Our Community Members

Our Community Partners

  • Koko Bayer

    Colorado artist behind #projectspreadhope

    The project's goal is to spread love and hope through visual communication.

  • Denver Art Museum

    Our mission is to enrich the lives of present and future generations through the acquisition, presentation, and preservation of works of art, supported by exemplary scholarship and public programs related to both its permanent collections and to temporary exhibitions presented by the museum.

  • Envision:You

    Envision:You seeks to close gaps in behavioral health outcomes for LGBTQ+ individuals through co-created community programming, advocacy engagement, public awareness campaigns, and evidence-based training.

  • Stars of Hope

    Tragedies such as mass violence and natural disasters leave many survivors feeling hopeless. To give them hope, we use evidence-based therapeutic art making in the form of a star to compassionately support survivors while providing healing art sessions for both body and mind.

  • M.O.S.A.I.C.

    Our mission is to provide holistic support through the advocacy, ongoing personal development, and community cultivation for historically and currently marginalized* University of Colorado, Colorado Springs students.

  • O.A.S.O.S.

    O.A.S.O.S. stands for Open and Affirming Sexual Orientation and gender identity Support. O.A.S.O.S. provides peer youth groups, leadership opportunities, advocacy and referrals.

  • Queer Asterisk

    Queer Asterisk empowers and nurtures the diverse ways of being that queer people embody by providing accessible counseling, education and community programs that uplift queer, trans and gender expansive lives.

Grant Funders & Sponsors

  • City of Boulder: Office of Arts + Culture

    The City of Boulder: Office of Arts + Culture crafts Boulder’s social, physical, and cultural environment to include creativity as an essential ingredient for the well being, prosperity, and joy of everyone in the community.

  • Colorado Health Foundation

    We serve Coloradans who have less power, privilege and income, and prioritize Coloradans of color.

    We are informed by the community and those we exist to serve.

    We do everything with the intent of creating health equity.

In-Kind Sponsors

  • Art Parts: Creative Reuse Center

    Art Parts is a non-profit creative reuse center in the heart of Boulder, Colorado. We accept donations of unwanted and surplus creative materials and offer them to the community at deeply discounted prices. Shop our retail store for affordable arts and craft supplies: fabric, yarn, paints, tools, beads, glass.

  • Firehouse Art Center

    The Firehouse is a non-profit art center committed to exhibiting thought provoking art created by local, regional and national artists. Through our no fee admission gallery and our outreach art classes taught at no cost to under resourced areas of the community, we strive to bring the healing nature of art to all.

  • MeCo Coffee Collective

    We bring together local Colorado artists, crafts-people and entrepreneurs through an inviting, attractive and accessible coffee shop that is continuing to strive towards self exploration and business expansion, guided by passion and love.

  • Babette's Bakery

    Check the instagram account @babettesartisan for updates on the pizza kitchen that offers a Neopolitan style pizza from the wood fired oven, hours and days do vary for the time being.

  • The Coffee Ban

    The Coffee Ban is a Denver-based Indie Coffee Company by Banned Design Collective.

    Our mission is to innovate the way you drink and think about coffee. We believe coffee doesn’t have to be complicated, but should be delicious, authentic, and something special that brings people together.

Would you like to support the Colorado Art Therapy Association?

Email us: coarttherapyassociation@gmail.com