Arts & Business Together at a Challenging Time

“Most people don’t think of the Arts as an industry sector.  It’s 4 ½ % of our GDP – we need to make sure that arts and creative industries are part of our state’s economic recovery strategy.”

Christin Crampton Day, Executive Director, Colorado Business Committee for the Arts

A couple of times a year I feature a successful non-profit and its leader.  I like to find non-profits that intersect with Colorado’s business community, and in the midst of the brutal effects of COVID on the arts and entertainment sector, I invited Christin Crampton Day, Executive Director of the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, to join me  CBCA advances Colorado’s creative economy by connecting business and the arts.  Christin obviously faces some huge challenges now – arts venues are shut down – we talked about that, and about WHY there’s a strong connection between business and the arts.  I left our conversation convinced that a business’s operations can be enhanced by partnerships with the arts community.