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 a fund-supported 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 permanent fund to provide financial support to artists of all ages and arts organizations, subsidizing facility rentals and programming needs.
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.”