{"id":44171,"date":"2021-10-19T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-creative-district-names-new-director\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:17:56","slug":"mancos-creative-district-names-new-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-creative-district-names-new-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos Creative District names new director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6b93eea1-dd54-5267-9e03-d8c611a0367e&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"600\" height=\"790\" alt=\"Katie McClure\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Katie McClure<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANCOS \u2014 The Mancos Creative District has announced that Katie McClure has been selected as its new executive director.<\/p>\n<p>McClure comes from a community-centered health and wellness background, and is the founder of Uncommon Health Solutions, where she focuses on creating conditions in communities that make it easy to be healthy, according to a news release dated Oct. 8<\/p>\n<p>McClure, a Mancos resident, recently hosted the public conversation, \u201cTrauma is hiding in our community, and what we can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She and her husband, Craig, have two children, ages 5 and 8. The family resides in Webber Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey all spend a ridiculous amount of energy on the shenanigans of their 13 ducks,\u201d the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe selected Katie to help bring the Mancos Creative District into a more relevant role in Mancos because of her extensive experience as a leader in community-centered nonprofit  organizations and projects,\u201d Board President T.J. Zark said in the news release. \u201cWe had several exceptional candidates apply for the position, but Katie stood out as the right catalyst for growth, because of her strong and diverse skill set, as well as her unique combination of energy, leadership, with the ability to toggle between vision and action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy career has involved understanding small business interests and studying how the design of community experiences impacts our well-being,\u201d said McClure. \u201cWe know from evidence through Colorado Creative Industries, as well as what I have witnessed in my own work and home, supporting opportunities for creative experience and expression brings people together and are foundational to our well-being and vitality. I\u2019m really excited to work alongside our community to support the economic and cultural vibrance of the Mancos Valley.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McClureCourtesy photo MANCOS \u2014 The Mancos Creative District has announced that Katie McClure has been selected as its new executive director. McClure comes from a community-centered health and wellness background, and is the founder of Uncommon Health Solutions, where she focuses on creating conditions in communities that make it easy to be healthy, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[83,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85995,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44171\/revisions\/85995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44171"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}