Welcome to Salida ArtWorks!
Salida ArtWorks seeks to weave the arts into the fabric of our community by providing resources and programs designed to nurture artistic expression and broaden participation in the arts.
USING THIS SITE
**Browse through the registry of more than 150 talented artists, writers and performers from Salida and the surrounding communities. Click on the category of your choice or find a familiar name.
**Be in the know about all the happens with art in the valley by clicking on the ArtWorks Hotline newsletter.
**Plan to participate in ArtWorks events listed on the events page.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Membership News
ArtWorks Members enjoy the benefit of an individual page on our website. Member pages are enhanced with images and links to your personal email and stand out on the list of our registry. Click on a category tab and check your listing.
UPDATE YOUR PAGE TODAY
Send updates and if you have not already done so, send a picture of yourself, two or three of your work, and links you want included to Mark
woodenski
com.
Also check the memorial plaque listing our Charter Members on your next visit to the Paquette Gallery at Salida SteamPlant and Event Center.
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ABOUT SALIDA ARTWORKS
The organization was established to support and build on the area’s unique and rich art community, including creative writing and the visual and performing arts. ArtWorks is especially interested in providing networking among the artists, performers and writers in our Salida art community in an effort to promote collaboration. We strive for more efficient use of our limited resources.
We seek to provide opportunities for Salida artisans to demonstrate their talent, nurture resident artists, and bring passionate and talented guest artists in all disciplines into our community.
SALIDA ARTWORKS believes that a community engaged in and supportive of the arts is a diverse and healthy community.
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ARTWORKS PROGRAMS
501c3 UMBRELLA ArtWorks Provides 501c3 status to arts organizations as an umbrella. This is designed as an incubation tool for startups and as a means to support other groups who can benefit from this status for their fund raising. Parties interested apply, and if accepted, funnel their funds through ArtWorks for a 5% fee. Anyone wishing to apply for this can contact ArtWorks through our website “Contact” page.
POETRY GRANTS ArtWorks received a grant from The Sparrows Poetry Festival in the amount of $2700. This Poetry Fund will be used for Salida Poetry Events, Chaffee County Poetry Workshops, Chaffee County Poetry Chapbook Assistance and a Poetry Festival. The Poetry Fund will allow ArtWorks to preserve and grow Chaffee County’s poetry community.
**The Salida Poetry Events may be open mics or other poetry events in Salida.
**The funds for Chaffee County Poetry Workshops will be used to lodge visiting poets who are conducting public workshops within Chaffee County.
**Chaffee County Poetry Chapbook Assistance will be awarded once or twice a year for the publication of individual chapbooks.
Request an application for these funds at salidaartworksgmailcom.
ANNUAL RESIDENCY AND ARTPOSIUM Partnering with Colorado Art Ranch, ArtWorks sponsors an annual weekend Artposium sure to expand your thinking. Artists, writers, scientists and experts in their field explore a topic together, searching for a multidisciplinary and creative approach to problem-solving issues. In tandem with the Artposium, ArtWorks and Art Ranch offers a month long residency in Salida. The residencies, by invitation only, are intended as “time-out” to write, create art, do research, or engage in creative work not possible in the crush of daily life. In turn, the residents give back to the community by presenting a public or school program during their stay here.
To apply: contact Grant Pound, www.coloradoartranch.org.
