Support Creativity in Our Communities
Big dreams. Real needs. Every gift makes a difference.
Every day, Weehawken Creative Arts brings people together to learn, create, connect, and belong through the arts. From our dance studios and art classrooms to performances and community events, we’re creating meaningful opportunities for children, teens, and adults throughout Montrose and Ouray County.
But making all of this possible takes more than tuition and ticket sales.
As a nonprofit organization, Weehawken relies on charitable contributions, business partnerships, and community investment to support the classrooms, instructors, equipment, scholarships, and essential facilities that keep our programs running.
We believe that access to the arts is a community investment — not a responsibility that should fall entirely on the families participating in our programs.
Whether you’re able to give $10, contribute monthly, help purchase everyday supplies, sponsor a scholarship, or invest in one of our major facility projects, there’s a meaningful way to make a difference.
Explore the ways you can help below.
Ways To Support
Support Programs & Everyday Needs
Your unrestricted gift supports the people, programs, and essential operating expenses that keep Weehawken thriving. From instructors and classroom supplies to scholarships, performances, and welcoming creative spaces, your generosity makes it all possible.
Scholarships & Costume Support
Help remove financial barriers so more students can experience the confidence, creativity, and connection that come through arts education and performance.
Capital Campaigns
Help us create and sustain exceptional arts spaces. Discover our Montrose facility campaign and Ridgway’s Key to the Future project, each with its own needs and opportunities.
Business Sponsorships & Partnerships
Put your business in the spotlight through event sponsorships, or make a year-round investment in the programs and facilities that strengthen our communities.
Give Every Month Option: Small Monthly Gifts. Lasting Community Impact.
You don’t have to make a major gift to make a meaningful difference.
Through Weehawken’s Give Every Month (GEM) program, a contribution of just $10, $15, or $25 a month adds up to reliable support for the classes, programs, and creative opportunities our communities enjoy year-round.
Every monthly gift helps us plan ahead, respond to changing needs, and keep the arts accessible.
Investing in Creative Spaces
Two Communities. Two Important Projects. One Shared Mission.
Weehawken is making significant investments in the spaces that allow arts education and creative programming to thrive in our region.
Our capital campaigns in Montrose and Ridgway address different needs, but share one purpose: creating safe, welcoming, sustainable places for people of all ages to learn, create, connect, and belong.
Montrose: We Couldn’t Put Creativity on Hold
In spring 2026, Weehawken faced an urgent challenge. Our primary Montrose classroom facility was being sold, and another space we depended on would no longer be available when its lease was not renewed. By year’s end, hundreds of students could have been left without a place to learn, dance, and create.
We had a choice: potentially suspend programs for a year or longer while we searched for space and raised construction funds, or move forward immediately to protect the programs our community had come to depend on.
We chose our students and families. We chose to keep the arts moving.
We invested more than $300,000 of cash reserves (accumulated over 20 years for emergency use) to transform a nearly 10,000-square-foot industrial building into our new Montrose arts home, drawing significantly from the financial reserves we’d carefully built over many years.
Today, the studios are open and classes are thriving. But the financial work isn’t finished.
We’re asking our community to help replenish those emergency reserves, support the substantial improvements already made, and complete the next phases of this investment.
We couldn’t afford to put creativity on hold. With your support, we can build a stronger future for the arts in Montrose.
Ridgway: Key to the Future
In Ouray County, Weehawken Creative Arts and Ridgway Chautauqua/Sherbino are investing in a different kind of future: the development of shared, permanently owned spaces for arts, culture, and community connection.
Through the Key to the Future campaign, we’re working to activate the properties at 145 and 147 N. Cora, creating flexible spaces for arts education, exhibitions, rehearsals, meetings, and community gatherings.
As we work toward retiring the remaining property debt by year-end of 2026, our attention is also turning toward the improvements needed to bring these spaces fully to life.
Your support helps us build lasting arts infrastructure in the heart of Ridgway.
Sometimes Making a Difference Is as Simple as a Case of Paper Towels!
It takes a surprising number of everyday supplies to keep busy arts classrooms running.
From hand soap, tissues, and cleaning products to classroom materials, entry rugs, storage solutions, and safety improvements, there are countless practical ways to help.
We’re putting together a wish list of both essentials and improvements we’d love to make as resources allow.
Whether you help stock a restroom for a month or contribute toward a larger facility need, you’re helping us put more resources directly into arts education.