Tin Roof Productions (TRP) Pilot Artist Intern Program

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Jana L Bussanich Art, Yellow Couch Creative, in partnership with Tin Roof Productions 501c3, Pilot Artist Internship Program, matches qualified incarcerated artists with art professionals through a) a rigorous application process and (b) delivering three components crucial for success in the art world: Art-practice development, coaching, and business development.

American Indian Game Design

Denver, Colorado

Pop Culture Classroom will be working with the American Indian Academy of Denver to implement a video game design course, where students will be creating video games with pro-social messages that address issues in their community through an indigenous lens.

Indigenous Holistic Health & Creative Wellness

Pueblo, Colorado

Storytellers of the Ancestral Red Road (SOAR) is a Southern Colorado collective of traditional Indigenous teachers and allies, sharing cultural wisdom in multi-generational educational settings, and practicing well-being and community-focused healing through creative expression.

See Me, Hear Me, Talk to Me

Grand Junction, Colorado

The goal of “See Me, Hear Me, Talk to Me” is to initiate social justice discussions between usually disparate minority, age, and racial groups in addition to using art and art prompts as catalysts to create a sense of community, belonging and engagement in a multi-media event and display.

(Re)Brilliancy: Creating sustainable arts-based workshops at Denver Health

Denver, Colorado

(Re)Brilliancy is a training of Denver Health mental health professionals, with arts backgrounds, to facilitate The Clinic’s arts and play-based (Re)Brilliancy workshops that remind our healthcare providers how incredibly resilient and brilliant they already are. 

We the People: The Democracy Cycle

Boulder, Denver, & Gunnison, Colorado

We The People: The Democracy Cycle leverages the power of storytelling and music to encourage complicated civic discourse between rural and urban communities across Colorado.

Wisdom Archives of Huerfano County

Huerfano County, Colorado

Huajatolla Heritage Foundation is tapping into the Wisdom Archives of Huerfano County

utilizing a variety of formats including art, education, and presentation to weave together

a tapestry of events and stories that honor the rich cultural legacy of our area.

Story Share

Paonia, Colorado

Story sharing is one of the most powerful ways we connect to ourselves, to others, and to the human experience. Our goal with Story Share is to bring various segments of the community together through the stories, to create a safe space to tell stories, listen to the stories of others, and build empathy for one another. This collaboration is between community members: Storytellers, Visual Artists, Writers, and Improv Theater bringing a story to life.

Sesame Street (Baghch-e-Simsim باغچهٔ سم سم, "Sesame Garden") in Colorado for Afghan Kids

Aurora, Colorado 

Three recently -resettled Afghan artists are leading a collaborative production of a Sesame Street-style show, for Afghan refugee children now living in Colorado.

Men of Influence Presents: Change and Make a Difference Documentary Series

Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Men of Influence Presents: Change and Make a Difference Docu-Series!

IMPACT Music Program at Gilliam - Addressing Trauma Among Youth in Detention

Denver, Colorado

Colorado Music Bridge is implementing their IMPACT Music Program at Gilliam Youth Services Center, providing modern keyboard, lyric writing, and music production to youth in detention with accessible curricula and trauma-informed pedagogy. 

Community Service Print Projects

Carbondale, Colorado

Arts education through service-learning print projects empowering student-artists to share their voices on critical issues, fostering conversation and community engagement.

Prairie Sea Projects, 2023-24 season

Joes, Colorado

The Prairie Sea Projects are creative initiatives and community actions that respond to the ecological future of the Colorado High Plains region.

Youth Media Matters and the Power of Story to Heal, Engage, and Empower

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Empowering young people to locate and amplify their voices through the art of documentary film while engaging high impact youth-produced media to high schools across Southern Colorado.

San Luis Documentary and Media Program

San Luis, Colorado

Centennial High School students engage studio and production techniques to create self expressive, multi-media work.

Healing Words

Denver, Colorado

Healing Words is a collaborative project, bringing together Words To Power, Gang Rescue And Support Project (GRASP), and Denver Public Safety Youth Programs/Safe City to serve “at-risk” youth experiencing serious challenges as they reflect upon their struggles, find the power in their words, connect with community resources, and see themselves as leaders in collective healing.

The RAAD Initiative for Arts Activation in FNE Denver

Denver, Colorado

The RAAD Initiative for Arts Activation in FNE Denver’s goal is to activate RAAD's unique community responsive, culturally sustainable arts- based learning (ABL) programming as a necessary response to both the current post/COVID mental health crisis, as well as to the general exclusion of historically minoritized youth/adult populations from meaningful arts/educational experiences – in visual art, music, dance, theater, and creative writing – that are designed for community, by community.

Write It Out After School

Colorado Springs & Manitou Springs, Colorado

Poetry Heals will provide therapeutic poetry writing to augment programming for at-risk youth experiencing serious challenges through Voces Unidas for Justice (United Voices for Justice) and community centers in Colorado Springs.

Fashioning Environmental Justice

Lafayette, Colorado

Students will apply STEAM learning to the fashion arts, working with the artist and designer Ruthie Meere, to create upcycled fashion for a community showcase.

Celebrating Colorado Native Voices through Film: A Partnership between the Ouray International Film Festival, Ouray School, and Colorado Native Artists

Ouray, Colorado

The Ouray International Film Festival is bringing Native filmmakers and educators to Ouray School and to the 2023 summer festival program in order to foster long-term conversations around Native communities in Colorado and beyond.

Tabor Opera House Youth Collective 2023

Leadville, Colorado

The Tabor Opera House Preservation Foundation in historic Leadville, CO, is bringing back the Tabor Youth Collective, TYC, a series of summer camps and performances in the summer of 2023. TYC - aims to create a deeper awareness of the social justice issues local youth are experiencing and provide a safe environment using a reader’s theatre approach through personal stories, music, movement, and audience participation - along with city/county statistics related to topics.

Coming Home: Dragon, Phoenix and the Space In Between

Denver, Colorado

Participants will be guided to explore their story of coming home from service through sculpture, forming archetypal works of self expression while on a journey of collaborative discovery.

Heart-ifacts:  Family Treasures that Tell the Stories of our Community

Westminster, Colorado

“Heart-ifacts” is a community-driven, pop-up museum that celebrates Westminster’s cultural diversity through treasured family heirlooms and everyday objects.