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Working to advance and preserve the arts at the center of Vermont communities.
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ArtMail is our bi-weekly e-newsletter, featuring art news, events and opportunities for the arts community in Vermont and nationwide. Our current issue is posted below.
Click HERE to read past issues of ArtMail.
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Welcome to ArtMail for May 8, 2013
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It's time for a fresh edition of ArtMail, and today it's all about you! The Arts Council is inviting you to our Annual Meeting and the Vermont Arts Summit - an exciting event you'll want to attend. We're also making sure you don't miss out on our grant opportunities as well as a landmark commission for the Art in State Buildings Program. It's not all meetings and money, though! There's a new exhibit in our Spotlight Gallery, a poem for you to peruse, some artwork for you to ponder, and four special treats waiting for you at the end.
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Vermont Arts Council Annual Meeting: You're Invited
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 Please join us for the Vermont Arts Council's Annual Meeting on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, at the State House in Montpelier. The day's events are open to the public, free of charge, and all events are accessible.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
- 1 p.m. - Board Meeting
Capitol Plaza, 100 State Street
- 4 p.m. - Annual Meeting
This year's Annual Meeting features an address by Jonathan Katz, Executive Director of the National Assembly of Arts Agencies, D.C., and Reflections upon Vermont's Artistic Riches: A Selection of 2012 Projects and Activities, presented by a three-person curating team: Board members Ed Clark and Gerianne Smart, and staff member Michele Bailey.
Senate Chambers, Vermont State House
- 5:15 p.m. - Reception
Cedar Creek Room, Vermont State House
Feel free to contact Zon Eastes or Marie Bernier if you have questions. We look forward to seeing you on June 5!
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SAVE THE DATE: Vermont Arts Summit
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 The Arts Council is excited to announce plans for the Vermont Arts Summit 2013 in Montpelier on Saturday, October 26! You will be hearing more in the coming months, and we want everyone to come. Workshops, networking time, information exchange, plenary sessions, meals - all at the Vermont State House! We are most excited to welcome Eric Booth as guest speaker. Eric is one of the nation's foremost thinkers and collaborators in the arts, arts education, and creation of community. Registration for the Arts Summit will open in the summer, so stay tuned!
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More Money, More Possibilities
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 Do you want $80,000 to create the art installation of your dreams? We're not pulling your leg; that's how much money the next Lead Artist for the Vermont Art in State Buildings Program will have to work with. The Vermont Arts Council in association with the Vermont Department of Buildings & General Services is currently searching for a Vermont artist or artist team with a unique vision to oversee the design, fabrication, and installation of aesthetic artistic enhancements to the Agency of Human Services facility at the State Office Complex in Waterbury, Vt. Once chosen, the Lead Artist will be awarded a $5,000 planning and design contract and $80,000 will be available for fabrication and installation of the artwork(s). Applications are due by May 30, 2013. CLICK HERE to learn more.
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Art + Funding = Your Dream Realized
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 Make sure you don't miss out on our funding opportunities by marking your calendars with these important FY2014 grant program application deadlines:
Click on the program name to learn more about the grant and application requirements. Feel free to contact Michele Bailey and Ben Doyle with any questions.
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New in the Spotlight Gallery: Mark Goodwin
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 Your eye will be drawn in and your brain will go into overdrive when you view the work of Mark Goodwin, now on display in our Spotlight Gallery. Goodwin's work is an investigation of drawing that hovers between painting and sculpture. Through a series of folds, scores, and mark making, he creates enigmatic work. The Spotlight Gallery is open to the public Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., and is located in the corridor and conference room of our offices at 136 State Street, Montpelier. CLICK HERE to read more about the exhibit.
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Congratulations, Christian!
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 On Monday, April 29, Vermont Poetry Out Loud Champion Christian DeKett of St. Johnsbury Academy competed at the National Poetry Out Loud Finals in Washington, D.C. He made Vermont proud with his recitations of "I Am the People, the Mob" by Carl Sandburg and "Ultima Thule" by Linda Bierds before advancing to the third round of his semifinal group. His moving recitation of "Experience" by Ralph Waldo Emerson didn't garner him a spot in the finals, but that hardly matters when you look at the real numbers: Christian came in 24th out of the roughly 375,000 students that took part in Poetry Out Loud this year. Christian, we are so proud of you and we can't wait to see you again next year! P.S. - CLICK HERE to watch Christian's appearance on WCAX-TV's "The :30."
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Alex's Blog: Off to a Great Start!
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 Spring has blossomed. Pollen has rendered any outdoor activity impossible and so, for now, I am trying to focus mainly on indoor activities.
Last Saturday, for example, I attended a really wonderful production of Lost Nation Theater's Ransom at the Montpelier City Hall Theater. Even though the pollen count finally caught up with me I was delighted with everything about this Broadway-worthy production. Despite my intermittent sneezing and snuffling (which I like to think provided added echoes of the Civil War battlefields that formed part of the through-narrative of the work), the 20-or-so performers brought to life the letters of Ransom Towle, a native of West Roxbury, Vt. Read on...
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Thursday Thoughts: The Silver Screen's Dark Lining
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"Video Blues" by Mary Jo Salter
My husband has a crush on Myrna Loy,
and likes to rent her movies, for a treat.
It makes some evenings harder to enjoy.
Read the rest of the poem here.
Throughout 2013, the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Humanities Council are teaming up to bring you a poem a week with Thursday Thoughts. All of the poems are from Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry in honor of the VHC's Vermont Reads program (learn more about how you can sign up). Join us on Facebook and Twitter on Thursday afternoons to receive these weekly poems!
Read our previous poems: "Elevator Music" by Henry Taylor, "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins, "Of Politics and Art" by Norman Dubie, "Numbers" by Mary Cornish, "Rain" by Naomi Shihab Nye, "It's Raining in Love" by Richard Brautigan,"Selecting a Reader" by Ted Kooser, "Snow" by David Berman, "Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale" by Jane Yolen, "The Bagel" by David Ignatow, "Six One-Line Film Scripts" by Tom Andrews, "I'm a Fool to Love You" by Cornelius Eady, "Tour" by Carol Snow, and "Fast Break" by Edward Hirsch. |
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Art Supports Me Asks You...
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 What do you see?
Karen Geiger said: "Nothing specific, just really beautiful patterns, shapes, and shades."
Come look at this piece in person and find out what YOU see! Did we mention it's in our Spotlight Gallery?
"Art Supports Me Asks You..." is a fun Friday tradition on the Vermont Arts Council Facebook page. We pose an artsy question to get your creative juices flowing and on Monday we randomly select a winner, who gets a stylish tote bag. See you Friday! |
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Books, Bikes, Buy, BOOM
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Get your community hooked on a book, design a bike rack, buy art for a good cause, and bang a drum:
- Vermont Reads 2013 - Celebrate the tenth anniversary of Vermont Reads by exploring poetry. Your community is invited to take part with this statewide read of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, an anthology of contemporary poems selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Communities, libraries, schools, and other nonprofit organizations may apply; collaboration among town organizations and businesses is strongly encouraged. Participants 1) receive FREE books and programming support, and can 2) host poetry readings and slams, poem-a-day projects, poetry writing contests, events with Vermont poets, and more. Learn more and apply online today. Deadline: May 15, 2013.
- Call to Artists: Art in Public Places Program - Burlington City Arts is issuing a Request for Proposals for the next Art in Public Places project. This project will emphasize the balance between form and function by creating artful bicycle parking racks. There are two (2) proposed locations for two (2) pieces of artwork within the right-of-way on the sidewalk in downtown Burlington. Installation will be provided by the Department of Public Works. Deadline: May 13, 2013. CLICK HERE for more information.
- Art + Soul 2013 - Don't miss this opportunity to dress up and purchase art inspired by the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center. Each year Art+Soul benefits a different nonprofit and features artwork by local artists that is inspired by the nonprofit's mission. The art is sold and the proceeds are split 50-50 between the artist and the nonprofit. The Art+Soul 2013 event will take place on June 6, 2013 from 6:30 - 9 p.m. at the law firm of Dunkiel Saunders Elliott Raubvogel & Hand. CLICK HERE to learn more about Art+Soul 2013.
- BOOM VT: Art Beats for All - Feel the beat and join the rhythm at BOOM VT, a drum festival hosted by VSA Vermont. BOOM VT features music performances by dynamic local drum ensembles including members from Burlington Taiko, Sambatucada, Jeh Kulu, Gahu at St. Michael's College, and many others. Drummers with disabilities will take center stage at the heart of BOOM VT. After you hear the performers play, feel the rhythm and share the beat with the drummers by banging your own drum during a final crescendo. When: Sunday, June 2, 2013, 4 - 6 p.m. Where: City Hall Park, Burlington. Cost: FREE! CLICK HERE for more information.
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"The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress."
Hendrik Willem
Van Loon
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