Colorado Creative Industries (CCI) today announced recipients for the Colorado Creates Grant for Fiscal Year 2019. A total of 93 grants were awarded in 25 counties across the state totaling $699,000. The agency’s grants benefit both small and large communities, with 40% of grant funds awarded in communities located outside the Denver metro area.
Colorado Creative Industries (CCI) today announced the certification of two new Creative Districts into the Colorado Creative Districts Program. The newly certified districts are Downtown Grand Junction Creative District and Grand Lake Creative District. Certification is for a five-year period.
Think 360 Arts for Learning has been selected for the Creative Capitol Exhibition. The exhibit will be active from September 2018 to January 2019.
A new way to tour Colorado invites travelers to explore five rural destinations as part of a unique itinerary highlighting arts and cultural experiences. The Colorado Creative Corridor is a 331-mile trail that links the mountain towns of Carbondale, Paonia, Crested Butte Ridgway, and Salida. These five towns combine to offer a collective experience of unique event programming and activities alongside mountain eclecticism, majestic vistas and outdoor recreation, and authentic Colorado mountain culture.
Colorado Creative Industries (CCI) today announced that Rodney Wood of Trinidad, Wayne A. Gilbert of Denver, and Armando Silva of Greeley were selected to receive the 2018 Governor's Creative Leadership Awards.
Emily Satterlee is an exemplary Colorado creative based in the Fort Collins Creative District. Not only is Emily an active entrepreneur in a Colorado Certified Creative District, she received a Colorado Creative Industries (CCI) competitive Career Advancement Grant in the fall of 2017. Through that award, Emily expanded the marketing materials for her music company, ItyDity.
I Will Meet You There has been selected for the Creative Capitol Exhibition. The exhibit will be active from June to September 2018.
Colorado Creative Industries (CCI) today announced the participants for this year’s Spring Change Leader Institute, which is taking place April 9-11 in Colorado Springs. The Institute creates a statewide network for creative professionals and community leaders, and supports CCI's goal of enabling cultural and community leaders to work through environmental and organizational change.
Colorado Creative Industries (CCI) today announced the keynote speakers for the seventh annual Colorado Creative Industries Summit held May 10-11, 2018 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Greeley Lincoln Park in Greeley, Colo. The annual Summit is the only statewide convening for Colorado’s creative community leaders, artists and organizations to connect, learn and get inspired.
New data released this month by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) offers an insightful picture of the impact the arts have on the nation’s and, for the first time, the states’ economies. According to the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), Colorado’s arts industries contribute $13.7B to the state’s economy, employing 100,631 who earned $7B. The arts contributed more than Mining or Transportation to Colorado’s economy.