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MICROGRANTS
Current Arts Council members, apply here.
PPAC offers monthly and quarterly MicroGrants to member artists to help fund a specific project, achieve an artistic goal, or to offset living/studio expenses. Over $40,000 has been granted to individual artists in our community since the program began in 2009.
Artists who have not yet been awarded a MicroGrant are encouraged to re-submit a new application every six months.
Click here to apply for a PPAC MicroGrant, or first become a member. (This document denotes past awardees.)
July 2017 MicroGrant awardee De Lane Bredvik and PPAC Director Kate Perdoni | 2018 MicroGrants April 2018: Ruthie Markwardt, Director of Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission's Peace Camp
As Director of the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission's Peace Camp, Ruthie has worked to develop a summer camp curriculum rooted in music, arts, and social justice. Throughout the week-long program, campers build skills to foster peace within themselves, relationships, their communities, the world, and our planet. This $500 grant will be matched by the PPJPC and will be used to employ two Colorado Springs artists to serve as Art Director and Music Director for the camp. The camp will be held July 30 through August 3, 2018, from 9am-2pm at the Hillside Community Center. Email peacecamp@ppjpc.org for more information or to register!
March 2018: Xanthe Alexis, $200 Xanthe is a staple of the Pikes Peak music community, drawing from a wealth of traditional influences to create her own arresting and wholly original musical framework. Listen to her tunes here!
February 2018: Noel Black, $200 Noel is a poet, journalist, radio and podcast producer, and a current MFA candidate in poetry and creative non-fiction at Regis University in Denver. His most recent book of poetry, "High Noon," can be ordered here.
January 2018: Audrey Bussanich, $500 Audrey is earning her Associates Degree in music and piano performance as a Kane scholar at PPCC, and works part-time at KCME Classical Radio. She began training in classical music at age 3, and performs locally in a variety of musical contexts. Learn more about Audrey and her work here. | PPAC MicroGrant Archive December 2017
An aspiring photographer, Becca is a senior in high school who has taken photography classes for the past three years. This year, she is taking AP photography. Becca is working to expand her portrait portfolio, and will purchase a specific new lens with this PPAC MicroGrant. November 2017
Robert, a skilled engineer-turned-photographer, has been working on a Visual Arts minor at UCCS. His current photography project is a 35mm film undertaking about growing up in Southern Missouri, where, he says, "emotions were not allowed." The exhibition is scheduled to be unveiled in the old Gazette Building in Colorado Springs with an EDM artist from Brooklyn performing to assist in this "experiment in emotions." Robert will use his MicroGrant toward purchase of materials to support this installation. Check out some of Robert's work here. October 2017
Local musician Conor Bourgal is working on new music that will combine his Americana style with an interest in orchestration, particularly string quartets. Inspired by collaborations between the Colorado Symphony and regional musicians like Gregory Alan Isakov, Elephant Revival, and Devotchka, Conor has been working on performance arrangements that accompany his singer/songwriter material. Learn more about Conor's work here and here. September 2017
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Sandra Knauf is the one-woman-show behind Colorado Springs book and magazine publisher Greenwoman Publishing. She is currently working on her second novel. Sandra writes fiction and non-fiction with themes of gardening and earth stewardship. You can read more about Sandra and her work here. April 2017
Peach Press is a radical small press dedicated to publishing writers and artists who have been historically marginalized, striving to represent under-published voices and to produce works at low or no cost to artists and authors. March 2017
Congratulations to March MicroGrant awardees Roma Ransom! Grace and Gordon are working on a new album in 2017. Their previous EPs, recorded in Minneapolis and mixed and mastered by Emmy Award winning producer Taylor Lewin, have earned the duo recognition through the COMBO singer-songwriter awards. We are pleased to have Roma Ransom performing March 21 at the Pikes Peak Arts Council 2017 Spring Member Mixer -- please join us there! In the meantime, you can listen at https://romaransom.bandcamp.com/ February 2017
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Local spoken word performance poets Idris Goodwin and Nico Wilkinson along with printing press publisher and artist Han Sayles were awarded a $500 Pikes Peak Arts Council MicroGrant for their poetry book "Inauguration." Idris and Nico will use these funds to help support their current speaking tour throughout Colorado and New Mexico, and to help offset printing costs. Congratulations, and thank you for representing Colorado Springs as you travel with this beautiful work! 2016 MicroGrants December 2016
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January 2016 December 2015 Jessy Randall - $600 October 2015 September 2015 Sandra Knauf- $600 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 Steven Sabell - $200 Marisa Cutlip - $200 May 2015 Hellen Eberhardie Dunn- $200 Visual Artist April 2015 Chris Medina - $200 Actor and Director March 2015 Teri Brown- $600 Visual Artist Jeff Cloutier- $200 Photographer February 2015 Stephanie Von Fange - $200 Visual Artist and Curator January 2015 Wanda Veltkamp- $200 Painter December 2014 Jeri Jorgensen- $600 Violinist Idris Goodwin- $200 Writer, Performer, Playwright November 2014 Laura BenAmots- $200 Visual Artist October 2014 Peter Zurla- $200 Photographer September 2014 Rhonda Van Pelt- $600 Photographer and Arts Administrator Joseph Bishop- $200 Painter August 2014 Sallie Maxwell - $200 Sculptor July 2014 Patricio Cordova - $200 Painter June 2014 Lisa Fabiano - $200 Visual Artist May 2014 Dale Pittock- $200 Painter and Sculptor April 2014 Joshua Kennard - $600 Visual Artist Beth Carlson- $200 Dance Instructor March 2014 Jonathan Andujar - $200 Director James Miller - $200 Screenwriter February 2014 Zisa Moglen - $200 Author Matt Chmielarczyk - $200 Photographer January 2014 Marie Bogan - $200 Filmmaker Elizabeth Stanbro - $200 Art Support for Marginalized Teens
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The Pikes Peak Arts Council is supported in part by Colorado Creative Industries and the National Endowment for the Arts
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