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2020 Accelerated Cycle

Warm Cookies of the Revolution
Rural/Urban Civic Artist Fellowship
Loveland, Yuma, Fort Morgan, and Fort Collins, Colorado
Purpose: To create a Rural/Urban Civic Artist Fellowship comprised of a cohort of eight civic artist fellows that will work with their own local communities to adapt and explore the Civic Health Club style of organizing.

5Point Film
5Point Film Youth VOICES Project
Carbondale, Colorado
Purpose: To work with twenty under-represented Garfield County High School students to create an original, student-driven, collection of autobiographical short films that explore and share with the world their unique stories and perspectives.

Chicano/a Murals of Colorado Project
La Alma Community Mural Project
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To create a monumental narrative mural in the La Alma neighborhood that pays homage to the Civil Rights Movement in Colorado in the Chicano mural tradition.

Pop Culture Classroom (PCC)
LEAD (Literacy Education in Adolescent Detention) with Comics
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To run a 12-week pilot at Gilliam Youth Services Center that will provide incarcerated high schoolers with art and literacy instruction and an opportunity to create their own comic about their story of personal transformation.

D3 Arts
Full Circle
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To launch a pilot project linking the traditional 12-step program to cultural practices and artistic projects that will strengthen the connections participants feel to their own experiences, their culture, families, and communities.

Western Colorado Writers’ Forum, Postvention Alliance
Re-Building Community
Grand Valley - Grand Junction, Fruita, and Palisade, Colorado
Purpose: To provide four workshops over two months to three different Grand Junction groups, including the Veterans Hospital, Alzheimer’s’ Association, and youth coping with LGBTQ+ and/or suicide issues, that will respond to multi-disciplinary artistic prompts culminating in a community Poetry Slam and art exhibit with the theme, “Why I Have Hope.”

Motus Theater
JustUs: Stories from the Frontlines of the Criminal Justice System
Boulder, Denver, and Colorado Springs, Colorado
Purpose: To collaborate with formerly incarcerated leaders to create autobiographical monologues exploring the injustice, bias, and violence within the criminal justice system - including COVID-19 threats faced by incarcerated people.

Emily vonSwearingen
Accessible Arts for the Deaf and Blind Communities
Denver, Lakewood, and Littleton, Colorado
Purpose: To collaborate with partners and create inclusive and engaging arts programming for youth-adults who are Deaf/HH and blind/low-vision; particularly during the global shift to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative
Sojourn: An Art Journal
Buena Vista, Canon City, Delta, Denver, Golden, Las Animas, Limon, Pueblo, Rifle, Sterling, and. Trinidad, Colorado
Purpose: To provide the opportunity for incarcerated artists to create literary and visual art while on COVID-19 lockdown, helping them connect to friends, family, and loved ones on the outside.

Combat Apathy
The 400 Project
Breckenridge, Frisco, Dillon, Silverthorne, Vail, Eagle, Minturn, Red Cliff, Avon, Alma, and Fairplay, Colorado
Purpose: To share the voices of local youth and creatively confront the communities they live in by creating a deeper connection and understanding around the conversation of anti-racism through mentorship by black and brown artists, activists, and educators, they will engage the mountain communities through storytelling podcasts, small-scale art projects, and a final public mural.

Colorado Black Artist Movement
Montbello FreshLo Cultural Hub Development
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: to engage with community members in the development and implementation of a performance and cultural space that will collaborate with other arts organizations and artists to develop guidelines, policies and an implementation design to address participation in performing arts productions under the projected COVID-19 timeframe.

Block 1750
Youth Empowerment Through Hip Hop and Dance
Boulder, Colorado
Purpose: To build on existing relationships with Attention Homes, Justice High, Boulder Prep, and the City of Boulder’s Youth Services Initiative to inspire, educate, and empower youth to create new and lasting connections through hip hop and dance.

Vintage Theatre + Roshni
New American Stories
Aurora, Colorado
Purpose: To use the performing arts to help Aurora-based refugee and immigrant students tell their own “New American” stories.

Mancos Creative District
Expansion of "The West" in SW Colorado: Ute Mountain Ute and Southern Ute Culture, Art and History Represented Publicly in Mancos
Mancos, Colorado
Purpose: To collaborate with the Ute Mountain Ute and Southern Ute Tribes to plan and design a Public Art installation in Mancos representing and honoring Ute People and Culture.

No Credits Productions, LLC, Center for African American Health, Rocky Mountain Association of Black Psychology
Destination Freedom Black Radio Health Explores Health Disparities
Aurora, Denver, and Colorado Springs, Colorado
Purpose: To share stories of how the Covid-19 Pandemic has affected Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous communities with the effort to reveal cultural responsive behavior, physical health education, and outreach practices that empower communities to overcome the root causes of health problems.

Think 360 Arts for Learning
Creative Generations: Connecting Older Adults and Youth in Rural Colorado
San Luis Valley, Colorado
Purpose: To bring together youth and older adults in rural Colorado communities to collaboratively create public art by promoting cognitive and social-emotional health for diverse generations of rural community members.

Jessica Kahkoska
Wild Home Community Book
Paonia, Colorado
Purpose: To create a one-of-kind, community-authored book that will feature theatre scripts, advocacy tools, ecological information, community testimony, and illustrations from artists in the community to capture the experience of the North Fork Valley community in their fight to protect their home from oil and gas development.

Gregg Deal
Punk Pan-Indian Romantic Comedy
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To tell the story of modern Indigenous existence, Indigenous identity, Indigenous social issues, and Indigenous futurist through an immersive performance piece using full installation, fashion, music, story telling, conceptual work as well as performative art.

Museo de las Americas
SOMOS/WE ARE
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To create special programs and an exhibition that will bring awareness to and promote dialogue around the rising domestic violence rates during the COVID-19 pandemic and the barriers the Latinx communities face in an increasingly discriminatory political and social environment.

Vocal Coalition
UNSTOPPABLE: A hip-hop virtual youth choir featuring The ReMINDers
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To collaborate with urban and rural non-arts organizations across Denver, El Paso, Huerfano, and Pueblo counties to connect 6th-12th grade youth in musical collaborations with The ReMINDers, a Muslim-identifying hip-hop duo based out of Colorado Springs, to create a series of three high-quality virtual choir music videos.

Delta Montrose Youth Services, Inc. dba Partners Youth Mentoring of Delta, Montrose and Ouray
Art Partners
Delta, Cedaredge, Hotchkiss, Montrose, Ouray, Paonia, Ridgway, and Colorado
Purpose: To match at-risk youth interested in the arts with adult creatives in a year-long structured and supported mentoring relationship in western Colorado.

Phamaly Theater Company
Corona-Vox: Tales from the Front
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To interview essential workers to learn what Covid-19 has been for front-line workers – the good, the bad, the touching, the torturous- and create monologues, skits, songs, etc. that will be shared live and/or virtually.

Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Stories of Immigration
Denver and Aurora, Colorado
Purpose: To work with undocumented immigrants recently released from detention through hands-on workshops that will help to write their stories and process their experiences as they move to establish a new life in this country.

Emancipation Theater Company LLC
Art Allies: Using Performance to Change the Narrative of Poverty and Homelessness
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To involve members experiencing poverty and housing instability in the power of the arts, both for personal expression and healing, as well as bringing real conversation about inequities in our systems by engaging participants in a series of creative expression workshops, facilitated by professional teaching artists.

Mirror Image Arts
Restorative Theater
Golden, Colorado
Purpose: To build acting and storytelling skills culminating in either a live theatre performance or a digital storytelling piece about incarcerated youth’s lives behind walls.

Handsome Little Devils
Project Joy Bomb
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To boost morale, encourage social mask-wearing, and help make staying at home a little more enjoyable through a series of socially-distanced, art-based activations throughout Colorado.

International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management, Inc.
17th Annual Indigenous Film & Arts Festival
Denver, Lakewood, and Boulder, Colorado
Purpose: To showcase documentaries, shorts and feature films by and about indigenous peoples, it gives voice to indigenous artists and filmmakers who excel in their craft, provides a setting where Native and non-Native communities connect, and create awareness of indigenous issues/perspectives through traditional and modern storytelling.

Museum of Friends
Artists & Veterans Work Project with 3-D Design for Community Development
Walsenburg, Colorado
Purpose: To create jobs and educational opportunities through the arts to enhance community development by using 3-d printing and CAD design to expose the need for plastic recycling and imagine how to combat chronic unemployment with new forms of technology and action.

Access Gallery
Visiting Artist Series
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To mentor youth with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD) when transitioning into adulthood, with the purpose of reducing isolation due to Covid-19, creating a body of artwork, and showcasing final artworks in a culminating gallery show/virtual exhibition.

EcoArts Connections
The Oasis
Boulder, Colorado
Purpose: To to address critical community needs and acknowledge and celebrate community skills and creativity in collaboration with, for, and by Latinx youth and adults living in and around San Lazaro Park Properties through a series of classes, talks, field trips, film showings, and an exhibit.

Theatre Artibus
Recipe Shared
Denver and Englewood, Colorado
Purpose: To improve wellness among Denver’s senior population (and their caretakers), with special focus on seniors of color, who are especially vulnerable to COVID-19, isolation, and the rapid displacement of communities of color on Denver’s Eastside through ethnographic research, personal interactions, and performances.

2020

Four Winds American Indian Council
2020 Native Summer Youth Camp
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To bring Denver's Native and Pine Ridge Reservation youth together to reconnect with their heritage, combat historical trauma, and prevent loss of cultural knowledge.

Cortez Cultural Center
Careers in Arts and Culture for Native American Youth
Cortez, Colorado
Purpose: To provide supplemental arts-based education and professional development training to prepare Native American students in Southwest Colorado to apply for and complete college.

Vail Valley Foundation (VVF) – Vail Dance Festival
Vail Dance Festival Presents: Be You! Antibullying – Boys in Dance
Vail - Avon, Colorado
Purpose: Empowering boys to express themselves through dance.

Picture Me Here
Culture Dish: New Americans in Colorado Share Intergenerational Stories, Food and Connections
Hotchkiss and the North Fork Valley, Colorado
Purpose: To lead a food and storytelling program for New Americans in Delta County, which will culminate in a community food and storytelling event and a book featuring photographs, stories, and recipes by refugee and immigrant participants.

Steamboat Creates
Pivot Point: Creative Tools for Personal Empowerment
Rangely and Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Purpose: Providing survivors of sexual violence and domestic trauma access to creative sessions led by professional artists and supported by mental health experts at Steamboat Creates and TANK Center for Sonic Arts.

Rishika Kartik
Vision of the Artist’s Soul
Greater Denver Area, Colorado Springs and Boulder, Colorado
Purpose: To provide an after-school tactile arts program for Blind and Visually Impaired students across Denver and Colorado Springs through which BVI students will learn various artistic mediums, create art, and showcase their creativity.

Elaine Waterman
Slay the Runway – Designing Safe Spaces for LGBTQ Youth Expression
Boulder and Longmont, Colorado
Purpose: Providing fashion design classes and a community of support for LGBTQIA+ youth and their families.

the Art Base
HOME: UN HOGAR
Basalt, Colorado
Purpose: To provide new youth immigrants enrolled at Basalt High School the opportunity to practice English, learn about community, and create public art examining self and place through enrichment classes at The Art Base.

Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Veterans Workshop Series
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To provide advanced photographic education, portfolio development, mentoring, and exhibition experience to Denver veterans.

PlatteForum
Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program
Denver - Aurora, Colorado (and other locations with large concentration of artist mentees)
Purpose: Providing Denver's immigrant artists opportunity to focus on their creative careers, gain support and exposure for their work, and participate in Denver's arts community while maintaining their cultural identity.

Phamaly Theatre Company
Rewrite
Adams County, Colorado
Purpose: Creating a series of video shorts re-envisioning classic texts through a new perspective, written and performed by artists with disabilities.

Grassroots Foundation Liberty Rural Learning Cooperative
Prairie Sea Projects: Farming Fluxus
Joes, Colorado
Purpose: Promoting ideas around sustainable farming and democratic design principles, and to create a hemp demonstration garden/ museum outpost exhibit in Joes, CO.

Youth Employment Academy: Arts Street @ YEA
EnvironMENTAL Change by Denver Youth
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To provide relief to eco-anxiety and help youth leaders feel empowered to make environmental changes in their communities through creativity and art.

Angela Craven
“I See You, I Hear You, I Make Space For You”
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To support those touched by grief from infertility, miscarriage and infant loss through art-making, workshops, and a collaborative exhibition sharing stories of grief.

AMPED
From the Margins to the Center: A Podcast Incubator for Women of Color
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To hold an immersive podcast incubator for women of color through which participants will produce their own professional quality podcast, and receive training, mentorship, and studio membership.

Tara Rynders
The Clinic and First, Do No Harm
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To give nurses and incarcerated care aides a platform to address compassion fatigue and burnout through arts-based workshops, and to create awareness and support through the production of live dance performances in hospital settings.

Sound Affects Music
Sound Affects
Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, and Longmont, Colorado
Purpose: Providing underserved seniors in care facilities around Northern Colorado with musical enrichment through an artist-in-residence program, podcast interviews, and monthly live music performances.

Colorado Theater in Non Traditional Spaces
“Write In to Act Out” with Ark Valley Equality Network and Colorado TINTS
Salida, Colorado
Purpose: To engage LGBTQ youth in Chaffee and Fremont counties in weekly writing workshops, community discussions, and theatrical performance around themes of identity and community.

Jenny Jacklin-Stratton
Mother, Me
West Denver, Huerfano County (La Veta), Colorado
Purpose: To provide a storytelling and mentorship program for teen mothers using photography, embroidery, writing, skill-sharing and community to explore family, personal ethnographies, and ideas of motherhood.

Boulder Community Broadcast Association (KGNU)
Boulder County Media Gardens, Nuestras Ondas – La Encrucijada Health Equity Radio Project
Boulder, Lafayette, and Longmont, Colorado
Purpose: Providing low-income youth, ages 13-19, with media skills and tools to create stories through a health equity lens using satellite media gardens.

Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
Art Therapy at Fort Lyon
Las Animas, Colorado
Purpose: To offer supportive services to residents recovering from substance use disorders and homelessness and engagement with Las Animas community members through a partnership between the Creativity Center at Fort Lyon and Naropa University's Art Therapy program.

Southwest Health Group (SHG)
Golden Joinery: Healing Grief through Community Art
La Junta, Lamar, Ordway, Eads, Las Animas, and Springfield, Colorado
Purpose: To lead a community-based art program for those impacted by grief and loss in the counties of Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, and Prowers.

Arts Students League of Denver
Art in Prison
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To provide hands-on visual art education workshops at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility, aiming to improve incarcerated participants’ quality of life, and over time, reduce recidivism rates from building morale and self-respect among participants.

City of Fruita Arts and Culture Board
The Wellspring Project
Fruita, Colorado
Purpose: To offer a summer intensive and rafting trip for Fruita Middle School students that will address the complexity of water use in the West.

Owen Kortz
Music Studio for Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To provide creative programming for Denver homeless youth by expanding the professional music studio at Urban Peak’s Drop-In Center and by creating a paid internship for CU Denver music students to provide musical programming at the center.

M12 Studio
Landlines
La Florida (and other surrounding areas), Colorado
Purpose: To create a cultural portfolio highlighting the importance of Colorado’s rural San Luis Valley through collaboration between artists and local partners engaging cultural preservation and environmental justice in the Valley.

2019

International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management
16th Annual Indigenous Film & Arts Festival
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To hold a festival showcasing films by and about Indigenous people, creating an awareness of indigenous issues and perspectives through traditional and modern storytelling

El Pueblo History Museum
Advancing Southern Colorado Museum of Memory
Pueblo, Colorado
Purpose: To engage residents of Antonito and Avondale in reclaiming site-based memory and history through community narratives, history collection, storytelling and arts.

HopeWest
Art for the Grieving Heart
Grand Junction, Delta, and Montrose, Colorado
Purpose: To expand access to professional art therapy bereavement services for grieving children in Mesa, Montrose and Delta counties.

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Colorado's Health and Environment Mural Project
Statewide
Purpose: To make accessible Colorado's health improvement plan by commissioning murals in 5 Colorado counties that will visualize Colorado's health priorities.

Phamaly Theatre Company
Come to Your Senses: One-act Play Festival
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To produce a play festival that will feature six one-act plays written and performed by theater artists with disabilities.

Downtown Aurora Visual Arts
Community Alchemy
Aurora, Colorado
Purpose: To engage students at DAVA in STEAM programming focused on water use and climate change.

Creativity Labs
The Unsteady Hand - an artist collective
Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Denver, and Boulder, Colorado
Purpose: To provide monthly creative gatherings by and for individuals living with Parkinson's Disease in Colorado Springs and Pueblo.

No Credits Productions, LLC
Destination Freedom Black Radio Days
Denver and Aurora, Colorado
Purpose: To create conversation around important issues by producing five live radio plays and podcast performances.

Think 360 Arts for Learning
District Attorney Acquiring Restitution Through Talent Program
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To engage first-time youth offenders in a restorative justice program through which they will receive artistic mentorship, create and sell artworks to fund victim restitution, and have their juvenile record expunged.

Vocal Coalition
Diverse Music, Diverse People
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To implement a student-led design model that will promote equitable and relevant cultural representation in the choral arts.

Amped
From the Margins to the Center
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To hold an immersive podcast incubator for women of color through which participants will produce their own podcast series.

Jasmine Baetz
Marking Space for Los Seis de Boulder
Boulder, Colorado
Purpose: To engage the University of Colorado Boulder campus and community partners in creating a sculpture and accompanying programming that will honor Los Seis de Boulder and the history of Chicanx students at the university.

Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region
Military Arts Connection
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Purpose: To design and launch a new website that will help military and veteran service organizations to access free arts engagement experiences for their patients, clients, and stakeholders.

El Sistema Colorado
Music in New Spaces
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To provide the opportunity for El Sistema Colorado students to perform alongside professional musicians through a series of public performances in the Globeville-Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods.

PlatteForum
Our Voice, Our Views, Our Vote
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To bring together artists, teens, mentors and activists in a series of art-making workshops at local high schools that will educate students about civic engagement, the political process, and registering to vote.

Palm Wine Collective
PanAfrican Arts Festival
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To hold a festival that will bring together Denver's multicultural community for artistic celebration and conversation on diasporic identity and community building.

Pueblo Arts Alliance
Pueblo Impact Youth Initiative
Pueblo, Colorado
Purpose: To engage a council of Pueblo County high school students to produce monthly art activation projects using placemaking techniques in the Pueblo Creative Corridor.

Mirror Image Arts
Restorative Theatre
Golden, Colorado
Purpose: To facilitate a restorative theater program focused on social-emotional development with incarcerated youth at Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center.

Motus Theater
SANCTUARY SUNDAYS
Boulder and Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To present the stories of immigrants in sanctuary through documentary performances, public readings by members of the Colorado State House and church and civic leaders, and through intimate private readings in book club and community groups.

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of Colorado
Stonewall 50
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To acknowledge the historic 50th anniversary of Stonewall with a year-long observance featuring art exhibits and community learning opportunities

University of Denver
This is My Denver
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To engage students at North High School in producing short-form documentaries featuring spoken word poetry about the educational and environmental issues affecting youth in North Denver.

Colorado Humanities
Veterans Writing (VW)
Colorado Springs and Fort Collins, Colorado
Purpose: To provide writing workshops for active duty military, veterans and family, and their healthcare providers in Colorado Springs and Fort Collins.

ECDC African Community Center of Denver
We Made This
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To operate a sewing social enterprise therapy program for refugee and immigrant women that provides sewing and English language lessons, therapeutic art activities, and psychosocial support.

Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center
Westside Reclamation Project
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To reunite and reclaim the identity of the Westside by bringing together artists, students, and West Denver residents to create a theatrical production in the tradition of the folk drama.

2018

Alan Dominguez
Document Ed.
Denver, Fort Collins, Glenwood Springs, Colorado Springs, Cortez, Boulder, CO
Purpose: To market and distribute "Document Ed," a documentary film project created by high-school student filmmakers about people in Colorado who are living in sanctuary to avoid deportation.

Art Students League of Denver
ART in PRISON
Denver, Golden, and Pueblo, Colorado
Purpose: To provide visual arts education workshops to offenders in four Colorado correctional facilities, including Denver Women's Facility, the Colorado Correctional Center in Golden, and the
Youthful Offender System in Pueblo.

Atlantis Community, Inc.
Denver Disability Rights Conversation Camp; Historic Gallery
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To create an accessible and educational permanent gallery exhibition that will increase
awareness around the social and political history of the disability community.

Aurora Cultural Arts District
The ACADIA Project (TAP)
Aurora, Colorado
Purpose: To provide resources to immigrant and refugee artists and creatives in the Aurora through a small business artistic mentorship program.

Carbondale Arts
The Latino Folk Art Garden
Carbondale, Colorado
Purpose: To give voice to the history and lore of Latinos in the Roaring Fork Valley through a creative place-making project.

Check Your Head
Check Your Head
Denver, Aurora, Colorado
Purpose: To bring trauma-informed instruction and wellness protective factors to youth through creative projects that will be completed in collaboration with community-based organizations.

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance
Reimagining the Noel Resolution
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To utilize the artistic process to engage policy makers, students, and corporations in a series of Equity Boot Camps that will, in turn, inform a performance series.

Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Veterans Workshop Series
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To provide 10-12 Denver veterans with advanced photographic education, portfolio
development, and exhibition experience.

Denver Homeless Out Loud
Belonging(s)
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To address the critical need for storage experienced by homeless individuals by creating and installing artistically and floral adorned public lockers in Denver.

Denver Indian Family Resource Center
Culture Night for American Indian and Alaska Native Families
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To provide an opportunity for Denver's American Indian and Alaska Native families to learn and share about the origin of cultural traditions through monthly Culture Nights.

Jennifer Jacklin Stratton
Mother, Me
Westminster, Arvada, and Aurora, Colorado
Purpose: To elevate resources and voices of teen mothers through a participatory storytelling and
mentorship project.

Liberty Rural Learning Cooperative, Grassroots Community Center
The Prairie Writer's Workshop: Applied Rural Arts Program
Yuma, and Joes, Colorado
Purpose: To provide a place-based, creative writing program in Yuma and Joes, Colorado that sources rural knowledge and addresses the particular needs of small, rural schools.

Lone Tree Arts Center
Sensory Friendly Initiative: Arts for Everyone
Lone Tree, Colorado
Purpose: To provide inclusive programming and sensory-friendly performances for individuals with
intellectual, developmental, and sensory disabilities and their families.

Mancos Creative District
#weallbelong - An arts-inspired community dialogue on immigration, inclusive community and belonging
Mancos, Durango, and Cortez, Colorado
Purpose: To utilize film, storytelling, and visual arts to engage the Mancos County community in a deeper dialogue around inclusivity and belonging.

Motus Theater
UndocuAmerica Radio and Performance Project
Boulder,Colorado
Purpose: To present professional, autobiographical monologues written and performed by undocumented leaders about the challenges facing them and their families through theater, radio/podcasts, and film.

NAMI Colorado
ArrayParity: Restyling mental illness through the self-emblematic, an apparel campaign for equal treatment
Aurora, Denver, and Colorado Springs, CO
Purpose: To bring voice to those who struggle with mental illness through collaboratively designed
imagery, logos, and aphorisms for print on apparel to disrupt negative perceptions of mental
illness.

Partners Youth Mentoring of Delta, Montrose and Ouray
Art Partners Mentoring
Delta, Montrose, Ridgeway, Ouray, Olathe, Cedaredge, Hotchkiss, and Paonia, Colorado
Purpose: To provide a professionally-supported mentoring program for artists to guide, instruct and lead
youth in artistic endeavors and expand creative capacities.

Salida Circus Outreach Foundation
Circus Arts for the Underserved
Salida, Crestone, and Moffat, Colorado
Purpose: To increase self-confidence, healthy risk-taking, and peer support through circus arts workshops for students of Crestone and Moffat Schools.

Sandy Dolak
Huajatolla Heritage Foundation and Festival
La Veta and Cuchara, CO
Purpose: To preserve and share the rich and diverse cultural contributions of Native American and
Hispano people through community workshops and an annual Huajatolla Heritage Festival.

Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center
War of the Flowers
Brighton, and Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To produce a series of artistic responses and a culminating theatrical performance in Brighton, Colorado commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Kitayama Carnation plant strike.

Youth Employment Academy: Arts Street@YEA
Creating Unity: A creative journey on immigration in America (A Journey to Unity)
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To engage youth in the La Alma/Lincoln Park and Globeville neighborhoods of Denver in
creative projects to explore the potential to change negative opinions about immigration.

Youth on Record
Youth on Record Fellowship: Equipping the next generation of arts leaders
Denver, Colorado
Purpose: To engage 15-20 young people in an intensive, 10-month, personal, professional and artistic development Fellowship program.

2017

Art from Ashes Inc.
Drawing on Air: Creative Youth Empowerment Workshops Using Visual Metaphor
Denver, CO
Purpose: To empower youth by providing visual arts education in addition to spoken word and poetry lessons.

Birdseed Collective
E.P.I. Center at Globeville Recreation Center
Denver, CO                                               
Purpose: To provide residents with consistent, high quality arts education at Globeville Recreation Center.

Boulder Community Broadcast Association (KGNU)
Boulder County Media Gardens Initiative – Nuestras Ondas / La Encrucijada
Boulder, CO
Purpose: To engage the Spanish-speaking community in the creation of content for local community broadcasting.

Café Cultura
Strong Stories
Denver, CO
Purpose: To further develop Café Cultura’s unique, culturally relevant, and engaging community open mic series in the La Alma/Lincoln Park neighborhood in West Denver.

Colorado Black Arts Movement
My Dinner in Montbello – A Culinary Drama
Denver, CO
Purpose: To develop a performance, in partnership with residents, that will focus on food and the experience of dinner in Montbello households.

Colorado Humanities
Denver Veterans’ War Stories: Writing Workshops, Anthology Publication, Readings and Conversations
Denver, CO
Purpose: To provide writing workshops for local veterans, led by literary artists who are also veterans, and publish the writings for the community.

Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) and Elephant Circle
Message to Our Mothers | Mensaje a Nuestras Madres
Denver, CO
Purpose: To explore the relationship between adult children and their mothers who have struggled with substance abuse and addiction by bringing to Denver Branislav Jankic’s exhibition “Letter to My Mother” and by engaging community through letters and photographs.

Ann Cunningham
Evolving Tactile Art and Tactile Graphics Through Community Participation
Denver, CO
Purpose: To support the expansion of tactile art— a sculptural and visual art form for people with visual impairments – in partnership with the National Federation for the Blind.

Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA)
Invention and Imagination
Aurora, CO                                                                                                                                                   Purpose: To further develop creative competencies that link to youth interests in science, robotics, computers, and health sciences through a STEAM education program.

ECDC/African Community Center of Denver (ACC)
We Made This
Denver, CO
Purpose: To operate a sewing social enterprise that works primarily with refugee women, providing employment training and psycho social support.

EcoArts Connections
Si Se Puede, San Lazaro and Boulder Ridge
Boulder, CO
Purpose: To create a series of monthly Latino youth-organized art and community action workshops for students age 6-18.

Elsewhere Studios
INSPIRED: Art at Work
Paonia, CO
Purpose: To address cultural and environmental issues around fracking, development and loss of jobs through a cross-disciplinary collaborative artist residency program.

Foothills Art Center
Help, Hope, and Strength
Golden, CO
Purpose: To fight mental health stigma and suicide at Golden High School with a five-part project, including a summer program, parent workshops, theater, a documentary, and a mural.

History Colorado
Southern Colorado Memory Projects
Pueblo, Trinidad, CO
Purpose: To assist residents of Eastwood Heights, Pueblo, and Trinidad in reclaiming site-based memory and history through community narratives, history collection, storytelling, and arts.

International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management
14th Annual Indigenous Film & Arts Festival
Denver, CO
Purpose: To hold a festival showcasing films by and about Indigenous people, creating an awareness of indigenous issues and perspectives through traditional and modern storytelling.

Picture Me Here
Digital Storytelling, Art and Entrepreneurism Fellowship for New Americans
Denver, Aurora, CO
Purpose: To develop a year-long fellowship for refugees and immigrants that will build professional skills in creative media as well as business.

Rio Grande Farm Park
Creating Community Through the Arts at the Rio Grande Farm Park
Alamosa, CO
Purpose: To encourage inclusive engagement and community at the Rio Grande Farm Park (RGFP) by installing artist-designed sitting places throughout the Park.

Tara Rynders in collaboration with Rose Medical Center
The Clinic
Denver, CO
Purpose: To bring a new culture of cure to Rose Medical Center through movement classes, dance, films, and performance.

VSA Colorado/Access Gallery
ArtWorks
Denver, CO
Purpose: To provide economic opportunities through the arts for young artists with disabilities by working with professional artists and collaborating within the broader arts community.

WalkDenver
Vision Zero Community Art Project
Denver, CO
Purpose: To bring together the community along Denver’s Colfax corridor to create public art installations that raise awareness of traffic safety.

Warm Cookies of the Revolution
This Machine Has A Soul!
Denver, CO
Purpose: To create a Rube Goldberg-style machine designed to engage local residents in participatory budgeting.