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Arts and Humanities Focus Area

Arts and Humanities Focus Area

 

We bring together artists, entrepreneurs and educators from CU Boulder and communities statewide to grapple with how the arts and humanities can address key social, economic and environmental issues. To strengthen these efforts, we have developed programs to connect campus and community expertise and also work to create and sustain partnerships. Our goal is to share diverse experiences, perspectives and approaches to the arts and humanities.

We invite you to get involved! Contact Lisa Schwartz about developing community partnerships, giving talks to Colorado communities, opportunities for graduate student engagement and information about funding through our office and other sources.

Current Programs

An EAH scholar discusses her project with an attendee of the Communtiy-Engaged Scholarship Graduate Student Showcase.

Engaged Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Scholars

This program helps arts and humanities graduate students apply the tools of their academic disciplines and their unique interests to community-engaged projects and funds this work.

Man stands under an ice cave

Inclusiveness and Equity Series

Our office and Boulder County Arts Alliance partner with each other and artists and arts organizations to offer workshops and presentations that engage issues of diversity, equity, access and inclusion in the Arts.

an art exhibit featuring jellyfish made from recycled plastic

Art + Science + Action Collaborations

This program brings together artists, scientists and community members to explore and address critical, interrelated environmental and social issues across Colorado.
 

Partnerships

Contact Lisa Schwartz to discuss how we can support your project's development and help connect your community work with partners.

Campus Partners
  • The Boulder County Latino History Project connects CU Boulder faculty and students with communities and k12 teachers and has produced a body of scholarly and curricular resources.  Our work with this project represents how our office supports programs in sustaining and evolving project work locally and to serve communities statewide. Read more about this project.
  • Center for Community Engagement Design and Research (CEDaR)
  • CU Boulder Peak to Peak Lecture series brings humanities scholars to communities around Colorado and is partnership with the Program in Jewish Studies (PJS), a non-religious academic program that explores Jewish culture, history and society.
  • Theatre and Dance Outreach 

Community Connections

Find out how we foster campus and community relationships and bridge rural and urban Colorado.

Boulder County / Front Range
We partner with Boulder County Arts Alliance to address diversity, equity and inclusion for arts organizations, artists and patrons. 

Beyond the Front Range

We can connect you with partners in rural Colorado communities, or help you further develop your work in these areas. 

San Luis Valley   

  • Adams State University
  • Alamosa Library
  • Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area

Mountain West and Western Slope 

  • Blue Sage Center for the Arts (Paonia, CO)
  • Carbondale Arts
  • Garfield County Libraries (Carbondale, Glenwood Springs) 
  • Roaring Fork Precollegiate Program

Southeast Colorado

  • Corazon de Trinidad Creative District  / Space to Create
  • Trinidad Carnegie Library   
  • Trinidad History Museum  
  • Trinidad State Junior College
 

Statewide and National Networks

Our office partners with the Colorado Creative Industries (CCI) and statewide creative districts in order to support creative placemaking and economic development. We partner with CCI and the CU Boulder Community Engagement Design and Research Center (CEDaR) to develop evaluation methodologies together with creative districts. Target partner districts include Carbondale, Crested Butte, Ridgway, Salida, Steamboat, and Trinidad.  

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life is a national consortium of more than 100 higher education and community cultural organizations working to advance democracy and participation in higher education. CU Boulder’s membership in Imagining America represents how our office champions engaged scholarship, teaching and creative work in the arts and humanities and across the disciplines through institutional level partnerships and professional development opportunities. Read more about CU Boulder's involvement with Imagining America.

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Related News and Events

Tanaya Winder's art work

Dialogues on Arts and Social Justice webinar series

Social justice and the arts are the focus of a virtual public series in fall 2020 featuring CU Boulder and community artists and educators, a partnership between our office and the Boulder County Arts Alliance.

CU Boulder Playback Theatre performs at a Creative District Leadership Convening

Creative District Leadership Convening

Our office and Colorado Creative Industries brought together 30 creative district leaders and CU Boulder faculty, staff and students to discuss how communities address economic and social issues. 

Lisa Schwartz and Jenny Briggs

New national initiatives tap outreach program managers

Thanks to their expertise connecting university resources to community needs, program managers from our office have been selected to participate in two, new national leadership programs.

Colorado creative district leaders came to CU Boulder in October to connect with each other and campus researchers and explored NEST Studio for the Arts.

Lightning talks spark creative connections

A 2018 campus conference brought together state leaders who foster economic growth through the arts and CU Boulder researchers, igniting ideas for addressing communities’ social and economic issues.

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