Museum of Outdoor Arts

MOA strives to adhere to its beliefs in the
following principles:
• Art communicates;
• A complete environment includes art;
• Art should be integrated into everyday life.
• There is intrinsic value in a quality arts experience;
• Discovery and invention happens through collaboration;
• Art education fosters an inventive work force and culturally
aware society

MOA will continue to adjust programming and gallery space in an effort to meet community needs and use resources most effectively. With the help of board, staff, and outside consultants, MOA constantly reviews its programs and makes changes that raise its profile as a community arts asset and help it to better serve the citizens of Arapahoe County with the resources that are available. One such challenge that has come up is to be able to continue to support emerging artists at a higher level. As a result of this challenge, MOA is developing a new Fellowship program that we hope to launch in late 2018 or early 2019.

MOA has a very robust pool of emerging artists with whom we have worked through decades of the Design and Build arts education program and other collaborative efforts. These young artists inform MOA on best practices and challenges they face in the contemporary public art landscape, which allows MOA to develop relevant and meaningful programming. Through these programs and opportunities for emerging artists, MOA can effectively contribute to public art and community building not just for the patrons of the arts, but for the artists and creative minds our mission supports.

MOA believes that collaboration with other organizations enriches the experience both for audiences and for the collaborating organizations. We always work in collaboration with our exhibiting artists and local gallery partners to enrich our gallery programming. In our performance offerings, we ask the performers to be the creators of a unique program, not just presenters of an unoriginal performance. This creates success for all involved- the presenters, the performance artists, the participating organizations, and the audience.

Accessibility and collaboration are intertwined as we work with artists and performers to plan and implement programs that will be well received and attended by our community. MOA has a long history of collaborative activities with such entities as Arapahoe Libraries, Black Cube, Arvada Center, RedLine, Denver Arts and Venues, Arts Brookfield, the Athena Project, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, ZIKR Dance, Lumonics, Prismajic, Underground Music Showcase, Colorado Public Television, Lunar Fire, the Denver Chalk Art Festival, Up Close and Musical, the cities of Englewood and Greenwood Village, Curtis Center, Art Students League, AEG Live Rocky Mountain and many other businesses, artists and organizations.

In 2017, one of MOA's most significant collaborations was with Bill Kennedy, a professional inflatable sculpture artist. MOA commissioned an installation series of three monumental inflatable sculptures called “Creatura Psychedelica." We had our kick-off installation event at Marjorie Park in Arapahoe County, which over 500 patrons attended. We then collaborated with many other to tour this installation to other Arapahoe County events such as the Englewood Block Party, the Sounds of Summer concert series in Englewood, the Glow event in Greenwood Village, as well as Fiddler's Green concerts. We also partnered with others outside of Arapahoe County like the Underground Music Showcase, the Slow Food Festival on Larimer Square, the Sonic Bloom festival in rural south Colorado, the Arvada Center and the Unicorn Festival. These collaborations have proven so successful, that the installation has already been reserved by several of these collaborators again as well as new partners.