#ArtsOctober

Arts Month Toolkit

Every year, in addition to promoting the breadth and depth of the Pikes Peak region’s art scene, Arts Month also encourages us to see arts and culture as a change-making force; as a community health initiative; and a path to improved social cohesion. By challenging you to “Open Your World with the Arts” we invite you to a community brimming with connective experiences. Whether it’s a community dinner, local theater production, or art gallery exhibit, you may learn something new about yourself and your neighbors.

So how do you get involved? That's the easy part!

Sign up to be an Arts Advocate! By signing up with our form, you subscribe to both the Cultural Office and Colorado Arts Action newsletters.

Sign up for the BRAND NEW Arts Month Passport Program! Check back soon for more details.
Download our FREE Arts Month Curriculum Guide for all your educational needs.
Engage our Advocacy Toolkit below, find new resources to get involved with the creative sector, and share our graphics, using #ArtsOctober on your socials!

Advocacy Toolkit Sign Up

"*" indicates required fields

Phone

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

NAME*

First Last

Email*

Please provide your email to subscribe to the Cultural Office Newsletter and Colorado Arts Action Network

ADDRESS*

Street Address Address Line 2 City State ZIP Code

We require your address to subscribe you to Colorado Arts Action Network, as they will use it to help you connect with your local officials.

Advocacy Resources

Curriculum Guide: A New Arts Integration Tool For Schools!

Creating Civically-Engaged Art

How can I use art to portray the qualities of a good leader and citizen?

Overview:

Students will look at various pieces of art through a “reading art” lens to derive meaning about leadership and citizenship. “Reading art” is similar to developing visual literacy or using Visual Thinking Strategies. “Reading art” encourages students to look at certain qualities of visual art that they can then transfer to their own art. Students will take “reading art” strategies and create a piece of art that shows what they think a good leader or citizen looks like. For K-2, this could be what it looks like in their immediate classrooms. For older elementary school students, it could be what it looks like in their own school or closer community. For middle and high school students, you can look at leadership and citizenship at a state, nation or world-wide level, depending on what you are studying in your classrooms. Students can work alone or in groups for the art project piece and use any visual art materials that you have. Partnerships between arts teachers and classrooms teachers are highly encouraged to maximize knowledge in artform and subject area.

Civic engagement encompasses the many ways that people may get involved in their communities to consider and address civic issues. Civic engagement can be a measure or a means of social change. In arts-based civic engagement, the creative process and resulting art work/experience can provide a key focus, catalyst, or space for civic participation, whether it is becoming better informed or actively contributing to the improvement of one’s neighborhood, community, and nation.