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Website   Grants   Classifieds   Events   Arts News for October 10, 2019     Celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month!   The Devil in the Valley by Vermont author Castle Freeman, shared on Instagram for "On my Bookshelf" day. Last week, Governor Phil Scott proclaimed October as Vermont Arts and Humanities Month, joining the coast-to-coast recognition of the importance of arts and culture in the U.S. In partnership with the Governor's office, the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Humanities Council are shining a spotlight on the many cultural activities that take place every day in the Green Mountain State. The mission of National Arts and Humanities Month is to: focus on the arts at local, state, and national levels encourage individuals and organizations to participate in the arts allow governments and businesses to show their support of the arts raise public awareness about the role the arts and humanities play in our communities and lives Get involved! Vermont's Arts and Humanities Councils are participating in a nationwide Instagram campaign with the hashtag #ShowYourArt2019. There is a new theme each day. Friday, October 11 is "Inspired by . . .," Saturday is "Poetry," and Sunday is "Museums and Galleries." See all of the upcoming themes here. Celebrate the arts and humanities in your life--#ShowYourArt2019. Crowdfunding for Creative Solutions   Plena Cangrejera, a multidisciplinary street exhibit in Puerto Rico, is crowd funding through Artists Lead! Across America, artists are stepping into civic life and using their skills to creatively address local issues. To support this grassroots movement, ArtPlace America is partnering with ioby to offer a new grant program called Artists Lead!     Artists Lead! supports creative people with great ideas for collaborative solutions to community needs. The program provides one-on-one fundraising support and up to $15,000 in match funding to bring innovative community projects to life.   Find out more.  RSVP Now for the Vermont Arts Awards   Mahaney Arts Center Robison Concert Hall.  On October 23, five distinguished Vermonters will be honored at the annual Vermont Arts Awards ceremony in the beautiful Mahaney Arts Center on the Middlebury College campus. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a reception followed by the awards presentation in the Robison Concert Hall. A chorus, led by Middlebury College Community Choir director Jeff Rehbach, will perform a selection of songs from the African American spiritual tradition, selected by François Clemmons, recipient of the 2019 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.   The Middlebury College Museum of Art will remain open until 7 p.m. so that attendees can browse the exhibits.   The Vermont Arts Awards event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.   RSVP now!   Vermont Arts Awards 2019 Recipients     (l to r): François Clemmons, Castle Freeman, Joan Robinson, James Lockridge, Douglas Anderson.  Learn about the awards recipients.     Arts Briefs Submissions of original poetry are invited for the Voicing Art Poetry Reading on October 19. Works may be inspired by Mercedes Bautista's Joy and Other Acts of Resistance exhibit at Flynndog Gallery Get the details. The Vermont Creative Network is conducting a survey of artists, creative freelancers, and small creative business owners. Your participation will support accurate measurment Vermont's creative sector. Complete the survey. The Public Art Learning Fund provides small grants to support professional development opportunities for New England artists to strengthen their public art practices. The deadline is November 12.  Find out how to apply. Upcoming Events HEATH QUARTET Robison Concert Hall Mahaney Arts Center October 11 Middlebury DAVID MACAULAY: SELECTED DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES Poultney Public Library Through October 31 Poultney  DADDYLONGLEGS ArtisTree Community Arts Center October 11 South Pomfret BURNHAM MUSIC PRESENTS: LAST TRAIN TO ZINKHOV Burnham Hall October 12 Lincoln WORLD PREMIERE OF ESAI'S TABLE Briggs Opera House October 10 to 27 White River Junction THE BURNING HELL Highland Center for the Arts October 12 Greensboro VERMONT PHILHARMONIC: OPERA GALA CONCERT St. Johnsbury Academy/Barre Opera House October 12 and 13 St. Johnsbury/Barre NICHOLAS PAYTON + CYRILLE AIMÉE DUO Vermont Jazz Center October 12 Brattleboro HARVEST ART AND CRAFT SHOW Mt. Snow Resort October 12 and 13 West Dover BAKER & TARPAGA DANCE PROJECT: WHEN BIRDS REFUSED TO FLY  Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre October 12 Middlebury SINGLE CHANNEL VT WITH SUMRU TEKIN 180 Flynn Avenue October 11 Burlington PLATFORM VT!: ART, FASHION, LIVE MEDIA PERFORMANCE Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill October 12 Poultney 802 BLUES REVUE 2 Vergennes Opera House October 12 Vergennes MARROWBONE: STORYTELLING IN WORD, DANCE, AND SONG Ripton Road October 12 and 13 Lincoln RICHARD WOOD AND GORDON BELSHER Barre Elks Lodge October 13 Barre The Vermont Arts Council is funded, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, which requires a 1:1 match from the Vermont State Legislature. Council grants, programs, and statewide arts promotion would not be possible without the critical funding provided by these government agencies.

Past Issues, 2019

October 10, 2019 Arts and Humanities Month | Artists Lead! program introduced | Vermont Arts Awards 2019 | Voicing Art poetry reading event | surveying the creative economy | Public Art Learning Fund

October 3, 2019 Vermont artist Jarvis Green

September 26, 2019 remembering Paul Bruhn | Big Frog installed at Vermont Agriculture and Environmental Laboratory | Vermont Creative Network seeks sector data | director sought for Generator | call for applications to business program at Generator | Northern Stage seeks sales and marketing assistant

September 19, 2019 Vermont artist Migmar Tsering

September 12, 2019 five to receive Vermont Arts Awards 2019 | The State of Sculpture opens in Spotlight Gallery | sculpture to be installed at Vermont Agricultural and Environmental Laboratory | National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Council to present funding opportunities | Vermont Studio Center accepting residency applications | Highland Center for the Arts seeks executive director

September 5, 2019 Vermont artist Rajnii Eddins

August 29, 2019 Conduits coming to Spotlight Gallery | Vermont Arts & Culture Disaster and Resilience Network launch meeting September 10 | The State of Sculpture installed in Council garden | Bill Schubart comments on arts and culture solutions | Inclusive Arts Vermont invites work for ANEW | Will Kasso Condry welcomes help from young artists | Studio Place Arts calls for submissions 

August 22, 2019 Vermont artist Larry Bissonnette

August 15, 2019 Creation Grants announced | Cultural Facilities Grants announced | Artists in Schools Grants open | Artist Development Grants open | Sarah-Lee Terrat writes about recovery from Tropical Storm Irene | Toby MacNutt receives award | Next Stage Arts seeks director | Mary Anne Carter confirmed as chair of National Endowment for the Arts | Bennington Museum seeks executive director

August 8, 2019 Vermont artist Desmond Peeples

August 1, 2019 arts festivals in August and September | support arts-based programs in U.S. Defense Department, Veterans Affairs, and Justice Department budgets | Cultural Disaster Readiness Convening September 10 | Creative Ground profiles | #VTArts251 continues | Northern Stage seeks company manager | River Arts calls artists to environmental exhibition | Chandler seeks program and outreach coordinator

July 25, 2019 Vermont artist Kaylynn Sulivan TwoTrees

July 18, 2019 SiteTime : Cordwood : Sharing in Spotlight Gallery | John Killacky remains arts advocate | Levitt AMP Grants available for 2020 | Vermont Community Leadership Summit coming in August | Karen Mittelman to read at Bookstock 2019 | Our Town Grants available

July 11, 2019 Vermont artist Will Kasso Condry

June 20, 2019 Creative Placemakers share perspective | Burlington City Arts honored by New England Foundation for the Arts | Make Music Day approaches | #VTArts251 challenge | Our Town and Arts Works Grants open | Addison/Rutland Creative Zone hosting panel | Community Engagement Lab hosts Tacos & Teaching Artists

June 13, 2019 Vermont artist Mikahely

June 6, 2019, Animating Infrastructure Grants announced | arts-integrated learning history unit at Miller's Run School | expand Creation Grant funding ask | Head Start Arts Integration Grants available | Make Music Day: call | Helen Day Arts Center seeks part-time support person | call to UNBOUND Vol IX | studio space available at Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier2019

May 30, 2019 Vermont artist Toussaint St. Negritude

May 23, 2019 ArtsFest in Montpelier a part of Creative Communities Exchange | open studio weekend | inclusion at Flynn: A Thoughtful Invitation | in memoriam: Malcolm Ewen | Creation and Arts Impact Grant deadlines approaching | Christy Mitchell to head South End Arts and Business Association | NEA announces Vermont grantees | Jarvis Green honored

May 16, 2019 Vermont artist Toby MacNutt

May 9, 2019 Aubrey Benoit photograph wins Congressional Arts Competition | inclusion at Circus Smirkus | Make Music Vermont call to artists | Vermont's appeal to writers and poets | Margaret Coleman appointed director of T.W. Wood Gallery | UNBOUND Vol IX call for entries | VSA Vermont's Inclusive Arts Education in Practice workshop

May 2, 2019 Vermont artist Bryan Blanchette

April 25, 2019 Almost Forgotten in Spotlight Gallery | Road to Recognition permanent installation | VSA Vermont's Inclusive Arts Education in Practice workshop | Green Mountain Youth Symphony auditions | Studio Place Arts open calls to artists | Art for Equity Educator Institute in August

April 18, 2019 Vermont artists Muslim Girls Making Change

April 11, 2019 PoemCity and PoemTown celebrations | Hail the Poets! is featured story | Dominique Gustin joins staff | grant seeker workshops available | Yellow Barn seeks general manager | Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival announced Shouldice Family Prize | MakerSphere space available

April 4, 2019 Vermont artist Misoo

March 28, 2019 Poetry Out Loud 2019 State Champion Vera Escaja-Hess | Vermont poet laureate profile and nominations open | Arts Impact Grants round begins | benefit concert for Council and Latchis Arts | Creative Communities Fellowship Program applications open | Vermont Arts Endowment Fund support available | production manager sought for Flynn Center

March 21, 2019 Vermont artist LN Bethea

March 14, 2018 Deployed debuts with reading | Creation Grants open | nominations for2019 Arts Awards open | Poetry Out Loud state championship | Council Annual Report available | Rural Prosperity Through the Arts and Creative Sector study published | Governors Institutes for the Arts applications open

March 7, 2019 Vermont artist Sachiko Yoshida

February 28, 2019 Looking North: Catamount Artists Connect to open in Spotlight Gallery | Poetry Out Loud 2019 Semifinals March 7 | Creative Communities Exchange in Montpelier June 6 and 7 | Chandler Center for the Arts seeks director | Circus Smirkus seeks business manager | T.W. Wood Gallery seeks director

February 21, 2019 Vermont artist Dr. Scarborough François Clemmons

February 14, 2019 staff loves Vermont arts | six Vermont arts organizations recieve NEA grants | EPIC Music featured | Cultural Facilities Grant workshops | Hunger Mountain journal accepting applications | TedxStowe seeks short animation | winners of Scholastic Art & Writing Awards named

February 7, 2019 Vermont artist Isadora Snapp

January 31, 2019 creative economy study launched | Spark coworking space in Greensboro | JAGFest 3.0 highlights women playwrights | Indira Goodwine named dance program director at NEFA | Spruce Peak Arts seeks administrative assistant | Vermont Arts Council seeks artist services coordinator | City of South Burlington seeks artist(s) for 180 Market Street project

January 24, 2019 Vermont artist Amy Hook-Therrien

January 17, 2019 Jackson Tupper in Artists to Watch 2019 | Hannah Morris joins Council staff | NEA Arts Works Grants available | arts and the shutdown | Community Engagement Lab opens Communities Project Grants | Arts Bus seeks director | call to artists: Hunger Mountain Coop

January 10 Vermont artists A2VT

January 3, 2019 Burlington Lake & City Semester's THRIVE! event | introducing I am a Vermont Artist | upcoming Artists to Watch 2019 | Big Heavy World receives Spark! Grant | Dorset Players' auditions for Oklahoma! | apply for Governor's Institutes Winter Weekend Masterclasses

Past Issues, 2018

December 19, 2018 staff favorites | Council receives Ally of Accessibility Award

December 6, 2018  Vermont cultural leaders issue statement | grant for emergency arts readiness | Vermont Arts 20XX on leave | holiday markets | Animating Infrastructure letters of intent deadline | four additional Artist Development Grants awarded | Carving Studio and Sculpture Center accepting residency applications | Heather Geoffrey of Main Street Arts featured

November 22, 2018  arts awards recap | Democracy and the Arts | State House statue to be installed November 30 | artisan markets | Marble House Project residencies | auditions for Lyric Theare Company | Vermont Arts Council seeks executive/development assistant

November 8, 2018  Governor's Arts Awards November 14 | 7Women 7Walls opening reception November 9 | Artist Development Grant deadline November 15 | Irene Green named managing director at Northern Stage | Catamount Arts in running for funding through Levitt Foundation | VSA Vermont seeks part-time development and communications assistant

October 25, 2018  Convening recap | Honor installed at Veterans Cemetery | Head Starts Arts Integration Grants awarded | 7Women 7Walls coming to Spotlight Gallery | call for submissions to Arts Connect at Catamount | 2019 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards open | SafeArt seeks executive director | Second Stage at Walker Farm completes first year

October 11, 2018  Governor's Arts Awards ceremony | Corrina Thurston Rising Star | David Macaulay Lecture | Animating Infrastructure Grant workshops | Leonardo Vazquez at Network Convening | Call for NXNE 2019 | Weston Playhouse seeks director of marketing and communications | about the arts award recipients

September 27, 2018  FY2019 grantees announced | gallery proposals invited | Tom Pilon joins Council staff | 13th Annual Independent Television Festival approaches | Vermont Poetry Out Loud begins | Sarah-Lee Terrat to discuss Green and Gold | interview with Leo Vazquez

September 13, 2018  Governor's Arts Awards recipients announced | opening reception for Macaulay in Montpelier | Creation Grant awardees named | new public art in Waterbury | Making it Happen Leadership Summit Oct. 1 | administrative assistant needed at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center | Leahy to sit on committee influencing NEA budget

August 30, 2018  Macauley exhibit coming Sept. 14 | #VTArts251 announced | new sculpture for State House | workshops for Animating Infrastructure Grants | Journalism in Today's Democracy | Vermont Art Teachers Association Conference | Main Street Arts storytelling event | advocating for arts in education

August 16, 2018  arts events with international flavor | Alexandra Contreras-Montesano named a National Student Poet | Animating Infrastructure and Artists in Schools Grants open | ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain call to artists, architects, and makers | scholarship available for Bennington Writing Seminars | Indiana State University call for public art | grantmaking expresses Council priorities

August 2, 2018  Vermont Filmmakers featured in Middlebury Festival | calls to artists abundant in Council classifieds | Artist Development Grants open | NEFA accepting applications for program director, dance | 2019 Levitt AMP Music Series accepting applications | SEABA and Magic Hat invite artists to submit designs | Reclamation at Helen Day Arts Center

July 19, 2018  Jim Sardonis selected for Art in State Buildings installation | Vermont Book Award nominees announced | The Fabric of Emancipation at Rokeby Museum | proposals sought for Clemmons Family Farm workshops and events | Taryn Noelle Swings reviewed | NEFA seeks consultants for planning growth of CreativeGround | more about Highland Center for the Arts

July 5, 2018  New American Artists: Celebrating Tradition and Culture coming to Spotlight Gallery | Head Start Arts Integration Grants open | Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition | Performing Arts Readiness offers Emergency Preparedness Grants | New England Youth Center hiring technical director | exhibit honors Gregory Sharrow

June 21, 2018  Creative Network developing plan to advance sector in Northeast Kingdom |  Creation Grant deadline | John Killacky's legacy | Center for Arts and Learning director search | Peter Schumann receives Lockwood Prize | residencies at Studio Place Arts | eight museums to visit

June 7, 2018  Special Project Grants | teahing artists  added to roster | National Arts Strategies selects community fellows from Vermont | Flynn Summer Arts Literacy Institute | Susanna Gellert to head Weston Playhouse Theatre | TLC Project at Vermont Arts Exchange

May 24, 2018  Open Studio Weekend | Creation Grants increase | arts-oriented summer camps | Blue Starts Museum program | call for What Happened to the American Dream and shows for shows at Studio Place Art | Sean Hunter Williams sculpture honors art teacher | Brattleboro Music Center

May 10, 2018  new trustees and board chair for Council | "Breathing" in Sculpture Garden Friday | Northern Stage expands BridgeUP program | new finance assistant at Council | NEFA grant recipients announced | CCX host communities sought | call to artists at T.W. Wood Gallery | beer and art tour

April 26, 2018  Artists to Watch Part II opening | grant programs opening | grant seeker workshops | 2018 annual meeting | panelists sought | Poetry Out Loud champion ranks high in national competition | Sculptfest call open | executive director needed at Town Hall Theater | National Dance Project Grants | Norwich University collaborates on elementary school playground

April 12, 2018  mourning Greg Sharrow and Peter Kriff | Council grants available | annual meeting May 4 | disability awareness training | Crafting Your Legacy available as download | 48-hour filmmaking competition for students | northeast region teaching artist trainings | changes at G.R.A.C.E.

March 29, 2018  Art in State Buildings call for RFQ | Poetry Out Loud broadcast on VermontPBS | workshop on sensory-friendly performance | CERF seeks deputy director | scholarships available at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center | Burlington City Arts accepting applications for Summer Artist Market | featured story explores arts-integrated learning

March 16, 2018  Vermont Poetry Out Loud finalists and champion | Vermont Arts Advocacy Day recap | Amy Cunningham is Council deputy director | inclusion workshops coming up | Creative Community Fellows program open | Teaching Artist Roster deadline March 24 | Sculptfest invites proposals | Northeast Region Teaching Artist Training | Arts Council hiring finance assistant | Spruce Peak Performing Arts seeks facility manager | Building the Barrette is featured story

March 1, 2018  Artists to Watch opens | Arts Advocacy Day | Poetry Out Loud semifinals | Cultural Facilities grantee reception | Cultural Facilities grant seeker workshops | become exhibiting member Brandon Artists Guild | Governor's Institutes applications open | Vermont Studio Center seeks admissions manager | Why Watch Artists is featured story

February 15, 2018  NEA grants to seven Vermont organizations | Annual Report available | Vermont Arts 2018 stickers available | Cultural Facilities reception | Elizabeth Alexander now president of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Vermont Book Award nominations open | NEA chair's statement on elimination of funding in President's budget | skiing and arts in Vermont

February 1, 2018  commentary and survey on creative workforce | Caroline Tavelli-Abar talk and SiteTime event | Cultural Facilities grant seeker workshops | Council awards nominations open | Vermont's African American Heritage Trail | Humanities Council grants open | John Dunlop profile | VCFA attracting international talent

January 18, 2018  SiteTime: Falling and talk by Caroline Tavelli-Abar February 2 | Teaching Artist Training in Northeast Kingdom | Pauline Jennings receives SEED award | BMAC looking for office manager | New England Dance Fund grants available | new publication by Michael Caduto | Spread the News blog post

January 4, 2018  SiteTime Scene Two: Falling (postponed) | Teaching Artist Roster open | Vermont Arts 2018 announced | ThinkVermont seeks ambassadors | Miranda Thomas taking craft to Davos, Switzerland | Tessa O'Brien and Kat Clear bring art to Burlington City Hall Park | Ballet Vermont auditions open | Caroline Tavelli-Abar show in Spotlight Gallery

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