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Cover Art: Seth Weber - "Wildbloom" is a newly completed mural on the side of RE/MAX Mountain West, 225 Grand Ave, Paonia. You can purchase a watercolor print of this piece here.
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Dear Creative Community,
Paonia is opening up, and we are grateful for your safe participation! We have a lot to tell you about in this newsletter.
I am excited to be with you, as your new Executive Director. I have been at it for a month now, and the Creative Coalition has a lot of irons in the fire, with economic development through the Creative Industries as our highest priority. That means what we want most is to benefit you - our members and creative community.
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As Paonia opens it's doors, we encourage locals and visitors to support the unique stores and restaurants, and to enjoy an adventure in the beautiful North Fork Valley summer! While you experience our community, please keep us and yourselves safe by wearing one of our artist's masks, giving six feet of space, and purchasing one of many locally hand-made sanitizers. Stay safe, Shop Local!
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Creatives' projects need to be seen! We've got some opportunities for you, including ways to display your creations and ways to get paid for your talent! You'll also find some potential funding, below, to assist creatives who are experiencing hardship because of COVID.
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If your membership expired since March, and the last few months have been financially difficult, we are offering extended memberships until September!
If you have had prosperity, however, we would also be grateful for your support. We are accepting donations and renewing memberships. Your contributions or renewal will help your community and fellow creators who need extra support right now.
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I've been talking with some businesses, people in the community, and some of our members, and I'm learning what you want and what we can do to help. I'd like to hear your thoughts, so please let me know if you'd like to have a chat. I can be reached by e-mail, Facebook, or phone at (970)778-9072. I look forward to speaking with you!
Heidi Hudek, Executive Director
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So many events have been cancelled this year, and the creative community has been deeply impacted by the loss of theses events. We think it's important to support our creative community, as Art & Ag Tour has done for the last two years. So we have some good news for you! Though it will be different, Art & Ag is still on this year!
We requested feedback last month to get your thoughts on holding Art & Ag this year. The majority of respondents asked us to continue to hold the event. However, there were some who weren't comfortable, particularly with having visitors in their studios and on their farms. We also think it's important to keep our community safe! So we are modifying the event this year.
We are collaborating with Paonia Small Business Council to provide a Saturday Street Market on September 5th! Grand Avenue will be closed, we will have street performers, booths will be distanced and face masks are required, and we invite business owners, artists and farmers to show their creations.
Don't worry, the building up of our economy doesn't stop there! Instead of promoting a large event and bringing visitors to us, we're giving rise to a ballyhoo! We are boosting Art & Ag participants, not just for a weekend, but in a two month sales party! We will share tutorials on how to create a compelling visual, then encourage you to share your story and a simple video with us. We will create a YouTube channel, boost individuals on Social Media, create a webpage just for Art & Ag participants, and link all of this directly to your online sales page.
If you are interested in having a booth or being a promotion participant, e-mail for more information and a registration form. Deadline to sign up for a booth and/ or have your promotion materials to us is August 20th.
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Final Friday Frolics is also on! On July 31st Grand Avenue is open!
Paradise Theater presents Fri-Yay's! The Paradise Theatre is excited to announce that it has joined Friday Frolics with a new program; Creative Fri-Yays! Creative Fri-Yays is a free monthly lecture series that focuses on creativity. This month, a discussion with Paradise's own Sunshine Knight.
Then, Shrek starts at 7pm! Discussion and movie at 215 Grand Ave.
Seven Trees presents artist Raven Rohrig.
Raven Rohrig, a local fine artist, will be showing works from her ongoing series, “The Wisdom of Women,” from 5-7pm. Visitors will find a collection of Rohrig’s original paintings, limited edition prints, greeting cards, and new limited edition talisman pins.
Raven Rohrig, a Colorado-based artist, has been feverishly painting since 2014 with a skilled hand in capturing her subjects. Rohrig’s inspiration comes from a childhood spent in her father’s studio and a desire to express her emotions through her art. Since becoming a full-time painter in 2016, Rohrig continues to hone her style as a contemporary portrait painter. With a wide-ranging color palette and a unique vision for portraiture, Rohrig’s work challenges the mainstream view of women as objects of simple pleasant beauty, presenting them as sovereign and sacred with deeper hidden stories.
Seven Trees carries organinc skin and body care, clothing, home goods, jewelry and accessories, and is located at 217 Grand Ave.
Cirque Boutique presents art by Franki Zinke
Franki picked up pens and paper as soon as she could hold them; Putting her art out into the world felt as natural as breathing. Calling together art jams with friends, exploring the eco-systems of Earth and observing the natural patterns in nature- all give her inspiration to create. Franki has a heart for animals, plants and and anything wild; she gives a voice to the Earth through the powerful language of visual art. This is the Art of the Animal!
With powerful positive change to be ignited around the world, walls to embrace with murals that speak to the heart, and beloved people to amplify with art that empowers; Franki aims to live in this creative flow and be the vessel to channel our divine visions for a harmonious planet.
For the past six summers, Franki has shown up as a creative mentor and art muse for Rainbow Lightning Youth Village, teaching art workshops like Collaborating Mural Painting and Spirit Animal Mask Making. Check out -Rainbowlightning.org- ! This summer of 2020, Franki is illustrating a couple children’s books, painting a few murals, gardening and tattooing. When she moved to Paonia 3 years ago she had hoped to some day show her art at Cirque Boutique, and so it is! Enjoy :)
Cirque Boutique features Colorado handmade, artist-produced accessories, gifts, and a large selection of unique clothing and home decor, and is located at 232 Grand Ave.
Ollie's is open until 9pm, so give in to the sweet tooth and enjoy a scoop of ice cream, a shake or a banana split! Ollie's Ice Cream is at 140 Grand Ave.
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NFVCC is proud to be part of this powerful economic development team, and we invite you to join us!
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Call to Local Artists: Request for Artist Proposals
“Wild Home” Community Book
Creative Illustration Project
Request: A collaborative community arts project seeks original illustrations for a one-of-kind book that serves as an artistic representation of the North Fork Valley’s struggle to protect its community and public lands from the ravishing impacts of oil and gas development, inspiration and guide to others. This book is a collaboration between Notch Theatre company – producers of the Wild Home play, North Fork Valley Creative Coalition, and Citizens for a Healthy Community. The book will feature “Wild Home” theatre scripts, advocacy tools, maps and information about the North Fork Valley, reflections on social justice-driven theatre, and multi-media illustrations from artists in the community.
Intent: Produce a book with many authors and many illustrators. The intent is for this book to be special-- not one that simply sits on a bookshelf-- but lives in someone’s home or office as its own work of art. The text will consist of theatre scripts (Wild Home plays), community reflections, information about the biological wealth and value of the North Fork Valley, information about socially-engaged theatre, and more. The purpose of the illustrations is to bring these words, chapters, and play scripts to life through visual art, and capture the hopes, fears and dreams of the community represented in each Wild Home play.
Goals of the project:
● Create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary creative arts expression project that connects the literary, visual, and performing arts around environmental justice and preservation of the North Fork Valley
● Celebrate the past, present and future process and possibilities of Wild Home
● Create a book that is both art and guide—a model for others both within and outside the North Fork Valley community
● Collaborative engagement, artistry, and fundraising for a shared cause
● Honor the role of artists in social and environmental change
● Time capsule, yet forward looking and timeless
Book outline:
● Introduction
● History and importance of social/environmental inspired theatre
● The Inspiration: Too Wild to Drill Report—North Fork Valley
● Wild Home Concept—Process—Community Interviews
● Wild Home Play Scripts
● Impact: Call to Action, presentations outside community, partnerships, citizens/people that were inspired to get involved—new activists
● Guerilla Theatre—plans for distribution/awareness/execution
● Conclusion
Submission Requirements:
We are looking for visual artists of all kinds who are interested in illustrating and creating artwork to visually represent the importance of protecting the North Fork Valley from extractive industries. Open to all mediums, forms, and styles that can be printed on a page.
We are calling for artists who live in the North Fork Valley, so others may be inspired through your passion for your home, and so we may stimulate the local artist economy.
If interested, email natasha@chc4you.org for a copy of the “Wild Home” script PDF.
We ask that interested artists submit the following:
● Sketch or a concept for one or more of the following
o 3-4 illustrations per Wild Home play
o Given the content outlined in the table of contents, a different illustration or visual idea that inspires you
● The artist should own the overall artistic expression and reflection of each play or chapter. The proposal should reflect the artist’s interpretation of the visual expression needed, which may result in more than the minimum illustrations requested per chapter.
● Specs: The product will be 8.5 x 11 size, traditional book binding on thick heavy paper
Review Criteria:
● Artistic merit
● Interpretation of the plays
● Range of artistic expression
● Applicability to handmade paper printing materials
Honorarium: To honor each artist’s time, skills, and creativity an honorarium of $600 is available per illustrated play.
Deadline: August 15, 2020
Submit proposal or questions to:
Natasha Léger
Citizens for a Healthy Community
PO Box 1283
Paonia, CO 81428
Or via email at: natasha@chc4you.org
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This grant supports artists experiencing economic distress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This fund is a collaboration between multiple funders and arts organizations working at state, regional, and local levels.
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The Colorado Music Relief Fund provides grants of up to $1,000 to musicians and music industry workers (lighting, recording, security, transportation, management, etc.) who live in Colorado, who are experiencing immediate unforeseen emergency needs due to COVID-19, and whose incomes have been adversely affected due to cancellation of concerts, events, classes, performances, and other creative work. Application Deadline: August 1, 2020.
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The mission of the Eide Bailly Resourcefulness Award is to recognize nonprofit organizations that have established creative initiatives to generate sustainable streams of revenue. Applications open July 16th.
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This initiative is designed to build on the global movement started in Italy with public displays of the phrase "Andrà Tutto Bene," which translates as “everything is going to be okay.” NINE dot ARTS will fund 30 participating artists or cultural non-profits with individual $250 microgrants. The winners will be selected at random, and funds will be distributed through Venmo beginning May 15th through July 15th.
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The Arts in Mitigation Fund seeks to support projects that expand the public’s understanding, through the arts, of how people are integral to our lifelines. The intended outcome of the funding is to make visible often unseen and under-supported lifeline and to cultivate a greater understanding of how we’re all in this together. Application Deadline: July 21, 2020.
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NORTH FORK VALLEY CREATIVE COALITION has set up an Emergency Relief Fund for our members impacted by COVID-19. Your donation will go directly to a member of our creative community to help alleviate the burden imposed by business closures. Consider making a donation today - WE THANK YOU!
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
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