RedLine is excited to announce 52 finalists who will submit full proposals to be considered for Arts in Society grants in the coming year. The Arts in Society grant-making program fosters cross-sector work through the arts by funding projects that utilize art to address social issues and community needs across Colorado, and is a collaboration between Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, Hemera Foundation, the SCFD, and The Colorado Health Foundation in partnership with RedLine Contemporary Art Center. Now in its 4th year, Arts in Society has to date provided financial support to 67 individual artists and organizations who have utilized the arts in innovative ways to illuminate and address a wide array of civic, health, and social issues in Colorado communities through public artworks, performances, exhibitions, workshops, and community programs.
This year, the program received over 250 initial LOI’s from which 52 finalists have been chosen to submit full proposals. In May 2020, Arts in Society will distribute a total of $549,750 in grant funds to around 25 projects. Grants will range in size from between $5,000-$50,000. In addition to funding, individuals and organizations receiving grants will receive ongoing organizational support through their participation in a grantee learning community program.
Below are the Arts in Society finalists who will be advanced for further consideration and have been invited to submit full proposals.
- Colorado TINTS— Write In to Act
- PlatteForum — Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program
- Liberty Rural Learning Cooperative — A People’s Contemporary History of North-East Colorado
- Creative Arts Platform and the Federal Bureau of Prisons — Creative Arts Platform
- Mirror Image Arts — Restorative Theatre
- Youth Employment Academy: Arts Street @ YEA — EnvironMENTAL Change for Denver Youth
- Montezuma Food Coalition — A Local Food Journey
- Tara Rynders — The Clinic and First, Do No Harm
- Cortez Cultural Center — Careers in Arts and Culture for Native American Youth
- Owen Kortz — Music Studio for Youth Experiencing Homelessness
- Steamboat Creates — Pivot Point: Reckoning and Resilience through Creativity
- Colorado Coalition for the Homeless — Creativity Center at Fort Lyon
- M12 Studio — Landlines
- Cortez Cultural Center — Mobile Arts Learning Lab
- Museo de las Americas — Somos: Revelando El Amor Propio
- Community Radio Project, Inc. — Creating Conversation around Indigenous Identity in Rural Communities through the Arts
- Colorado Humanities — Crossroads: Change in Rural Colorado / Strengthening Rural Communities Through Collaborative Arts Programming
- Boulder Community Broadcast Association, Inc.— Boulder County Media Gardens, Nuestras Ondas – La Encrucijada Health Equity Radio Project
- Picture Me Here and Thistle Whistle Farm — Culture Dish: New Americans in Colorado Share Intergenerational Stories, Food and Connections
- Amanda Flores and Bianca Acosta — Tlacah Medecine
- ArtistYear — ArtistYear Roaring Fork Valley
- The Art Base — HOME
- Phamaly Theatre Company — Rewrite!
- Four Winds American Indian Council and Spirit of the Sun — Indigenous Arts to Reconnect through Resilience
- Southeast Mental Health Services — Good Grief: Healing Community Loss
- Monica Bolles and Kat Jones — The Forest for the Trees
- PFLAG and Out Boulder County — Slay the Runway- Designing Safe Spaces for LGBTQ Youth Expression
- Markus Puskar — Denver's Mural Coloring Book
- Jennifer Stratton — Mother, Me
- Denver Discovery School and SOURCE Theatre — Straight From the SOURCE: Race, Equity and Theatre in Middle School
- Johanna Brown — Sound Affects
- Lighthouse Writers Workshop — Writing Through Hard Times
- Mimi Madrid — Abuelxs: Resilient Roots in a Strained Forest
- Angela Craven — I See You, I Hear You, I Make Space For You
- Genevieve Canales — Giving Voice to Mexican Americans through the Arts
- LuneAseas — Medicine Show
- Art Students League of Denver — Art in Prison
- Living Her Legacy — Living Her Legacy (LHL) Public Art Exhibition
- Rishika Kartik — Vision of the Artist’s Soul
- Local Theater Company— LocalWRITES
- City of Alamosa — Murals on a Mission
- Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region — Military Arts Connection
- Health + Design Initiative (@ CU Denver) — Creating Healthy Places through the Arts
- City of Fruita Arts and Culture Board — The Wellspring Project
- Vail Valley Foundation — Vail Dance Festival Presents: Be You! Antibullying Boys in Ballet
- Birdseed Collective — Globeville Youth - Through Their Eyes
- Denver Homeless Out Loud — Belonging(s)
- AMPed — From the Margins to the Center: Women of Color Podcast Incubator
- Colorado Prairie Arts and Music Council — Paint the Plains
- Colorado Photographic Arts Center — Veterans Workshop Series
- Renée Crown Wellness Institute, University of Colorado-Boulder — The Colorado Lullaby Project: Nurturing Social Connection with Song
- Atlantis Community, Inc. — Denver Disability Conversation & Historic Gallery
Final proposals will be reviewed by a diverse panel of leaders from the arts and human service sectors. Grant awards will be announced at RedLine’s annual EPIC Gala on April 17, 2020.