The National Endowment for the Arts recently awarded $65,000 in grants to four Colorado Springs organizations.
Chamber Orchestra of the Springs received $10,000 for a music project; Colorado College collected $15,000 for a multidisciplinary project; Sprinkle Art (aka Imagination Celebration) was given $30,000 for a multidisciplinary project; and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs won $10,000 for a theater project.
This is the 10th grant Imagination Celebration has received from the endowment.
“I really love that they value what goes on in the community,” said Executive Director Deborah Thornton. “We’ve done projects with their help for decades now. They demonstrate that they value what goes on in small towns, cities away from the coast and rural communities.”
Mayor John Suthers, City Councilor Tom Strand and other city officials joined the Broadmoor Garden Club to plant two new red oak trees on the south side of Alamo Square
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As we brace ourselves for the cityâs sesquicentennial hoo-ha on July 31 (Fireworks! Parades! Vendors! Tens of thousands of Downtown celebrants, spectators, vendors, politicians and assorted scoundrels!), hereâs a story about another 150th anniversary. Â
In 1871, Paris art dealer/promoter extraordinaire Paul Durand-Ruel figured out how sell art and make serious money at the game. During the following decades, he employed then-sophisticated marketing techniques to sell canvases by obscure Impressionist and Barbizon artists. He bought up their production, identified them as geniuses and trumpeted the âexclusivity of the artistâs production.â During Durand-Ruelâs long run, he bought and sold 1,000 Monets, 1,500 Renoirs and more than 2,000 Picassos.