Elizabeth Black has received a matching grant of $3750 from the Colorado Council on the Arts, a state agency. This grant was awarded through the CCA’s Increasing Cultural Participation Program. The grant will support a multi-faceted exhibit in May 2009 called
The Ditches of Boulder (City &) County. The exhibit will have 3 simultaneous venues: the Boulder Public Library, the Dairy Center for the Arts, & Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.State grants are awarded through a competitive process.This CCA grant signifies that
The Ditches of Boulder (City &) County will provide a high level of quality in its programs, community service and administrative ability. In addition to information about the 29 irrigation ditches in and around the City of Boulder, the exhibit will include political and natural history about ditches, a re-photographic survey of Boulder’s ditches, and 40 artists’ interpretations of irrigation ditches.The exhibit is a part of Boulder’s Sesquicentennial celebrations, as 2009 is also the 150th Anniversary of the first irrigation ditch in Boulder. The oldest surviving man-made structure in Boulder is the short stretch of irrigation ditch in front of Naropa University.This exhibit will promote greater cultural understanding, as citizens realize how agricultural water has shaped the Front Range landscape. Additional funding for the show includes $12,500 from private donors, ditch companies, District 6 Water Users, the Boulder Farmers Market, Northern Water Conservancy District, Open Space and Mountain Parks, Boulder County Arts Alliance, Johnson & Repucci, Grant Grant & Goiran, and Wright Water Engineers.
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