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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.
If you're interested in suggesting an event for us to feature in ArtMail, click here for our submission guidelines.
Click HERE to read past issues of ArtMail.
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Welcome to ArtMail for May 2, 2012 |
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| WELCOME to ArtMail! We have plenty of news to share in this week's edition. The Vermont Arts Council is pleased to announce an employment opportunity right here in our offices, as we open the search for a new Web & Communications Manager. We're also busy prepping for our annual meeting and award ceremony, featuring not one, but TWO Walter Cerf Medals for outstanding achievement in the Arts. And, of course we have grant news, our ongoing opportunity to advertise with our friends at Vermont Life, and much more. So read on, enjoy, and see what opportunities await you! |
| Save the Date: June 5th is our Annual Meeting |
This year's Annual Meeting and Award Ceremony will be taking place on Tuesday, June 5th at the Vermont State House in Montpelier. We will be honoring Arnie Malina and Altoon Sultan with the Walter Cerf Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, along with a grantee showcase featuring dancer and choreographer Lida Winfield. Read more. |
| VAC is Hiring a Web & Communications Manager |
 The Vermont Arts Council seeks a self-starter to manage the Arts Council's communications through its website, social and traditional media, online and print publications, and other public awareness promotion activities. The successful candidate must possess excellent written and oral communications skills, be highly computer literate with demonstrable website development/maintenance skills, have a bachelor's degree and four years of related experience. The Council is an equal opportunity employer offering excellent benefits. Applications due May 15. Get the full job description here.
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| Featured Grantee: Albany Community School |
Albany is a small town just north of Craftsbury and south of the Lowell Town Forest. It is not a prosperous community. The Albany Community School, grades K-8, has less than one hundred students. Twice a week, those students have Physical Education with Peter AuClair. For three weeks each year, Peter teaches dance. "I'll teach a few basic steps," says Peter. "They'll learn a cha-cha-slide move and some Cupid shuffle, and they'll create some work of their own." This year, an Artist Residency grant helped to bring Karen Amirault to the school every day for a week. Karen is on the Arts Council's Teaching Artist Roster. The residency ended with an evening performance. And, a little bit of magic happened. Read the rest of this week's profile. |
| Opportunity to Advertise |
The Vermont Arts Council has teamed up with our friends at Vermont Life to bring you an amazing advertising opportunity. Did you know that Vermont Life Magazine has the furthest reach of any Vermont publication, being read by 40,000 Vermonters and 80,000 out-of-state readers? We've been offered advertising at a super-low rate of $350 per ad as part of a special two-page arts spread in the Fall 2012 issue. But we've decided to sweeten the deal by offering OUR friends an even deeper discount of just $250 per ad! Find out more here.
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| Executive Director's Blog |
Tropical Storm Irene's Unwanted Offspring: In the nearly nine months since Tropical Storm Irene ravaged Vermont, much has been reported about the outpouring of support for those impacted and the speed and efficiency with which communities and state agencies (particularly the Agency of Transportation and Commerce/Community Development) responded to the destruction of roads, bridges, neighborhoods, and foliage/holiday-season tourism. Those efforts were truly outstanding, and continue to be so for the foreseeable future. Looking at the huge swaths of Rte. 107 along the White River that were affected and rebuilt within a few short months gives anyone driving a sense of awe about what Vermonters accomplished. Read the rest of Alex's blog here. |
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"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be."
Abraham Maslo
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Welcome to ArtMail for April 18, 2012 |
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WELCOME to ArtMail! We invite you to get out your calendar, and mark June 5th as the date for our annual meeting and award ceremony. We will be presenting TWO Walter Cerf Medals for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, and will be featuring a 2011 grantee as part of our grantee showcase. More details will be coming soon.
It's been a few weeks, but we know many of you who joined us at the Poetry Out Loud State Finals wanted to access images from the event. You can do so by clicking here. Or, if you were unable to attend, we hope you will take a moment and see what you missed. We'd like to offer a special "Thank You" to Peter Arthur for photographing the event for us!
Last but no least, be sure to check out our classifieds to find out about the Artist Entrepreneurial Workshop on April 27. The event is being presented by the New York Foundation for the Arts and is sponsored by the Vermont Arts Council and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Info about that event, new job opportunities and more are waiting for you! |
| The Arts Council is Hiring! |
 OUTREACH & EVENTS MANAGER - The Vermont Arts Council seeks an enthusiastic arts promoter with a flair for successful fundraising and experience in organizing all types of events. The successful candidate must enjoy networking in diverse social and business settings, possess excellent communications skills (oral and written), be highly computer literate, have at least a bachelor's degree and four years of related experience. Read more. |
| Featured Grantee: The Weston Playhouse |
People remember Weston. They remember its bucolic mountain setting and the charm of its buildings. The entire village is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Seated along Route 100 in Southern Vermont, the town is an easy drive from Boston, New York, and all of Vermont. This location contributes to the success of the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company (WPTC). Read the rest of this week's profile. |
| Vermont CDP |
 Have YOU started your CDP profile yet? All Operating Support Grant applicants are required to participate in the Vermont Cultural Data Project. Join an ONLINE webinar. The CDP offers regular, monthly webinars to all participating organizations. You can participate in these web-based sessions from your office or home computer. Click REGISTER for more details and exact dates. Log-in instructions for the webinar will be emailed to you the day before the webinar.
Be sure to allow time to complete this! We've devised a Timeline for Success to help.
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| Opportunity to Advertise |
The Vermont Arts Council has teamed up with our friends at Vermont Life to bring you an amazing advertising opportunity. Did you know that Vermont Life Magazine has the furthest reach of any Vermont publication, being read by 40,000 Vermonters and 80,000 out-of-state readers? We've been offered advertising at a super-low rate of $350 per ad as part of a special two-page arts spread in the Fall 2012 issue. But we've decided to sweeten the deal by offering OUR friends an even deeper discount of just $250 per ad! Find out more here.
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| Executive Director's Blog |
Whither the Non-Profit Arts Sector? A recent post by Brooklyn Philharmonic CEO Richard Dare set the nonprofit arts world all abuzz. It gave a lot of statistics about the number of orchestras that are failing and the general fragility of the non-profit art sector-in short, the kind of alarm-ringing I, for one, have heard since the early 1970s when I began my career in the arts. Read the rest of Alex's blog here. |
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"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
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Welcome to ArtMail for April 4, 2012 |
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WELCOME to ArtMail! We'd like to begin this week's edition with a great big congratulations to Claude Mumbere of Burlington High School who took top honors for the second year in a row at the 7th annual Vermont Poetry Out Loud State finals. Claude was one of 33 competitors representing schools from across the state. He will now advance to the National Finals in Washington, DC, where $50,000 in scholarships and school prizes will be awarded. John Marshall, of The Sharon Academy, was the runner up in the competition. Congratulations to Claude, John and all of the 2012 Vermont Poetry Out Loud competitors!
One final note, there are a lot of changes happening within our grants department. Keep reading to get info on new deadlines, grantseeker workshops, the Vermont CDP and much, much, more! |
| Opportunity to Advertise |
The Vermont Arts Council has teamed up with our friends at Vermont Life to bring you an amazing advertising opportunity. Did you know that Vermont Life Magazine has the furthest reach of any Vermont publication, being read by 40,000 Vermonters and 80,000 out-of-state readers? We've been offered advertising at a super-low rate of $350 per ad as part of a special two-page arts spread in the Fall 2012 issue. But we've decided to sweeten the deal by offering OUR friends an even deeper discount of just $250 per ad! Find out more here.
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| Grant News |
Applications for Cultural Facilities Grants are now open! Operating Support, and Project Grant applications will open this week. We've scheduled several workshops that will help you to understand the application process. You can click on either of the links below to find out more.
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| Vermont CDP |
Have YOU started your CDP profile yet? All Operating Support Grant applicants are required to participate in the Vermont Cultural Data Project. We highly recommended that you attend one of the upcoming workshops to help you get started. Get a list of workshops here.
Can't make it in-person? Join an ONLINE webinar. The CDP offers regular, monthly webinars to all participating organizations. You can participate in these web-based sessions from your office or home computer. Click REGISTER for more details and exact dates. Log-in instructions for the webinar will be emailed to you the day before the webinar.
Be sure to allow time to complete this! We've devised a Timeline for Success to help. |
| Guest Blog: Keeping up with the Bellamys |
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This week's guest blog comes from Donald Rae. Donald is the Executive Director of Focus on Film, the organization that presents the annual Green Mountain Film Festival. He teaches screenwriting at Burlington College, Vermont.
 The actor Ralph Bellamy had a long and distinguished career. In 1921, at the age of 16 and having been expelled from school for smoking, he ran away from home to join William Owen's company of traveling Shakespearean Players. By the end of a lean and itinerant decade, he had made his debut on Broadway and, two years after that, his first screen appearance in a now forgotten picture called THE SECRET SIX, which also happened to feature a rising star by the name of Jean Harlow. Harlow -- the original "blonde bombshell" -- was dead at 26; Bellamy showed signs of going on forever. Like so many many actors -- like so many artists -- Bellamy never retired. (An argument, I would suggest FOR, rather than against, a career in the arts.) Read the rest of Donald's blog here.
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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Welcome to ArtMail for March 9, 2012 |
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We have a TON of news for you in this week's ArtMail. There's a brand new exhibit in the Spotlight Gallery, opportunities for young artists and musicians, and 23 new teachings artists that have been added to our Vermont Teaching Artist Roster.
And, if that wasn't enough, we have recently added multiple calls to artists and funding opportunities to our online classifieds, AND we have a new blog from our executive director. (And there's even more after that!)
But before we get to all of the news, we'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who joined us at Arts Advocacy Day. It was great to have so many arts supporters joining us, and sharing the importance of the arts at the State House. If you attended, we would appreciate just a few minutes of your time to complete a brief survey about your Arts Advocacy Day experience.
Have fun catching up on all of our news, enjoy your Friday, and have a wonderful weekend! |
| Cultural Facilities Grantseeker Workshops |
The Arts Council will be hosting three Grantseeker Workshops for the Cultural Facilities program. Vermont organizations interested in funding to revive or refurbish historical buildings are strongly encouraged to attend one of these sessions. Click here for more info.
- Friday, March 23: Windsor Welcome Center, 3 Railroad Avenue, Windsor
- Monday, March 26: Moretown Town Hall, Route 100B, Moretown
- Tuesday, March 27: Cornwall Town Hall, 2629 Vermont 30, Cornwall
- Thursday, April 5: Snowdate(!) at Moretown Town Hall
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| Vermont Young Musician's Awards |
Calling all young musicians! The ninth annual Vermont Young Musician's Award remains one of the region's most prestigious competitions. Students from across Vermont compete for more than $3000 in prize money during an intense three-round exercise. Applications are open and due by April 27, 2012.
Applications are being accepted through April 27th. Click here for the Vermont Young Musician's Award Application 2012.
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| 23 New Teaching Artists Added to Teaching Artist Roster |
The Vermont Arts Council is pleases to announce that 23 new artists have been added to the statewide Teaching Artist Roster. These talented teaching artists went through a multiphase process that concluded with in person interviews to be accepted to this list, which serves as an indispensable resource to schools and organizations around our state. In addition, schools can hire these roster artists and access funding through our teaching artist grant programs, making these critical arts learning experiences more accessible to schools throughout our state. Congratulations to the new teaching artists! To see our entire list, click here.
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| Featured Grantee: Bhatki Ziek |
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 Bhakti Ziek stood at her loom many hours each day for several months. She wove six panels. Each panel contained 7,000 picks. When Bhakti described the process she said, "That meant throwing the shuttle 42,000 times. One inch of the panel had 80 picks and I can do about 300 picks in an hour. I don't call it tennis elbow, I call it weaver's elbow." She remained inspired by the thought of a vivid blue sky and her concept of the viewer being completely enveloped in the work. Bhakti is a textile artist, working in this medium since 1969. Read the rest of this week's profile.
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We didn't have QUITE enough room for all of the news we had to tell you about in this week's ArtMail, so PLEASE be sure to click below for some very important information.
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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
Pablo Picasso
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Welcome to ArtMail for February 22, 2012 |
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We want to take this opportunity to remind you that Arts Advocacy Day is only two days away. This Friday, February 24th, the Vermont Arts Council will be joined by friends from CERF+ and American for the Arts as part of Arts Advocacy Day 2012. We will be kicking off the day with a legislative arts caucus breakfast and issues briefing. We will follow that with workshops, lunch with legislators (don't forget to schedule in advance) and more. There is still plenty of time to RSVP, so please let us know if you plan to attend. For the full schedule click here
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| Arts Advocacy Day is this Friday! |
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 The Vermont Arts Council invites you to join us this Friday, February 24th for Arts Advocacy Day. This annual event brings arts supporters from accross the state to Montpelier for a day of advocacy, professional development, idea sharing, and celebrating the arts in Vermont.
Check out the day's online schedule and RSVP by clicking here.
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| Nominations Wanted |
Throughout the year the Arts Council recognizes individuals and organizations that are making important contributions to the arts. The Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Walter Cerf Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, the Council's Business Award and various citations provide an opportunity for the recipients to be honored by colleagues, friends, family and members of the community.
Is there an artist or cultural organization you'd like considered? We are currently seeking nominations for all of these awards. Simply fill out the online form or send a letter of recommendation via e-mail. |
| This Week's Blog from Judy Chalmer: VSA Vermont |
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"Welcome to VSA Vermont's audio tour of the Engage exhibition. Here language leads to midnight blue, an iridescent orb of misty light, crinkly stems, a downcast eye, clarity and intensity of pigment, the play of light and shadow, the imprecise edges of a forest, vertical strokes like blades of grass, delicate points, angular edges, undulating arms, geometric shapes, panes of color thick and rich, a sense of aliveness like the swarming of a hive. Here you can listen to all the artist statements and to descriptions of 22 works of art."
Read the rest of Judy's blog here.
Are you interested in being a guest blogger for the Vermont Arts Council? Send us an email.
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"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."
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Welcome to ArtMail for February 8, 2012 |
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 The Arts Council is busily preparing for a fabulous arts advocacy day on Friday, February 24th, and we hope to see you there! We invite you to bring along a friend for the day, and hope you will help us to share with the legislature the importance of the arts in Vermont. If you feel the need to prepare, we've updated the advocacy section of our website with some great articles from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, as well as talking points to share with your legislator over lunch. Don't forget to contact your legislator in advance to schedule your lunch meeting. You can find out more about what we have planned for the day below.
We also want invite you to stop by the Spotlight Gallery this Friday to see an exhibit of paintings by Janet Wormser. We will be having a reception with the artist from 4 to 7PM as part of Montpelier's Art Walk. |
| Arts Advocacy Day on February 24 |
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The Vermont Arts Council invites you to join us on Friday, February 24th for Arts Advocacy Day. This annual event brings arts supporters from accross the state to Montpelier for a day of advocacy, professional development, idea sharing, and celebrating the arts in Vermont.
Check out the day's online schedule and RSVP by clicking here.
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| Vermont CDP Orientation Sessions |
Get the most from the Vermont CDP. There are several FREE orientation sessions happening in February. These important orientation sessions will provide you with an overview of the history and goals of the Vermont CDP, as well as an introduction to the types of data collected.
The CDP highly encourages organizations to participate in an orientation session before getting started in the database. In the session, a CDP staff representative will walk you through the process of entering data, applying to participating grantmakers, and using the CDP's powerful reporting features. Please feel free to attend with more than one representative of your organization, including your executive director, your finance manager/bookkeeper and your development director.
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| Featured Grantee: Chandler Center for the Arts |
Compromises were made. One lane of Main Street had to be opened occasionally so the steady stream of gravel trucks could pass through. That was the situation at the 19th annual New World Festival in Randolph, held exactly one week after Hurricane Irene hit Vermont.
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| This Week's Blog from Susan McDowell |
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Inside Out, Through and Through: I hear the word community A LOT. I use the word a lot. This word so peppers my life that I started to think I should know exactly what it means. As it turns out, it means a lot of things.
Read the rest of Susan's blog here.
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
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Welcome to ArtMail for January 25, 2012 |
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 Welcome to ArtMail! Thanks to all of you who joined us in honoring the 2012 Cultural Facilities Grant recipients as part of our ceremony at the State House last Thursday. You can see images of the grantees with their GIANT checks in our Facebook album or on our website.
We would also like to invite you to stop by the Spotlight Gallery to see an exhibit of paintings by Janet Wormser. Janet's work will be in the Gallery through the end of February, with a reception on February 10th as part of Montpelier's Art Walk. |
| Save the Date: Arts Advocacy Day on February 24 |
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 The Vermont Arts Council invites you to join us on Friday, February 24th for Arts Advocacy Day. This annual event brings arts supporters from accross the state to Montpelier for a day of advocacy, professional development, idea sharing, and celebrating the arts in Vermont.
Check out the day's online schedule and RSVP by clicking here.
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| Vermont CDP Orientation Sessions |
 Get the most from the Vermont CDP. There are several FREE orientation sessions happening in February. These important orientation sessions will provide you with an overview of the history and goals of the Vermont CDP, as well as an introduction to the types of data collected.
The CDP highly encourages organizations to participate in an orientation session before getting started in the database. In the session, a CDP staff representative will walk you through the process of entering data, applying to participating grantmakers, and using the CDP's powerful reporting features. Please feel free to attend with more than one representative of your organization, including your executive director, your finance manager/bookkeeper and your development director. |
| Featured Grantee: VT Symphony Orchestra |
 "Some audiences are more seasoned." Those are the words of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra's Development Director Mike Peluse. He was talking about considerations that are made in setting up the Made in Vermont Tour each year. "For some audience members, this may be the only classical program they have ever heard."
The challenge is creating a program to play in eight different towns (Johnson, Vergennes, Derby Line, Lyndonville, Bellows Falls, Randolph, Woodstock, and Castleton). One commissioned piece is always included. "We look for a composer with a strong connection to Vermont. Audiences vary widely in their experience with orchestral music, so that one connection is very important. After his three-year residency with the Vermont Youth Orchestra, Rob Paterson really had that." Read more. |
| This Week's Blog from Executive Director Alex Aldrich |
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USING THE LEFT HAND: It was said of Maestro Eugene Ormandy that his was the most expressive right hand in classical music. As music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra he could pull more lush sound out of 110 players-particularly string players-with just his right hand than anyone else on the planet.
A short man, accustomed to getting his way, he spoke softly, wielded a small stick and demanded perfection from every musician that worked under his direction. His left hand, for the most part, hung by his side and only rarely made a small gesture to players to indicate their cue. These, however, were nearly always invisible to the audience. Read the rest of Alex's blog here.
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Thanks for taking the time to read ArtMail. We thought we'd remind you to take a minute to browse our classifieds which have been filling up with new job and funding opportunities, services offered, classes, workshops and more for 2012.
See you in two weeks!
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"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams."
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Welcome to ArtMail for January 11, 2012 |
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Happy New Year from the Vermont Arts Council! It's back to business here in Montpelier... We would like to welcome back all of the Vermont representatives and senators who reconvened last Tuesday. We know there is a lot of work to be done, and we hope to see some new faces joining our legislative arts caucus this year.
We also want to take this opportunity to remind you that each year the Arts Council recognizes outstanding individual and organizational contributions to the arts in Vermont with a variety of awards. These awards are presented at public ceremonies and provide an opportunity for the recipient to be honored by colleagues, friends, family and members of the communities where they live and work. The Arts Council accepts award nominations throughout the year. To nominate a Vermont artist or cultural organization, please click here. |
| Cultural Facilities Grants Award Ceremony Jan. 19 |
The Vermont Arts Council is pleased to announce the 2012 Cultural Facilities Grants recipients. Nine grants totaling $152,330 will be awarded in a cermony on January 19th at the Vermont State House. These grants will be used to improve existing facilities and expand their capacity for providing cultural activities for the public. Click here to view all of this year's recipients.
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| Save the Date: Arts Advocacy Day on February 24 |
The Vermont Arts Council invites you to join us on Friday, February 24th for Arts Advocacy Day. The day will include networking opportunities, lunch with legislators, issues briefing, workshops and more.
Please save the date, and feel free to RSVP by clicking here. We are still working on the details of the schedule for the day, but we will be updating the website regularly, and sending additional details about the day in future emails.
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| Vermont CDP Orientation Sessions |
Get the most from the Vermont CDP. There are several FREE orientation sessions happening in February. These important orientation sessions will provide you with an overview of the history and goals of the Vermont CDP, as well as an introduction to the types of data collected.
The CDP highly encourages organizations to participate in an orientation session before getting started in the database. In the session, a CDP staff representative will walk you through the process of entering data, applying to participating grantmakers, and using the CDP's powerful reporting features. Please feel free to attend with more than one representative of your organization, including your executive director, your finance manager/bookkeeper and your development director.
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| Featured Grantee: Thatcher Brook Primary School |
 Community. Collaboration. Engagement.
None of these are unusual words in a grant application. They are key components in many art projects. An accidentally well-timed project funded by an Arts Learning Grant brought all of these elements into sharp focus late last year.
For two years, the Council has funded a lantern parade in Waterbury. The first year's grant went to Thatcher Brook Primary School; the second year's to the school district. "We got such good feedback," said art teacher MK Monley. "We wanted to draw in more of the community, and one way to do this was to involve more schools." Read more.
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| Blog: Vermont: The State of the Arts, 2012 |
(From Executive Director, Alex Aldrich...This post first appeared in the Burlington (VT) Free Press, January 1, 2012)
I am frequently asked, what is the current state of the arts? My response?
Vermont.
Vermont is the State of the Arts.
2010 Census figures are not available, but based on 2000 data, Vermont is first in writers, seventh in visual artists, and fifth overall in the per-capita ratio of artists-to-citizens out of all 50 states. I believe, however, that visual artists are extremely under-reported in Vermont, and that once the 2010 data is out we will find ourselves ranked first overall. Read the rest of Alex's blog here.
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"Art is literacy of the heart."
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Welcome to ArtMail for December 13, 2011 |
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Yes, ArtMail is early this week. But that's because we've got some amazing of opportunities to share with you. However, with these opportunities, come deadlines. Many of the deadlines we're talking about fall before the end of this week. So add Vermont Life Magazine, Breaking Into Business and Middlebury College to your list before you finish checking it twice.
And, on behalf of everyone at 136 State Street...Alex, Elaine, Jen, Lindsey, Lori, Marie, Michele, Sonia, Stacy and Susan...we want to wish you and yours a very HAPPY holiday season.
We know this is a crazy time of year for many of you, so without further ado...ARTMAIL! |
| A Great Opportunity from VT Life Magazine |
 Vermont Life Magazine is creating a new advertising section in this Spring 2012 issue and they are offering a really good discount on the cost of a one-twelfth page ad (about the size of a business card) to anyone with an arts-related business with something to sell. These ads will be collected into the new VERMONT LIFE EMPORIUM and only require you to send in a logo (or product image), a 20-word description, your location (home town), phone number and URL. They will do the rest (including setting up a free hotlink to your business on Vermontlife.com!). The ad will reach about 120,000 Vermont Life readers, two-thirds of whom are out-of-state.
The cost per ad is only $350. Deadline: DECEMBER 15, 2011!!! Contact Dave for more information or to reserve your spot today! (and tell him we sent you)
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| Breaking into Business Workshops...Apply Now |
 THURSDAY IS THE DEADLINE TO APPLY! Breaking into Business is a two-day workshop offering business and marketing planning specifically tailored to the needs of artists. The program is open to Vermont artists of all disciplines (visual, performing, media, literary, crafts and traditional) and is facilitated by Maren Brown of Maren Brown Associates arts consulting firm and Dee Boyle Clapp from the Arts Extension Service at UMass Amherst. Once again this year's workshops are generously supported by Ernst & Young. We deeply appreciate their ongoing support for this program. Find out more about dates, locations and how to apply by clicking here. |
| Attention Arts Management Professionals... |
| We believe strongly that the health of the arts sector depends on ongoing professional development. In the coming year, as the Cultural Data Project comes online here in Vermont, we believe the need for relevant training in core management skills will be more vital than ever. Thus, we are pleased to note that Marlboro College's 20-week (every other Friday) "Certificate in Non-Profit Management" training program is now open for the winter session. Pick your location: Montpelier (Vermont College of Fine Arts) or Brattleboro (Marlboro College Graduate School). The course starts January 20th and tuition is a very reasonable $1350. Yes, financial aid is available. Please click here for more information. |
| Blog: Creative Placemaking--Making future treasures |
| I recently read a white paper on Creative Placemaking, written by Ann Markusen of Markusen Economic Research Services and Anne Dadwa of Metris Arts Consulting. "Creative Placemaking serves livability, diversity, and economic development goals. In Creative Placemaking, partners from public, private, non-profit, and community sectors strategically shape the physical and social character of a neighborhood, town, city or region around arts and cultural activities. Creative Placemaking animates public and private spaces, rejuvenates structures and streetscapes, improves local business viability and public safety, and brings diverse people together to celebrate, inspire and be inspired." Read the rest of Michele's blog here. |
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"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
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Welcome to ArtMail for November 30, 2011 |
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 It is with great sadness that the Vermont Arts Council community extends its condolences to the Stone family on the passing of their family member, former Vermont Poet Laureate Ruth Stone, on November 19th. Although obituaries have appeared, documenting her long and sometimes very painful life, from England to Los Angeles, we believe there is no one better to pen an appreciation of her and her poetry than Sydney Lea, who became Vermont's current Poet Laureate, in a ceremony on November 4, 2011.
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| Breaking into Business Workshops are BACK! |
| TWO WEEKS LEFT TO APPLY! Breaking into Business is a two-day workshop offering business and marketing planning specifically tailored to the needs of artists. The program is open to Vermont artists of all disciplines (visual, performing, media, literary, crafts and traditional) and is facilitated by Maren Brown of Maren Brown Associates arts consulting firm and Dee Boyle Clapp from the Arts Extension Service at UMass Amherst. Once again this year's workshops are generously supported by Ernst & Young. We deeply appreciate their ongoing support for this program. Find out more about dates, locations and how to apply by clicking here. |
| Poetry Out Loud Registration Deadline is TOMORROW |
We're doing it again! Poetry Out Loud is a national competition that encourages high school students to memorize and perform great poems.
.jpg) The program builds on the rising interest in poetry as an oral art form, as seen in the slam poetry movement and the popularity of rap music. Students learn about great poetry while mastering public speaking skills and building self-confidence.In order to participate in the statewide program, your school needs to register as a Poetry Out Loud participating school. The deadline for registering is December 1, 2011. Click here to sign your school up. |
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| Featured Grantee: Women Writing for (a) Change |
 For nearly two years, writinginsideVT has been offered to more than 100 women prisoners in Vermont, first at Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton, now at the Chittenden facility where the women relocated this past August. The program provides incarcerated women a weekly opportunity to explore difficult aspects of their lives in safe, confidential circles utilizing structured writing and respectful listening within a framework of community-building. Read more.
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| Staff Blog: Data and Essence and Art - oh, my! |
There's a certain give-up phrase we've all had to use when our story just isn't making it. Maybe we start with the data (there were about thirty people standing on this carpet in the middle of a big room), throw in the essence (and what was funny and a little bit ironic is that he had just said...), then, realizing we're somehow falling short, we dismiss the whole thing by saying "I guess you just had to be there..." Read the rest of Susan's blog here.
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"To touch art is to touch the mind; to touch the mind is to touch a life."
J. David Arnold |
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