Four Vermonters named first awardees of Nonprofit Arts Management Training scholarship.
Montpelier, Vermont – The Vermont Arts Council and Marlboro College Graduate School are proud to announce the first four fellows in the Nonprofit Arts Management Training scholarship program. This partnership between the Council and Marlboro College supports nonprofit management education for Vermont artists and art managers by awarding up to four $500 scholarships each trimester. Those scholarships are used to subsidize the cost of Marlboro’sCertificate in Nonprofit Management, which assists Vermont artists and the staff of Vermont arts organizations in building the skills needed to run a successful organization.
“The Vermont Arts Council is delighted to collaborate with Marlboro on this opportunity to support Vermont’s emerging arts leaders,” said Arts Council Executive Director Alex Aldrich. “The Marlboro College Graduate School program is a perfect ‘advanced step’ for Vermonters who have either successfully navigated our Breaking Into Business workshops, or who are professional, committed arts administrators looking to broaden their knowledge and skills in the area of nonprofit management.”
"Marlboro College has a deep commitment to both the nonprofit sector and the creative economy in Vermont, and we're very excited about this opportunity to put more business skills in the hands of arts entrepreneurs and arts managers around the state,” said Marlboro College President Ellen McCulloch-Lovell.
The four fellows of the Fall 2012 Vermont Arts Council Nonprofit Arts Management Training scholarship are:
Anahi Costa: Costa works at the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe as an administrative assistant. She is an art critic in her own right and wants to learn how to "portray a whole picture of the arts in an appealing way" to build a more knowledgeable art audience in Vermont.
Jessica Hill: Hill is the new education coordinator at the Frog Hollow State Craft Center in Burlington. She is a veteran art teacher with ten years of classroom experience, and is now heading up a pilot program at Frog Hollow to bring local art into schools.
Kathryn Moody: Moody is a cartoonist and hopes to start up a small press focused on visual stories for educational purposes. She is a graduate of theCenter for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction and currently serves as the Center's librarian.
Heather Morris: For the past ten years, Morris has run her own Celtic dance school. During that time she has also served as an officer on the St. Andrews Highland Dancers board.
The Fall Certificate classes are now underway. The Council and Marlboro College will be opening applications for the Winter 2013 trimester in mid-October. To learn more about Marlboro’s program, contact Kate Jellema, Program Director: katej@marlboro.edu or (802) 451-7510, or visit their website at www.nonprofit.marlboro.edu. For inquiries about the scholarship, contact Rachel Feldman, Communications Manager:rfeldman@vermontartscouncil.org or (802) 828-5422.
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