Summary
Organization name
Street Wise Arts
other names
Street Wise Boulder
2020
Tax id (EIN)
84-4927293
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
2808 ELM AVEBOULDER, CO 80305
Boulder County, CO, US
About
Testimonials
This year-end, will you help Street Wise Arts raise $20,000 for accessible arts education and paid opportunities for artists?
Your gift helps bring teaching artists into community programs, create opportunities for older adults to make art, and give teens space to express themselves through collaborative murals.
Over the coming weeks, we'll share stories from our partner programs at Tantra Lake and Age Well, and the Suicide Prevention Teen Mural Project. Each shows what happens when people have the chance to learn from artists and contribute to art in their own communities.
These experiences take artist time, materials, and coordination. Your support helps sustain that work and makes room for the programs we're planning for 2027.
Early giving for Colorado Gives Day is open, and December 8 is an important day to show your support. Our year-end campaign continues through December 31.
Will you give $25, $50, $100, or an amount that works for you today?
Give to Street Wise Arts
Thank you for supporting the artists and neighbors who make this work possible.
With gratitude,
Leah Brenner Clack
Executive Director, Street Wise Arts
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Mission
Street Wise Arts is a 501c3 nonprofit arts organization based in Colorado.
Our mission is to support artists and to build vibrant, resilient communities through public art projects, creative events, and hands-on education programs that beautify spaces and amplify cultural diversity and social justice.
Our core values include ensuring equitable access to the arts, supporting diverse artists of all ages and skill levels, and providing opportunities for the community to participate in public art programs.
Background Statement
Street Wise Arts is a small but mighty organization based in Boulder and serving the entire front range of Colorado. Over the past decade, Street Wise Arts has installed more than 200 murals across Boulder, transforming the city’s landscape into an open-air museum of creativity and dialogue.
Street Wise Arts was founded in 2015 with a mission to connect people with art murals, provide paid opportunities to local artists, and collaborate with community partners through public art projects.
We launched our arts education program in 2016 for high school students to explore social justice and identity through public art. Our arts education programs connect teaching artists with area schools to provide in-school and after-school arts programming to youth. Additionally, Street Wise offers educational workshops to adults.
In 2019, we expanded our mission to prioritize activism and diversity, equity, and inclusion. We launched the Street Wise Mural Festival, Boulder's first mural festival. Our festival centers ARTivism, the intersection of art and activism, to highlight social justice issues, environmentalism, and racial and cultural diversity. We prioritize offering a diverse artist lineup, providing opportunities to artists from historically underrepresented and marginalized populations including BIPOC, women, and LGBTQIA artists.
Street Wise Arts launched its mural tour program in 2022 to offer guided walking and biking tours to the public. Our mural tours allow us to tell the stories of our murals and deepen connections with community members.
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Organization Data
BOULDER, CO 80305