Peak Arts Fund pairs business, arts organizations
A new fundraising campaign aims to raise money for the Colorado Springs arts community. The Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region announced the launch of Peak Arts Fund at Kirkpatrick Bank Tuesday morning. The fund is a full-press effort to gain awareness and support for the local arts community and to substantially increase direct [...]
The Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region will be one of 70 El Paso County nonprofit arts organizations participating in a national study to measure the economic development of the arts. The research study, titled Arts and Economic Prosperity IV, will be conducted throughout 2011 and presented in July 2012. As one of the [...]
Continue reading …Next year will bring change, challenges and even peril to the Colorado Springs arts community. Two of the community’s most dynamic leaders will leave, while one of the city’s most treasured institutions may struggle to survive. Laurence Leighton-Smith, who has conducted the Colorado Springs Philharmonic since it rose from the ashes of the Colorado Springs [...]
Continue reading …Christina McGrath has been appointed executive director of the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region. McGrath, who has lived in Colorado Springs for more than 20 years, has taken classes at both the Bemis School of Art and The Colorado Springs School, and now sits on the board of Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity. [...]
Continue reading …COPPeR Executive Director Bettina Swigger has accepted a position as executive director of Festival Mozaic, a music festival in San Luis Obispo, Calif. After its inception four years ago, Swigger – a founding board member of COPPeR – was the organization’s first executive director. During Swigger’s tenure, COPPeR has grown tremendously. One of the things she launched [...]
Continue reading …Begging for government help was definitely out of the question.
Continue reading …Bettina Swigger of the Cultural office of the Pikes Peak Region joined other civic, business and arts leaders at the Pioneers Museum today to release the region’s first-ever cultural plan. A detailed, 22-page document, the plan establishes a roadmap to guide artists, arts advocates, arts-related nonprofits and the greater community for the next decade in efforts [...]
Continue reading …The Greater Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce and COPPeR, the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, are seeking nominations for businesses and business leaders. Nominations are needed for philanthropy, creative work space, and business leader in the arts awards. Winners will be announced Oct. 4, at the third annual Business & Arts Awards Luncheon at [...]
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