VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL AWARDS $33K IN GRANTS

A total of 11 grants will support the creation of new work by local artists in seven Vermont counties.

Montpelier – The Vermont Arts Council is pleased to announce its Creation Grant recipients for Fiscal Year 2013. A total of $33,000 will be awarded to 11 Vermont artists in seven counties, each of whom will receive $3,000 to support new work.

A panel with experience in curating, producing and creating art selected the following grantees from a pool of over 100 applicants:

·         Brooke Ciardelli, White River Junction

·         Jay Craven, Barnet

·         Alisa Dworsky, Montpelier

·         Serenity Forchion, Brattleboro

·         Peter Miller, Waterbury

·         Rachel Moore, Stowe

·         Erik Nielsen, Brookfield

·         April Ossmann, Post Mills

·         Jim Schley, South Strafford

·         Bronwyn Sims, Brattleboro

·         Gabriel Tempesta, Craftsbury

Click here to learn more about the work these grants will support. Click here for a complete list of FY2013 grantees by county.

 

“The Creation Grant is to the Arts Council what art is to Vermont,” said Executive Director Alex Aldrich. "They focus us, they draw us in and challenge us, and they are at the very core of our mission.

"These 11 projects represent both the quality and variety of Vermont's creative sector. Each of these artists was selected by a panel of their peers from an extraordinary group of applicants, and it is with great excitement and heightened anticipation that we look forward to these diverse projects as they come to fruition."

The Creation Grant program is administered by the Vermont Arts Council. These $3,000 grants are awarded annually and are intended to support the creation of new work by Vermont artists.

  

Since 1964, the Vermont Arts Council has been the state’s primary provider of funding, advocacy and information for the arts in Vermont.  It strives to increase public awareness of the positive role artists and arts organizations play in communities and to increase opportunities for Vermonters to experience the arts in everyday life. The Council is the only designated State Arts Agency in the U.S. that is also an independent, not-for-profit, membership organization. For more information on the programs and services of the Vermont Arts Council, visit www.vermontartscouncil.org.