REPORT TO TOWN OF TELLURIDE

Telluride Arts promotes a culture of the arts in the Telluride Arts District, which engages artists from around the region and across the globe.

The 2012 Telluride Cultural Master Plan identified key priorities for sustaining the arts community, and called out Telluride Arts to reinvent itself to provide the leadership needed to ensure implementation of the plan. 

Since that time Telluride Arts has established the Telluride Arts District and become one of the first Certified Creative Districts in the state, developed branding and marketing for the District, doubled its budget, strengthened numerous diverse partnerships, led planning for Wayfinding and Space for the Arts, contracted to restore an iconic historic warehouse for community space, and streamlined existing programs to best forward Master Plan objectives.

See the Oct 1 workplan progress report HERE. Click through presentation images below from report to the Town Council in September.

TELLURIDE CULTURAL MASTER PLAN PRIORITIES AND STRATEGIES

ORGANIZATION/PLANNING

• Organizing for all 
• Empower lead arts organization: A reconstituted Telluride Arts
• Develop funding source(s)

MARKETING 

• Communicate:  Make Totality of the Arts Visible
• Develop arts brand, coordinate promotion with Tourism Board
• Develop central arts calendar, website and arts publication
• Hold multidisciplinary events that showcase the whole of the arts that exist in Telluride
• Lengthen Seasons:
• Coordinate arts organizations, hotels, tourism board to develop strategies 

ARTIST RESOURCES

• Build Arts Community
• Host artist gatherings
• Develop cooperative activities, central space for artists to work and gather

ART SPACE

• Build an Arts Center: A multi-use building for all disciplines
• Explore potential for studio, rehearsal space, technology center, black box theater, etc.
• Coordinate design project
• Consider artist living spaces and artist in residence programs
• Secure housing and workspace for artists
• Work with the Town of Telluride, San Miguel County, and others
• Inspired by examples from other communities

ADVOCACY AND FUNDING

• Develop Shared Services
• Provide office space, administrative support services, marketing, etc.
• Coordinate a volunteer bank
• Create a clearinghouse of space for the arts; particularly temporary space and short term housing
• Outreach and Advocacy
• Become recognized part of business and political community
• Build support for long term goal
• Increase local investment for the arts
• Explore public funding sources, on-going tax revenue
• Develop special arts fund within Telluride Foundation