From September 21-25 Machina Kitchen & Art Bar will be donating all the profits made on potstickers to fund Arts Alive!’s new mini-grants program - a way to give artists an extra boost to get their project off the ground.
The Machina Kitchen & ArtBar is an organic farm-to-table restaurant, craft cocktail bar, live music venue, and art gallery energizing the creative economy and building community in Keene, NH.
Arts Alive! will use the money raised through this effort for mini grants to artists. The grants will be awarded to projects that further either the artist or creative business - expanding their professional abilities or increasing how many people they can reach with arts experiences.
Arts Alive!’s mission is to support, grow, and connect a sustainable arts landscape in the Monadnock Region. “We want the Monadnock region to have a flourishing cultural community that values arts and culture and provides support to facilitate success.” The organization’s vision is that the greater community will take pride in the arts, which are seen as integral to a thriving society and economy.
“We’re going to be really flexible with how this money can be used,” says Executive Director Jessica Getler. “Supplies for a project, marketing your work, a short term studio rental, getting work framed, booking time in a recording studio or performance space, hiring a babysitter and ordering takeout for several nights so you can focus on a project, gas for your car to get to a series of gigs, attending a workshop - whatever it is that will help you move towards the next level.”
Applications will go live this fall on the arts alive website - monadnockartsalive.org
“This is actually our creative way to do some research,” says Alison Wilder, Arts Alive! Board member. “We’re launching this in order to collect some information about artists, performers, and other creatives whose businesses are emerging and who need a boost. That is one of the key groups we serve with our workshops and fiscal sponsorship programs. We want to better understand where they’re at. This just made sense, instead of paying a consultant to do research or investing in advertising an online survey, we’re going to put money directly into the hands of creatives in our community.”