Caroline Victoria Coldicutt Arts Foundation
A Nonprofit Organization


Initiatives

The Caroline Victoria Coldicutt Arts Foundation currently is supporting three main artistic initiatives.

Star-Arts: Fine Art Online Festival

Imagine an arts festival for students without boundaries, a forum where students can share their creative expressions to help them celebrate their artistic vision…a festival that reaches out to all students, and encourages them to bring forth their expression in the visual arts, whether it be painting, drawing or sculpture. Now imagine that festival exhibiting those artistic expressions online and bestowing their highest honours upon those selected by award-winning artists and providing exhibitions of their work in galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. You have just envisioned the Caroline Victoria Online Arts Festival.

The Caroline Victoria Online Arts Festival is dedicated to the support, promotion and development of student artists. We seek funding and sponsorships from private and/or corporate sources who share our dream for honoring student artists and are motivated toward putting this visualization into action.

Art Scholarships

The Caroline Victoria Coldicutt Arts Foundation currently supports and contributes toward two annual art scholarships for student artists whose passion is painting and the fine arts. These art scholarships have been set up as separate endowments and are awarded annually to student recipients at the following schools: Marywood-Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage, CA and St. Margaret’s School in Palm Desert, CA.

For contributions to the CVC Arts Scholarship at Marywood-Palm Valley School, please contact:

Mr. Vince Downey - Head of School
Marywood-Palm Valley School
35-5252 DaVall Drive
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
www.mwpv.org

For contributions to the CVC Arts Scholarship at St. Margaret's Episcopal School, please contact:

Dr. Rich Cansdale - Headmaster
St. Margaret's Episcopal School
47-535 Highway 74
Palm Desert, CA 92260
www.stmargarets.org

We encourage like minded patrons to consider endowing CVC Art Scholarships at schools of their choosing. To learn more about contributing to the critical development of young artists by setting up an endowment, please contact us.

The Caroline Victoria Rose - A Rose For the Arts

A special rose, new to the world, was unveiled in 2006.  Named the Caroline Victoria Rose after Caroline Victoria Coldicutt, it has been created as an exclusive rose for the arts – a gift to benefit and assist the work of benevolent funds and foundations supporting performers and artists in need.


Caroline Victoria Rose
www.carolinevictoriarose.com

The hybrid tea rose that became the Caroline Victoria was bred by Harkness Roses in England, a family-owned and operated English horticulturist since 1879. It takes years to breed a rose of distinction, and requires a combination of experience combined with skill and a measure of good luck.  With the “Audrey Hepburn” as its seed parent (its “mother”) and “New Zealand’ as its pollen parent (its “father”), the Caroline Victoria rose is ivory-white in color.  The high center of this hybrid tea rose takes on shades of gold as it opens, depending upon heat and light, and the bloom receives the highest marks for fragrance and disease resistance, both of which are outstanding. 

The first beneficiary of the Caroline Victoria rose was the Royal Theatrical Fund, London, England. The Royal Theatrical Fund was founded in 1839 by Charles Dickens to bring aid to actors and performers in need. Helping artists in need is an important way of saying “Thank You” to those who have inspired others throughout the years.

The Caroline Victoria Rose made its world debut at the Chelsea Flower Show in London in May of 2006. As  patron of the Royal Theatrical Fund, Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth, received the first ever bouquet of Caroline Victoria roses at the show.

Elizabeth Coldicutt, Sir Donald Sinden, HRH Queen Elizabeth
Photo Credit: Bruce Fleming

In June, 2006, two Caroline Victoria roses  were planted at Buckingham Palace Rose Garden to celebrate the Queen’s 80th birthday.  And so the circle comes full bloom – out of the talented life of a young woman comes the inspiration for a beautiful new hybrid tea  rose, which captures the imagination of the public, and gives to those – the artists and entertainers who have dedicated their lives to inspiring us. 

It is the hope, dream and plan of those who have been associated with this beautiful Caroline Victoria rose that the legacy will spread throughout the arts world brining the aroma of charitable goodness to all who encounter it. 

For more information on how the Caroline Victoria rose can benefit specific arts related programs, please contact our foundation.