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		Colorado ARTS Consortium

The Colorado Arts Consortium brokers ideas, resources, and services among communities, organizations, and individuals.

The Consortium is one of 35 statewide assemblies of local arts councils in the nation. It is composed of member arts councils throughout Colorado.

For 11 years after the legislature created the Colorado Council on the Arts in 1967, local arts councils were served by the Colorado Council's Community Services Advisory Panel which organized workshops and prepared an agenda for an annual meeting of the councils. In 1978 the Colorado Council on the Arts organized the Colorado Arts Consortium to offer programs to provide technical assistance and to re-grant General Assembly funds to local arts agencies.

When the Consortium incorporated as an independent nonprofit agency in May 1983, there were 36 local arts councils in the state; today there are more than 90. The Consortium hired a paid coordinator in 1985, moved to offices in 1991, hired a professional arts administrator in 1992, and added an assistant director and interns in 1993.

At the 1994 convention in Montrose, the membership voted to change the name of the Colorado Consortium of Community Arts Councils to the Colorado Arts Consortium.

In 1995 the Consortium became Colorado's voice for arts advocacy, representing the interests of the statewide arts community in seeking expanded support for the arts. The torch of arts advocacy has since been passed to Arts for Colorado.

Today the Consortium acts as a conduit for communication among arts councils and community arts organizations throughout Colorado.