Community Organizations Promoting the Arts empowers community arts organizations and creative professionals by providing space that promotes programming for both youth and adults, so they can collectively advance missions, achieve goals, expand access to critical resources and create—together.
mission
COPA supports community arts organizations and artists through the use of its facilities, as well as an endowment-backed foundation that delivers funding for facility rentals and arts related programming.
facility
The COPA arts campus in Fitchburg, WI will have administrative offices, theater performance spaces, rooms for programming, visual arts studios, and practice spaces designed to meet the needs of a multitude of artists of all ages.
foundation
The Friends of COPA Foundation will manage an endowment to provide financial support to artists of all ages and arts organizations, subsidizing facility rentals and programming needs.
COPA Summary Video
Featuring comments from Michael Leckrone
Michael Leckrone
COPA Lead Community Ambassador and Retired UW-Madison Marching Band Director
“Music has been a very important aspect of my life for as long as I can remember, and I feel I owe an enormous debt to the teachers, performers, colleagues and students who provided the inspiration, the challenges, and the motivation that has led to my ongoing love and appreciation of the Arts.”
“I am confident that the positive impact music has on an individual cannot be overstated. There is a satisfaction, an excitement, and a joy in the music making process that is difficult to match by any other activity. I am thrilled to serve as the Lead Ambassador for COPA seeking the financial support needed to build the facility portion of COPA. I believe strongly there must always be the opportunities and facilities for young men and women to pursue a passion for the arts so they may continue to learn, to grow, and to perform.”
“COPA will give children in South Madison and Dane County access to an important center for learning, engaging in and developing valuable knowledge and skills in the performing arts.“
– Kaleem Caire
FITCHBURG, WI LETTER OF SUPPORT
Address:
2841 Index Rd.
Fitchburg, WI 53713
Contact:
info@copamadison.org
Community Organizations Promoting the Arts empowers community arts organizations and creative professionals by providing space that promotes programming for both youth and adults, so they can collectively advance missions, achieve goals, expand access to critical resources and create—together.