Healing Spaces: How Amanda Precourt is Transforming Art & Mental Health Care in Colorado

Through an experimental art hub and a pioneering crisis center, philanthropist Amanda Precourt is redefining community in Colorado.

In May 2025, a former fortune cookie factory now filled with contemporary art opened to the public in Denver. Just 19 days later, a behavioral health care facility treating acute mental health crises opened in Vail. The connective thread between these two seemingly disparate undertakings is Amanda Precourt, a Denver- based philanthropist whose personal journey is a story of art, mental health and deep learning about how to help others. “I really believe in art,” says Precourt, the visionary behind Denver’s Cookie Factory and Vail’s Precourt Healing Center. “Growing up, I excelled in the arts, but more than anything, it was my way to moderate a chaotic world and childhood.” When she started having hints of depression and anxiety in her early teens, drawing and painting became an outlet to regulate emotions.