Checking in With the Colorado Arts Organizations That Lost Their NEA Funding

5/10/25

Boulder's Motus Theater was supposed to get $35,000 in its eighth NEA grant since 2013; the money was to support Youth Behind Bars, four autobiographical monologues from adults who experienced incarceration when younger. Motus Theater communications, outreach and development director Cristian Solano-Córdova says that despite the loss of the grant, the theater will push forward with the premiere on May 31 at the Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater. Read the full article here.

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Rita Valente-Quinn