Wheat Ridge Creates
Wheat Ridge Creates is a core group of community, business and city staff members focused on growing the arts community in the City of Wheat Ridge. The goal of Wheat Ridge Creates is to bring the Creatives that live in and around Wheat Ridge together in a meaningful way.
Mission Statement: Wheat Ridge Creates strives to provide promotion and resources to all creatives and creative organizations in the community.
Vision Statement: Wheat Ridge Creates will foster a thriving community for all creatives where they can create, grow and connect.
Programs and resources: Wheat Ridge Creates offers grants to local artists, rentals of portable hanging systems and workshops and community events to educate and bring the Creatives that live in and around Wheat Ridge together in a meaningful way. Find details and eligibility requirements in the newsfeed article below.
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Meet Our Creatives!
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Join us for our first Wheat Ridge Creatives gathering on April 22, 2021 from 5-6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Please RSVP in advance to help us plan for the event. For our virtual happy hour, a free appetizer will be provided by Food For Thought catering for the first 30 registrants!
We'll be discussing what Wheat Ridge Creates is and what we hope to accomplish together as the year unfolds. We'll review the survey report and answer any questions you have about the results of the Wheat Ridge Creates Survey of Creatives. A summary of those results can be found on right side of this What's Up Wheat Ridge page under "Documents."
Best of all, we'll meet other Creatives! "Bring" a piece of art that you’ve created to share and we'll spend time in small breakout rooms sharing our work and getting to know one another. Every medium is welcome – poetry, painting, music, videos, etc. If you don't have art to bring or prefer not to share your work, come anyway—everyone is welcome! Feel free to extend this invitation to other Creatives you know who may be interested.
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Porches and Patios!
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Join Localworks for our first Porches and Patios pop up! This event is in collaboration with the businesses along 38th and the Wheat Ridge Visitors Center between 7200-7250 block of W. 38th Avenue. We will feature a live mural painting behind All Seasons Holiday Market while the vendors bring their fare outdoors for you to mingle and shop.
Head over to Audacity or Salone’ Bellissima for a glass of wine and then be sure to mosey down to Right Coast, Clancy’s or Colorado Plus for dinner and a pint.
Please bring your face masks and practice social distancing as you safely enjoy downtown Wheat Ridge.
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Wheat Ridge Creates is Looking for Creatives
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In 2019 the City of Wheat Ridge created a core group of community, business and City staff members to help Artspace (an arts-related nonprofit) produce a feasibility study in order to determine the appetite for "art spaces" in Wheat Ridge. We found that there is a large underground arts community in the City with a lot of great ideas for expanding the art scene. Since that time, this core group has rebranded as Wheat Ridge Creates, and we would like to bring the Creatives that live in and around Wheat Ridge together in a meaningful way.
We are interested in finding out how our Creatives would like to connect with each other. We would also like to identify what the needs of Wheat Ridge Creatives are and begin to address these needs.
