR and how they share cultural wisdom and practice well-being and community-focused healing through creative expression.
Meet 2023 AiS Grantee: Huajatolla Heritage Foundation (HHF)! Learn all about HHF and how this foundation promotes cultural preservation and equity by honoring cultures through art, education, and presentation.
Meet 2022 AiS Grantee: Access Gallery! The Artistic Realization Technologies (A.R.T.) project was founded over 25 years ago and operates in 27 studios across the United States. Thanks to funding received through the Arts in Society grant, Access Gallery has brought the long-awaited program to Denver. Learn all about the A.R.T. project and how it empowers artists who lack the articulate use of their hands to fully direct the artmaking process.
Meet 2022 AiS Grantee: El Sistema Colorado! The Artists in Mentorship Project (funded by Arts in Society) was created for the students of El Sistema Colorado to experience hands-on training from professional musicians of color in the classical music landscape in Colorado. Learn about this impactful project today!
WOVE is an artist collective exploring the role that art plays in creating and supporting livable communities where people of all ages and backgrounds can thrive. Learn about their AiS project FROG, created with 80 miles of yarn and over three million stitches.
Elsewhere Studios is a small art residency formed in 2010 in the rural setting of Paonia, CO. Elsewhere is an eclectic, imaginative space that values exploration and experimentation. Learn more about their Arts in Society-funded community mural project!
Meet another 2022 Arts in Society Grantee: The Red Road Project! Through The Red Road Project, Native peoples and communities have a platform to utilize their own voices and be seen the way they want to be represented.
We’re excited to introduce another 2022 AiS Grantee: The Youth Employment Academy! Learn all about their Arts in Society-funded project Edible Artscapes and how it taught youth the principles of permaculture design to create a regenerative urban farming installation with integrated artistic elements in an under-resourced neighborhood.
Three arts-based organizations in the Lincoln County communities of Genoa (World’s Wonder View Tower/Historic Sentinel Building), Hugo (The Garage) and Limon (The Old Schoolhouse) united to develop and launch a placemaking and storytelling project to knit together communities and lives in rural Lincoln County. Learn about the Tri-Town Arts AiS project, “Uniting Rural Youth and Building Community Through Art in Lincoln County,” and how it unites rural youth and build community through art.
Learn about the Northwest Colorado Health’s AiS project, the Youth Resiliency Program, and how it supports the resilience capacities of Routt and Moffat Youth and their caregivers through art, music, and nervous system regulation.
