Ludicrous Round Winners Announcement
The Ludicrous Money Round has come to an end! The GOOD NEWS is we received 27 proposals for mind-blowing art!! The BAD NEWS is we had requests for almost 4.6 times the amount of money we had to give out and had to make 21 people really, really sad. 2015 has seen an unprecedented number […]
Winning submission of the Apogaea 2015 Ticket Art contest
We had a bunch of amazing entries this year. A big thank you to all the artists who submitted! Please join us in congratulating Shaunessy P. O’Brien for his winning submission for the Apogaea 2015 Ticket Art with a whopping 46% of the votes. He actually submitted three entries, and one of those other entries […]
2015 Apogaea Temple deadline (CLOSED)
We are happy to announce that we will be re-opening the Ludicrous Money Round for Temple applications only. If you value the experience the Temple brings to the event, get your plan and budget together and submit your idea by October 31, 2014 at 11:59pm, Denver, Colorado time. Submissions now Closed For complete information on […]
2015 Apogaea Theme Announced and Ticket Art Contest (CLOSED)
As the 2015 Apogaea theme closes, the ticket art contest opens! But first, the winner of the theme contest: The winner of the 2015 Apogaea Theme contest is: SYNCHRONICITY submitted by Rose Swansong. SYNCHRONICITY Psychologist Carl Jung coined the term in the 1920s to explain the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related, where […]
2015 Ludicrous Money Round CLOSED
Ludicrous Money Round is CLOSED (please check the Creative Grants page for details on the next round) We have $30,000.00 to fund serious and ambitious art by issuing a small number of large grants to the most ambitious projects. It is nearly impossible to build massive projects taking months of work by large teams with […]
Art Committee Recruitment
We are getting ready to begin the creative grant cycle for Apogaea 2015! Before we can start accepting grant applications, we need to recruit a few more Art Committee members! Are you interested in helping Apogaea grant tens of thousands of dollars to community artists? Do you want to help bring some of the best […]
2014 Art Committee Year End Report
Did you like the art at Apogaea this year? It was truly an amazing year for art as well as for the Art Committee. They read through 144 applications this year – a 2.25% increase from last year! How’d they do that, you might ask? There were significant changes in the grant process for 2014. There […]
Cross-Pollination Creative Grant Winners 2014
The Cross-pollination grant round has come to an end! The GOOD NEWS is we received many proposals for mind-blowing art!! The BAD NEWS is we had requests for almost 2 times the amount of money we had to give out and had to make some people really, really sad. The purpose of this round of […]
Want to Play With Fire at Apo?
Before you can light up at Apo, you’ll need to visit the Convergence Tent at Apo to get your props checked out by certified safeties! One must take the safety workshop before one can spin fire. Convergence will be distributing wrist bands to those certified. Anyone who witnesses someone spinning fire WITHOUT a wrist band […]
Seed Round Creative Grant Winners!
We are again excited to announce more creative grant recipients! This is for the Seed Round, which is for projects that requested any amount under $600.00. Total Funds Available $7,000.00 Total Funds Requested $20,090.53 Applications Scored 38 Average Grant Request $490.01 Grants Awarded 14 Average Award $434.96 Total Funds Awarded $6,089.41 Stand-alone Installation 22 53.66% Theme/Sound Camp […]