Category: Grantee Stories

Shopping online has never been easier. But with so many options flooding the market, it’s hard to know what to buy. Fast-fashion brands offer ease and speed, but smaller businesses with handmade products offer more personal and sustainable products. Morgan English, based in the Brattleboro area, is the owner of… Read More

How do we build community and connections through a digitally-enhanced world, especially one compounded by greater distances due to Covid-19? Beacon Fire, a collaborative dance performance with choreographic direction by Laurel Jenkins and musical composition by Matthew Evan Taylor, attempts to make sense of this question. Laurel and Matthew… Read More

Alexandra Langstaff has always been a teacher, and she has always been a dancer. In 1989 she decided to combine her two passions into a dance shop dedicated to educating children through creative movements—Hullabaloo. A one-woman operation based out of the Southern Vermont Arts Center, Hullabaloo stresses the… Read More

A piece of music, a story, or an image can be medicine. It doesn’t take a PhD to know this, but artist Dana Walrath’s long career as a medical anthropologist gives her a powerful language to describe how art can heal. She is quick to connect individual lives and actions… Read More

The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust the work of the caregiver into the spotlight like never before. Nurses, doctors, hospice workers, and death doulas have become the most essential workers in the world, and the toll of their work among the gravest. This contradiction at the heart of care—that the wellbeing… Read More

William Alexander’s books take middle-grade readers to extraordinary worlds—goblin kingdoms, intergalactic spaceships, and, in his next book, floating castles off the Cuban coast. Tentatively titled The Ingenious Towers, the fantasy novel-in-progress has earned Alexander an FY2021 Creation Grant. The story follows three Cuban-American siblings as they pursue a… Read More