Greeley Creative District
Mission
The Greeley Creative District exists to highlight the community’s distinctive creative identity and increase its economic vitality by uplifting, encouraging, incubating, promoting, and developing the arts and creative businesses in the Greeley community.
Who we are
The Greeley Creative District is a 501 c 3 non-profit board established in 2012 to enhance the community’s distinctive creative identity and increase its economic vitality. Greeley obtained official creative district certification from Colorado Creative Industries in 2014, and it has continued to creatively expand alongside 23 total Creative Districts throughout Colorado.
The Greeley Creative District is a dynamic place at the heart of the community that offers incredible diversity and depth of arts, culture, and creative enterprise year round. Its geographical boundary encompasses the University District and Downtown Development District.
What we do
The Greeley Creative District is an incubator for Creatives. Greeley celebrates the arts for their inherent value; at the same time the work of Creatives is appreciated as a powerful economic engine. Greeley’s key elements that incubate and support Creatives include its 1% for Arts program, UNC’s fully accredited College of Performing Arts, distinctive market area, affordability of housing and workshop space, retail outlets, creative industries, and performance venues.
The GCD works actively to expand the range of support services – such as business and technical assistance – that can turn creative visions into viable livelihoods.