The Pikes Peak Community Foundation’s Pikes Peak Fund for the Arts will give Arts Vision Grants totaling $50,000 to 11 diverse and inspiring grantees from the local arts community. The individual grant awards range from $1,250 to $10,000.
Over the summer, the program invited the community to apply for funding for creative projects that bring to life the declarations and opportunities in Arts Vision 2030, the 10-year cultural plan for the Pikes Peak region.
The response was overwhelming, with 60 applications that were weighed by an expert panel of judges. The grants are managed by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.
The 2022 Arts Vision Grants recipients include Manitou-based Poetry Heals for its Write It Out After School” program.
“We are very pleased and honored to have received this $5,000 grant and to be in such fine company with the other recipients,” Poetry Heals Executive Director Molly Wingate said.
“Write It Out After School is Poetry Heals’ newest program to provide therapeutic poetry writing to school-aged kids in the under-resourced neighborhoods in Colorado Springs.”
Poetry Heals’ first program partner is Voces Unidas for Justice, which serves primarily Latinx youth in southeast Colorado Springs. Poetry Heals will create unique materials and provide Spanish translation at workshops to help young people processing trauma.
“We will augment and collaborate with ongoing programs at Voces Unidas for Justice and community centers. This grant will get us started on a program that we plan to grow and continue,” Wingate added.
Learn more at: www.poetryheals.org.
Community members who would like to contribute to the future work of the Pikes Peak Fund for the Arts may donate directly by visiting www.ppcf.org/donate.