Note: Editorials by Create Boulder Board Members are highlighted in BLUE
OPINIONS
“A Resounding ‘Yes’ For Arts and Culture”
Daily Camera on November 17th, 2023
By Jan Burton
There are many reasons to support arts and culture in Boulder. Decades of research demonstrate that the arts help build social cohesion, promote civic engagement, foster cross-cultural understanding, improve mental and physical health, enhance educational outcomes for our youth across all socio-economic backgrounds, attract and retain the workforce our businesses need, and make communities more welcoming to all. Read More.
“A ‘Yes’ on Boulder’s Ballot Issue 2A helps build a more vibrant, inclusive and resilient community”
Boulder Weekly on November 2nd, 2023
By Deborah Malden
To paraphrase an old expression: In this election, you can fill your potholes and invest in the arts.This November, City of Boulder voters will have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape our City’s future by voting ‘yes’ on Ballot Issue 2A. 2A is not a tax increase: It extends an existing 25-year-old general fund sales and use tax of just 15 cents on every $100 of purchases and raises approximately $7.5 million a year for the City. Read More.
“Travis LaBerge, Kari Palazzari and Nancy Smith: Election: 2A will pay dividends to our entire community”
Daily Camera on October 23rd, 2023
Nonprofits enhance Boulder in many ways, providing resources and opportunities far beyond what their limited budgets would indicate. And, in many cases, nonprofits provide supplemental education for marginalized students who don’t fit neatly inside the traditional learning environment. Nowhere is this more true than in our arts organizations, Read More
“Ballot Issue 2A advances equity in Boulder”
Daily Camera on November 1st, 2023
By Kathleen McCormick
As a past chair of the Boulder Arts Commission (BAC), I’d like to share how 2A would help fast-forward the City toward greater diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility by increasing outreach and opportunities for traditionally underserved and marginalized communities. Read More
“2A Secures Funding to Strengthen Arts and Culture Ecosystem”
Daily Camera on October 20th, 2023
By Deborah Malden
I’d like to correct misinformation in former City Council member Mary Young’s guest opinion on the 2A ballot measure. One, allocating General Funds to the arts will not negatively impact essential City services. This has been confirmed by Mayor Aaron Brockett, Councilmember Bob Yates, and City budget staff, and the vast majority of City Council approved the 2A sharing of tax revenues. Read More
2A will help local artists infuse Boulder with Creative Culture
Daily Camera on October 15th, 2023
I’m writing with a plea to my fellow Boulderites to please vote “yes” on Ballot Issue 2A! Artists belong in Boulder! We count among the highest per-capita creative population in the country, yet our arts funding is a third of most similar-sized cities. Read More
“Boulder Can be a Leader in the Presentation of Exceptional Art”
Daily Camera on October 14th, 2023
By Carly Hambridge, Boulder Ballet
I have been a company member with Boulder Ballet for seven seasons. I would like to offer my story to you as an example of how large of an impact arts funding has on my profession and my relationship with the Boulder arts community in hopes that the 2A initiative will bring further funding to Boulder. Read More
“Tough Ballot Questions Ask Important Questions About Our Priorities”
Daily Camera on October 9th, 2023
By Gary Garrison
This year there are two City of Boulder ballot measures that originated through citizen-led initiatives: Safe Zones 4 Kids and the extension of a sales tax that will see half the revenue dedicated to arts, culture and heritage. Both of these issues deserve careful consideration. Read More
“Culture is an investment that returns”
Daily Camera on October 7th, 2023
By Jan Burton, Opinion Columnist
There are many reasons to support arts and culture in Boulder. Decades of research demonstrate that the arts help build social cohesion, promote civic engagement, foster cross-cultural understanding, improve mental and physical health, enhance educational outcomes for our youth across all socio-economic backgrounds.. Read More
“Our Kids Deserve Art and Music”
Boulder Weekly on September 14th, 2023
By Travis LaBerge, Parlando School for the Musical Arts
Fostering music programs in schools has always been difficult. Imagine being a middle school orchestra teacher on the first day of school with 30-50 kids in your class: Some of them brought instruments they’ve been playing for eight years while others don’t know how to open the case on their newly rented trumpet. Read More
“Let’s Make Bold Investments in Our Cultural Landscape”
Boulder Weekly on September 14th, 2023
By Bob Crifasi, Studio Arts Boulder
It seems that every generation or two, Boulderites have made significant strides to shape the town’s future, enhance the economy, and improve our collective quality of life. Read More.
“Increasing Arts Funding Will Be Transformational Across the Community”
Daily Camera on August 25th, 2023
By Leah Brenner Clack, Street Wise Arts
Boulder’s a great place to live, ranking on top of many “best of” cities, including third in the list of “most vibrant arts communities.” But does Boulder really support its artists creating this vibrancy? Not really. Boulder currently allocates only $17 compared to $43 per person in other similar-sized cities. Read More.
“Increasing Arts Funding Will Be Transformational Across the Community”
Daily Camera on May 12th, 2023
By Kathleen McCormick and Mark Villarreal
City of Boulder voters are being presented with a once-in-a-generation chance to enhance Boulder’s future through the Arts, Culture and Heritage Tax, an extension and dedication of an existing tax that could provide $7.5 million a year in public funding for the arts . Read More.
Boulder Can Do More To Support the Vital Connections That Arts Help Us Make
Daily Camera on May 12th, 2023
By Jan Burton
This past weekend, I experienced a transformational dance event, thanks to a collaboration between Boulder multimedia artist Rebecca DiDomenico, the creative director of 3rd Law Dance/Theater Katie Elliott, musician/composer Paul Fowler, and filmmaker L. Ashlyn Collins. Rebecca DiDomenico’s “Emanate,” Read More.
“Guest opinion: Deborah Malden: Arts must be part of pandemic recovery plans”
Daily Camera on December 17th, 2020
Just in time for the holidays, approval of one of several vaccines is cause for optimism that life, and economic activity, will return to some semblance of normalcy in 2021. But the outlook for those in the arts and culture sector remains bleak. Read More.
Remove the Shackles for Public Art
Daily Camera on December 9th, 2020
By Jan Burton
The recent installation and dedication of “55 Degrees” by Adam Kuby in Boulder’s Civic Area is a landmark accomplishment for the city’s Office of Arts+Culture and the Boulder Arts Commission. Commissioned in 2017, Kuby designed the three rectangular structures as a sculptural reference to the iconic Flatirons and named them as a reflection of the same 55-degree angle of the Flatirons. Read More.
NEWS
2023 City of Boulder Voter Guides, see Ballot Issue 2A:
Daily Camera (see page 19)
“Experts: Art can be a source of therapy during pandemic, even for those without artistic skill by Dan Grossman”
Denver 7 News on May 27th, 2020
The tapestry is long. In total, about 25 feet. It is an amalgamation of red and blue boxes stitched to fit snugly next to one another, and each day, the tapestry expands by feet at a time. Heather Schulte has been adding to the project since March. Each blue stitch represents a new confirmed coronavirus case in the United States, and each red stitch represents a loss of life. Read More.
“A Guarantee of Sanity” by Caitlin Rocket
Boulder Weekly on May 14th, 2020
During the early years of the AIDS epidemic in America, with Ronald Reagan conspicuously devoid of public thoughts on the matter, art began to fill the silence. There was the “Silence = Death” graphic, its pink triangle a nod to the symbol gays were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps. Read More.
“Boulder project launched to help fund artists, connect community during pandemic” by Hannah Metzger
Daily Camera April 15th, 2020
Create Boulder and the city’s Office of Arts and Culture are launching a project to support Boulder artists financially impacted by COVID-19. The project, “The Creative Neighborhoods: COVID-19 Work Projects,” provides 66 funding opportunities of $599 each. Applications open Thursday and close on April 23. Read More.