Collier Arts Archive
Join UAC in building a community-wide project celebrating Collier’s arts history and identity.
Collier Arts Archives Initiative
Left to Right: Timothy Russell, Debi Clementi, and Myra Daniels, on the building site for the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts (now Artis—Naples); image originally appeared in Town & Country magazine, February 1989
Supporting Collier’s Art History
This initiative is a partnership between United Arts Collier, the state-recognized Local Arts Agency for Collier County, and Florida Humanities, which preserves, promotes, and shares the history, literature, cultures, and personal stories of Florida.
UAC invites our community to share their memories and memorabilia digitally to create a virtual library that will be the basis for exhibitions, talks, articles, videos, tours, and more celebrating the history of Collier’s arts.
Together, and with the help of our community’s arts-loving organizations and individuals, we will explore how we got to where we are today through Collier’s rich, fascinating, and inspiring history of the arts in our community.
Objectives And Outcomes
• Online archive preserving memories and memorabilia from patrons, artists, organizations, and leaders
• Exhibitions and events featuring arts stories and memorabilia highlights
• Collier Arts Archive Documentary
• Collier Arts Archive speaker series
• Literary publications based on interviews and memorabilia to be published in Florida Humanities FORUM Magazine
• GPS guided city tour of key historic Arts and Culture points in Collier County
UAC has the support of artists, legislators, patrons, and archivists throughout Collier County. Your support will help us to make this enduring legacy project a reality. Please help us preserve the arts in Collier!
Collier Arts Archive – In the News
Click below to listen to an interview about the Collier Arts Archive on WGCU!
Online art library to document role arts played in Collier County’s growth and global reputation
Click below to read about this initiative in The Naples Press!
Collier Arts’ deep, rich story, and major three-year plan to tell it
We Need Your Help!
Become Part of Collier’s Arts Legacy Project
To make this project possible we need your stories and your support. Please reach out to info@unitedartscollier.org to share your arts memories and click the button below to help us bring the history of Collier’s arts alive, celebrate our arts today, and share this treasure trove of information into the future! We can’t do this without your generous support and a gift of any amount is greatly appreciated.