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Following is the Boulder County Arts Alliance monthly E-Newsletter for AUGUST 2018 containing information on upcoming BCAA news, programs, and deadlines.

• Tonight! Art Collecting 101
• Social Media for Artists
• Getting in with NINE dot ARTS
• Art @River Bend
• BCAA Endowment Grants and Fellowships
• Attention Performing Arts Groups: Not In Our House
  
• Cultural Dialogues Workshop - Appropriation and Appreciation
• Who's in the Limelight?
  
• Art Space Directory
• BCAA Acknowledgements

River Bend, 501 W. Main St, Lyons, CO 80540
FREE Admission. $5 Parking on-site. Free parking in town.

Art @River Bend is a collaboration between BCAA and the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission, held along the North Saint Vrain Creek in Lyons. Dozens of artists in all mediums will have work for sale: Paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, fiber and more!

2018 will be our 5th year in this beautiful venue. The emphasis of this event is the sale of quality fine art.

We are very excited to have Cured as our exclusive food vendor. They will be selling their gourmet cheeses and charcuterie. Libations will be provided by Spirit Hound Distillery.

Volunteers are needed. It's fun! Contact us: info@bouldercountyarts.org if you are available to help.

Community Groups are welcome too! We'll supply chairs if you'd like to bring a table and information about your group and/or hands-on activities to share. Register here.

For a full list of participating artists, check out the website and the Facebook page.

The minimum grant award is $1,000. The 2018 General Operating Support, Project and Equipment Grant funding cap is $5,000. Fellowship awards are $1000 each. Please note there is a different application for each: Projects, Equipment requests and Fellowships.

For this funding cycle Individual Artists may apply for Fellowships in MUSIC or LITERATURE as well as Project or Equipment support. Organizations may apply for Project or Equipment support. Individual artists and organizations may only receive one grant per calendar year and may not receive grants in two consecutive cycles. The exception is the Fellowship award, which may be in addition to a Project or Equipment grant.

We need grant panelists! Volunteering on a grant panel is an excellent way to learn what makes a successful application. If you are interested, please contact Charlotte LaSasso at 303-447-2422 or info@bouldercountyarts.org.

Image of Peggy Turchette and The Pavlova Project, funded in 2017.

This year's 12-day performance art festival features 9 artists or groups of artists that live on the Front Range. All shows are taking place in various Art Spaces inside Pine Street Church. Don't miss this diverse group as well as other acts from around the country.

1) Pictured above, Khiri Lee of Boulder in Red Shoes. Inspired by fairy tales, this multimedia performance riffs and coalesces into a poetic journey of losing oneself, finding personal power, and diving deeply into creative freedom. 

2) Nosilla Dance Project, Boulder in Chaos Theory. Choreographed by Alli Jones, women dance with brooms, toss kitchen items, get married, fold laundry and who knows, you might even get a chocolate chip cookie they are baking. 

3) BodyEarth Collective, Longmont in Forest Spirit Pilgrimage. Audience participants are accompanied along paths leading to shrines, hovels and perches to encounter Nature Archetypes, Oracles, and the stories of Beast Beings.

4) Hurt Angry & Bitter Productions and 4th Wing Dance, Broomfield in Shoebox Full of Blues. Created by Kit Marcy, it's a sometimes funny, sometimes sad intimate look at what goes on backstage through the eyes of the local crew.

5) Appalachian and Affrilachian Artists, Boulder in Where I'm From the Mountains are Red, White and Yellow. Part poem and part dance, this work explores how color influences our understanding of race, class, and place.

6) T2 Dance Project, Boulder in Slice. This show includes a few different contemporary dance theater works, including excerpts from HOME, new premiere "Animal', and works developed from SPRINGbreak ChoreoFest. 

7) Blue Dime, Boulder in Blue Dime Cabaret. The troupe in this avant-garde variety sideshow includes burlesque performers, actors, magicians, clowns, contortionists, comedians, singers, musicians, drag kings / queens, and jugglers.

8) Band of Toughs, Boulder in Nirvamlet. Hamlet melds with 90s grunge in a rocktail of icons and heart-shaped depression, with a splash of conspiracy and murder. It's a multidisciplinary evening with actors, musicians, and visual art.

9) Anthem and Aria, Denver in The Psychic Soulmates. Combining Music, Magic, and Mind Reading with an uplifting message of inner power, this show will take you on an interactive journey to reveal your secret magic powers. 

The Art Space Directory is a matchmaking tool to connect creative people with creative art spaces. Owners and managers of rentable spaces submit listings to the directory, and space-seekers search the directory for opportunities. Use of the BCAA Art Space Directory is completely free of charge for space-seekers, and there are no fees to submit and publish listings. 

The Directory contains a list and map of venues with over 200 art spaces with photographs and detailed information.

By using your BCAA log-in to our website, you can upload information for your venues and art spaces and make edits any time. You do not need to log-in to browse or search the Art Space Directory.

Image courtesy of Phoenix Asylum, 2510 47th St unit d, Boulder