Arts Advocacy Program

The objectives of BCAA's Arts Advocacy Program are to inform the arts community about issues impacting their lives now and in the future and encourage their activism. This includes: voter registration; publicizing the value of the arts and the need for government funding, to candidates for public office, identifying their position on support for the arts, and educating the community accordingly; monitoring legislative activities; and alerting the community about the impact of pending legislation. The goal is to remain aware of legislative issues, stay in constant contact with policy makers to educate and influence their policy decisions.

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Upcoming ballot measures that will impact the cultural, educational, and infrastructural landscape of our state:

Amendment 60 cuts school funding by more than a billion dollars a year.

Amendment 61 shuts down our ability to build or expand our roads, schools, water facilities and the rest of our infrastructure.

Proposition 101 eliminates a major funding source for road and bridge construction across the state

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Comment Period Underway for Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Over The River

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently began accepting public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s proposed temporary work of art Over The River. Christo has proposed suspending 5.9 total miles of silvery, luminous fabric panels high above the Arkansas River along a 40-mile stretch between Salida and Cañon City in central Colorado. If approved, the project would be displayed for two weeks in 2013, at the earliest.
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