Beet Street Professional Development Programs

The Fort Collins community is home to many unique local arts and culture organizations including museums, dance troupes, theatre companies, musicians and musical offerings, as well as individual visual artists. Additionally, Fort Collins has a burgeoning design community and other "creative class" businesses that make up the Uniquely Fort Collins economic cluster. Fort Collins is well positioned regionally to be the next great arts and culture community. Despite our wealth of talent, many of our artists and organizations are struggling with current economic conditions, audience development and funding.

Beet Street is well positioned to provide leadership that will help arts groups, artists, and the industry develop.

Realizing that much of what our arts community needs is encompassed in roles that arts councils traditionally play, Beet Street studied councils to determine the best role for Beet Street in our community. We learned that arts councils are different in every community. To be successful, the roles councils play and the services and support they provide must be based on the unique, organizc needs of the arts and culture community. In our community, groups agree that they need help with advocacy, shared marketing and calendars, dedicated funding strategies and business coaching.

Beet Street will provide opportunities for growing healthy, high quality programming partners in the local arts community and will be a champion for arts and culture in Fort Collins by:

• Providing leadership to help arts groups, artists and the arts, culture and creative economy develop.
• Contributing to the creation of basic support, stability and long-term funding for the industry
• Measuring and communicating the economic impact of Beet Street and the broader arts community

In 2010, Beet Street will be developing new resources for arts professionals. Check back often to find new information, programs and resources.