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Following is the Boulder County Arts Alliance monthly E-Newsletter for FEBRUARY 2018 containing information on upcoming BCAA news, programs, and deadlines.
In This Issue
 
  • Upcoming Business of Arts Workshops
  • Artists & Athletes: BCAA and the Bolder Boulder
  • Current BCAA Grant Opportunities
  • New Member benefit - KGNU underwriting
  • Submit your Events for Boulder Arts Week
  • Twenty-Ninth Street Pop-up space
  • Who's in the Limelight?
  • Art Space Directory
  • Acknowledgements
Upcoming Business of Arts Workshops
How to Work with Mental Health Issues in Your Arts Organization - Compassionately and Effectively

Thursday, February 22 from 5:30-7 pm

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St, Boulder in the Vandeveer Room

Topics include:

• How to assess mental health issues in an employee
• Effective ways to support a co-worker
• How to navigate mental wellness concerns and legal requirements in our workplaces and beyond.
• Best practices for navigating challenging interpersonal dynamics and difficult people at work and in life, whether or not mental illness is a factor.
Presented by Cheryl Breault and  Jaime Roth.
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Image courtesy of Expertrain
The Future of Charitable Giving

Thursday, March 8 from 11:30 -1pm

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder in the Boulder Creek Room

How will changes in the tax law affect charitable giving? Do you need to re-think your fundraising plan for 2019 for your arts organization? Bring your questions and get advice from Toby Gallegos of Block Advisors.

Gallegos provides tax preparation and other business services to individuals and small businesses with complex tax situations and diverse business needs for Block Advisors in Boulder. He specializes in serving the needs of small business owners, self-employed professionals, nonprofits, and performing artists. Toby is also a member of the Boulder Guitar Society and on the Board of A Child's Song in Thornton.
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For Both Workshops, Networking & Registration starts one half hour before the program begins. Come early and mingle! Drop-ins also welcome.

$10 BCAA Members/$15 non-members
Artists & Athletes: BCAA and the Bolder Boulder

Proposals due by February 28

BCAA is offering artists or art organizations a stipend for performing at the Bolder Boulder on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, 2018. These will be selected through a Request for Proposal process that will remain open through February 28, 2018.

This is an exciting opportunity to show Coloradoans how ART and BUSINESS and SPORT can partner together for the good of the whole community.

Hope to see you on the course!
Request for Proposal
Current BCAA Grant Opportunities
ArCC Organizational Support Award

Deadline to apply:
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 5 pm

The Arts Community Consultancy is designed to provide support to small/medium size arts organizations in need of financial and mentoring support for projects such as strategic planning, board retreats, organizational assessments, grants systems analysis, administrative coaching, and other short-term organizational development projects requiring the assistance of a consultant.

Matching support is available from $500 to $1000, and is meant to subsidize costs for organizations, enabling arts groups to benefit from consultation without incurring prohibitive expense. Organizations should expect to invest up to one half of the project costs.
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Arts for All Children Grants

Deadline to apply:
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 5 pm

This grant is available for dance, music and art teachers in Boulder County and is intended to provide tuition assistance for lessons or help with purchasing instruments. Teachers can apply for funds ($250 - $1000) to award scholarships or purchase instruments for kids.

Previously funded projects include music lessons for orchestra students at Meadowlark School, Taiko drumming lessons, preschool music programming, camp scholarships for theater/dance/music, ballet lessons, and instrument purchase at a community center.

This grant is made possible through the generosity of The Blessing Foundation, and private donors. To make a donation to Arts for All Children, click here.
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BCAA Endowment General Operating Support Grants

Deadline to apply:
Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 5 pm

*Please note: the application will open on February 15.

Due to the large number of General Operating Support applications received in the spring, Equipment Grants and Fellowships have been moved from the spring to late summer cycle. This is in order to make the review process more equitable for our volunteer grant panelists and to help insure enough funding for all grants.

Awards are between $1,000 to $5,000. 

Plan to attend a free grant coaching session on Thursday, March 22 from 5 -6:15 pm, especially if this is your first time applying. The coaching session will be held at the KGNU Community Room, 4700 Walnut St, Boulder.
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BCAA Member Benefits
As an active BCAA member, you are entitled to:
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Submit Your Events for Boulder Arts Week
March 30 - April 7, 2018
 

The City of Boulder's Office of Arts and Culture is taking the lead on planning the 5th Annual Boulder Arts Week. BCAA is proud to be a Community Partner. Check out the new website and find out how YOU can get involved. Make sure you have submitted your events to the Arts Calendar. When you submit an event through BCAA, it will automatically populate the BAW calendar if you check that box.

Boulder Arts Week is a celebration of our community's vibrant arts and cultural offerings, promoting and celebrating our city’s thriving creativity. The entire city comes together to shine a spotlight on the city’s excellent artists and arts and culture offerings such as art walks, First Fridays, exhibitions, performances, dance, music, theatre, public art, artist demonstrations, lectures, readings, workshops, and symposia.
Pop-Up Spaces Available at 29th St in Boulder

 

POP UP @ Twenty Ninth St! Large and small indoor and outdoor spaces available for short or long term retail, events, shows or demonstrations! You could even pop up in an igloo! Contact 303-464-2462 for more info.
Who's in the Limelight?
Katie Lehman
Violinist, Arts Educator and now the Executive Director for Boulder Philharmonic

After a national search, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra recently named Katherine Lehman as their new Executive Director. Lehman comes to Colorado from Maine, where she was the E.D. for the Bowdoin International Music Festival and a consultant in performing arts visioning and capacity building. Her background also includes directing the Sewanee Summer Music Festival in Tennessee, where she brought unprecedented artistic and financial growth.

From 1995-2016 Lehman was professor of violin at the University of the South (Sewanee), performing extensively as a soloist and with the St. Luke’s Trio. She was a core member of the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, recording on Naxos and Sony. A recording artist on Nashville’s Music Row, she appears on hundreds of recordings, film and videogame scores.

Lehman studied at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Kansas, and she received her M.M. and Performer’s Certificate at Northwestern University. Mentors include Gerardo Ribeiro, Victor Yampolsky, Shmuel Ashkenasi, and Zvi Zeitlin. She performs on an 1874 J.B. Vuillaume.

The Boulder Phil is celebrating their 60th Anniversary this year. There will be a free Community Concert on March 4 at the Macky. To learn more and to find tickets to all the wonderful upcoming events in the 2018 season, click here.
Art Space Directory

 

The Art Space Directory is a matchmaking tool to connect creative people with creative art spaces.  Owners and managers of rentable spaces submit listings to the directory, and space-seekers search the directory for opportunities. Use of the BCAA Art Space Directory is completely free of charge for space-seekers, and there are no fees to submit and publish listings. 

The Directory contains a list and map of venues with art spaces with photographs and detailed information.

By using your BCAA log-in to our website, you can upload information for your venues and art spaces and make edits any time. You do not need to log-in to browse or search the Art Space Directory.

Image courtesy Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder
 
Art Space Directory
BCAA Acknowlegements

Thank you New and Renewing Members in January

Art at the Armory

Arts Lafayette

Boulder Bach Festival

Boulder Chorale

Ron Broome

Alissa Davies

Sharon DeMattia

Flatirons Jazz Orchestra

Sharon Gillespie

Ralena Gordon


Jenny Goring

Jennifer Heath

Lafayette Arts & Cultural Resources

Laura McCormac

Maputo Mensah

Moon and Stars Foundation/Kutandara

Motus Theater

Resonance Women's Chorus

Rocky Riviera

Brian Rocheleau

Amy Russell

Elizabeth Shoeman

Society for Creative Aging & VIVA Theater

Sound Circle

Nancy Sullo

Pen Volkmann

Thank you to January's Volunteers

  • Hayley Marie Chase, CU Student, LEAD 4000
  • Courtney Geisert, CU Student, LEAD 4000
  • Hazel Grace Hill, CU Student, LEAD 4000
  • Nina Potter, CU Student, LEAD 4000
  • Shoshana Fanizza, Business of Arts
  • Stephanie Mikuls, Graphic Design
  • Isaac Lutz, Arts Calendar
  • Austin Schaffner, Art Space Directory
  • Marty Wright, Information Technology
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Hemera Foundation
SCFD
Colorado Creative Industries
City of Boulder
Robert W. Baird & Co.
National Endowment for the Arts
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