FoCo Creates: Arts and Culture Master Plan

showcase on public access tv

Did you know FC has a public access TV station in the Carnegie building? - use it to showcase your art -have your non-profit partner for informative videos

Love the focus on equity and inclusion not only as a goal, throughout document.

On the Carnegie Center: Great opportunity to have a black box performance space within a building that can serve the local makers and Foco.

It can serve as: performance space, education center for grants etc, research and collaboration within the science and artistic community, a place for ideas to percolate and grow, ability to house residencies and so many other things.

Ethnic festivals/Street fairs

Literally, in the streets of different neighborhoods with music, dancing, food, etc.

Provide support for attending arts and culture conferences

Our artists and cultural entrepreneurs need to have access to the latest ideas and developments in order to play their full part in contributing to a thriving arts and culture scene in Fort Collins. Yet few can afford to cover the necessary travel, accommodation and fees. Fort Collins should launch a travel fund that can expand city-wide access to the trends and business practices that are equal to improving the health and fuel the growth of our sector.

Showcase World Premieres

Fort Collins to be a city of "firsts" in the arts, let it be international. Dance, music, theater, visual art that invites others into our community.

Nothing controversial!

Nothing controversial! Because it divides! Do something that EVERYONE will enjoy!

Tagline Ideas

To help jump-start our brainstorming for taglines, here are some rough ideas: One Town, Many Voices. / Living Together, Working Together, Creating Together. / Where Culture Has Lease. / Collectively Creating The Future. / Creating The Future Together. / A Tapestry Of Possibilities. / A Tapestry Of Purpose. / Living Art. / The United States Of Creativity. / The United States Of Artistry. / The United States Of Possibility. / Evolve. Emerge. Expand. / Becoming. /

FC was a cultural capital of the Native American genocide + cultural erasure. We can instead contribute to the regeneration of culture.

We can undertake a systemic analysis of our placenames and momuments to ensure we are not honoring participants in genocide or hanging on to painful names. We can imagine a vocation for our city as regenerators of culture and heritage. We can advance native american art and creativity without appropriating it.

Global Village Museum belongs downtown

The GVM's location at 200 W. Mountain ensures positive use of city-owned space. This unique cultural asset needs a long-term lease at non-profit rates.

Hyper-local arts

I would love to see any further investment in the arts trickle down to our immediate local spaces such as neighborhood parks. Holding events one or two times a year with music, dance, poetry or storytelling performances, a collaborative art project, and having various vendors (a local mini farmers market would be ideal) would do so much to build community right where we live.

24hrs of Art

A festival that is contained in a 24hr period. Example. Breakfast starts at 8am on a Sat with chamber music in the Oak street plaza. Then onward to the FCMoa for a show or event. Then at say 10am there is a band in the square with local artists plein air painting all around town. Then maybe a dance troupe at the Azatlan Center, etc. Overnight Hodies or the Aggie or both could have a free show. Overnight maybe the discovery center could be open. Ending with the symphony playing for breakfast in Library Park. Each group would bring their clientele along and would be responsible for marketing to their people. The groups would be responsible for their own set up and take down and their own costs. Now that we have another downtown hotel this would become a destination style enterprise. A lot of the needed products, (food, marketing, printing) could be traded for sponsorship's. Imagine all the different groups that would participate, dancers, musicians, museums, painters, sculptors, actors and more!

Studio Tours of Author Workspaces

Like the artists studio tours, we could do a similar one for authors. There are many in our community, some of who are also artists. This would be one way to connect to creatives and get a chance to talk to authors who typically aren't visible workers. This could be combined with readings or some kind of poetry creation project with the public.