HomeMy WebLinkAbout02.18.26 BAC PresentationBoulder Arts
Commission Meeting
February 18, 2026
Public Participation Guidelines
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Public Participation Guidelines
The following are examples of rules of decorum found in the Boulder Revised Code and other guidelines that support this vision. These will be upheld during the meetings.
•All remarks and testimony shall be limited to matters related to city business.
•No participant shall make threats or use other forms of intimidation against any person.
•Obscenity, racial epithets, and other speech and behavior that disrupts or otherwise impedes the ability to conduct the meeting are prohibited.
•In-person participants are asked to refrain from expressing support or disagreement verbally or with applause. Traditionally, support is shown silently through American Sign Language ‘applause’ signal.
Public Comment
Grant Program Matters
Macky Eligibility
The University of Colorado Boulder requests the following
addition to the grant eligibility:"Applicant must be in good
financial standing with Macky Auditorium in order to be eligible
for this waiver. If applicant has an outstanding balance with
Macky Auditorium, it must be paid, in full, or have other written
agreements, or a formal payment plan in place to eligible for this
waiver."
Macky Eligibility
"I move to approve the requested addition to the Macky Fee
Waiver eligibility requirements, as stated in the meeting
materials."
Grant Reports: General Operating Support
3rd Law Dance/Theater, ACE: Arts Culture and Education at the Boulder JCC, Ape Co Movement School, Ars Nova, Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, Band of Toughs, Boulder Ballet, Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Boulder Chorale, Boulder Concert Band, Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, Boulder International Film Festival, Boulder Metalsmithing Association, Boulder MUSE, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder Opera, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, Boulder Samba School, Boulder Showing Up for Racial Justice, Boulder Symphony, Inc., Cantabile Singers, Colorado Chautauqua Association, Colorado MahlerFest, Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Creativity Alive, COmpass REsonance, Community Roots Art Festival, Dairy Arts Center, east window, EcoArts Connections, eTown, Flatirons Community Orchestra, Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc., Greater Boulder Youth Orchestras, Groundworks Art Lab, JLF Colorado, Junkyard Social Club, KGNU, La Vecindad dba Mi Chantli, Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet, LOCAL Theater Company, Mariposa Collective, Moon and Stars Foundation dba Kutandara, Motus Theater, Museum of Boulder, NoBo Art District, Open Studios, Parlando School for the Arts, Roots Music Project Foundation, Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Society for Creative Aging dba VIVA Theater, Street Wise Arts, T2 Dance Company, The Catamounts, The Cultural Caravan, The New Local, The Spark A Performing Arts Community, and Turning the Wheel Productions.
Grant Reports
At the meeting Commission members will vote on the approval
of the reports. Commissioners have the options to:
a.Approve all reports
b.Approve individual reports while submitting specific questions,
c.Postpone approval of individual reports pending the answers to
specific questions, and/or
d.Not approve the reports.
Grant Reports Vote
Recommended Motion Language:
“I move that we approve the reports from the organizations as
listed in the manager's memo as part of the meeting packet,
with the addition of EcoArts Connections and JLF Colorado,
that submitted their reports after the memo was sent
completed, with the exceptions of Moon and Stars
Foundation, Dairy Art Center, Roots Music Project, and
Colorado Shakespeare Co."
Grant Reports Vote If Reports Pulled Out for
Discussion
Recommended Motion Language:
“I move that we approve the following reports for the 2022 -
26 GOS Grants: Colorado Shakespeare Co"
"I move that we approve the following reports for the 2022 -
26 GOS Grants: Dairy Art Center and Roots Music Project"
Grant Report: Community Project Grant
Ivan -Daniel Espinosa, MycoMorphosis: Dancing with Fungi (a
multimedia Bio-Art installation), $4,500
Grants Program Updates
•FAQ workshop went well; Planning AI and Accessibility Summits
•65 new General Operating Support applications! See Shared Documents.
•32 Bedrock applicants
•Panel Meeting March 25, 4:00 –6:00 pm (Sheryl)
•Upcoming Deadlines:
•Grant Writing Fund, Round Two: Monday, March 2
•Boulder Vision (Organizations) March 16–Deadline for pre-applications;Monday,
March 23 at 11:59 p.m. –Deadline for full applications
Fin