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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.
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Kendall Smith starts his new job as director of programming for The Arts Campus at Willits, or TACAW, on Jan. 4. And while Smith is well versed in the spectrum of entertainment likely to be available post-pandemic once touring resumes, heâll refrain now from committing to any future acts, thank-you-very-much.
âMy philosophy is to learn who the audience is,â Smith said Tuesday morning during a phone interview from his home in a Denver suburb. âThere has to be a healthy mix of the familiar and some surprises.â
The addition of Smith to TACAWâs small but mighty staff was announced Monday by the midvalley nonprofit, which he joins from Colorado Public Radio, where he currently serves as manager of partnerships and events.