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Website   Grants    Classifieds    Events   Arts News for June 20, 2019     Animate, Rejuvenate, Improve   The Waterbury Special, by Phillip Godenschwager, funded in part by a Vermont Arts Council Animating Infrastructure Grant. Photo by Gordon Miller. Creative placemaking animates public and private spaces, rejuvenates structures and streetscapes, improves local business viability and public safety. the work also brings diverse people together to celebrate, inspire, and be inspired. These are conclusions outlined in the white paper Creative Placemaking; the Arts Council supports these same ideas. And, with the help of three placemakers in Vermont, we dig in to the how and why of the activity in this week's featured story, What Placemakers Say.   Burlington City Arts Wins Creative Economy Award   L to R: Vermont Arts Council Executive Director Karen Mittelman, Sarah Katz, Doreen Kraft, NEFA Executive Director Cathy Edwards. Photo by Jeb Wallace-Brodeur.  Burlington City Arts (BCA) received the prestigious Organizational Leadership Award from the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). The award was presented at the Creative Communities Exchange held June 6 and 7 in Montpelier.     BCA was honored for the exceptional leadership and cumulative work of the organization on behalf of Burlington'--and Vermont's--creative economy. One of the first municipal departments in the nation to be designated as cultural planner, BCA has successfully integrated the arts into planning for economic development, education, and urban design.   Congratulations to Executive Director Doreen Kraft, Assistant Director Sarah Katz, and the entire BCA team. Your efforts have strengthened Vermont's creative economy, enlivened Burlington's downtown, and provided arts experiences to thousands of Vermont residents and visitors for more than thirty-five years. Well done!     Find out more.  Make Music Day!   Some of the Make Music Montpelier performers are: (top l to r) Mikahely, Anni Paisley, Bryan Blanchette, and (bottom) Chaque Fois!  On Friday, music will fill parks, street corners, front porches, and Montpelier's Main Street. All over Vermont, people will celebrate Make Music Day.   Vermont Make Music Day is part of an annual worldwide celebration that takes place on June 21 in more than one hundred and twenty countries and one thousand cities across the globe.   Thanks to a generous grant from Montpelier Alive, with funds from the Montpelier Downtown Improvement District, the Vermont Arts Council is hosting a stage at City Hall Plaza in Montpelier. The lineup includes The Standard Deviations, Bruce Colgrove, and Kick 'em Jenny. The event will get underway at noon, with a toe-tapping, foot-stomping set of Cajun music by Chaque Fois!  Find out where to hear music in your community. #VTArts251 Challenge   a neuro-ecological landscape, by Meg Hammond, at Camp Meade in Middlesex.   June 21 marks the first day of summer and the launch of a new #VTArts251 campaign. From the beginning of summer to the start of winter, we intend to highlight the arts in every town and village in Vermont. That means more than one town per day (did you know that Vermont has exactly 251 towns?).   Help us reach this goal! As you get out and about this summer, take moment to snap a pic of the arts in your community (or one you happen to visit). It could be a work of public art, a town square concert, a plein air artist, or someone strumming a guitar on a front porch.     Share your photo on social media using #VTArts251, or send it to us. We'll post it and include it in ArtMail. Don't forget to include your name, the name of the artist or group, and--of course--the town.     Send your images to info@vermontartscouncil.org Arts Briefs The deadlines for the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town and Art Works Grants are coming up. Learn more about grants for artists, organizations, and communities. Get the details. ( The Vermont Studio Center --pictured above--received an FY2019 Art Works Grant). The Addison/Rutland County Vermont Creative Network Zone will host a panel discussion entitled The Arts and Thriving Communities on June 29 at the Opera House in Rutland. Find out more.   The Community Engagement Lab invites you to Tacos & Teaching Artists, a fun and delicious networking-dinner-workshop-brainstorming-support-group kind of event on June 24 in Montpelier.   Learn more. Upcoming Events PETE'S POSSE: MUSIC BY THE RIVER North Chapel Back Lawn June 21 Woodstock SUZY SPENCE: ON THE HUNT Helen Day Art Center June 22 to August 24 Stowe  REMEMBERING PETE SEEGER: A SINGALONG CONCERT & FILM SCREENING Main Street Landing Black Box Theater June 22 Burlington ARTIST RECEPTION FOR JOB SITE AND SARAH AMOS: UNIQUE MULTIPLES Burlington City Arts June 21 Burlington DAMASCUS KAFUMBE: MUSIC AS A VERB Cold Hollow Sculpture Park June 22 Enosburg Falls KARLA VAN VLIET: SCORED PAINTINGS Town Hall Theater Jackson Gallery June 21 to August 4 Middlebury ANDREW FROST: LIKE DRIVING ON AN ANCIENT ROAD Castleton University Bank Gallery through August 10 Rutland NÖEL COWARD'S PRIVATE LIVES Dorset Theatre Festival June 20 to July 6 Dorset ABENAKI HERITAGE WEEKEND Lake Champlain Maritime Museum June 22 and 23 Vergennes THE SUMMER REVELS: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A VERMONT TOWN  two venues June 21 and 22 South Pomfret and Norwich OPENING OF SIX NEW EXHIBITS Brattleboro Museum & Art Center June 22 Brattleboro FAMILY ART NIGHT Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill June 21 Poultney   CARY MORIN: CONCERT  AND WORKSHOP Highland Center for the Arts June 22 Greensboro VERMONT YOUTH DANCERS PRESENTS TURN TO STONE: A JOURNEY TO NARNIA South Burlington High School June 22 and 23 South Burlington THE WYLD NIGHTZ BAND Wardsboro Town Hall June 21 Wardsboro 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

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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