Meet another one of our 2022 AiS Grantees: New Cottage Arts! Learn all about their Arts in Society-funded project Refuge Arts and how group music and arts classes for refugee and immigrant youth and families help create communal bonding and increase family system resiliency.

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.