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Colorado Art Ranch

Colorado Art Ranch is a nomadic arts organization founded on the belief that the arts are an agent for change. We travel to Colorado towns each year to sponsor one-month residencies for visual and literary artists from around the world. Colorado Art Ranch alsohosts a public forum to promote conversations on how art, and science intersect with land and social issues.

A Unique Arts Organization

Nomadic. Colorado Art Ranch owns neither land nor buildings. We bring the residencies and Artposia to Colorado towns where housing, studio space, and conference facilities are rented or donated.

Interdisciplinary. Every residency mixes literary and visual artists to promote the exchange of ideas. Each Artposium explores how the arts intersect with life and the land from myriad viewpoints.

Boundary-crossing. Because Colorado Art Ranch is nomadic, it connects artists, writers, and supporters from many communities across the state. Because it is interdisciplinary, the Artposium fosters collaboration among artists, writers, scientists, and policy makers.

Community-building. Colorado Art Ranch serves communities across the state, requires artists-in-residence to donate time to the towns that host them, recruits local ambassadors to serve as “Art Buddies” for the visiting artists and draws on local experts for some of the presentations at the Artposia.

2012 Schedule

Paonia 2012 Energy Residency
July 15-August 15, 2012
Artposium August 11, 2012

Carpenter Ranch 2012 Land/Water Residency
September 1-30, 2012
Artposium September 29, 2012

Art + Ag + Bike Race
TBD

Donate to the Richard Cabe Terraphilia Residency

Colorado Art Ranch and Susan Tweit are partnering to found the Richard Cabe Terraphilia artist/writer residency program. Writers and artists will be
able to apply for a week to a month of uninterrupted time in a guest cottage and Richard's shop/studio to pursue projects that reflect his interest in rekindling terraphilia, a word he and Susan coined and defined: n. An intrinsic affection for and connection to the Earth and its community of lives. Without this connection we are lonely, lacking, no longer whole.

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