Public Art Commission of the Pikes Peak Region

Public Art Commission of the Pikes Peak Region The Public Art Commission was established in 1982 by the City of Colorado Springs and El Paso County.

A 12-member all volunteer board, including two elected officials serving as liaisons from Colorado Springs City Council and El Paso County’s Board of Commissioners, the Commission is charged with acting in an advisory capacity to evaluate, advocate, stimulate and facilitate matters of public art and culture.

11/05/2016

The sidewalks of Downtown Colorado Springs see thousands of passersby on a weekly basis, but from February through April, the three-foot flowerpots that line those sidewalks remain undecorated and unplanted. Downtown Ventures proposes to fill those empty pots with decorative sculptures by local arti...

10/24/2016

Mayors are using an unusual tool to address issues like environmental stewardship and public safety: public art.

In the news...."We believe the mission of the Fine Arts Center is vital to the city of Colorado Springs,” says Phil Lane...
10/04/2016

In the news....
"We believe the mission of the Fine Arts Center is vital to the city of Colorado Springs,” says Phil Lane, trustee of the Lane Foundation.

Colorado College and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center have received grants from the John E. and Margaret L. Lane Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation to support arts in the community and new educational initiatives. The gifts, which total $3.5 m...

09/09/2016

Andy Vick, executive director of the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region has developed a master plan for COPPeR.

09/03/2016
This is great news Colorado!
08/31/2016

This is great news Colorado!

Coloradans watch movies, visit art galleries, see plays and read books more than almost any other state in the U.S., according to a wide-ranging study released today from the National Endowment for…

08/30/2016

The Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region is pleased to announce that it has just been awarded a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help grow community engagement during the 2017 Arts Month initiative ...

08/26/2016

Proposals are due to the three-year-old program that administers one of Colorado's largest pools of arts funding on Nov. 2.

On this day of the photograph...
08/19/2016

On this day of the photograph...

To get this all, visit https://www.createspace.com/204454 . I made this 1 hour documentary for the 50th anniversary of the great photo essay journal, Life Ma...

08/18/2016

Meet the 15 women painters, sculptors and designers at the vanguard of the major artistic movements to come out of Paris between 1900 and 1930.

The Sustainable Arts Foundation is offering awards of up to US$6000 to writers and artists with children. The money can ...
08/14/2016

The Sustainable Arts Foundation is offering awards of up to US$6000 to writers and artists with children. The money can be used for costs such as child care, workspaces, new equipment, research and travel.

The Sustainable Arts Foundation is offering awards of up to US$6000 to writers and artists with children. The money can be used for costs such as child care, workspaces, new equipment, research and travel. The Sustainable Arts Foundation was founded in 2010 with the aim of encouraging parents to con...

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07/28/2016

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