Collector Amanda Precourt Skipped the Vanity Museum to Give Denver a Community Art Space

Arts foundations and private museums are frequently ego projects, well-intentioned but there to showcase the breadth of the founder’s collection and build a legacy around their name. Denver-based collector and real estate developer Amanda Precourt could have gone that route but wanted to take a different approach that placed art’s impact on her local community at the center. From her vision, Cookie Factory emerged—a free-to-the-public art space that launched in May 2025 and has since become a hub for the city’s creative community.

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