CAC ARTS NEWS No

CAC ARTS NEWS No. 182

04/12/05

GOOD MORNING COLORADO! Here is our 2 1/2 Aniversary issue of CAC Arts NEWS. (Who knew I'd last this long! pbs)

Editor's Note:

I suppose that snow storm this weekend was a great big frustration for some of you, a delight to others and depending where you live in Colorado, just another couple of wonderful days. I hope some of you did not have to cancel an event.

If you have lived anywhere other than Colorado, you probably have become aware that we are spread out more. No not there silly, I mean between each other, each community and all of our art events. A radio station in Greeley and our station in Estes Park, wanted to hold a day seminar in Aurora. Too far most said although we had two from out of state said they would come. But not enough people willing to come to bring in speakers. And it was going to be free! I think maybe that was a mistake. We should have charged $300 - $400.

The Colorado Arts Consortium has had great conferences, conventions or seminars (pick your term) in the past. In the nineties, we had people come from all over the state. Many conventions were two and a half days. Our president, Paul Fiorino has secured a beautiful resort west of Evergreen that would accommodate 250 people (although sleeping in bunk beds) in a very beautiful setting of Bear Creek and ponds. It has been used as a YMCA camp, a camp for the disabled. Maybe instead of a big hoo-ha convention, we should sponsor a week retreat of rest and relaxation with no frenzied program for those of us involved it the arts! I know. It would last only a day and a half until someone would come up with a program. I will stay in my bunk however, if there is a panel formed to talk about how to form a better board of directors.

Seriously folks, please e-mail me your thoughts on whether it is worth a one day seminar, a two day convention or a week retreat for the arts in September. Don't be negative - be creative. That is what you do isn't it?

Paul Saunders

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AND NOW FOR SOME GREAT COLORADO ARTS NEWS:

Now Available:

"How to be Your Own Best Promoter" Workbook

Recently revised by the CU Marketing Team, the wildly popular BCAA Business of Arts Workshop workbook,

"How to be Your Own Best Promoter" is now available. The workbook covers public and media relations,

publicity vehicles, provides a local media list, press kit and more!

Workbooks may be purchased at the next Business of Arts Workshop, Events Planning,

on Tuesday, April 12, 6:30-8:30 pm at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts.

The cost of the workbook is $5 for BCAA members and $10 for non-members.

Or you may email news@bouldercountyarts.org or call 303-447-2422 ext. 3 to reserve your copy.

Charlotte LaSasso

Communications Coordinator

Boulder County Arts Alliance

2590 Walnut St., Suite 9

Boulder, Colorado 80302

303-447-2422

www.bouldercountyarts.org

Providing leadership, services, funding, and advocacy for Boulder County arts.

BCAA is proudly supported by the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). For more information, please visit www.scfd.org

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The following link has been sent to you from Philanthropy News Digest at the Foundation Center's Web site.

Arts-Related Businesses a Significant Employer, Study Finds http://fdncenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=100400002

Arts-Related Businesses a Significant Employer, Study Finds

A new study from Americans for the Arts , a national nonprofit organization that works to increase public and private sector support for the arts, reveals that arts-centric businesses are present in every congressional district in the country and represent 4.4 percent of all businesses and 2.2 percent of all jobs in the U.S.

Combining Dun & Bradstreet data and geo-economic analysis, the study, Creative Industries 2005: The Congressional Record , tracked and mapped arts-related entities in six creative industries - museums and collections; performing arts; visual arts and photography; film, radio, and TV; design and publishing; and arts schools and services. Among its findings, the study reveals that more than 578,000 arts-related businesses in the country employ almost three million people, that forty-nine congressional districts have more than 10,000 employees in arts-related businesses, and that more than half of all congressional districts have at least 5,200 people employed in arts-related businesses.

"The arts have become an economic and employment powerhouse throughout the nation," said Americans for the Arts president and CEO Robert L. Lynch. "This study shows, in addition to the intrinsic value of the arts, that arts-centric businesses contribute significantly to local economies in all U.S. Congressional districts."

To read or download the complete report (20 pages, PDF), visit: http://ww3.artsusa.org/pdf/information_resources/

creative_industries/the_congressional_report.pdf .

"New Study Reveals That Arts-Related Businesses Provide Significant Employment in Every U.S. Congressional District." Americans for the Arts Press Release 3/15/05.

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June 1, 2005 40th Annual Art Show Call For Entries. Jun 15 - Jul 14,

2005. Original realist work including oil/acrylic, watercolor, pastel,

graphic/drawing, mixed media, sculpture. Cash and merit awards. Entry

fee. For a prospectus send an SASE to: Cody Country Art League, 836

Sheridan Av, Cody WY 82414 OR (after May 20) 307-587-3597

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Call For Entries:

4th Annual

Estes Park Plein Air 2005 - Painting the Parks

Estes Park, CO

Paint Out August 6 - 26

Exhibition & Sale August 27 - September 30

Deadline for Submission: April 30, 2005

EPPA 2005 is open to any artist who paints using the en plein aire technique, in all fine art painting mediums. This painting event and exhibition celebrates the plein aire (on location) method of outdoor painting, and will take place in the Colorado Rockies in Northern Colorado.

Final participants will be selected after a review of slides in early May. Artists selected must agree to paint on location within a 100 mile radius of Estes Park, (in a minimum stay of 3 days, during the official painting period of 8/6 - 8/26, 2005). All art must be created in the field (no studio work), and canvas/board/paper will be date stamped and authenticated prior to painting. Those selected for participation are responsible for their own transportation, meals and lodging. An official event information packet will be distributed to only those artists selected. Packets will include participation fees, rules regulations and gallery assignments. Contact the Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park.

Download the prospectus at www.EstesArts.com, e-mail: cacep@earthlink.net , or call 970-586-9203

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TICKETS & INFORMATION

Daniels Hall | Tuft Theater | The Café

303.777.1003 | www.swallowhill.com

71 East Yale Ave. Denver, CO 80210

CONTACT:

R.J. Betancourt

rudy@swallowhill.com

303.765.2488

Swallow Hill Music Association Presents

May 1 to 15

Week of April 18 to 24

Story Circle | Monday, April 18, 7 p.m.

Swallow Hill Café

TXS: $1 at the door

Love stories? The Rocky Mountain Storytellers' Guild invites you to a participatory storytelling session. Bring a story to tell or just come and listen. Hosted by Kate Lutz.

Open Jam | Tuesday, April 19, 7 p.m.

Swallow Hill Café

TXS: $1 at the door

It's a "no-pressure-any-instrument-any-skill-level" jam session! Playing with other musicians is a fun and challenging opportunity no musician should pass up. Here's your chance to lead, listen, share, and learn - all styles and instruments are welcome!

Blues Jam | Wednesday, April 20, 7 p.m.

Swallow Hill Café

TXS: $1 at the door

John Toebbe of the Colorado Blues Society will host this new and exciting acoustic blues jam. Bring your favorite songs to share or simply unleash your best blues licks. The format is casual and the emphasis is on fun. Hey, even folkies get the blues!

Stray Dog | Thursday, April 21, 6:30 p.m.

Swallow Hill Café

TXS: $7 at the door

Stray Dog is another one of those Open-Stage-to-big-stage stories we just love around here. A couple of years ago Stray Dog sauntered into the café and blew away the audience, eliciting howls from a normally unexcitable crowd. Since then they have been back to Swallow Hill three times, each time adding hordes of new fans wanting to adopt Stray Dog as their new musical pet.

More info: http://www.swallowhill.com/the_cafe.htm#stray

Steve Forbert | Friday, April 22, 8 p.m.

Daniels Hall @ Swallow Hill

TXS: $15 in advance, $18 day of show

In spite of difficulties with record companies, Steve has been called a “hardcore troubadour” for his ability to create one good album after another and for continuing to gain a loyal fan base at each show. Steve is also an excellent musician whose harmonica playing has been called “natural as breathing” and he has been said to play his guitar “like it’s part of him.” His songs are truthful, openhearted and have been said to wander the “backwaters of a gritty, blue-collar America” and recall the poetry of Bob Dylan or Van Morrison.

More info: http://events.swallowhill.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=633&c=39&pg=5

John Gorka | Saturday, April 23, 8 p.m.

Daniels Hall @ Swallow Hill

TXS: $21 in advance, $24 day of show

A musician since the age of 10, John began writing songs in high school. His forte is his clever wordplay in his lyrics paired with melodies that have been called “delightful.” Praised for having the most relaxing singing voice in folk music, John has developed a reputation for his live performances and his “mellow” baritone voice. “His music is hummable acoustic pop, but his favorite themes are familiar to any placard-waving folkie: freedom, faith, the environment and social justice.” – Sonicnet.com. “The preeminent male singer-songwriter of the New Folk Movement." – Rolling Stone Magazine

More info: http://events.swallowhill.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=634&c=39&pg=3

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

Monday, April 11, 2005

Contact: RJ Betancourt

(rudy@swallowhill.com; 303.765.2488)

International Ambassadors, The Montana Mandolin Society,

performs live at Swallow Hill

Denver — The Montana Mandolin Society (MMS), known for their particular “Montana sound,” performs live at Swallow Hill on Friday, May 6, 2005 at 8 p.m. The Montana State Day praises, “MMS, with its repertoire of waltzes, gallops, marches, rags, and tangos, takes its audiences back to a gentler, more graceful age.” Not merely performers, they are also music educators and ambassadors nationally and internationally. They have appeared by invitation at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing arts in Washington D.C. They have also appeared as the first musical group from the United States to be invited to perform at the Kanto Mandolin Festival in Tokyo, Japan. The Society has been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” with Linda Wertheimer. The Society’s third album, Mosaic, received a Grammy nomination in 2004.

MMS began in 2000 after director Dennis White came upon a rare photo of the Bozeman Mandolin and Guitar Club from 1902. The photo, picturing Bozeman’s early founders, lead to the formation of the Society. Many of the Society’s concerts are done in association with schools where the performers hold workshops with young musicians. The Society’s instrumentation includes mandolin, mandola, mandocello, octave mandolin, hammered dulcimer, violin, guitar and banjo.

The Montana Mandolin Society’s performance at Swallow Hill Music Association is not to be missed. For tickets, visit www.swallowhill.com or call (303) 777-1003. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. Discounts are available for Swallow Hill members.

A Colorado non-profit organization with twenty-five years of grassroots advocacy for folk, acoustic and roots music, Swallow Hill Music Association is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the United States. With more than 2,000 members — some of whom are also volunteers—, Swallow Hill provides a place to celebrate music that is rarely heard elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain Region. Three concert venues house more than 150 performances a year, featuring some of the world’s great artists as well as up-and-coming new talent. Swallow Hill provides a valuable and affordable extra-curricular educational resource to the community with more than 50 music instructors involved in more than 240 adult classes and 70 children’s classes annually.

Sorry everyone.. there is a correction on our last email. The makeup date for the screen printing workshop is on April 24th.. not the 17th.

Our Screen Printing workshop was postponed due to weather to

Sunday April 24th from noon till 4. Contact Greg Ashley at Georgelarry@hotmail.com

if you have any questions or would like to sign up. $30 for members and $40

for non members.

http://www.theothersidearts.com/ Mission: Integrating art into the every day lives of the Denver community through art education for children and adults, experiential opportunities for the public, and nurturing the creative process of artists.

TOSA

general email The Other Side Arts

1644 Platte St

Denver, Co

80202 Art@theothersidearts.com

www.theothersidearts.com

tel:

fax: 303 561 3000

303 561 3010

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Do you have any questions about the CU Highlife Ensemble? The ensemble that

has been featured in the Wall Street Journal has its fifth anniversary concert

on April 15th and is available for interviews or features if you are

interested.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact: Laima Gaigalas, 303-492-4247

* Event: CU Highlife Ensemble 5th Anniversary Concert

* Description: Energetic dance music from West and South African with guest

percussionist Okyerema Asante.

* Date: Friday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.

* Location: Macky Auditorium, CU-Boulder Campus

* Admission: Tickets are $10 and $20 with discounts available for CU students,

seniors, youth, and groups. Tickets are available by calling 303-492-8008 or

at www.cuconcerts.org

CU HIGHLIFE ENSEMBLE APPEARS WITH MASTER PERCUSSIONIST OKYEREMA ASANTE AT MACKY

AUDITORIUM

The University of Colorado at Boulder College of Music presents the CU Highlife

Ensemble in its 5th Anniversary concert Friday, April 15th at 7:30 p.m. in

Macky Auditorium.

The concert will feature a program of high energy, tightly knit Highlife music

from West and South Africa. World renowned percussionist Okyerema Asante, who

has performed internationally with such artists as Paul Simon and Fleetwood

Mac, will also be featured as a special guest.

The CU Highlife Ensemble, led by Professor of Ethnomusicology Kwasi Ampene, was

the first university ensemble in the U.S. to perform highlife music. The group

includes thirty music and non-music majors from the CU-Boulder campus.

This is the ensemble’s second presentation in Macky Auditorium. This year all

seats will be reserved; there will be no general admission.

Tickets for this performance are now available. Ticket prices are $10 and $20

with discounts available for CU students, seniors, youth, and groups. Tickets

can be purchased at the door, by calling the CU Concerts Box Office at 303-492-

8008 or online at www.cuconcerts.org.

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JTClown226@aol.com

For those of you in the Arts Council and have been to a meeting in Fort Morgan/Brush area, you have probably met Frank Folgolini from Sterling. He passed away on Thursday. I was told that he developed this bronchitis crud, it went into pneumonia and then he developed obstructed bowl syndrome. The funeral is Tuesday morning in Sterling at the Chaney-Reager Funeral Home, 443 S. 2nd in Sterling, 970-522-2111. Frank was big on the festivals in Sterling and had been the first one to hire me as a clown for their Heritage Festival which I have made an appearance at for the past few years. He will be missed.

Blessing to all of you,

Bonnie Rohn

970-542-2237

717 W. 7th Ave

Ft. Morgan, CO 80701

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Fiber Show

at the Evergreen Arts Center

May 3 to 31

Contact: Lorene Joos, Director

Tel: 303-674-0056

Email: pirates1@msn.com

www.evergreenarts.org

FIBER SHOW AT THE EVERGREEN ARTS CENTER: The Evergreen Arts Center will host the first Fiber Show - The Tactile Art, May 3-31, 2005. This show promises a diverse selection of innovative, creative, and experimental work. Well-known fiber artist, Carmon Slater will jury the show. The show includes quilting, weaving, dye process, batik, basketry, and any other media and processes deemed fiber.

The show kicks with an opening reception on Thursday, May 5, from 5 to 8pm. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet the artists, enjoy an evening out in an aesthetic setting, and support our art center. This event is free and open to the public.

The Evergreen Arts Center is located next to the Buchanan Park Recreation Center in Evergreen, 32003B Ellingwood Trail (Highway 74 and Squaw Pass Road), and is open Noon to 5pm Tuesday through Sunday.

The Evergreen Arts Council is a non profit 501 C3 Tax Id No. 84 0718563.

For further information please call the Evergreen Arts Center at 303-674-0056.

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FROM OUR FRIENDS IN TUCSON<ARIZONA

Retired UA cello professor

given award by Napolitano

ARIZONA DAILY STAR

T he party continues for retired UA cello professor Gordon Epperson. In January, the accomplished cellist and instructor was the center of a mega tribute concert, "Cellissimo: A Consort of Cellos," featuring former students and a pair of internationally acclaimed soloists.

On Tuesday, Epperson found himself at the center of attention again when Gov. Janet Napolitano gave him one of five Governor's Arts Awards.

At a dinner ceremony at the Camelback Inn in Phoenix, Napolitano presented Epperson with the Arts in Education award. Epperson, a professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, capped his 50-year teaching career when he retired in 1988 from the UA, where he had taught 21 years.

Epperson, who was nominated for the honor by the Phoenix-based Heard Museum, was among 106 Arizonans nominated in five categories. The

awards are presented in recognition of significant contributions to the growth and development of the arts in Arizona.

Tucson-based Stonewall Foundation took home the community award for its long-term support for the Tucson Museum of Art, the Tucson Botanical Gardens, the Arizona Theatre Company and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.

The foundation, set up by Tucson arts advocates William and Susan Small, has contributed more than $400,000 to support the TMA's Contemporary Southwest Images Series. It also supports the TSO's Music in the Schools program and has helped the Arizona Theatre Company by providing updated production equipment.

Other winners on Tuesday were Bank One, the corporation award; Marcia Ellis of Litchfield Park, the individual award; and Robert McCall of Scottsdale, the artist award.

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DEADLINE FOR ARTISTS' MERCADO

APPLICATIONS EXTENDED

The application deadline for the artists' Mercado has been extended from

Friday, April 8 to Friday, April 15, 2005.