Arts Alive! is offering $50-$250 mini-grants to artists and creative businesses in the Monadnock region. Applications are open from September 1-October 15, 2021. 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.
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 Alive! to Receive Funding and Assistance from National Endowment for the Arts
In its ongoing support of rural communities, the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the Housing Assistance Council, announces the 2021 communities taking part in its national initiative, the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design (CIRD). Keene is one of four communities selected for a multi-day design workshop to address small scale and tangible design and building projects in the downtown “Arts Corridor” concept. This project is being led by Arts Alive! in partnership with many individual artists and organizations.
We are close to making our year long dream of a new community pottery center for our region a reality. In the meantime, the Sharing Arts group has been busy. They now have a temporary kiln location set up in Dublin, ready for regular firings. They've had an intern help develop the studio procedures to pave the way to the studio opening, and they've developed some new classes to get your hands dirty while you wait.
We’re launching a study - take the survey on Arts & Loneliness today! Arts Alive! is partnering with Antioch University New England to examine the Monadnock Region’s participation levels in the arts, the common barriers to participation, and how participation and arts engagement impacts loneliness and connection.
Arts Alive! is excited to be pairing with Antioch University this year. We’re working with Dr. Tomoyo Kawano and Cierra Tunquist to support our Access to the Arts research. Tomoyo is the director of the dance movement therapy program in the applied psychology department, and Cierra is a student, with an undergrad degree in biomedical engineering.
