Vocal Coalition 

Black Music Matters: The Glorious Return

Denver, Colorado

VOCO Youth Choir's 4th annual Black Music Matters concert will pair youth from across the Denver Metro Area with local Black artists to tell the story of the Black experience from Africa to Colorado through music.

History Colorado- Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center

Buffalo Soldier Interpretation at Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center

Fort Garland, Colorado

The Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center will host an artist residency for Chip Thomas, aka jetsonorama, to research, along with other artists and community partners the history, impact, and legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers. 

Access Gallery

Combatting Social Isolation and Creating Economic Opportunity for People with Disabilities through Facilitated Painting

Denver, Colorado

Combatting Social Isolation, Disrupting Negative Stereotypes, and Creating Economic Opportunity for People with significant disabilities.

Creative Nations Center and Collective

Creative Nations Indigenous Art Market and Art Collecting Outreach in Colorado 2022

Boulder, Colorado

In 2022, the Creative Nations Collective will reach out to the Ute Mountain Ute and Southern Ute reservations to announce a call for art and make a summer road trip to meet the artists and collect their art for display and sale at the second annual Creative Nations Indigenous Peoples Day Arts Market & Festival at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder in October.

Chicano/a Murals of Colorado Project

Digitizing and Cultivating Colorado’s Chicano/a/x Murals

Denver, Colorado

Digitizing and Cultivating Colorado’s Chicano/a/x Murals project will develop Chicano/a Mural of Colorado Project's capacity as an education resource by supporting the teaching of local BIPOC histories, contemporary social issues confronting communities of color, and situating familial and personal lived experiences into both national and international historical narratives.

Su Teatro 

Drama vs. Trauma

Denver, Colorado

Drama vs. Trauma examines generational trauma through the lens of Su Teatro productions and offers storytelling and community based mental health resources as a means to healing.

Youth Employment Academy: Arts Street@YEA

Edible Artscapes Youth Initiative

Denver, Colorado

Arts Street@YEA will work with Denver youth and artists to learn the principles of permaculture design and create a regenerative urban farming installation with integrated artistic elements in an under-resourced neighborhood. 

Mt. Rose Health Center Palliative Care and Hospice

El Arte de Nuestros Abuelos (The Art of Our Grandparents)

Huerfano County, Colorado

El Arte de Nuestros Abuelos will honor and highlight the many gifts of the elders in Huerfano County, realizing that beyond the traditional definition of art, the art of living may include such things as tamale or jelly making!

FARM-TO-SPACESHIP

FARM-TO-SPACESHIP x SAN LUIS EXPERIENCE ACCELERATOR

San Luis, Colorado 

Embedding artist-driven experiences in local businesses to produce unique offerings that are both exciting to customers and good for the community.

University of Colorado Colorado Springs- Galleries of Contemporary Art

Gregg Deal Exhibitions & Public Event

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Gregg Deal, contemporary Indigenous artist/activist and member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, will realize an artistic residency with UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art (GOCA) August through November 2022, with plans for a major public sculpture and a solo exhibition at the Ent Center for the Arts, as well as an artistic performance and concert public events at the site of his monumental mural in downtown Colorado Springs.

New Cottage Arts

Refuge Arts: group music and art experiences for immigrant and refugee women and girls

Denver, Colorado

Through yearlong, weekly group music and art experiences including choir, percussion ensemble and mural design, Refuge Arts provides safe and creative spaces for immigrant and refugee women and girls to maintain community and social bonding, culminating in a final interactive musical and visual art presentation.

Northwest Colorado Health

Rural Youth Resiliency Through Music

Craig, Hayden, and Oak Creek, Colorado

As a crosscutting initiative between music and community health, this project seeks to disrupt the marginalization of underserved populations through trusted spaces and creative expression, while building resiliency skills via bi-lingual youth resiliency music groups for youth aged 6-21 in rural Northwest Colorado.

Sound Affects

Sound Affects

Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, Longmont, Boulder, Denver, Colorado

Sound Affects music programming is an evolving platform that connects professional musicians with individuals living in senior care facilities. Through live performance, one-on-one residencies, and advocacy, Sound Affects serves isolated populations who cannot access the benefits of music in the ways that they wish.

Japanese Arts Network

Stories of Solidarity: The JA Experience in Five Points 

Denver, Colorado

Stories of Solidarity: The JA Experience in Five Points is a collaborative multi-disciplinary audio/visual/public art storytelling and neighborhood mapping project which shares the narratives about the Japanese diaspora and other communities of color in Denver's historic Five Points neighborhoo.  Stories of Solidarity will explore a history of shared oppression and encourage the interrogation of internal biases while also lifting up stories of resilience, growth, and evolution.

El Sistema Colorado

The Artists Mentorship Project

Denver, Colorado

El Sistema Colorado harnesses the joy of music and ignites the potential in our future leaders through an immersive youth music education program that transcends socioeconomic barriers.

Helanius J. Wilkins

The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging

Pueblo, Colorado

Helanius J. Wilkins’ work, The Conversation Series: Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging, is an ongoing and always shifting dance-quilt, confronting and celebrating heritage, resiliency, justice, and hope. This multi-outcome work includes multimedia performances and facilitated discourse with community members to inform the performances.

Tri-Town Arts

Tri-Town Arts: Uniting Rural Youth and Building Community Through Art in Lincoln County

Genoa, Hugo and Limon, Colorado

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) will unite to develop and launch an effort to unite rural youth and build community through art, ultimately establishing a placemaking and storytelling project that will knit together communities and lives in rural Lincoln County.

The Red Road Project

Urban Indians: an accurate representation of American Indians living in Colorado

Denver and Statewide, Colorado

The Red Road Project objective is to redirect the narrative of 21st century Native America through visual storytelling.

Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center

Veteran Art Exhibition: Bringing Awareness to Veterans’ Behavioral Health

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mt. Carmel provides a safety net of employment, behavioral health, and case management resources to support military and veteran families on their journey toward healthy civilian lives, and we will employ a Veteran Art Exhibition featuring art created by Mt. Carmel's art therapy clients to bring awareness to veterans' behavioral health issues.

Age-Friendly Huerfano/Las Animas

WOVE, A Fiber Happening

Walsenburg, Colorado

WOVE, A Fiber Happening, serves as a catalyst for creating Age-Friendly Communities in Rural Southern Colorado.

Colorado TINTS (Theater in Non Traditional Spaces)

Write In to Act Out (WI2AO) with The Community Equity Coalition

Salida, Colorado

"Write in to Act Out with Community Equity Coalition" is a 10 month project facilitated by Colorado TINTS (theater in non traditional spaces) that uses creative arts to address issues of social justice and inequality in rural Colorado.

Elsewhere Studios

Youth-led Murals Celebrating Diversity

Delta County, Colorado

Bringing organizations that collectively focus on art, youth, health, and social justice, Elsewhere Studioswill be organizing youth-led murals around Delta county that celebrate diversity in the community.