Staff report
The Arts Campus at Willits this week named Colorado Public Radio events manager Kendall Smith as its director of programming.
The announcement comes in anticipation of the nonprofit’s planned summer 2021 opening of the Contemporary Center for the Performing Arts in the midvalley.
Smith will implement the organization’s vision for artistic and intellectual programming at the new performance space.
He comes to Basalt from Denver, where he served as Colorado Public Radio’s manager of partnerships and events. He was recently recognized by Gov. Jared Polis as part of the team that received the 2020 Governor’s Award for Downtown Excellence for staging the 2019 Englewood Block Party.