2006 Antlers Hilton Hotel Jim Dolan

Every child is an artist... THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL ARTS AWARDS LUNCHEON April 19, 2006 Antlers Hilton Hotel Jim Dolan Jim Dolan, Chairman, President and CEO of Dolan Media Company, returns to Colorado from a distinguished career in journalism and media to speak of his lifelong love for art. Born in Trinidad, Colorado, where he and his wife Sylvia still own a portion of his family’s ranch, Dolan entered journalism in his early teens in Oklahoma and worked his way through the University of Oklahoma as a reporter for the Daily Oklahoman. He has since won several dozen local, regional and national journalism awards for writing, reporting and editing, and in 1998 was named outstanding alumnus of the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism. During his tenure with the San Antonio News-Express, Dolan significantly expanded coverage of the arts and pioneered a collaborative project between the paper and local artists that produced more than a dozen original, limited- edition works delivered in Sunday special sections to the newspapers’ readers. Jim Dolan’s career has moved from the editorial office to a multiplicity of media business and entrepreneurial activities, about which he lectures at Harvard, Columbia and Oxford Universities. While he describes himself as “a failed painter,” his love for art continues to be expressed in his collection of modern painters, displayed in his company’s corporate offices and on loan to Midwestern museums. Arts Education Is Everyone’s Business! Art by Children of Pikes Peak Region Schools, Collected & Displayed by Jeff Brown, Lew Davis, Tom Fleecs, Patricia McKenna, Chip Shaw, Joanne Williams Music by Joey Crochet, guitarist, Da Vinci Academy and by students and faculty, Colorado Springs Conservatory PROGRAM Master of Ceremonies: The Honorable Lionel Rivera Mayor of Colorado Springs Keynote Speaker: Jim Dolan President & CEO of Dolan Media Company “There’s an Artist In All of Us” PRESENTATION OF AWARDS Mary Lou Anderson Scholarship Program Center for Nonprofit Excellence Colorado Springs Business Journal Pikes Peak Arts Council Bee Vradenburg Foundation Arts Business Education Consortium The Mary Lou Anderson Scholarship Program Mary Lou Anderson was the founder and dynamic moving spirit of the ABE Consortium until she went on to improve arts education in heaven. (Those who have seen the most recent photographs from the Hubble telescope will have noted the aesthetic improvements she’s already made in that region.) In honor of her life, her work and her gently indomitable spirit, the ABE in conjunction and with the support of the Bemis School of Art have established a scholarship program for junior high and middle school students. Students are selected for this award on the basis of merit in art by their school principals. This year’s recipients are: Audrey Ancell – Horizon Middle School Josephine A. Aquilar – Falcon Middle School Zach Brommfield – Fountain Middle School Daniel Burnett – Holmes Middle School Katley Ford – Manitou Springs Middle School Marion Jackson III – Carmel Middle School Rachel Kosbab – Challenger Middle School Ashley Kruse – Carson Middle School Allie Morgan – Discovery Canyon Campus Roberto Olivero – Janitell Jr. High School Allaynah Reed – Watson Jr. High School Loriaudra Rowe – Panorama Middle School Mario Sanchez – Mountain Vista Community School Vicky Sanders – North Middle School Martin Gomez Solis – Fox Meadow Middle School Joel Wenzel – Mountain Ridge Middle School Madi Westphal – Jenkins Middle School 4 Center for Nonprofit Excellence Award Business Support for the Arts Joe Morin - Manager, District 11 Production Printing Far above and beyond its day-to-day work for District 11, Production Printing has for years provided support and service to arts and nonprofit organizations, including in-kind graphics consultation and flexible exchange of goods and services. As ABE and many other groups can attest, the Production Printing staff is unfailingly generous, flexible and thoroughly professional in every respect. Colorado Springs Business Journal Awards Memorial Hospital – Oncology Wing Memorial Hospital has received the Colorado Springs Business Journal‘s Business Support for the Arts Award for their initiative in remodeling an outdated oncology section. What was once a branch equipped with pediatric-sized facilities has been transformed into a state-of-the-art, aesthetically captivating wing. The murals, photographs and paintings remind all of Colorado’s spectacular wilderness. Colorado Springs Independent The Colorado Springs Independent has been a steadfast supporter of the arts in Colorado Springs for many years. Due to its devotion to the arts community it has been given a Business Support for the Arts Award. The Business Journal trusts it will continue its generous dedication to the arts in years to come. Air Academy Federal Credit Union The Air Academy Federal Credit Union is doing its share to foster artistic creation among Colorado Springs youth. Every year since 1994, it has held a contest with scholarship money in ten school districts to spotlight and reward Colorado Springs’ especially talented young artists. It has been given a Business Support for the Arts Award for their efforts. 5 Pikes Peak Arts Council Awards The Pikes Peak Arts Council ABE Awards are generously sponsored by the Colorado Springs Credit Union. Partnership with the Arts - Joanne Bonicelli, Community Task Force Chair, Seasons of Hope This Memorial Hospital project represents the first-ever collaboration among the arts, education and health care communities to integrate the arts into health care delivery. It is research-based, both in terms of design and potential impact on care givers and patients, and contains a component that offers ongoing interactive workshops to oncology care givers, focusing on melding the artistic experience with a holistic therapeutic model. Art, along with artists’ statements, can be found in the hallways, treatment rooms, waiting and dining areas of the oncology units. The focus is on providing therapeutic art that may help the patient find comfort and solace during their care. Making Us Look Cool Award - Gwin Coleman In 2003, Gwin created Funktion Flux, which led to the creation of a multi-disciplinary event “in hopes of exposing and pursuing positive changes in this community through awareness of cultural diversity and artistic expression to get people of all sorts to support the arts.” The results have been five incredible arts events – Art Splash I & II, Art Wars I & II and Masterpiece in the 6 Park. Events have showcased over 150 local artists in visual art, performance art, dance, poetry and music, and have raised over $7000 for local nonprofit organizations. In the Trenches - Beth Fox Kret, Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration Beth started as a parent volunteer and became Program and Public Relations Coordinator for all KCIC events, building programs that serve the schools, arts organizations and artists throughout the Pikes Peak Region. She has been part of creating and developing many of the most successful Imagination Celebration programs from Pepito’s Story, a community-wide youth theater performance, to “It Takes 5,” one of KCIC’s most successful ongoing youth programs. Mary Helsaple, KCIC board member, commented: “I have found Beth to be one of the most reliable, hardworking people I have known. She is an exceptional individual who knows how to be a part of the team, willingly sharing her knowledge, skills and abundance of energy with all those around her.” Business Support of the Arts - Hillside Gardens Now entering its sixth year, Hillside Gardens Nursery is a four- acre urban oasis tucked just east of downtown. For several years, owner Larry Ash has infused music and the visual arts into the nursery. Each summer, a weekly concert series spotlights local musicians. Every summer Hillside also hosts a major day-long festival featuring bluegrass or blues music. And Hillside opens its gardens to a cadre of artists for plein-air paintings. The works those artists create are then featured in an annual exhibit that attracts hundreds of patrons. Hillside also purchases some of the works to hang in its café space. At Hillside Gardens, the arts aren’t just annual – they’re perennial! 7 The New Deal for the New Deal - City Auditorium Mural Conservation Project In 2003 Barbara Dimond and Pat Musick, artists, and Bob Wade, Colorado Springs City Auditorium Manager, created The New Deal for the New Deal Association, a nonprofit organization for the purpose of conserving artworks created by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the mid 1930s. Their first endeavor was saving the two wall murals painted in the lobby of the City Auditorium by local artists Archie Musick and Tabor Utley, which had been exposed to years of dust, smoke and exhaust. Their efforts literally stopped the paint from peeling off the walls. Arts in Support of Community - Smokebrush Foundation In 1992, Kat Tudor founded the Smokebrush Foundation as a forum for contemporary art in the Pikes Peak Region. She and her husband, Bob, promote awareness of the arts by providing access to various arts media including theater, music, film, public art installations and gallery exhibitions. They also make the gallery space available free of charge to a variety of community and arts organizations, holding fund-raisers and partnering with organizations with such diverse goals as Future Self, Pikes Peak Community College, Poetry West, MADD and Medicine Wheel Bicycle Organization. 8 Bee Vradenburg Foundation Bee an Arts Leader Award - Henry Tippie Henry infuses the arts in all aspects of his life. As the first and still-serving president of the board of the Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration, he has helped KCIC to flourish in bold new directions. Henry also has devoted his leadership skills by serving two terms as president of the Rampart High School Band Boosters Organization and through a variety of roles at Vista Grande Baptist Church. Henry’s dedication to the community is evidenced in the business world as well.

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