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!