Eight Years of

Cultural Resurgence

in Colorado Springs

and the Pikes Peak Region

Eight Years at a Glance

The Colorado

Springs Fine

Arts Center

undergoes a

$28

million, 48,000-

square-foot

renovation and

expansion.

Eight Years at a Glance

Colorado College‟s Edith Kinney

Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center

opens.

Eight Years at a Glance

Theatreworks

opens the

flexible-

space, 300-seat

Dusty Loo Bon

Vivant Theatre.

Eight Years at a Glance

The downtown Art on

the Streets program

has now installed 15

permanent pieces of

public art, in addition

to the roughly 15

temporary pieces

each year – and the

artist prizes have

grown and caliber of

work has improved.

Eight Years at a Glance

The Pikes Peak

Center for the

Performing Arts

undergoes a $5

million renovation that

includes outfitting the

Studio Bee

blackbox, now home

to a

monthly, free, after-

work concert series.

Eight Years at a Glance

With help from a

substantial gift by El

Pomar, the Julie

Penrose Fountain –

created by locals

David Barber and

Bill Burgess –

opens in America

the Beautiful Park.

Eight Years at a Glance

Cottonwood

Center for the

Arts finds a

permanent

home with

36,000 square

feet and nearly

80 studio

spaces now

serving about

100 artists.

Eight Years at a Glance

The Colorado

Springs

Philharmonic

emerges from the

ashes of the

symphony, with

record season

ticket sales into

its seventh

season.

Eight Years at a Glance

The Fine Arts Center

opens a satellite

gallery in the Plaza of

the Rockies.

Eight Years at a Glance

Colorado Springs gets

its own gay men‟s

chorus when Out

Loud launches with

beyond-capacity

crowds at its first

concerts.

Eight Years at a Glance

FutureSelf emerges to

provide intensive arts

workshops to

disadvantaged youth.

Eight Years at a Glance COPPeR, the Cultural

Office of the Pikes Peak Region, emerges, bringing with it: PeakRadar.com, a downtown arts information office, an annual Business & Arts Awards Lunch, training and workshops, The COPPeR Pages free guidebook, Sounds of the Pikes Peak Region music program …. And more!

Eight Years at a Glance

Husband-and-

wife team Jim

Jackson and

Birgitta DePree

launch Manitou

Art Theatre, now

with its own

intimate theater

and serving

thousands of

adults and

children each

Eight Years at a Glance

The Business of Art

Center renovates a

historic livery into a

performance

space, café and

offices. Venue 515 is

now home to

concerts, film

screening, artist

trading card

sessions and more.

Eight Years at a Glance

The new Everybody

Welcome Diversity

Festival, a project of

Colorado Springs

Diversity

Forum, brings

arts, music, dance

and food by many

cultures to downtown.

Eight Years at a Glance

The Colorado Springs

Conservatory

expands and finds a

home at Galileo

magnet school. The

Conservatory now

serves 400 students a

year through

partnerships with

Urban League, District

2 and Head Start.

Eight Years at a Glance

Imagination Celebration opens Celebration Place

in The Citadel mall, a new space for children‟s art

exhibits, workshops, rehearsals and more.

Eight Years at a Glance

Theatre „d Art

launches in

2003, providing an

absurdist, avant-garde

option on the local

theater scene.

Eight Years at a Glance

Recognized

nationwide as one of

the best “one

book, one city”

programs, All Pikes

Peak Reads, now in

its eighth

year, reaches tens of

thousands annually

through book

groups, lectures, theat

er performances and

more.

Eight Years at a Glance

KRCC launches Blues

Under the Bridge and

the MeadowGrass

Music Festival (in

partnership with La

Foret), in addition to

expanded concert

production and on-air

cultural features such

as The Big Something

and Colorado Culture

Cast.

Eight Years at a Glance

Entering its third

year in 2010, the

Indie Spirit Film

Festival has, to

date, showcased

about 90 films and

hosted numerous

filmmaker forums.

Eight Years at a Glance

Exuberant artist

extraordinaire Steve

Wood forms Concrete

Couch, a nonprofit

that builds community

by building public art

and public-works

projects. Concrete

Couch works with

kids, war veterans

and anyone interested

in creating things!

Eight Years at a Glance

Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project

The Club of Arts

Pikes Peak Blues Community

Improv groups such as Stick Horses in

Pants, The RIP and Improv Colorado

Smokebrush Gallery expands offerings to

Aspen Valley Ranch

Outdoor music explodes with more than 100

opportunities to hear free, live music outdoors

in the summer

Eight Years at a Glance

Bee Vradenburg Foundation

provides more than $1 million in

grants to arts nonprofits!