www.CopperColo.org 2009 Report to the Community
MISSION: Connecting residents and visitors with arts and culture to enrich the Pikes Peak region
VISION: A Community United by Creativity
From our Board Chair From our Executive Director
A big THANK YOU is in order for your wonderful contributions to COPPeR in In 2009, COPPeR matured from a start- 2009.! As you will read in this report, it was another banner year for advancing up into an organization of regional art, culture and creativity in the Pikes Peak Region despite our topsy-turvy significance. You can read more about world.! our successful programs in this report. Every day we advocate for the value of As a COPPeR stakeholder, your confidence in our ability to fulfill our mission is the arts as essential to our essential. !The board at COPPeR takes fiscal responsibility very seriously.! We communities--from the economy to believe that having a financially sound, fiscally responsible arts agency is not quality of life, from helping seniors to just the right thing to do, but makes good youth education, from informing public business sense too.! I am happy to report that we policy to enhancing neighborhoods. had another positive year thanks in large part to your financial support and our staff’s good skill The vision and commitment of in making the most of what we have to work COPPeR’s staff, board members, donors, volunteers, community with.! This year, we were fortunate to once again partners and ever-growing list of champions is impressive and we are add terrific new talent to our team - our board proud of the ways in which COPPeR elevates arts, culture and list can be found on page 6. !We invite you to creativity in the Pikes Peak region. continue to be a part of our future. !Thank you for all you do to make ours a more vibrant and With your support, we move closer to our vision of living in a livable community! community united by creativity. Thank you! - Bettina Swigger, Executive Director -Kimberley Sherwood, 2009 Board Chair!
GOAL: Build Cultural Participation in the Region Annual Report! 1 CULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION
2009 in Review
PeakRadar.com, COPPeR Pages COPPeR acts as the booking agent and COPPeR’s also serves as a communications coordinator for the Poet signature tool to attract Laureate. To learn more, visit audience- primary www.PikesPeakPoetLaureate.org. development employers and tool, celebrated young Dream City: Vision 2020 is a grassroots, its second anniversary in June 2009 and is professionals to community-owned project that engaged more the leading online guide for arts and cultural the region by than 3,000 people in discussing what they’d information in the Pikes Peak region. Event showcasing the like our community to look like in the year listings offer complete descriptions, depth and 2020, and which culminated in a day-long interactive Google Maps, images, video, breadth of our summit in 2009. COPPeR served as a reviews, and links to ticketing, email, and arts scene. To coordinating partner for social media. PeakRadar also provides a date, more Dream City along with the place for artists to gather—people can than 5,000 Pikes Peak Library District, browse classifieds listings for calls for copies of The Leadership Pikes Peak and entries, arts jobs, studio space, auditions and COPPeR Pages The Gazette. Together with more, and our Artist Profile Directory have been other community visioning showcases more than 160 individual artists distributed! and planning processes, with links to their work and their websites. Dream City sought the Our weekly “PeakRadar Picks” eBlast Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project – COPPeR feedback of outside delivers one week's cultural highlights direct is one of five presenting partners (along with experts, key community to more than 3500 residents’ inboxes. And we the Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado stakeholders, and the connect with even more people through our College, UCCS and Poetry West) for this new community at large, all social media efforts and media partnerships initiative to inspire and celebrate poetry telling us they embrace (including KRCC, KCME, The Gazette. through outreach and performances in enhanced collaboration, FortCarsonMobile and more!). In 2009, nontraditional settings. The first-ever Pikes attracting and retaining the creative class, an PeakRadar experienced 1.8 million Peak poet environment that fosters creative pageviews! laureate, entrepreneurship and more. COPPeR is Aaron putting Dream City data to work in our In 2009 we published the second edition of Anstett, Cultural Planning Process set to publish Fall The COPPeR Pages: The biennial Official compiled 2010. Guide to Arts & Cultural Organizations in the “Poetry While Pikes Peak Region. This free guidebook You Wait,” a Cultural Planning - In April 2008, Colorado features information on more than 200 collection of Springs (with COPPeR as initiator) was cultural groups - what they do, how to work by local selected by Arts for Colorado to be part of a contact them, and how individuals can get poets statewide collaborative community planning involved in the community through the arts. designed to be process, which resulted in an online arts The guidebook is useful for newcomers and available in community needs assessment survey and the longtime residents eager to discover cultural places people 2008 Arts Summit: Imagination and gems. The COPPeR Pages is designed to help wait –auto Innovation, which brought more than 150 people connect to arts opportunities that repair shops, artists, arts administrators, and arts educators extend beyond being a spectator and into dentist offices and the like. In 2009 Anstett together to develop a vision for the future. In opportunities to explore their own creative also made 53 appearances in front of more 2009, the Planning Team completed Phase side. We were proud to partner with The than 5,000 people, including civic leaders, One of this two-phase cultural planning Gazette for the 2009-2010 edition. The teachers, aspiring writers and children. process: gathering information and GOAL: Foster Sustainability of the Region’s Cultural Arts Industry 2! Annual Report CULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION
2009 in Review conducting research through targeted focus groups, interviews with Arts Bootcamps – COPPeR facilitated and hosted a series of key leaders, and additional public meetings. Phase Two will include workshops aimed to help nonprofit arts organizations improve their assessment and analysis by synthesizing gathered information; sustainability. These spring sessions, which served more than 60 identifying opportunities and issues; discerning community members of the local arts community, focused on budget priorities and potential benefits; and writing and disseminating the development and oversight, collaborative programming, marketing, plan. and board development.
Business & Arts Awards Office and Arts Information Space – Every day residents, tourists Luncheon – COPPeR and newcomers visit our partnered with the Chamber of storefront office in downtown Commerce on this 2nd annual Colorado Springs to learn more fall luncheon celebrating and about ways to engage in local recognizing businesses that arts and culture. We showcase support and promote arts and the work of local artists in our creativity. This luncheon office and collaborate with other featured performances by local nonprofits on exhibits, and in arts groups on four stages and 2009 our proximity to the Fine presented awards in the areas Arts Center MODERN allowed of philanthropy, creative us to provide our visitors with workspace/workforce, and an even more in-depth arts business/arts leadership. experience. The installation of Chris Weed’s “Paperclips” in Sounds of the Pikes Peak front of our office as part of the Region: COPPeR celebrates and honors the talented musicians who Art on the Streets program has call the Pikes Peak region home through sales of our CD compilation made COPPeR a more popular and through the ongoing Showcase at Studio Bee series, our destination. collaboration with the Pikes Peak Center, KRCC, Independent Records and The Gazette. This free concert series features many of Broad-based Arts Advocacy the musicians on the and Education – COPPeR staff facilitate Arts Day for Leadership CD, as well as other Pikes Peak programs, to include the Signature Program, the local favorites. Women’s Community Leadership Initiative, Experience the Springs, Eighteen local musical and Leadership Now! (a young professionals leadership program). acts performed to COPPeR staff and volunteers provide outreach and awareness of the capacity crowds as role of arts and creativity in the community through targeted part of this series in participation in civic events and celebrations such as the Diversity 2009. Festival, Pridefest and many other civic events. Our staff and board are regularly in contact with key leadership in the community, Quality of Life across business, government, education and human services sectors. Indicators Project – From the Dream City visioning process to a fact-finding trip to COPPeR’s executive Austin with community leaders, COPPeR endeavors to raise issues director serves as co- about the arts and culture sector. In 2009, COPPeR staff and chair of the Arts, volunteers made more than 30 presentations to community groups Culture and Recreation task force for this United Way-driven about the value of arts and culture in our community. community indicators project. To learn more, visit www.pikespeakqli.com.
GOAL: Advocate for the Region’s Vitality Annual Report! 3 CULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION Financial Summary January 1-December 31, 2009
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