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FY2020 Grantees
Grant Programs
Animating Infrastructure Grants
Artist Development Grants
Artists in Schools Grants
Arts Impact Grants
Arts Partnership Grants
Creation Grants
Cultural Facilities Grants
Head Start Arts Integration Grants
Special Covid-19 Response Grants
Vermont Arts Council/Vermont Humanities Cultural Relief Grants
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FY2024 grantees
FY2023 grantees
FY2022 grantees
FY2021 grantees
FY2019 grantees
Animating Infrastructure Grants
Town of Hyde Park
$5,000 to design themed public art installations for three locations between Main Street and the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail to achieve connectivity and continuity.
Town of Royalton
$5,000 to design public art to be integrated into a highly traveled and highly visible underpass in downtown South Royalton.
Artist Development Grants
Shoshana Bass, Putney
$500 to support attendance at the National Performance Network Conference
Jason Baker, Chittenden County
$500 to support participation in a professional songwriting retreat
Casey Blanchard, Chittenden County
$375 to support the purchase of materials and letterpress instruction for a new project
Jackie Bishop, Chittenden County
$445 to support a professional photoshoot for fused glass artwork
Lauren Breunig, Brattleboro
$820 to support participation as a showcase artist at the Folk Alliance International Conference
Dylan Broderick, Montpelier
$400 to support teaching certification for Irish step dancing
Sean Clute, Jericho
$1,000 to support participation in an advanced training in media art at Harvestworks
Vanessa Compton, Chittenden County
$500 to support a solo exhibition at the Brinton Museum in Wyoming
Trisha Denton, Burlington
$500 to support creating a new digital storytelling platform
Gahlord Dewald, Burlington
$500 to support attendance at the Cecil Taylor Unit Structures Conference
Rose Friedman, Caledonia County
$800 to support the creation of professional publicity materials
Jonathan Gitelson, Windham County
$410 to support attendance at the For Freedoms Congress in Los Angeles
Makenna Goodman, Vershire
$500 to support a book cover design and illustration for a debut novel
Eve Jacobs-Carnahan, Montpelier
$500 to support attendance at the Surface Design Association Conference
Jennifer Karson, Chittenden County
$500 to support the launch of an art and technology blog
Laura Kujawa, Chittenden County
$290 to support an online submission subscription for the first year of a new online literary magazine
Timothy Lehman, Washington County
$690 to support attendance at a face sculpting workshop at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland
Toby MacNutt, Burlington
$770 to support attendance at a professional aerial rigging training workshop
Nancy Winship Milliken, Chittenden County
$1,000 to support hiring a business consultant to help develop a sustainable studio practice
Dug Nap, Burlington
$384 to support the purchase of materials to create large-scale paintings for an exhibition as a featured artist
Owen August Nied, Windsor County
$500 to support the production of a promotional video
Rik Palieri, Hinesburg
$350 to support attendance at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference
Pike Porter, Chittenden County
$290 to support attendance at metalworking classes at Generator
Michael Rakoto Razafy, Burlington
$350 to support copyright registration for original songs
Raphael Sacks, Windsor County
$800 to support the production of a promotional video
Stephen Schaub, Rutland County
$500 to support travel costs to create new work for upcoming exhibit and monograph book
Lauren Allison Scuderi, Chittenden County
$300 to support the rental of rehearsal space
Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Hinesburg
$1,000 to support renting a recording studio and paying professional singers and a sound engineer
Stefania Urist, Windham County
$600 to support attendance at a flame working class at the Corning Museum of Glass
Artists in Schools
Academy School, Brattleboro
$2,500 to support a ten-day artist book residency with Mollie Burke integrating Vermont history and geography
Baird School, Burlington
$2,500 to support a ten-day theater residency with Words Come Alive that focuses on students’ social, emotional, and academic learning
Bellows Falls Union High School, Bellows Falls
$2,500 to support a ten-day photography and writing residency with Evie Lovett and Community Engagement Lab that explores climate change and community
Bingham Memorial School, Cornwall
$1,500 to support a six-day capoeira residency with Fua Nascimento where students will focus on culture and creative expression through movement
Brook Street Family Literacy Center, Barre
$2,500 to support a ten-day residency with Kristen M. Watson where students explore personal identity and social and cultural messages through artmaking and writing
Calais Elementary School, Burlington
$1,250 to support a five-day circus arts residency with YES! Theater integrating learning through physical education, artistic expression, and global citizenship
Canaan Schools, Canaan
$1,250 to support a five-day maker and design residency with Cardboard Teck Instantute that engages students in problem solving, flexible thinking, narrative, and storytelling
Champlain Elementary School, Burlington
$2,500 to support a ten-day visual arts residency with Alissa Faber where students create a mural using recycled glass and plastics
Crossett Brook Union Middle School, Duxbury
$1,000 to support a four-day scientific illustration residency with Rachel Sargent Mirus where students create cell portraits and 3D models of cells
Dover School, East Dover
$1,750 to support a seven-day theater residency with Trish Denton where students will devise skits to develop social and emotional skills
Edmunds Elementary School, Burlington
$2,500 to support a ten-day music and dance residency with Sayon Camara Drumming focused on musical techniques and culture of the Malinke culminating in a school celebration
Ferrisburgh Central School, Ferrisburgh
$2,500 to support a ten-day circus arts residency with Troy Wunderle as part of a yearlong effort to integrate the circus arts across the school’s curriculum
Integrated Arts Academy at H.O. Wheeler, Burlington
$2,000 to support an eight-day dance residency with Ashley Hensel-Browning and Words Come Alive that focuses on themes from the Dance Theater of Harlem’s performance at the Flynn Center
Lamoille Union High School, Hyde Park
$1,250 to support a seven-day sound composition residency with Evan Premo and Community Engagement Lab that culminates in an art and sound installation on the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail
Laraway School, Johnson
$1,500 to support a six-day clay and pottery residency with Heather Stearns where students create, develop motor skills, and explore the natural science of clay
Monument Elementary School, Bennington
$2,500 to support a ten-day music residency with Vermont Symphony Orchestra musician mentors that exposes students to music and supports them with skills in performance and composition
Newport City Elementary School, Newport
$1,750 to support a seven-day music composition residency with Jon Gailmor focusing on school culture and a schoolwide study of peace
Randolph Union High School, Randolph
$2,500 to support a ten-day puppet-making residency with No Strings Marionette Company where students focus with a team of teachers and social workers on the topic of addiction
Ripton Elementary School, Ripton
$1,250 to support a five-day residency with Francois Clemmons and Kate Gridley that explores the oral tradition of African-American spirituals
Riverside Middle School, Springfield
$1,250 to support a five-day residency with Abenaki educator Judy Dow to use weaving, etching, book-making and other art techniques to map the stories of indigenous people and early settlers of Vermont
Shrewsbury Mountain School, Shrewsbury
$1,250 to support a five-day West-African music residency with Sayon Camara Drumming that creates an experience of an African village and explores values and culture
Twin Valley Elementary, Wilmington
$1,250 to support a five-day circus arts residency with Troy Wunderle focusing on dramatic play, physical skill development, mental and social skills, and building community
Windsor School, Windsor
$1,250 to support a seven-day residency with Barbara Paulson and the Community Engagement Lab to create three large-scale puppets and a show on the topic of community and climate change
Winooski Middle/High School, Winooski
$2,500 to support a ten-day residency with the Flynn Center’s Words Come Alive to support students in the school’s Newcomer Program through their shared interest in dance and culture
Winooski Middle/High School, Winooski
$1,750 to support a five-day playwriting residency with Vermont Young Playwrights to support students with creating and revising original work
Arts Impact Grants
Art in the Neighborhood, Brattleboro
$3,000 to support poetry, art, and music projects that enhance verbal fluency and enrich language for students and older populations
Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brattleboro
$3,000 to support the eighteenth annual Brattleboro Literary Festival with a theme of identity: personal, cultural, and national
Champlain Community Services, Colchester
$3,000 to support performing arts workshops for high school students with intellectual disabilities
Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte
$3,000 to support enhancements to the ethnic studies program Windows to a Multicultural World for grades K-12
Dorset Theatre Festival, Dorset
$2,250 to support the Giving Back program that provides free and low-cost tickets to community members
Farm to Ballet, Winooski
$2,250 to support six on-farm ballet performances and three youth ballet camps
Kayla’s Directory, Shelburne
$500 to support monthly art classes for children with special needs
Music-COMP, Duxbury
$3,000 to support the New Music Comes Alive! program for young composers
Norwich University, Northfield
$2,250 to support the Trauma, Veterans, and Shakespeare project
Revels North, White River Junction
$3,000 to support year-round programming with LISTEN Community Services
Sundog Poetry Center, Jeffersonville
$2,250 to support the Share Your Heart, Share the World! poetry intensive for high school students
Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro
$2,250 to support the second annual Emerging Artist Festival that features young local performers and jazz professionals
Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Burlington
$3,000 to support the production of the DACA Symphony with Daniel Barnard Roumain and local immigrant musicians
Vermont Vaudeville, Greensboro Bend
$2,000 to support the Show Day! Spring 2020 variety show for local schoolchildren
Arts Partnership Grants
Burlington City Arts, Burlington
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
Catamount Film and Arts Center, Saint Johnsbury
$7,350 to support operating and administrative costs
Circus Smirkus, Greensboro
$7,350 to support operating and administrative costs
Community Engagement Lab, Montpelier
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington
$7,350 to support operating and administrative costs
Friends of the Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro
$5,355 to support operating and administrative costs
Grass Roots Art and Community Effort, Hardwick
$5,355 to support operating and administrative costs
Helen Day Art Center, Stowe
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
The In-Sight Photography Project, Brattleboro
$5,355 to support operating and administrative costs
Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier
$5,355 to support operating and administrative costs
Main Street Arts, Saxtons River
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
New England Youth Theatre, Brattleboro
$5,355 to support operating and administrative costs
Northern Stage, White River Junction
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
River Arts of Morrisville, Morrisville
$5,355 to support operating and administrative costs
Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne
$5,355 to support operating and administrative costs
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
Vermont Arts Exchange, North Bennington
$5,355 to support operating and administrative costs
Vermont International Film Foundation, Burlington
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
Vermont Performing Arts League, Burlington
$5,355 to support operating and administrative costs
Vermont Stage Company, Burlington
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
Vermont Youth Orchestra Association, Colchester
$5,355 to support operating and administrative costs
VSA Vermont, Essex Junction
$7,350 to support operating and administrative costs
Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Weston
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
WonderArts Vermont, Craftsbury Common
$7,350 to support operating and administrative costs
Yellow Barn, Putney
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
Creation Grants
Kristian Brevik, Burlington
$4,000 to support the creation of illuminated sculptural lanterns representing fifty-two endangered species in Vermont
Steve Budington, Shelburne
$4,000 to support the creation of a series of paintings based on the Dymaxion Map and other world map projections
David Cooper, Burlington
$4,000 to support the creation of the second musical album by A2VT entitled Twenty Infinity
Glynnis Fawkes, Burlington
$4,000 to support the creation of a young-adult graphic novel that follows a family of artists in the late Bronze Age
Wylie Garcia, Burlington
$4,000 to support the creation of large paintings that focus on the lives of queer/nonbinary/trans-identifying people
Kate Gridley, Middlebury
$4,000 to support the creation of a metaphorical portrait of a mind involving one hundred oil paintings and an electronic music soundscape
Dona Ann McAdams, Arlington
$4,000 to support the creation of a photographic memoir entitled Still Time: A Photographic Memoir in Thirty-six Exposures
Carol Potter, Tunbridge
$4,000 to support the creation of a book of poems entitled The Good Math
Brittany Powell, Plainfield
$4,000 to support the creation of twenty-seven photographic portraits that are part of the Debt Project
Evan Premo, Northfield
$4,000 to support the creation of a musical composition based on Thumbelina
James Shea, Montpelier
$4,000 to support the creation of a manuscript of constraint-based poetry entitled Plot to Escape the Morning
Brett Stanciu, Hardwick
$4,000 to support the creation of a nonfiction narrative about heroin addiction in a small town in Vermont
Vaune Trachtman, Brattleboro
$4,000 to support the creation of a series of photographic images entitled Now is Always
Bira Vanara, Middlebury
$4,000 to support the creation of an episodic musical web series entitled Bira Music
Mary Zompetti, Grand Isle
$4,000 to support the creation of new prints in a cameraless photographic series entitled Remnants
Cultural Facilities Grants
Bradford Public Library, Bradford
$28,200 to support the installation of an accessible lift
Burlington City Arts, Burlington
$28,200 to support sound and electrical upgrades in Contois Auditorium
Friends of the Capital City Grange Hall, Northfield Falls
$26,126 to support air quality upgrades to the lower-level renovation of the Capital City Grange Hall
Helen Day Art Center, Stowe
$18,864 to support new gallery infrastructure and technology
Heritage Winooski Mill Museum, Winooski
$3,121 to support renovations to a media display and window shades in the gallery
Isle La Motte Historical Society, Isle La Motte
$1,200 to support electrical upgrades in the Duba Blacksmith Sho
Jeudevine Memorial Library, Hardwick
$24,000 to support the installation of a physically accessible elevator
Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier
$10,791 to support the installation of air conditioning in the Hayes Room and on the second floor of the library
Kimball Public Library, Randolph
$15,668 to support upgrades to the library’s physically accessible restroom
Lamoille County Players, Hyde Park
$25,200 to support theatrical lighting upgrades in the Hyde Park Opera House
Paramount Center, Rutland
$24,992 to support lighting upgrades
Park-McCullough Association, North Bennington
$3,973 to support electrical wiring upgrades in the historic mansion
Phantom Theater, Warren
$3,760 to support installation of LED lights in the theater
Rockingham Free Public Library, Bellows Falls
$2,753 to support the purchase and installation of a hanging rail system for art exhibits
Stone Valley Arts, Poultney
$4,606 to support electrical upgrades
Westminster West Public Library, Putney
$3,102 to support electrical upgrades and the purchase of a projector system
Head Start Arts Integration Grants
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro
$4,000 to support artist residencies with Katie Bachler and Cyndal Ellis in fifteen Windham County Head Start classrooms
Burlington Children’s Space, Burlington
$5,050 to support artist residencies with Rebecca Mack in Head Start and Early Head Start classrooms
Burlington City Arts, Burlington
$5,050 to support artist residencies with Jude Bond at the King Street Center and the Sara Holbrook Center
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington
$4,000 to support artist residencies with Susanna Olson and Tracy Martin that enhance expressive and receptive language in preschoolers
King Street Center, Burlington
$1,400 to support a series of art experiences with Rebecca Mack that link exploration of science and nature with artistic expression
Vermont Arts Exchange, North Bennington
$5,500 to support artist residencies with Otha Day, Caitilin McAdoo, and Linda MacFarlane in Head Start locations around Bennington and Rutland Counties
WonderArts Vermont, Greensboro
$3,000 to support artist residencies with Jon Gailmor, Maura Gahan, and Marger Maldonado in Hardwick and Albany Head Start classrooms
Covid-19 Cultural Relief Grantees
Special Covid-19 Response Grantees
Grants were made in partnership with the New England Foundation for the Arts. Read more about our special Covid-19 response granting.
Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte
$10,000