CORTEZ, CO
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Sign In — Free (10 views/day)CORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER, founded in 1988, is a small nonprofit that reported $131K in total revenue in fiscal year 2025. Revenue decreased 10% compared to the prior year. Net assets of $325K represent 30 months of operating reserves.
The mission of the Cortez Cultural Center is to provide programs that enrich the lives of our community and its visitors by increasing cultural awareness, promoting the arts, and educating about the area's history, diversity and natural environment.
Gallery Exhibits and Opening ReceptionsFor the past several years (before, during and since the Pandemic) the Centers gallery exhibits featuring local artists were few and far between. Since July...
Gallery Exhibits and Opening ReceptionsFor the past several years (before, during and since the Pandemic) the Centers gallery exhibits featuring local artists were few and far between. Since July 2023, this has become our major focus with five different exhibits and opening receptions in 2025.We featured a new exhibit almost every month throughout 2025, with various themes, one-person, group exhibits, and installations.Last year, about 75 artists participated in the gallery exhibits. Many of the exhibits are curated with community member artists joining the committees. Often, they are planned around a theme (such as Avian Art during our annual Birding Festival in May, and Recycled Art made from food wrappers during our Everybody Eats event in October). In all exhibits we strive to keep the exhibits in harmony with the context of our community. A large part of our community are ranchers and farmers and our exhibit in April will celebrate them and rural life.Native American artists are always welcome and featured in the Center Gallery as well as in our Gift Shop (which is more like a museum store).All of the opening receptions are free and open to the public and we do not charge the artists submission fees for exhibit applications. If works are for sale in an exhibit, and they sell, the artists pay a modest commission to the Center.The gallery exhibits enhance our relationships with local artists and crafters, involve them in the Centers programming and planning, and provide
The Annual Ute Mountain Mesa Verde Birding Festival provides a popular venue for visiting southwestern Colorado during the second weekend in May. Nestled between alpine and mesa forests and scenic...
The Annual Ute Mountain Mesa Verde Birding Festival provides a popular venue for visiting southwestern Colorado during the second weekend in May. Nestled between alpine and mesa forests and scenic desert canyons, the Four Corners intriguingly diverse landscapes, and mild climate, have drawn people to the region for generations. Ancestral Pueblo farmers dwelled in places now known as Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, and Canyon of the Ancients. Todays meadows, pastures, cultivated fields, historic orchards, stock ponds and reservoirs establish habitat for a wide-spectrum of migratory and resident birds. Some species, such as Lucys Warbler, are found no place else in Colorado
Native American DancesOur Native American Dance program is our signature program, which showcases local indigenous dancers, drummers, and singers who share their traditional stories and songs with...
Native American DancesOur Native American Dance program is our signature program, which showcases local indigenous dancers, drummers, and singers who share their traditional stories and songs with the community in the Centers outdoor plaza and dancing circle. For over 27 years, we have presented this nightly program throughout the Summer, June - August, where the traditional dances and songs have been passed down through four generations of performers. Audience members are encouraged to participate with the performers in the Circle Dance and engage directly with the dancers after each performance.The Native American Dances are an hour-long performance that happen five nights per week for an 8-12 week period.Over 2,000 audience members of all ages attended 60 performances in 2025.38 Ute and Din singers, dancers, drummers, and storytellers from four generations ranging from 3 to 78 years old, performed with one another and their audiences.The Native American Dance program is free to the audience, but the performers are paid an honorarium for each and every performance through grant funding.Visitors to the area make it a point to attend our Native American Dances and, as the tourism Director for Montezuma County once said, Visitors to our area usually come for Mesa Verde National Park and/or Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. Then they go to the Native American Dances at the Cultural Center. Then they come inside the Center and get to meet our Cultural Specialist, get information and answers to their questions, and view our exhibits.
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Liquidity (40%) • Solvency (30%) • Sustainability (20%) • Efficiency (10%)
Sign In — Free (10 views/day)| 2025 | 2024 | Change | |
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| Revenue | $130,766 | $144,599 | -0.1% |
| Expenses | $135,273 | $135,990 | 0.0% |
| Net Income | $-4,507 | $8,609 | -1.5% |
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Sign In| Name | Title | Hours/Week | Role | Reportable Comp | Other Comp | Total |
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| Susan Lisak | Executive Director | 25.00 |
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| Paul Beckler | Treasurer | 2.00 |
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| Debi Berger | Secretary | 1.00 |
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| Sherry Owen-Siekmann | President | 1.00 |
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| Diane Cherbak | Vice President | 2.00 |
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| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Net Income |
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| 2025 | $130,766 | $135,273 | $351,483 | $-4,507 |
| 2024 | $144,599 | $135,990 | $352,431 | $8,609 |
| 2024 | $164,599 | $135,990 | $352,431 | $28,609 |
| 2023 | $225,315 | $110,532 | $330,501 | $114,783 |
| 2022 | $143,126 | $252,742 | $254,428 | $-109,616 |
| 2021 | $226,881 | $183,007 | $329,495 | $43,874 |
| 2020 | $145,567 | $116,788 | $281,817 | $28,779 |
| 2019 | $146,139 | $161,582 | $263,106 | $-15,443 |
| 2018 | $151,441 | $171,763 | $268,957 | $-20,322 |
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