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Colorado Art Ranch

Colorado Art Ranch is a nomadic arts organization founded on the belief that the arts are an agent for change. We travel to two or more Colorado towns each year to sponsor one-month residencies for visual and literary artists from around the world. During each residency Colorado Art Ranch hosts a public forum to promote converstaions on how art, and science intersect with land and social issues.

A Unique Arts Organization

Nomadic. Colorado Art Ranch owns neither land nor buildings. We bring the residencies and Artposia to Colorado towns where housing, studio space, and conference facilities are rented or donated. In 2007 we traveled to Salida and Durango. In 2008 it was Steamboat Springs and Denver.

Interdisciplinary. Every residency mixes literary and visual artists to promote the exchange of ideas. Each Artposium explores how the arts intersect with life and the land from myriad viewpoints.

Boundary-crossing. Because Colorado Art Ranch is nomdic. in connects artists, writers, and supporters from many comminities across the state. Because it is interdisciplinary, the Artposium fosters collaboration amon artists, writers, scientists, and policy makers.

Community-building. Colorado Art Ranch serves communities across the state, requires artists-in-residence to donate time to the towns that host them, recriuts local ambassadors to serve as "Art Buddies" for the visiting artists and drows on local experts for some of the presentations at the Artposia.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Spring 2009 Sex and Sensibility. Trinidad

Fall 2009 Meals, Metaphors and Memories. Paonia

In the hopper: The arts in Mine reclamation and heritage. Lake City

Sustainability and the arts. Carbondale

The arts in agri-tourism. Routt County

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