{"id":793166,"date":"2019-02-18T20:10:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T03:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=359419"},"modified":"2019-02-18T20:10:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T03:10:21","slug":"national-endowment-of-the-arts-recommends-65000-grant-for-breckenridges-wave-bifa-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/national-endowment-of-the-arts-recommends-65000-grant-for-breckenridges-wave-bifa-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"National Endowment of the Arts recommends $65,000 grant for Breckenridge\u2019s WAVE, BIFA festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Artist Michael Grab carefully stack the rocks in Blue River in part of Breckenridge International Festival of the Arts Friday, Aug. 10, in Breckenridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The National Endowment of the Arts must have its sights set on Breckenridge because the small resort town continues to rack up high-dollar grants from the independent federal agency dedicated to promoting art.<\/p>\n

Officials at Breckenridge Creative Arts were naturally thrilled to hear they got the highest amount awarded in the state of Colorado through the NEA\u2019s latest round of grant-making, but this is actually the third NEA grant awarded within the past two years for the BCA\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, this latest award marks $205,000 in NEA funding that BCA has received between 2018 and 2019 through NEA\u2019s Art Works and Our Town funding programs,\u201d said Robb Woulfe, the nonprofit\u2019s president and CEO, adding that it\u2019s a pretty good run for such a young arts organization. \u201cWe take great pride in the work we\u2019re doing, and how it is resonating in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

In total, since the BCA started operations in 2015, the nonprofit has secured $325,400 in grant support from local, regional and national funders apart from the town of Breckenridge, Woulfe said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Across Colorado, the NEA has recommended 19 grants worth $320,000 combined. At $65,000, Breckenridge\u2019s grant was by far the largest in the state and almost twice as much as the second-highest award.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rounding out the top three, Sprinkle Art Inc. in Colorado Springs and the Anderson Ranch Arts Foundation in Snowmass Village received grants for $35,000 and $30,000, respectively. No other group in Colorado got one for more than $20,000.<\/p>\n

Overall, the NEA has recommended $27 million worth of grants nationwide through the Art Endowment\u2019s first major funding announcement of fiscal year 2019. The process is rather competitive, as the NEA fielded 1,605 applications for grants before deciding to award 927 of them.<\/p>\n

The NEA-recommended grants are project-specific, and the money may not be used to cover an organization\u2019s general operating expenses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe arts enhance our communities and our lives and we look forward to seeing these projects take place throughout the country, giving Americans opportunities to learn, to create, to heal and to celebrate,\u201d said Mary Ann Carter, acting chair of the NEA, in a statement.<\/p>\n

With that, the BCA\u2019s most recent grant will support the inclusion of contemporary artworks in a series of multidisciplinary festivals, as well as a summer exhibition program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Titled \u201cCatalyst 2.0: Art, Ecology, Play,\u201d the series of public installations and performances will come with an ecological narrative and be part of the BCA\u2019s two major summer art festivals \u2014 WAVE and the Breckenridge International Festival of Arts \u2014 both of which are designed to build community through interactive and participatory public art experiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur relationship with the natural world is central to our concept of Breckenridge as a place,\u201d Woulfe said. \u201cCatalyst 2.0 includes broad explorations of natural ecology with an emphasis on environmentalism and water via interactive light and sound works in WAVE and a celebration of our outdoor-loving mountain culture through thoughtful, nature-based visual and performing arts in BIFA.\u201d<\/p>\n

The BCA, known as \u201cBreckCreate\u201d for short, was developed by the town of Breckenridge to support and promote the arts. For more about the BCA, go to BreckCreate.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For more about the NEA grant announcement, got to Arts.gov\/news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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