FY2021 Grantees
Grant Programs
Arts Partnership Grants
Creation Grants
FY2020 grantees
FY2019 grantees
Arts Partnership Grants
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro
$7,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro
$5,600 to support operating and administrative costs
Burlington City Arts, Burlington
$8,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, West Rutland
$4,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury
$8,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
Dorset Theatre Festival, Dorset
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington
$8,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Generator, Burlington
$7,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Helen Day Art Center, Stowe
$4,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Inclusive Arts Vermont, Essex Junction
$5,000 to support operating and administrative costs
In-Sight Photography Project, Brattleboro
$3,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Kingdom County Productions, Barnet
$4,500 to support operating and administrative costs
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, Leicester
$3,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Music-COMP, Duxbury
$3,000 to support operating and administrative costs
New England Center for Circus Arts, Brattleboro
$8,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Next Stage Arts Project, Putney
$4,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Northern Stage, White River Junction
$8,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Paramount Center, Rutland
$7,200 to support operating and administrative costs
River Arts, Morrisville
$5,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Scrag Mountain Music, Marshfield
$3,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester
$7,200 to support operating and administrative costs
T.W. Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier
$3,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury
$6,300 to support operating and administrative costs
Vermont Stage Company, Burlington
$4,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Very Merry Theatre, Burlington
$4,500 to support operating and administrative costs
Weston Playhouse, Weston
$7,200 to support operating and administrative costs
WonderArts, Greensboro
$4,500 to support operating and administrative costs
Yellow Barn, Putney
$8,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Young Writers Project, Burlington
$3,000 to support operating and administrative costs
Creation Grants
William Alexander, Montpelier
$4,000 to support the creation of a young adult fantasy novel inspired by the artist's Cuban-American heritage
Sarah Audsley, Johnson
$4,000 to support the creation of a poetry collection which traces and weaves experiences of growing up as a Korean American transracial adoptee in rural Vermont
Misoo Bang, South Burlington
$4,000 to support the creation of a series of paintings entitled the Giantess Project that serve as a cultural response to patriarchy and male dominance by reversing the male-female power dynamic
Big Teeth Performance Collective, East Dummerston
$4,000 to support the creation of a theatrical show involving acrobatics, dance, physical theater, and aerial arts that engages audiences around the realities of mass extinction, climate catastrophe, and processing loss
Frances Cannon, Burlington
$4,000 to support the creation of a graphic novel entitled Vernal Thaw that centers on women's bodies, bodies of water, trauma, and tenderness
Kate Donnelly, Burlington
$4,000 to support the creation of a body of work that explores the concept of caregiving resulting in a live video performance
Mary Lacy, Jericho
$4,000 to support the creation of geometric-style figurative and portrait mosaics
Toby MacNutt, Burlington
$4,000 to support the creation of a solo dance show for ground, aerial fabric, and mobility apparatus entitled A Singular They
Brian McCarthy, Colchester
$4,000 to support the creation of a full-length jazz ensemble album entitled AFTER|LIFE inspired by a Carl Sagan quote
Rachel Moore, Stowe
$4,000 to support the creation of a mixed media installation addressing the effects of climate change that encourages civic engagement and activism with the viewers
Otto Muller, Marshfield
$4,000 to support the creation of a musical piece for mixed quartet and electronics that explores the concept of boundary resulting in an outdoor site-specific performance, studio recording, and hybrid text
Estefania Puerta, Burlington
$4,000 to support the creation of sculptural works that create "new empathic worlds that have no defined borders and embrace excess and multiplicity through the exploration of self-sustaining bodies"
Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, North Ferrisburgh
$4,000 to support the creation of an immersive installation of video, paintings, and "vocables" entitled Falling into Language - A Travelogue
Stefania Urist, Londonderry
$4,000 to support the creation of a sculptural installation that explores the past, present, and future of our forests and climate
Dana Walrath, South Burlington
$4,000 to support the creation of a full libretto based on a graphic memoir about the artist’s mother's dementia journey entitled Aliceheimer