Radically Rural seeks submissions of Creative Placemaking projects in rural communities across the US and its territories. All projects will be posted to the virtual board of Radically Rural creative placemaking and all project submitters will receive discount tickets to Radically Rural. 10 selected projects will be invited to share their story as a 7 minute presentation during Session 3 of the Arts Track of the 2021 Radically Rural national summit. Presentations can be made from the summit location in Keene, New Hampshire, or virtually from a presenter’s chosen location. Presenters will be given FREE tickets to Radically Rural. The 2021 Summit is September 22-23, 2021.
Arts and Culture at Radically Rural Remote 2020
Watch videos of the 2020 Radically Rural Arts & Culture Track, featuring stories and experts from across the country who are on the leading edge of rural arts development. Speakers include: Chrissy Deal, Director, Social Responsibility & Inclusion of Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF), Lori Pourier, First Peoples Fund; Ron Ragin, Self-Employed, Artist, Consultant, Researcher, Coach; Erik Takeshita, Senior Fellow of ArtPlace America; Savannah Barrett, Exchange Director of Art of the Rural; Anthony Poore, director of NH Humanities; Barbara Shafer Bacon, Co-Director, Animating Democracy of Americans for the Arts; Rachel Balaban, Co-founder and co-director of Artists and Scientists as Partners; Catherine Stewart, Artistic Director of NH Theatre Project; HB Lozito, Executive Director of Out in the Open; Marianne Barthel, Director of the Arts Program at Dartmouth Hitchcock; Cynthia Cutting, director of Museum of the White Mountains; Amanda Whitworth, Founder Lead With Arts & Articine; Kate Beever, Owner/Music Therapist of Maine Music & Health; Eugene Uman, Director of Vermont Jazz Center; Craig Stockwell, Visiting Artist, Advisor- MFA for Lesley University