RedLine Contemporary Art Center

RedLine Contemporary Art Center is an innovative, mixed-use arts center that fosters education and engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change.

Collaborative and responsive programming engages Denver’s diverse communities while supporting and showcasing the careers of local, national and international artists. RedLine’s focus on equitable access to and engagement in the arts is central to its exhibitions, artist-in-residence program, youth art education and community art programs. The organization has played an increasingly critical role in administering regranting programs (including Arts in Society) that support organizations and individual artists. Bonfils-Stanton Foundation and RedLine are strongly aligned in our equity values and the belief that art plays an essential role in responding to societal needs and creating positive social change.

$120,000 Awarded To: Redline Contemporary Art Center Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Grantmaking Area: Community Grants

RedLine’s facility of 22,000 square feet includes a main exhibition hall with 12-15 curated exhibitions per year, 18 resident artist studios (a two-year residency program that includes free studio space), a Community Studio for educational programing and community events, a Project Space responsive to evolving artist event and exhibition programming, and a library with a collection of over 8,000 books on art and art history.

Applying a community-responsive model by first listening to our local communities, RedLine co-creates innovative solutions to social challenges alongside artists young and old, housed and unhoused, emerging and seasoned, with these strategic program areas:

• Artists-in-Residence Program
• Youth Art Education
• Contemporary Art Exhibitions
• Community Art Programs
• Regranting & Artist Grants
• Creative Place-Keeping

With a history of responding to local societal needs through artistic interventions, RedLine is an essential and profoundly connected member of Denver’s creative ecosystem and the go-to resource for professional artists and local communities to create positive social change.