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Following is the Boulder County Arts Alliance monthly E-Newsletter for JULY 2018 containing information on upcoming BCAA news, programs, and deadlines.

• Case Studies in Relevance in the Arts: Nikki Pike and Martha Russo
• Upcoming Business of Arts Workshops
• BCAA Endowment Project and Equipment Grants, Fellowships
• Save the Date for Art @River Bend - August 26, 2018
• Attention Performing Arts Groups: Not in Our House
  
• Cultural Plan Refresh Survey
• Who's in the Limelight?
  
• Art Space Directory
• BCAA Acknowledgements

Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
5:30pm Reception 6 -7:30pm Presentation
Eldorado Springs Art Center, 8 Chesebro Way, Eldorado Springs, CO 80025
Free/Suggested Donation $5

Artwork pictured by Nikki Pike (left) and Martha Russo (right).

In 2017, Boulder County Arts Leadership Forum (BCALF) presented two panels on Relevance in the Arts featuring arts professionals from the Metro area. As a follow-up to those panels, we are embarking on deep dives into the topic with local professional artists. This first exploration is with acclaimed visual artists Nikki Pike and Martha Russo. Each artist will present a sample of their work followed by a moderated discussion.

Nikki Pike is an Artist and Activist who uses curiosity, music, surprise, and gifting along with the influence of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to spread the values of empowerment, vulnerability and connection in the form of experience as opposed to product. Nikki is an Instructor in the Visual and Performing Arts Department, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Martha Russo is an Artist whose massive installations have a raw energy that forces their way into your bones and guts in order to make time and place for contemplation about our basic humanness. Russo, once a world-class athlete, suffered a career-ending injury in 1984 while vying for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Field Hockey Team.  After recovering, Russo became attracted to the physical nature of sculpture and studied studio arts in Florence, Italy and then ceramics at Princeton University.  She earned her MFA at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Moderated by Justin Veach, an “artist who programs” and specializes in events designed to raise awareness, expand and develop new audiences, as well as effectively communicate an organization’s values and mission. He received his BA in Writing & Literature and InterArts Studies from the Tibetan Buddhist-based Naropa University and an MFA in Critical Studies from the California Institute of the Arts.

Presented in partnership with Boulder County Arts Leadership Forum (BCALF). Drop-ins welcome but R.S.V.P. if you can to help us get a head count.

River Bend, 501 W. Main St, Lyons, CO 80540
FREE Admission. $5 Parking on-site. Free parking in town.

Art @River Bend is a collaboration between BCAA and the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission, held along the North Saint Vrain Creek in Lyons. Dozens of artists in all mediums will have work for sale: Paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, fiber and more!

2018 will be our 5th year in this beautiful venue. The emphasis of this event is the sale of quality fine art.

We are very excited to have Cured as our exclusive food vendor. They will be selling their gourmet cheeses and charcuterie. Libations will be provided by Spirit Hound Distillery.

Volunteers are needed. It's fun! Contact us: info@bouldercountyarts.org if you are available to help.

Community Groups are welcome too! We'll supply chairs if you'd like to bring a table and information about your group and/or hands-on activities to share. Register here.

Colorado Music Festival presents a six-week summer concert season (now through August 4) at Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder showcasing Colorado Music Festival Orchestra. Inspired programming performed by exceptional national and international musicians has earned Colorado Music Festival recognition from the League of American Orchestras and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts was founded in 1995 by Kathy Kucsan and Peggy Bruns. The Colorado Music Festival completed its 39th summer in 2016. The two merged in 2009 and in 2013 the new name Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts was chosen.

The Center provides quality, creative music-making opportunities to over 550 students each week. Another 7,000 people visit the school each year to attend concerts and events of all types.

One of the spectacular performances you won't want to miss is Pianist Yefim Bronfman with Conductor Peter Oundjian on July 12 and 13. Internationally recognized as one of today’s most acclaimed and admired pianists, GRAMMY winner Bronfman joins conductor Oundjian for a performance of Brahms’s impassioned Piano Concerto No. 1. The orchestra opens the program with Leonard Bernstein’s crackling Overture to Candide and closes this unforgettable concert with Rachmaninoff’s acclaimed Symphonic Dances, a stunning virtuoso showpiece for orchestra. Hear more about the friendship between these two artists by clicking here. 

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 of Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Avenue, Longmont