Vermont Arts Council

FY2022 Grantees

Grant Programs

Animating Infrastructure
Artist Development Grants
Artists in Schools Grants
Arts Partnership Grants
Arts Impact Grants
Creation Grants
Cultural Facilities Grants
Covid-19 Cultural Recovery Grants
Digital Capacity Grants
Head Start Arts Integration Grants

FY2024 grantees
FY2023 grantees
FY2021 grantees
FY2020 grantees
FY2019 grantees


Animating Infrastructure Grants

Howard Center, Burlington
$9,200 to support a public art installation in Burlington’s South End with artwork by artists living with and affected by mental illness and/or addiction

Orleans County Historical Society, Brownington
$11,000 to support public art installations along the Alexander Twilight Trail

The Current, Stowe
$15,000 to support community-based and collaborative murals at Stowe’s public recreation path and Stowe Middle School

Town of Lyndon
$15,000 to support an artistic sculpture and light installation at the Sanborn Covered Bridge

Town of Springfield
$15,000 to support the design, fabrication, and installation of a monumental sculpture of David M. Smith’s mid-late 1800s clothespin in Comtu Cascade Park

Additional implementation funding provided to past design recipients:

Town of Hyde Park
$10,000 to support public art installation at the parking area for the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail in the village of Hyde Park

Town of Royalton
$10,000 to support public art installation in a highly traveled and highly visible underpass in downtown South Royalton

Artist Development Grants

Clare Adams, Windham County
$2,000 to support hiring professional marketing services

Juli Badics, Chittenden County
$800 to support purchasing painting materials

Rachel Bell, Windham County
$1,992 to support hiring professional videography services

Rachel Bernsen, Windsor County
$1,450 to support attendance at the American Philosophies Forum

Susan Bettmann, Washington County
$1,650 to support film festival expenses for Joe Picard: Man of the Land

Heidi Bielenberg, Washington County
$2,000 to support attendance at a workshop through the Mendocino Art Center in California

Naomi Bindman, Bennington County
$1,000 to support purchasing a computer

Francesca Blanchard, Chittenden County
$2,000 to support recording costs for a new album

Brian Boyes, Washington County
$2,000 to support studio costs and hiring a professional recording engineer and musicians

Ian Burton, Washington County
$2,000 to support the costs of mixing and mastering a new album

Stefani Capizzi, Lamoille County
$1,500 to support the costs of professional recording and production for a new album

Bill Cole, Orange County
$2,000 to support hiring a professional recording engineer, musicians and the cost of orchestration

Webb Crawford, Windham County
$1,400 to support the cost of materials for constructing a new instrument and mixing and mastering for a new album

Lawuo Cummings, Caledonia County
$1,176 to support hiring a professional website designer

Matthew Dickerson, Addison County
$1,850 to support attendance at an artist residency in Alaska

Kim Diehnelt, Chittenden County
$580 to support professional singing and recording of a new choral work

Arlene Distler, Windham County
$850 to support hiring a professional website designer and marketing consultant

Sylvia Dodge, Caledonia County
$531 to support the costs of framing

Sara Doncaster, Orleans County
$2,000 to support hiring a professional website designer

Michelle Dussault, Windham County
$1,646 to support hiring a private mentor

Martha Elmes, Caledonia County
$450 to support attendance at a printmaking workshop

Samirah Evans, Windham County
$1,950 to support private vocal training and music instruction

Gin Ferrara, Chittenden County
$900 to support the rental of a studio space

Hiromi Fukuda, Chittenden County
$2,000 to support hiring a recording engineer

Erik Gillard, Washington County
$2,000 to support the costs of a printmaking apprenticeship and the purchase of a Samsung Galaxy S21 5G

Dennis Goodhue, Caledonia County
$1,450 to support the purchase of a printer, computer, and software

Becky Graber, Windham County
$2,000 to support hiring professional videographers and sound engineers to produce a video entitled “Everyone Sang”

Susie Gray, Windsor County
$800 to support the rental of a studio space

Layton Hahs, Windham County
$2,000 to support attendance in the ProTrack Program at the New England Center for Circus Arts

Rebecca Hall, Windham County
$2,000 to support hiring a graphic designer and artist to illustrate the cover of a new CD

Mary Hand, Lamoille County
$731 to support the purchase of a drum carder

Tracy Haught, Washington County
$350 to support a private manuscript consultation

Sean Heaney, Orleans County
$2,000 to support publishing costs for “A Poetic Trilogy on Goddess Worship in Ancient Tribes”

Millie Heckler, Chittenden County
$2,000 to support the costs of equipment rental and hiring a professional video editor and set designer to produce a film

Diana Mara Henry, Orleans County
$2,000 to support hiring professional services and associated costs for website development and marketing

Marcie Hernandez, Chittenden County
$1,000 to support hiring professional marketing services to promote a music video trilogy entitled “Tres Pedazos”

Paula Higa, Chittenden County
$2,000 to support hiring professional filmography services

Kelly Holt, Chittenden County
$700 to support the purchase of a large format printer

Daniel Houghton, Bennington County
$579 to support the purchase of music scoring software

Ashleigh Howard, Chittenden County
$525 to support the costs of online photography classes

Nora Jacobson, Windsor County
$2,000 to support attendance at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference

Karen Kevra, Addison County
$2,000 to support hiring professional videography, recording and website development services

Sarah King, Addison County
$2,000 to support attendance at the Folk Alliance International Conference

Ivan Klipstein, Chittenden County
$2,000 to support travel expenses for a national tour of live “Musicomix” performances

Mary Kim Lavery, Grand Isle County
$1,230 to support attendance to a workshop at Snow Farm Craft School

Phoebe Lo, Chittenden County
$2,000 to support collaboration with Burlington High School students to create a mural

Jill Madden, Chittenden County
$1,020 to support attendance at a residency at Great Sprucehead Island Art Week in Maine

Nick Mayer, Addison County
$2,000 to support hiring a professional videographer and editor

Ana Mayhew, Chittenden County
$651 to support the purchase of a printer and promotional display products

Jennifer McCandless, Chittenden County
$2,000 to support the costs of a studio rental, materials, and hiring a professional photographer

Mary Kathleen Mehuron, Washington County
$1,000 to support hiring a private mentor

Christine Mitchell-Adams, Chittenden County
$2,000 to support hiring professional framing services

Clay Mohrman, Chittenden County
$1,485 to support the costs of a woodturning class

Brian Mooney, Windham County
$750 to support hiring professional editors

Taraneh Mosadegh, Windham County
$750 to support hiring a professional photographer

Dennis Mueller, Chittenden County
$1,500 to support hiring cinema photographers and a sound professional

Madeleine Murray, Chittenden County
$750 to support the cost of an eco-dyeing workshop

Rodrigo Nava, Windham County
$2,000 to support the costs associated with exploring new sculptural techniques

Xander Naylor, Chittenden County
$800 to support attendance at a Hindustani Music workshop through Chhandayan Center for Indian Music in New York

Elizabeth Nelson, Orleans County
$500 to support the cost of a professional photographer

Phyllis Odessey, Windham County
$600 to support the cost of private alternative printing process lessons

Erin Kelly O’Neal, Chittenden County
$1,350 to support hiring a professional web designer

Christianna Orcel, Orleans County
$2,000 to support attendance to American Art Therapy Association’s 52nd Annual Conference

Catie Owen, Chittenden County
$1,699 to support hiring a professional photographer

Nola Parker, Washington County
$850 to support the cost of an online advanced painting materials and techniques course

Hunter Paye, Orange County
$2,000 to support studio rental costs and hiring a professional sound engineer to record and master a new album

Alana Phinney, Washington County
$919 to support hiring professional film editing services

Robin Piya, Addison County
$1,200 to support the cost of music mastering software and attendance to an electronic music production workshop through Future Media Academy

José A. Rivera, Bennington County
$2,000 to support travel, professional tutoring, and research costs for a multimedia science fiction work in Puerto Rico

Kate Ruddle, Washington County
$1,552 to support hiring a professional photographer and the costs for private photography lessons and a model-building workshop

Jamie Ruggerio, Rutland County
$2,000 to support the purchase of a Delta Elite glassblowing torch

Dayna Sabatino, Windsor County
$1,950 to support studio rental costs and hiring a professional graphic designer

Michelle Saffran, Washington County
$1,800 to support attendance to an online artist residency program

Hanna Satterlee, Washington County
$2,000 to support hiring a professional filmmaker

David Schein, Chittenden County
$1,400 to support hiring a graphic designer

Eben Schumacher, Chittenden County
$1,339 to support hiring a private mentor and the cost of purchasing a monitor

Luna Shen, Addison County
$875 to support hiring a professional photographer, website developer, and associated costs

Elaine Davida Sklar, Orleans County
$1,350 to support study with a dramaturg to improve and complete the script for the musical “Delilah Sky”

Isadora Snapp, Washington County
$2,000 to support hiring a professional videographer

Sandy Sokoloff, Grand Isle County
$2,000 to support hiring a professional photographer and printing services

Ida Specker, Bennington County
$2,000 to support hiring a professional videographer and studio musicians

Ashley Strobridge, Washington County
$1,000 to support the purchase of a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Camera Smartphone

Landa Townsend, Chittenden County
$1,500 to support attendance at workshops through the online Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program and Two Rivers Printmaking Studio

Vaune Trachtman, Windham County
$2,000 to support attendance at the Photolucida Portfolio Reviews

Cara Trezise, Windham County
$640 to support hiring a private songwriting consultant

Luis Vivanco, Chittenden County
$1,050 to support attending a workshop at the Center for Cartoon Studies

Peggy Watson, Washington County
$399 to support attendance to the online Highlights Foundation “Submission-Ready with Heart: A Hands-On Workshop for Author/Illustrators”

Misuk Weaver, Chittenden County
$2,000 to support the costs of a large-scale earthwork titled “The Assembly Quilt”

Benjamin Wiggins, Chittenden County
$2,000 to support hiring professional services for social media marketing, management and digital advertising

Julie Winn, Chittenden County
$600 to support the costs of a refurbished MacBook Pro

Kat Wright-Anderson, Chittenden County
$2,000 to support hiring a professional videographer and sound engineer

Noa Younse, Chittenden County
$289 to support the cost of 3D modeling software

Bianca Amira Zanella, Rutland County
$1,940 to support a private mentorship and participation in an online facilitation training program

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Artists in Schools Grants

Academy School, Brattleboro
$2,700 to support a bookmaking residency with Molly Burke through which students consider multiple perspectives when exploring and mapping the Vermont landscape

Addison Northwest School District, Vergennes
$1,500 to support Addison Wayfinder Experience’s high school students with playwriting workshops and participation in the three-day Vermont Young Playwrights festival

Beeman Elementary, New Haven
$1,880 to support a five-day residency with Stuart Paton focusing on the study of Japanese culture, music, and drumming

Capstone Community Action, Barre
$2,500 to support a nine-day residency with Alexandra Turner at the Brook Street Family Literacy Center that integrates fused glass art with ecology

Cavendish Town Elementary School, Proctorsville
$2,100 to support the Heroes Project residency with Susan Haefner in which third-grade students will invent and embody original superheroes

Chamberlin Elementary School, South Burlington
$2,500 to support a ten-day circus residency with Troy Wunderle in which students will build self-confidence and a sense of community

Champlain Elementary, Burlington
$2,200 to support a residency with Judy Dow to explore native perspectives around climate change and climate resiliency through storytelling

Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte
$5,000 to support and promote the inclusion of teaching artist engagements into the Windows to a Multicultural World curriculum for K-12 students

Expeditionary School at Black River, Ludlow
$2,500 to support the “We are Nature” project that integrates science with playwriting and theater with Susan Haefner

Green Street School, Brattleboro
$2,100 to support a residency with Linda Whelihan that will culminate in a permanently installed mosaic in the school’s garden

Hartland Elementary School, Hartland
$1,500 to support a six-day media residency where students will use video to communicate about composting with CATV teaching artists

Hiawatha Elementary School, Essex Junction
$2,500 to support an eight-day dance residency with Karen Amirault in which students will create a dance exploring different historical and cultural aspects of jazz

Hinesburg Community School, Hinesburg
$2,500 to support a six-day puppetry residency with Sarah Frechette through which students write and perform original narratives using moving panoramas

Inclusive Arts Vermont, Essex Junction
$13,100 to support six, 12-hour school residencies across the state and support four new teaching artists to serve in Inclusive Arts Vermont’s Collaborative Integrated Arts Residencies program

Killington Mountain School, Killington
$1,000 to support performance and teambuilding activities with YES! Theater for all students in grades 7-12

Mary Hogan School, Middlebury
$1,850 to support a collaborative mural and visual storytelling project with Michael Kin

Putney School, Putney
$2,750 to support the Word Art residency with Cai Xi Silver and local poets in which students will study Chinese characters, practice the ancient art of calligraphy, and transform the characters into poems

The Newton School, South Strafford
$2,500 to support a five-day residency with Sayon Camara introducing students to music, dancing, and storytelling traditions of the Malinke culture from Guinea

Windham Elementary School, Windham
$2,500 to support a circus-arts residency with Troy Wunderle that will culminate in a performance for the community

Winooski Middle High School, Winooski
$2,350 to support a ten-day residency with Jen Berger that supports students’ exploration of their creative processes as part of a Creativity Capstone class resulting in an exhibition of student work

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Arts Partnership Grants

Grant amounts updated on June 8, 2022 to reflect increased awards thanks to an anonymous donation through the Vermont Community Foundation.

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro
$12,600 to support operating and administrative costs

Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro
$10,100 to support operating and administrative costs

Burlington City Arts, Burlington
$14,400 to support operating and administrative costs

Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, West Rutland
$7,200 to support operating and administrative costs

Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury
$14,400 to support operating and administrative costs

Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph
$11,300 to support operating and administrative costs

Dorset Theatre Festival, Dorset
$11,300 to support operating and administrative costs

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington
$14,400 to support operating and administrative costs

Generator, Burlington
$12,600 to support operating and administrative costs

The Current, Stowe
$7,200 to support operating and administrative costs

Inclusive Arts Vermont, Essex Junction
$9,000 to support operating and administrative costs

In-Sight Photography Project, Brattleboro
$5,400 to support operating and administrative costs

Kingdom County Productions, Barnet
$8,100 to support operating and administrative costs

Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, Leicester
$5,400 to support operating and administrative costs

Music-COMP, Duxbury
$5,400 to support operating and administrative costs

New England Center for Circus Arts, Brattleboro
$14,400 to support operating and administrative costs

Next Stage Arts Project, Putney
$7,200 to support operating and administrative costs

Northern Stage, White River Junction
$14,400 to support operating and administrative costs

Paramount Center, Rutland
$13,000 to support operating and administrative costs

River Arts, Morrisville
$9,000 to support operating and administrative costs

Rural Arts Collaborative, Greensboro and Hardwick
$8,100 to support operating and administrative costs

Scrag Mountain Music, Marshfield
$5,400 to support operating and administrative costs

Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester
$13,000 to support operating and administrative costs

T.W. Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier
$5,400 to support operating and administrative costs

Town Hall Theater, Middlebury
$11,300 to support operating and administrative costs

Vermont Stage Company, Burlington
$7,200 to support operating and administrative costs

Very Merry Theatre, Burlington
$8,100 to support operating and administrative costs

Weston Playhouse, Weston
$13,000 to support operating and administrative costs

Yellow Barn, Putney
$14,400 to support operating and administrative costs

Young Writers Project, Burlington
$5,400 to support operating and administrative costs

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Arts Impact Grants

Project Grants

Artistree Community Arts Center, South Pomfret
$2,774 to support a collaborative program with Zack’s Place enrichment center that provides accessible art classes to individuals with severe physical, emotional, and cognitive disabilities

Cabot Arts, Cabot
$4000 to support artistic programming for the Cabot Village 12th Night celebration

Greater Falls Community Justice Center, Bellows Falls
$3,000 to support Parenting with Respect participants and their children as they paint a mural in downtown Bellows Falls with artist Mark Ragonese

Integrated Arts Academy, Burlington
$3,000 to support a community performance and neighborhood parade with Burlington Taiko teaching artists

Media Hour, East Arlington
$4,000 to support the production and distribution of a short pilot video for public access TV about Steffen Gillom and his experience as a queer black man in Vermont

New Music On The Point, Leicester
$4,000 to support the presentation of a new work by Vermont composer Eve Belgarian entitled “A Murmur in the Trees for 24 Double Basses”

Retreat Farm, Brattleboro
$4,000 to support the free public summer concert series Music Under the Stars

Shidaa Projects, Montpelier
$2,050 to support an event of West African music, drumming and dance in celebration of community and diversity

The Root Social Justice Center, Brattleboro
$4,000 to support a mural collaboration between Vermont artists of color and a youth group focused on racial justice and healing

Vermont Family Network, Williston
$3,000 to support storytelling workshops with Susanne Schmidt for families of children with disabilities

Operating Grants to support administrative costs

Grant amounts updated on June 8, 2022 to reflect increased awards thanks to an anonymous donation through the Vermont Community Foundation.

77ART, Rutland, $6,000

Art in the Neighborhood, Brattleboro, $3,000

Arts Bus, Randolph, $6,000

Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro, $4,500

Get Thee to the Funnery, Brattleboro, $4,500

Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier, $3,000

Middlebury Acting Company, Weybridge, $3,000

Milton Artists’ Guild, Milton, $3,000

Sundog Poetry Center, Johnson, $3,000

Theatre Adventure, Brattleboro, $6,000

Vermont Arts Exchange, North Bennington, $4,500

Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro, $3,000

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Creation Grants

Kellam Ayres, Middlebury
$4,000 to support the completion of a poetry manuscript titled In the Cathedral of My Undoing

Rita Banerjee, Montpelier
$4,000 to support the creation of a memoir and manifesto of how female “cool” subverts social, sexual, and economic pressure

Francesca Blanchard, Burlington | Read our interview with Francesca Blanchard
$4,000 to support the recording of a full-length concept album

Ann Dávila Cardinal, Montpelier | Listen to our podcast episode with Ann Dávila Cardinal
$4,000 to support the creation of a middle grade novel based in Vermont with a Latinx main character

Rose Friedman/Modern Times Theater, East Hardwick
$4,000 to support the creation of an original theater piece for touring to small venues

Jesse Kreitzer, Brattleboro
$4,000 to support the creation of a storyboard animatic for the short dramatic film Delta Bell

Travis Laplante, Putney
$4,000 to support the composition, performance, and recording of an album for tenor saxophone and string quartet

Jen Lazar, Burlington
$4,000 to support the creation of a nonfiction book tracing five generations beginning in Iran and ending in Vermont

Nancy Winship Milliken, Charlotte
$4,000 to support the creation of a limestone monument of natural field elements in an urban setting

Xander Naylor, Winooski
$4,000 to support the creation of a music composition fusing jazz and Indian classical elements

Liam O’Connor-Genereaux (WalrusDice Productions), South Rygate | Listen to our podcast episode with WalrusDice Productions
$4,000 to support the creation of a film entitled Butterfly Queen

Danielle O’Hallisey, Burlington | Read our interview with Danielle O’Hallisey
$4,000 to support the recording and release of a composition/documentary entitled Women of Aeronautics

Rachel Portesi, Saxtons River
$4,000 to support the creation of a series of photographs of women over 50

Michael “Mikahely” Rakoto Razafy, Burlington
$4,000 to support the completion and release of the artist’s first U.S. album

William Ransom, Norwich
$4,000 to support the creation of an interactive sculpture/installation at the Brattleboro Museum

Jessica Raymond, Wilder
$4,000 to support the creation of a new composition and Vermont virtual choir with hybrid live/video performance

Sonia Scherr, Norwich
$4,000 to support the creation of the first draft of a novel about Jewish-Muslim ties in Morocco

Ruth Shafer, Brattleboro
$4,000 to support the creation of a soft sculpture show exploring the relationships between the body and the home

Bronwyn Sims, Williamsville
$4,000 to support the creation of a new devised physical theatre work about criminal justice

Rebecca Valley, Fairfax
$4,000 to support the creation of a memoir about the death of the artist’s uncle, a mentally ill prisoner in Vermont

Irene “KeruBo” Webster, Winooski
$4,000 to support the creation of a video script involving music to bring awareness about the unjust loss of land ownership for African Americans

Diana Whitney, Brattleboro
$4,000 to support the creation of a poetry collection about girls, rape culture, and excavating female adolescence

Sam Wyatt, Lincoln
$4,000 to support the creation of paintings which depict graffiti as a reflection of this moment in our culture

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Cultural Facilities Grants

Bennington Museum
$15,575 to support electrical upgrades in two museum galleries and replacement of five outdated electrical panel boxes

Broad Brook Community Center, Guilford
$30,000 to support insulation throughout the building

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury
$26,700 to support the installation of a three-stop elevator

Friends of Dog Mountain, St. Johnsbury
$12,935 to support the installation of HVAC in the gallery and environmental controls and storage for the art collection in the barn

Friends of the Union Meeting Hall, Inc., Ferrisburgh
$26,400 to support a new accessible entrance on the north side of the building

Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury
$20,067 to support the installation of a new boiler

Main Street Arts, Saxtons River
$26,700 to support renovations to the education room

Middlebury Studio School
$10,880 to support the installation of an accessible restroom

River Arts, Morrisville
$15,034 to support the replacement of a failing elevator

Sheldon Historical Society
$15,798 to support the installation of an accessible restroom and lift to the second floor

Strafford Historical Society
$18,040 to support the installation of a new HVAC system

Town of Fair Haven
$16,910 to support the installation of an accessible restroom on the second floor of the Fair Haven Town Hall

Town of Franklin
$10,822 to support the installation of a sound system with assistive listening devices and acoustic curtains for the windows in the Franklin Town Hall

Town of Rockingham, Bellows Falls
$21,222 to support LED theater lighting, winched piping, and a light board in the Bellows Falls Opera House

Vermont Granite Museum of Barre
$26,700 to support the construction of three classroom spaces within the Museum

Wardsboro Public Library
$3,606 to support the installation of audio/visual equipment and an assistive listening system

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Covid-19 Cultural Recovery Grants

These grants were awarded in partnership with Vermont Humanities to provide funding to arts and humanities organizations facing financial hardship due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Funding was provided primarily from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

AHA Abenaki Helping Abenaki, Shelburne
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Art in the Neighborhood, Brattleboro
$5,000 (VAC)

Barre Historical Society, Barre
$5,000 (VH)

Barre Opera House, Barre
$10,000 (VAC)

Bella Voce Women’s Chorus, Essex Junction
$5,000 (VAC)

Bennington Museum, Bennington
$15,000 (VAC $7,500; VH $7,500) 

Big Heavy World, Burlington
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Billings Farm and Museum, Woodstock
$15,000 (VH)

Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brattleboro
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro
$10,000 (VAC $5,000; VH $5,000)

Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro
$15,000 (VAC)

Bread and Puppet Theatre, Glover
$10,000 (VAC $5,000; VH $5,000)

Briggs Opera House, White River Junction
$5,000 (VAC)

Brighton Community Forum, Brighton
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Burlington City Arts, Burlington
$15,000 (VAC)

Cabot Arts, Cabot
$5,000 (VAC)

Cabot Historical Society, Cabot
$5,000 (VH)

Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge
$5,000 (VAC)

Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland
$10,000 (VAC)

Catamount Film and Arts Center, St. Johnsbury
$15,000 (VAC $10,000; VH $5,000)

Center for Arts and Learning, Montpelier
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Center for Cartoon Studies, White River Junction
$15,000 (VAC $7,500; VH $7,500)

Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph
$10,000 (VAC)

Chittenden Community Televsion, Burlington
$10,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $7,500)

Circus Barn, Greensboro
$15,000 (VAC)

Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte
$10,000 (VAC $5,000; VH $5,000)

Cobleigh Public Library, Lyndon
$5,000 (VH)

Community Access Television (CATV), White River Junction
$10,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $7,500)

Community of Sound, Burlington
$5,000 (VAC)

Craftsbury Public Library, Craftsbury Common
$5,000 (VH)

Dorset Players, Dorset
$5,000 (VAC)

Dorset Theatre Festival, Dorset
$15,000 (VAC)

Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro
$5,000 (VAC)

Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington
$5,000 (VH)

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury
$15,000 (VH)

Fairfield Community Center Association, Fairfield
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington
$15,000 (VAC $7,500; VH $7,500)

Flynn Center, Burlington
$15,000 (VAC $10,000; VH $5,000)

Friends of the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington
$5,000 (VH)

Gallery at the VAULT, Springfield
$5,000 (VAC)

Generator, Burlington
$10,000 (VAC)

The Governor’s Institutes of Vermont, Winooski
$15,000 (VH)

Greater Barton Arts, Barton
$5,000 (VAC)

Green Mountains Review, Johnson
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Green Mountain Youth Symphony, Montpelier
$5,000 (VAC)

Haskell Free Library, Derby Line
$5,000 (VH)

Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury
$10,000 (VH)

Heritage Winooski Mill Museum, Winooski
$5,000 (VH)

Highgate Library and Community Center, Highgate Center
$5,000 (VH)

Hinesburg Artist Series, Hinesburg
$5,000 (VAC)

Inclusive Arts Vermont, Essex Junction
$10,000 (VAC $5,000; VH $5,000)

Island Arts, North Hero
$5,000 (VAC)

Jericho Historical Society, Jericho
$5,000 (VH)

John Woodruff Simpson Memorial Library, East Craftsbury
$5,000 (VH)

Kingdom County Productions, Barnet
$10,000 (VAC)

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes
$15,000 (VH)

Latchis Arts, Brattleboro
$5,000 (VAC)

Londonderry Arts & Historical Society, Londonderry
$5,000 (VH)

Lost Mural Project, Burlington
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier
$10,000 (VAC)

Lyric Theatre Company, Burlington
$10,000 (VAC)

Main Street Arts, Saxtons River
$5,000 (VAC)

Main Street Museum, White River Junction
$5,000 (VH)

Maquam Bay of Missisquoi, Swanton
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Mercy Connections, Burlington
$10,000 (VH)

Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, Middlebury
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Migrant Justice, Burlington
$10,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $7,500)

Monteverdi Music School, Montpelier
$5,000 (VAC)

Milton Artists’ Guild, Milton
$5,000 (VAC)

New England Center for Circus Arts, Brattleboro
$15,000 (VAC)

New England Youth Theatre, Brattleboro
$10,000 (VAC)

Next Stage Arts Project, Putney
$10,000 (VAC)

Northeast Kingdom All Stars, St. Johnsbury
$5,000 (VAC)

Northeast Kingdom Arts Council, Hardwick
$5,000 (VAC)

Northeast Kingdom Collaborative, Craftsbury
$5,000 (VH)

Northern Stage Company, White River Junction
$15,000

Norwich Historical Society, Norwich
$5,000

NorthWoods Stewardship Center, Island Pond
$10,000

Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington
$5,000

Oldcastle Productions, Bennington
$10,000

Opera Company of Middlebury, Middlebury
$5,000

Orleans County Historical Society, Brownington
$10,000

Out in the Open, Brattleboro
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Outright Vermont, Burlington
$15,000

Paramount Center, Rutland
$15,000

Pentangle Arts, Woodstock
$10,000

Preservation Trust of Vermont, Burlington
$15,000

Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington
$15,000

Retreat Farm, Brattleboro
$15,000

River Arts, Morrisville
$10,000

River Gallery School of Art, Brattleboro
$10,000

Robert Frost Stone House Museum, Shaftsbury
$5,000

Rockingham Arts and Museum Project, Rockingham
$5,000

Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh
$5,000

Ruth Stone House, Goshen
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Rutland Area Art Association, Rutland
$5,000

Sandglass Center, Putney
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Saint Albans Museum, Saint Albans
$5,000

Scrag Mountain Music, Marshfield
$5,000

Seven Stars Arts Center, Sharon
$5,000

Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne
$5,000

Shelburne Museum, Shelburne
$15,000

Snelling Center for Government, Williston
$10,000

Society of Vermont Artists and Craftsmen, Ludlow
$5,000

South End Arts and Business Association, Burlington
$5,000

Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester
$15,000

Springfield Community Players, Springfield
$5,000

Spruce Peak Arts, Stowe
$15,000

Stage 33 Live, Bellows Falls
$5,000

St. Johnsbury History and Heritage Center, St. Johnsbury
$5,000

Studio Place Arts, Barre
$5,000

Sundog Poetry Center, Johnson
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Swanton Arts Council, Swanton
$5,000

Taconic Music, Manchester
$5,000

Theatre Adventure, Brattleboro
$5,000

The Current, Stowe
$10,000

The Foundry Workshop, Lyndon
$5,000

The MINT Rutland Makerspace, Rutland
$5,000

Town Hall Theater, Middlebury
$15,000

T.W. Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Upright Steeple Society, Lyndon
$5,000

UVM Lane Series, Burlington
$10,000 (VAC $5,000; VH $5,000)

Vermont Arts Exchange, North Bennington
$10,000

Vermont Council on World Affairs, Burlington
$10,000

Vermont Dance Alliance, Burlington
$5,000

Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury
$10,000 (VAC $5,000; VH $5,000)

Vermont Granite Museum, Barre
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Vermont Historical Society, Barre
$15,000

Vermont International Film Festival, Burlington
$10,000 (VAC $5,000; VH $5,000)

Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro
$10,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Vermont Ski & Snowboard Museum, Stowe
$5,000

Vermont Stage Company, Burlington
$10,000

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson
$15,000

Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Burlington
$15,000

Vermont Youth Orchestra Association, Colchester
$10,000

Vermont Youth Theater, Montpelier
$4,000

Westminster West Public Library, Westminster West
$5,000

Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Weston
$15,000

Wheelock Mountain Farm, West Wheelock
$5,000

White Pine Association, Newbury
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Wonder Arts, Greensboro
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Worcester Historical Society, Worcester
$5,000

Yellow Barn, Putney
$15,000

Young Tradition Vermont, Fairfax
$5,000

Young Writers Project, Burlington
$5,000 (VAC $2,500; VH $2,500)

Digital Capacity Grants

Organization Grants

Art on Main, Bristol
$7,500 to support building a new website

Bennington Museum, Bennington
$25,000 to support website redesign for accessibility

Brattleboro Words Trail, Brattleboro
$25,000 to support creating digital content

CATV, Inc., White River Junction
$5,000 to support website redesign for accessibility

CCTV, Burlington
$29,000 to support installing neighborhood-based video system and launch a demonstration video captioning project

Central Vermont Community Radio Corporation, Plainfield
$15,000 to support expanding hybrid broadcasting sytems and equipment

Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte
$25,000 to support integrating an e-commerce platform on the website, procure a nonprofit management platform, upgrade artist network database, and procure equipment for livestreaming

Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro
$18,000 to support expanding digital programming

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury
$22,000 to support website redesign for accessibility

Friends of the Vergennes Opera House, Vergennes
$14,000 to support purchasing equipment for livestreaming

Generator, Burlington
$12,000 to support creation and expansion of digital offerings

Heritage Winooski Mill Museum, Winooski
$20,000 to support purchase of digital storytelling system

Inclusive Arts Vermont, St. Albans
$28,000 to support hring a part-time digital content manager

JAG Productions, White River Junction
$7,400 to support website redesign for accessibility

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor, Vergennes
$22,000 to support expanding online learning experiences, building staff capacity, and improving accessibility for virtual audiences

Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier
$22,000 to support purchasing equipment, website updates for accessibility, digital marketing strategies, ASL interpretation and audio description services, and upgrading internet service

Media Hour Ltd, East Arlington
$12,000 to support purchasing equipment and expanding digital workshops

Middlebury Community Music Center, Middlebury
$20,000 to support expanding digital programming and offering livestreamed performances

Montpelier Community Gospel Choir, Montpelier
$20,000 to support increasing digital cpacity and expanding online programming

North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier
$25,000 to support enhancing the digital and hybrid visitor experience

Out in the Open, Brattleboro | Listen to our podcast episode with Out in the Open
$29,000 to support creating a Rural LGBTQ Audio Fellowship

Outright Vermont, Burlington
$25,000 to support creating an online learning platform

Pride Center of VT, Burlington
$22,000 to support existing digital capacity

Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh
$11,500 to support upgrading Wi-Fi access, purchase equipment for livestreaming, and hire a videographer

Rural ARTS Collaborative, Greensboro
$25,000 to support the Digital Archive Project with staff positions, web accessibility consultants, and equipment purchases

SafeArt, Chelsea
$5,000 to support updating and purchasing new computers

Stage 33 Live, Bellows Falls
$7,800 to support creating a permanent high-quality livestreaming infrastructure

Stone Valley Arts, Poultney
$15,000 to support increasing digital capacity

Theatre Adventure, Brattleboro
$15,000 to support purchasing equipment for hybrid programming, retaining ASL interpreter, and supplementing the technical director position

Vermont Abenaki Artists Association, South Burlington
$15,000 to support technical assistance with social media marketing, website updates, and video production

Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier
$18,000 to support developing an accessible micro-site for the Center for Arts and Social Justice

Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury
$25,000 to support website redesign for accessibility and marketing digital content

Vermont Historical Society, Barre
$22,000 to support creating short videos that highlight the Vermont Historical Society’s collection

Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro
$22,000 to support website redesign for accessibility, livestreaming concerts, and securing intellectual property rights

Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Burlington
$25,000 to support recording concerts, enhancing website and digital ticketing, and improve social media presence and educational content

Very Merry Theatre, Burlington
$25,000 to support creating a digital classroom

Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Weston
$22,000 to support purchasing equipment, training staff, and hiring commercial digital production companies to create marketing and promotional assets

Windham World Affairs, Brattleboro
$6,000 to support expanding digital audience and online accessibility

Young Writers Project, Burlington
$25,000 to support website redesign for accessibility

Collaborative Grants

Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury
$120,000 to support enhancing the digital capacity of foundational regional production services

Town Hall Theater, Middlebury
$120,000 to support creating a multi-camera media hub called the Addison Art Media Partnership

Special Grants

Big Heavy World, Burlington
$24,900 to support creating an on-demand music licensing platform for use by marketing firms and state agencies to easily license Vermont-made music for their content and $10,800 to support a USB mini microphone library available to be borrowed by Vermont musicians and the public via the state’s public libraries

Burlington City Arts, Burlington
$30,000 to support the hybrid (digital and in-person) Highlight event for New Year’s Eve 2021 and digital skills training for participating artists

Clemmons Family Farm, Charlotte
$15,000 to support workshops for African diaspora artists on legal and artistic issues related to digital presentations

Vermont Abenaki Artists Association, Burlington
$15,000 to support digital skills training for VAAA team and Abenaki teaching artists

Vermont Crafts Council, Montpelier
$5,000 to support Zoom training, small group coaching sessions and individual mentoring sessions for craft artists

Vermont Dance Alliance, Burlington
$13,725 to support online mini-courses and panel discussions focusing on dance and technology

Head Start Arts Integration Grants

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro
$5,000 to support a partnership with Early Education Services in Windham County with movement and visual arts residencies in multiple centers and classrooms

Burlington City Arts, Burlington
$6,000 to support a partnership with Champlain Valley Head Start with visual arts residencies for multiple classrooms and visits to the clay studio

Catamount Film and Arts Center, St. Johnsbury
$1,500 to support a pilot project serving early education students and families enrolled in Head Start through a partnership with the St. Johnsbury School District

Rural Arts Collaborative, Greensboro
$6,000 to support a Head Start partnerships in Albany and Hardwick and to support new teaching artists to engage in the partnership.

Vermont Arts Exchange, North Bennington
$6,000 to support Head Start partnerships in Rutland and Bennington counties with arts-integrated residencies led by three teaching artists and a community celebration

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admin-place September 7, 2021