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	::2006 PIKES PEAK ARTS COUNCIL ABE AWARDS Partnership with the Arts Joann Bonicelli, Community Task Force Chair, Seasons of Hope This Memorial Hospital project represents the first-ever collaboration among the arts, education and health care communities to integrate the arts into health care delivery. It is research-based, both in terms of design and potential impact on care givers and patients, and contains a component that offers ongoing interactive workshops to oncology care givers, focusing on melding the artistic experience with a holistic therapeutic model. Art, along with artist’s statements, can be found in the hallways, treatment rooms, waiting and dining areas of the oncology units. The focus is on providing therapeutic art that may help the patient find comfort and solace during their care. Making Us Look Cool Award Gwin Coleman In 2003, Gwin created Funktion Flux, which led to the creation of a multi-disciplinary event "in hopes of exposing and pursuing positive changes in this community through awareness of cultural diversity and artistic expression to get people of all sorts to support the arts." The results have been five incredible arts events - Art Splash I & II, Art Wars I & II and Masterpiece in the Park. Events have showcased over 150 local artists in visual art, performance art, dance, poetry and music and have raised over $7000 for local non-profit organizations. In the Trenches Beth Fox Kret, Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration Beth started as a parent volunteer and became Program and Public Relations Coordinator for all KCIC events, building programs that serve the schools, arts organizations and artists throughout the Pikes Peak region. She has been part of creating and developing many of the most successful Imagination Celebration programs from Pepito’s Story, a community-wide youth theatre performance, to “It Takes 5,” one of KCIC’s most successful on-going youth programs. (From Mary Helsaple, KCIC board member): “I have found Beth to be one of the most reliable, hardworking people I have known. She is an exceptional individual who knows how to be a part of the team, willingly sharing her knowledge, skills and abundance of energy with all those around her.” Business Support of the Arts Hillside Gardens Now entering its sixth year, Hillside Gardens Nursery is a four-acre urban oasis tucked just east of downtown. For several years, owner Larry Ash has infused music and the visual arts into the nursery. Each summer, a weekly concert series spotlights local musicians. Every summer Hillside also hosts a major daylong festival featuring bluegrass or blues music. And Hillside opens its gardens to a cadre of artists for plein air paintings. The works those artists create are then featured in an annual exhibit that attracts hundreds of patrons. Hillside also purchases some of the works to hang in its café space. At Hillside Gardens, the arts aren’t just annual – they’re perennial! The New Deal for the New Deal City Auditorium Mural Conservation Project. In 2003 Barbara Dimond and Pat Musick, artists, and Bob Wade, Colorado Springs City Auditorium Manager, created The New Deal for the New Deal Association, a nonprofit organization for the purpose of conserving artworks created by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the mid 1930’s. Their first endeavor was saving the two wall murals painted in the lobby of the City Auditorium by local artists Archie Musick and Tabor Utley, which had been exposed to years of dust, smoke and exhaust. Their efforts literally stopped the paint from peeling off the walls. Smokebrush Foundation –Arts in Support of Community. In 1992, Kat Tudor founded the Smokebrush Foundation as a forum for contemporary art in the Pikes Peak Region. She and her husband, Bob, promote awareness of the arts by providing access to various arts media including theater, music, film, public art installations and gallery exhibitions. They also make the gallery space available free of charge to a variety of community and arts organizations, holding fundraisers and partnering with organizations with such diverse goals as Future Self, Pikes Peak Community College, Poetry West, MADD, and Medicine Wheel Bicycle Organization. ABE COMMITTEE AWARDS Distinguished Arts Teacher: (3 Awards) Christie Williams, Art Teacher, Harrison School District – D2 Gary Arrasmith ,Instrumental Music Director, Rampart High School – D20 Team Award (Master Teacher Award): Scott Singmaster, Music Teacher, Mountain Ridge Middle School – D20 and Chuck Silloway, Music Teacher, Mountain Ridge Middle School - D20 Distinguished Administrator: (2 Awards) Tim Callahan, Principal, Keller Elementary School – D11 Chuck Poncelow, Principal, Discovery Alternative High School – D3 Ongoing Support for the Arts: (2 Awards) Cottonwood Artists School Susan Edmondson, Executive Director, The Bee Vradenburg Foundation Unique Project: (2 Awards) David and Eve Sckolnik ,Thursday Night Recital Series Trish Shubarth ,Art Teacher, Patriot Elementary School – D8, Partners in Arts Program Business Support: (1 Award) Joe Morin, Manager, D11 Production Printing Community Support for Arts Education: (1 Award) Deanne Patrick, World Language Teacher & Dept. Chair, Sierra High School – D2, Opera to School Program