With new Board members, new energy is leading to exciting possibilities of new and expanded programming including winter concerts, artist receptions, writing a Grand Lake melodrama, a chautauqua, and scholarships for the arts. Your support will help us implement these community building programs
DiAnn Butler Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 8:45 AM
Grand Arts Council has enriched the quality of life in the Grand County area for many years. They have had signature events year around that have become a stable of offerings to not only the tourist, but to the local community. I am so grateful for their contribution to our community and it's creative pursuits. DiAnn Butler
Peggy Mann Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:22 PM
To: Jim Cervenka
The Grand Arts Gazebo series is a crowd favorite for sure! Nothing greater than spreading out a picnic on the lawn and listening to your favorite local artists!
For me as an entertainer, it is a great venue, because it switches it up from a loud bar like scene to a more family oriented intimate setting. Personally it is a gig I look forward to every year!!!
The Grand Arts Council has been sponsoring the Grand Lake Holiday Fair for the past 20 years. I have been a participant during this time, as well as when the fair first started 30 years ago! My mother and I began making homemade jam for this fair. When she turned 80 years old, she handed down her duties to my daughter. We have lived in Grand Lake for 34 years and this Holiday Fair is a long tradition to our locals, as well as visitors. It encourages people to shop locally and to support local craftsmen. People return EVERY year to see what's new, as well as coming to see the "regulars"!
I became a member of our local PEO organization 15 years ago. Their primary function of PEO is to support local women by awarding scholarships and low cost loans to women needing to further their education. We started our fundraising efforts by making soup and bread mixes to sell at crafts fairs. With the money we fundraise, we have awarded well over $30,000 in scholarships! The Grand Lake Holiday Fair, sponsored by the Grand Arts Council, is extremely valuable to our PEO chapter to continue with this wonderful tradition.
Please consider the Grand Arts Council for Colorado Gives Day so that they will continue with their incredible work in our community. Thank you,
Kathy Weydert
PO Box 565
Grand Lake, CO 80447
303-905-8401
Grand Lake Arts Council
Testimonial
The Grand Lake Arts Council has been serving the Town of Grand Lake and our extended Grand County community for many years. Its commitment to providing quality entertainment through free concerts in the park in the summer is well recognized, Its further commitment to support other avenues of artistic and creative expression complements efforts to make Grand Lake a notable stopping place for patrons of the arts. The Grand Lake Rotary is grateful for the Grand Lake Arts Council's steadfast and enduring endeavors.
Jim White
President
Grand Lake Rotary
November 2021
Our mission is to provide the people of Grand County with opportunities to experience live theater, music and visual arts in keeping with the culture of the area and to provide local artists with a vehicle of expression and support as well as audiences.
In 1990 the Grand Lake Area Arts Council was formed to promote local arts and bring arts events to the Grand Lake area. The Council sponsored winter concerts, a week long holiday Melodrama and the Olde Fashioned Christmas Bazaar. In 2003 we changed our name to Grand Arts Council to reflect the expanded focus of the Council on all of Grand County, as the only arts council in the County.
Now, without the burden of owning its own facility, the Arts Council has embarked with renewed energy to restore and expand its programs. Summer Concerts, a winter Comedy Show, scholarships for local high school graduates studying in arts related fields, Tombstone Tales (honoring those citizens who have made Grand Lake the community that it is), and the Olde-Fashioned Holiday Craft Bazaar are current offerings. With increased funding and energy, winter concerts, artist receptions, and the return of the holiday melodrama are some of the goals of the current Council.
Organization name
Grand Arts Council
other names
GAC, Grand Lake Area Arts Council
1990
Tax id (EIN)
84-1141079
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
P O Box 762Grand County, CO, US