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.

Governor John Hickenlooper introduced Joseph Hutchison as Colorado’s most recent Poet Laureate in September of 2014. In this role, Hutchison serves as an advocate for poetry, literacy and literature in Colorado. Activities of the Poet Laureate include visiting local schools and libraries, participating in Arts & Humanities Month, and reading at literary festivals.

Hannah Alexander of Niwot High School has been named the 2018 Colorado Poetry Out Loud champion. Tyler Ramos of Windsor High School is the runner-up.

Spanish Peaks Arts Council has been selected for the Creative Capitol Exhibition. The exhibit will be active from March to June 2018.

This exhibition at the Colorado State Capitol is a collection of works by 25 members of the Spanish Peaks Arts Council, located in La Veta, Colorado. Many members travel at least an hour to participate in SPACe shows, choosing to live in rural areas of southern Colorado.