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VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL MESSAGE FROM THE ARTS Executive director Dear Friends: The Arts Council was founded in It is with great pride that we present this annual report to you as we take some 1964 on a simple and powerful premise: time to reflect on the value of the Vermont Arts Council’s programs and services.

that the arts enrich lives, expand minds In reviewing the past year, it is clear that 2011 was a rebuilding and reorienting year for the Arts Council—a reflection, perhaps, of the physical rebuilding and and form a vital thread in the fabric of reorientation that followed Tropical Storm Irene throughout much of the state. Vermont community life. While many dug out, dried out and began their long slow recovery process, the Council engaged its multiple constituencies in its five-year planning process. This culminated in the release of its 2013-2017 Strategic Plan in June, 2012. In keeping with its community focus, the During this period, two of the Council’s long-serving employees announced their Council is a grassroots organization with departures, which prompted the Council to reevaluate its development, marketing, trustees from every region of the state. communications, advocacy and technology services. They are elected from and by its mem- By the year’s end we had witnessed many things: bership. It is the only not-for-profit state • The swift physical recovery of those (thankfully few) cultural institutions who arts agency in the nation and as such it were devastated by the floods is uniquely qualified to unite both public • The negative combined impact of floods, recession and ticket sales tax that and private resources to serve its mission: distressed the earned and unearned income streams of our cultural institutions throughout the state To advance and preserve the arts at the • A significant increase in the level of collaboration among cultural institutions, center of Vermont communities. combining their resources to create new festivals and cultural offerings for residents and visitors alike The Council accomplishes its mission • An increased desire for the Council to continue to push for greater by pursuing the following goals: organizational stability and program capacity through professional development opportunities and access to new management tools and best practices • Increasing opportunities for everyone • A need for the Council to continue to collaborate with other state partners, in Vermont to experience and/or particularly the Department of Tourism and Marketing, to promote Vermont’s participate in the arts. vibrant creative economy.

• Demonstrating the benefits of investing In the end, the Council returned to its core values, driven by its mission to in Vermont communities through the arts advance and preserve the arts at the center of Vermont communities. We have always supported creativity, the presentation of all art forms and all opportunities to policy-makers and the general public. for people young and old to learn in and through the arts. For the next five years • Expanding and sustaining the capacity we will continue along these tracks, placing an added emphasis on arts education of the Vermont Arts Council to serve its programs and services focused on the pre-K-through-12 audience, as well as working with our constituents to increase our state appropriation. constituencies. So…back to work. We hope you will continue to appreciate and The Council’s funding comes from the support our work at the Council. It is needed now more than ever! State of Vermont, the National Endow- ment for the Arts, members and other Sincerely yours, private contributors.

Alexander L. Aldrich Executive Director V E R M O N T AR T S C O U N C I L 2 0 1 2

inspiring

“Though my term as Chair of the Council ends this year, I continue to be inspired by our stories—of the real impact the arts have on everyday life, of the joy that swells in a young person when she performs beyond her potential, of the stirring passions that re-knit a community following a savage and devastating storm. Please enjoy just a few of the stories that continue to shape our state and our communities.” – David Carris, Chair (2011, 2012)

COVER IMAGE: 2012 Poetry Out Loud Third Place Winner MarKaye Hassan, National Champion Kristen Dupard and Second Place Winner Claude Mumbere, of Vermont, at the National Championships in Washington, D.C. Photograph by James Kegley. Images: Left to Right: Sculptor working on a new piece at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center. Performers at the Dis- www.vermontartscouncil.org cover Jazz Festival. Student competes at Poetry Out Loud State Finals (photograph by Peter Arthur Weyrauch). Bowl by Artist Development Grant recipient Susan Shannon. 1 V E R M O N T AR T S C O U N C I L 2 0 1 2

S u p p o r t i n g Vermont

Vermont is recognized around the nation as a state rich in the arts. In our version of the ecosystem, Vermonters and Vermont communities support the arts and the arts, in turn, support the well-being of so many Vermont communities. The Vermont Arts Council is proud to serve as connector, as convenor: guiding artists and organizations towards funding opportunities, supporting the creation of new work, training the sector to market itself, and championing Vermont’s reputation as the State of the Arts to the rest of the world. In the broadest scope, the Arts Council work falls into two areas: Programs and Services.

P r o g r a m s In 2012, the Breaking into Business (BIB) project continued to attract engaged entrepreneurs. A two-day The Arts Council operates an array of programs workshop for individual artists, Breaking into Busi- (described throughout this Annual Report) that ness offered marketing and planning advice tailored celebrate and support individual, organizational, and to individual needs. Open to Vermont artists of all educational endeavors in the arts around the state. The disciplines, these workshops have helped participants Council is astounded by the remarkable creativity of learn how to turn their craft into cash. 2012 Partners: so many Vermonters, the artistic excellence of well- Ernst and Young, the Vermont Community Foundation, crafted projects, and the vibrant connections being and the Arts Extension Service of UMass Amherst. forged by our community arts organizations. Gs r a n t (see pages 12-16 for a list of FY2012 grantees) Sicese r v Individual Artist support The Arts Council believes that one of its strongest Artist Development Grants Art in State Buildings Grants values is as a service organization. The Arts Council Creation Grants maintains a series of services, all in support of the Arts Education support many individuals and organizations who strive to make Arts Learning Grants and keep Vermont in the forefront as an arts leader and Artist Residency Grants innovator. Teaching Artist Express Grants Cultural Routes Grants Avacd o c y Head Start Partnership Grants The Vermont Arts Council serves as the state’s foremost Organization/Community support arts advocate, working to advance public and private Arts Partnership Grants arts funding and policy. Community Arts Grants FY2012 Partners include: the National Endowment for Cultural Facilities Grants the Arts, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Aws a r d Americans for the Arts, New England Foundation for (see pages 10-11) the Arts, the Vermont State Legislature and Legislative Arts Caucus, as well as an array of nonprofit agencies. Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts Walter Cerf Medal for Outstanding Achievement C o m m u n i cati o n s in the Arts The Council strives to make art a part of everyday life Arthur Williams Award in Vermont through a variety of communications tools, Poet Laureate all of which are regularly updated and foster a lively Itiatives n i discussion about the arts in our state. ArtMail Over the years, the Arts Council is proud to have initiated various projects, some spinning off into full- Social Media including Facebook and Twitter fledged organizations. For instance, did you know that Art Supports Me marketing campaign Vermont Folklife Center was an Initiative Project that www.vermontartscouncil.org established its own organization in 1984? Annual Reports

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In FY2012, the Vermont Arts Council, in partnership with the Vermont Community Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, launched the Vermont Cultural Data Project (Vermont CDP). The CDP helps arts and cultural organizations measure, track and understand their financial and program data; provides researchers and advocates with accurate, comprehensive data to make the case for arts and culture; and helps grantmakers better understand the impact of their funding in their community. In Vermont we’re excited about CDP’s Ebiti x h i o n s potential to articulate the real impact of cultural funding In and around the Council offices, the Council exhibits in the state. and promotes the outstanding work of Vermont’s artists. The Cultural Data Project gives arts organizations the FY2012 Spotlight Gallery artists: technology to ease the challenges they often face Candy Barr with collecting and organizing information for grant Carolyn Enz Hack applications and financial reports. Once users supply the Gowri Savoor wide range of data—topics like revenue, employment, Kathryn Lipke Vigesaa staffing and attendance—the CDP allows them to Janet Wormser organize their information to meet each participating FY2012 Sculpture Garden artists: funder’s requirements. Thea Alvin, Climate Change, 2011 Participating groups have access to free, on-demand Ria Blaas, Untitled, 2010 assistance from a team of accountants specializing in Rob Hitzig, Celebration, 2011 nonprofit finance, who can help them provide accurate data Stephen Procter, Mandala vessel, 2010; Untitled, and understand their financial picture more thoroughly. 2011; Untitled, 2011 The CDP then serves as a repository so that groups can Brian-Jon Swift, A Tree Story, undated track their individual data and trends over time, generate James Irving Westermann, Divided, 2009 various reports and compare how they operate relative to wes E B R o u r c es their peers. For example, a theater organization could both analyze how effective its marketing dollars are in The Arts Directory is a searchable database of Vermont artists, not-for-profit arts organizations, arts-related generating ticket revenues and increasing audiences, businesses and service providers. and compare its annual attendance to groups of similar The Public Art Trail Map charts all of the locations organizations in its community or communities in other in which Public Art has been commissioned and CDP states. installed as part of the Vermont Art in State Buildings The CDP Staff provided extensive outreach this year, Program, established in 1988 to enhance capital conducting 23 new user orientation sessions (in-person building projects through relationship with Vermont and webinars) in communities all across Vermont. A artists. Partner: Department of Buildings and General total of 132 people representing 99 unique cultural Services. The Classifieds section of the Council’s website offers organizations participated in the trainings. By the end of a ‘from-the-field’ generated online listings for jobs, the 2012 calendar year we expect to have a significant calls to artists, art supplies, funding opportunities, number of organizations participating in the CDP. This classes, and conferences. means that arts and cultural organizations in Vermont The Vermont Cultural Data Project (Vermont CDP) will now have access to new technology to help them is a powerful, online management tool designed to strengthen their management capacity and demonstrate strengthen planning and reporting opportunities for their value and impact in communities. arts and cultural organizations. Partners: Vermont Community Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts. www.vermontartscouncil.org Image: A student recites at the Poetry Out Loud State Finals. Photograph by Peter Arthur Weyrauch. 3 V E R M O N T AR T S C O U N C I L 2 0 1 2

S u p p o r t i n g Communities

G rant Programs: Arts Partnership Grants | Community Arts Grants | Cultural Facilities Grants

The arts are the foundation of strong commu- he 19th annual New World Festival in Ran- nities. In times of celebration and devastation dolph was slated to open exactly one week after TIrene hit. alike, people depend on the arts to provide them with an outlet for their emotions and “There was really no time to make the decision,” recalls Rebecca McMeekin, Executive Director a place to be among friends. Never has this at Chandler Center for the Arts. “We knew we been more apparent than in the wake of Tropi- were going to lose money no matter what. So, cal Storm Irene, which shredded Vermont’s do we have fun and lose money, or have people landscape on August 28, 2011. Artists and frustrated and lose money? At the end of the day, it was good for all of us to be together and arts organizations across the state suffered the share stories, and to have a little part of life out- same fate as their neighbors: complete destruc- side the mud and the muck. It really pulled a lot tion for some, costly repairs for others, a shaken of us together.” sense of security for all. While the scars of Irene Her decision to go ahead was validated by an will linger for generations to come, the Coun- outpouring expressed in letters to the editor: cil’s grant programs are helping the arts sector “With the magical music, marionettes, crafts, recover its physical presence in Vermont. As for dancing, and even singing (!), it proved a day the sector’s central role in Vermont communi- of renewal to exhausted attendees. Although I’m certain the Festival’s planners were torn, I’m ties, no storm could destroy that which is so grateful for their decision to carry on.” deeply rooted in our lives. “We came away—way past our bedtime—with The Arts Council operates three grant programs a renewed sense of what the New World Festi- val meant, renewed energy for the challenging that support the community art organizations: weeks/months ahead and genuine gratitude for Arts Partnership grants, Community Arts grants the various accidents of life that have made us a and Cultural Facilities grants. part of this remarkable community.” “During the week I have found comfort listening to our church bells ring, smelling and eating the Rotary’s chicken BBQ, and dancing to Mango Jam. Thank you to the folks at Chandler for not letting go of an important tradition.” “What a rousing sense of solidarity came from that shared experience, calling for hard times to ‘come again no more.’ In the face of adversity, sometimes what is needed is a little break from the struggle to get back to normal.” The Chandler Center for the Arts was supported in part by a Community Arts Grant. 4 V E R M O N T AR T S COUNCIL 20 1 2

he In-Sight Photography Project teaches RACE (Grass Roots Art and Community Effort) Tphotography to youth throughout Southern Gis housed in the Old Firehouse in downtown Vermont, regardless of ability to pay class fees. Hardwick. Each year, the group facilitates self- In-Sight is clear about its goals. The Project’s taught art in more than 500 workshops in the clearly-stated mission “offers students a places people live and work: nursing homes, creative voice and outlet, an opportunity to mental health centers, senior meal sites, adult experience success, tools for self-awareness day centers, even artists’ homes. and self-worth, and encourages them to become “What makes GRACE unique,” says Executive actively engaged in their communities.” Director Carol Putnam, ”is our work with diverse Director Stephen Dybas describes a participant populations, and the fact that we go out to do who flourished as a result of his involvement the workshops. All of our workshops are based with In-Sight. on the same philosophy – be yourself and do it “A student who struggled with written language your own way.” found photography to be his passion. He took All GRACE staff members are artists and all classes with us for years, and we worked hard facilitate workshops. You can see the art of to get him interested in applying for college. GRACE participants at the Firehouse Gallery, He’s at Massachusetts College of Art and or in the community, frequently displayed in Design now with a full scholarship, and I store fronts, church halls, and galleries. wouldn’t be at all surprised to see him become The big payoff is in hearing something like this a well-established professional photographer in from one of the participants: “Since attending the future. GRACE, I have felt that freedom to create and “People don’t always put art together with other further explore my art and visions”. kinds of learning. These concrete skills founded GRACE (Grass Roots Art and Community www. in science, chemistry and math will go with the Effort) was supported in part by a Community vermont kids wherever they go.” Arts Grant. arts council The In-Sight Photography Project was supported .org in part by an Arts Partnership Grant.

Images: Left: Alexander Gemignani, Price Waldman and Carl Kimbrough appear in Weston Playhouse Theatre Company’s production “Saint-Ex.” Photograph by James H. Schriebl. Top: Two self-taught artists participate in one of GRACE’s many workshops in Hardwick. 5 V E R M O N T AR T S C O U N C I L 2 0 1 2

S u p p o r t i n g Artists

G rant Programs: Creation Grants | Artist Development Grants | Art in State Buildings Grants

Artists of all kinds understand the mystery of the ho wouldn’t love to be in a book group with Julia creative process, and most probably agree to its WZanes? She is forthright, intelligent, and thorough. vital necessity. Recent research reports that the She is quick to laugh and reads the books. Another creative process, a uniquely human impulse, fun thing: Sometimes, a story will get under seems to be at the root of scientific inquiry, as her skin and prompt her to develop an amazing well as artistic endeavor. The Vermont Arts Council multimedia marionette show. This was the case believes that investment in the creative process of with the creation of “The Green Gold Tree.” the state’s artists is an investment in the well-being The show is derived from Goethe’s Faust, which of the entire state. The Arts Council operates three Zanes read after learning of its importance to Carl grant programs that support the individual artist. Jung (her book group reads Jung). Zanes says “The Green Gold Tree” is designed to make people think. “The story is about the soul. It totally blurs the line between fiction and inner reality, and is loaded with subtext. For example there is included a depiction of global warming and the fragility of the planet. Waters rise, the land is built up, and witch creatures sing about the smashing of the Earth.” She also said that it’s just the tip of the iceberg. “Reading the entire text of Faust out loud would take twenty-two hours. We think we’ve got our show down to about two.” The show opened on June 23, 2012, at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Brattleboro. The Green Gold Tree was supported through a Creation Grant.

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usan Shannon’s business is growing. She’s Sbuilding a business plan that helps her know when to hire in-studio help and how to find more space for shipping product. This is the same Susan Shannon who, last year, said she was “yearning to expand her thinking but hadn’t a clue how to do it;” the same person who “sat quietly with intimidation for two years;” the same Susan Shannon who “would wonder how people were doing this.” Of this stuck point, Shannon said: “I just couldn’t get the business end of it. I didn’t know what to do. Now, I’m seeing how I can be successful, how I can earn a living from my artwork.”

Shannon creates this work under the name Su Chi he Council is committed to making art a central Pottery. After moving to Vermont in 2009, she Tpart of everyday life in Vermont. Through the began selling at the Middlebury Farmers’ Market Art in State Buildings Program, jury-selected and became a member of the Brandon Artists’ artists receive commissions to create site-specific Guild. She built a website. “I know I’m a good permanent works of art for the selected buildings. potter. I was just overwhelmed in thinking about Funded by the Art in State Buildings Act, the how to get organized and how to sell.” program allows up to two capital construction When Shannon decided to take the Council’s projects be selected each year. In 2012, artists Breaking into Business workshop, she said, “I Dan Gottsegen of Hartland and Terrence Boyle knew I wanted to do it. I just didn’t know what of Hinesburg earned a collaborative contract to kind of leap it would be.” She does not recall one create a permanent installation of artwork for the certain moment when her approach changed, but Vermont Forensics Lab and Department of Public remembered “coming back into the studio and Safety in Waterbury. Although Tropical Storm Irene sitting down after wholeheartedly committing to delayed fabrication and installation, the project making the changes. Things were different.” will be completed in late 2012. Shannon developed a laundry list of projects and The Art in State Buildings Program operates as a information that are increasing her income. “I am partnership between the Vermont Arts Council and not intimidated by the list. I know what I want the Vermont Department of Buildings and General to say. I’ve learned how to navigate application Services. demands, how to re-size images, create a postcard, how to write a press release. I’ve learned how NOT to write a press release!”

Shannon is rebuilding her website, which will Images: Far Left: Marionettes for “The Green Gold Tree” by Creation Grant recipi- allow users to browse new works and shop online. ent Julia Zanes. Left: A jar by Artist Development Grant recipient Susan Shannon. Top: Bricks created by the community for the Waterbury Art in State Buildings With both plans and passion to energize her, she installation. continues to move forward. She summed it up best, saying: “This is what life is about. I didn’t even know I had such a high gear.” Shannon’s website redesign was supported through www.vermontartscouncil.org an Artist Development Grant.

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S u p p o r t i n g Arts Education

G rant Programs: Arts Learning Grants | Artist Residency Grants | Cultural Routes Grants Head Start Partnership Grants | Teaching Artist Express Grants

The Vermont Arts Council believes that access rts education is a year-round experience. In to the arts is fundamental to the creative ASummer, 2011, the Vermont Arts Exchange development of all children, which is why the engaged children in visual, poetry, and Council is committed to supporting and expanding environmental art making workshops. In the North arts education programs across the state. Research Bennington and Rutland areas, kids created word has shown that arts experiences not only enhance plaques that were placed in trees along a nature academic achievement and personal development path. Students connected with the theme “What in youth from all socio-economic backgrounds, but I Hear, See and Smell in the Woods” by singing, they also prepare students to participate fully in reading, and moving. Student reflections of the the workforce of the future. The Council provides projects included phrases like “I smell a frog”, support for educational activities at many levels. “drip drop”, “My Nana said it would storm”, and From our small Cultural Routes Grants to long- “Chi, chi, chi, chi, chi”. term partnerships with the Governor’s Institutes on Vermont Arts Exchange was supported through a the Arts, we support educational experiences for Head Start Partnership Grant. students of all ages. The Arts Council operates five grant programs that support arts education.

8 omen Writing for (a) Change provides incarcerated Wwomen with a weekly opportunity to explore difficult aspects of their lives through the WritingInsideVT program. In safe, confidential circles utilizing structured writing and respectful listening with a framework of community-building, this writing program connects with more than 100 women prisoners in Vermont—initially at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton and now at their facility in Chittenden. The program receives praise for facilitating personal growth, empowerment and self-responsibility. Some of the themes that the women delve into include: personal addictions, poverty, abuse, dysfunctional families, childhood memories, and relationships. The goal of the writing program is to help incarcerated women ask the big life-questions, often for the very first time, as well as to envision positive new directions. “The overwhelming majority of Vermont’s incarcerated women hail from multi-generational poverty and struggle with serious addictions,” he Vermont Arts Council enjoys a long-term, say Sarah Bartlett and , co- Tfriendly partnership with the Governor’s Institutes facilitators of WritingInside. “Once inside, there is on the Arts (GIA). In 2012, 128 young Vermonters little opportunity for self-expression. Materials are interacted with world-class local and traveling limited, expressive opportunities rare, and support artists as well as with peers who share similar and encouragement are not part of the culture. passions for music, drama, visual arts, dance and Research shows that writing and art—indeed, all more. The result? Inspired, empowered young expressive creative activity—stimulate positive self- artists who know what it means to embrace esteem and mental well-being. With more than half artistic dreams and to share unique talents and the population suffering from mental illness, this is enthusiasms. From year to year, the feedback critical work.” remains the same: for most, this is truly a life- In addition to funding facilitation of the program, the changing experience. Council grant supports the creation and development The Governor’s Institutes on the Arts is supported, of an online blog, www.writinginsideVT.com, to share in part, through partnership with the Department the women’s writings with the wider world. of Education. The value of WritingInsideVT is best expressed by the women prisoners themselves: • “Today I pulled something good out of my life. It was hard looking at all the mistakes and not having power over them.” Images: Left: Students at Newport Town Elementary School get a lesson in • “I am so grateful for this group, for the gentle clowning around from Teaching Artist Residency Grant recipient Circus Smirkus. encouragement to release from inside all the hurt Top: A 2012 Governor’s Institutes on the Arts participant marches in a local parade. that’s trying to hide.” • “I’m so glad I came and you came to give us an opportunity that others here don’t.” • “I liked being able to find a bit of light in the darkness.” www.vermontartscouncil.org Women Writing for (a) Change was supported

through an Arts Learning Grant. 9 Vermont Poet

Laureate:Sydney Lea

“A man in the woods with his head full of books, and a man in books with his head full of woods.”

That’s how one person describes Poet Laure- ate Sydney Lea, whose four-year appointment by Governor Peter Shumlin began in Novem- ber, 2011. Lea, who lives in Newbury, is a prolific author of both poetry and prose. His credits include over nine collections of poetry, a novel and two books of essays that combine the precision of an active naturalist and ecol- ogist with the scholarly depth of a multilin- gual professor of literature. Lea has taught at Dartmouth, Yale, Wesleyan, the University of Vermont and Middlebury College. The panel recommending Lea to the Governor said Lea’s work is virtuosic and engaging to a wide range of audiences, as well as evocative of the distinctive New England landscape. www.sydneylea.net

Appointed by the Governor, the Vermont Poet Laureate serves a four-year term as Vermont’s ambassador for the art of poetry and is called upon to participate in official ceremonies and readings within Vermont and nationally. The Poet Laureate is a resident of Vermont whose poetry manifests a high degree of excellence, who has produced a critically acclaimed body of work, and who has a long association with Vermont.

Images: Left: Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea. Photograph by Peter Arthur Weyrauch. Top: Governor Peter Shumlin and Outstanding Achievement 10 Awardee Christian Wolff. Top Right: Second place winner Claude Mumbere from Burlington High School. There are innumerable things about Vermont’s arts community that we as a state can take pride in. Here at the Vermont Arts Council, we cherish the times we can pause and recognize some of the individuals who work poetry out Poet tirelessly to keep Vermont’s arts scene thriving. During our Awards Gala in Montpelier on November 4, 2011, Governor Peter Shumlin presented Vermont’s loudlloudoud Laureate: highest award, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, to Julia Alvarez, a writer from Middlebury. That Claude Mumbere of Burlington High School took top same night, Christian Wolff, a composer from Royalton, honors over students from 34 other high schools in Vermont’s Poetry Out Loud state finals this year. This won the first of three Outstanding Achievement Awards was Mumbere’s second state win after coming in first given that year. in 2011, but this year his trip to the national finals in We presented the second and third Outstanding Washington, DC was quite different. Achievement Awards to Arnie Malina, of Burlington, Mumbere arrived in Washington facing a field of in recognition of his work as the Flynn Center for the 52 other state and territorial winners. This group Performing Arts’ Artistic Director and to Altoon Sultan, of 53 represented the best of the roughly 365,000 of Groton, in recognition of her work as a painter, during students who participated in Poetry Out Loud around our Annual Meeting in Montpelier on June 5, 2012. the country this year. Our Outstanding Achievement Award is a handcrafted Mumbere’s semifinal performances of “Chicago” by medallion made by Danforth Pewter. Carl Sandburg, “Strange Meeting” by Wilfred Owen October 7, 2011, was a landmark day, Steve Ames, and “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron advanced from River Arts in Morrisville, received our first-ever him from the field of 53 to the final nine. Emotional recitations of “Chicago” and “Strange Meeting” Arthur Williams Award. The award is named in honor of moved Mumbere to the top three, where his powerful Arthur Williams, the Arts Council’s founding Executive rendition of “She Walks in Beauty” earned him the Director. Ames received the award for his meritorious second-place title. In total, he won: $200 from the and community services in Morrisville. The award was state competition, an all-expenses paid trip to the presented during the Sculpture Garden opening. national finals, a $500 stipend for Burlington High The new tradition continued on May 5, 2012, in School to purchase poetry books, $10,000 from the Montpelier, when the Vermont Crafts Council received the national competition and, of course, a medal. second Arthur Williams Award for their 25th Anniversary Immediately after his second-place finish, Mumbere of Vermont Open Studio Weekend. The award was said: “I have never been so happy in my whole life.” presented during their anniversary celebration. www.poetryoutloud.org

Created by the National Foundation for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud is a national compe- tition that encourages high school students to memorize and perform poems. Teachers organize contests involving one class or a whole school with the winners advancing to the state finals, and ultimately to the National Finals in Washington, D.C. Since the program began in 2005, more than 50 Vermont high schools have taken part. Poetry Out Loud is presented in Vermont by the Arts Council in part- nership with the Vermont Department of Education and the Vermont Humanities Council.

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2012

In FY2012, the Vermont Arts Council GrantsGrants awarded 163 grants totaling $563,006 to individual artists, arts organizations, schools and community groups. Grants help support the creation of new work, the presentation of cultural activities, improvements to community facilities and opportunities for creative learning for students of all ages. Because the application process for all grant programs is rigorous and funds are awarded through a competitive peer review, receiving a grant not only provides financial support but also valuable community recognition and credibility. The Arts Council encourages you to seek out grant recipients in your community and to support their efforts.

ARTIST DEVELOPMENT Bronwyn Sims Brattleboro Jesse Cronin Karyn Neubauer Elizabeth Barndt $500 to support partial tuition for two Fairfax Newbury Jericho people to attend a Movement Theater $500 to support attendance at a pottery $500 to hire a professional web $300 to support the creation of workshop. workshop at the Haystack School of designer. professional photographs and scans Crafts. from about 50 original collaged pieces. S B Sowbel Nancy Neyerlin-Pisano Montpelier Eric Despard Rutland Margaret Bonham $400 to support the creation of a Pownal $500 to support the development of Bolton website. $500 to support changes to a website. a website. $500 to support participation in the polymer clay conference taking place in Marian H. Willmott Gwendolyn Evans Nancy Pardine Laurel, Maryland February 19 - 22. Hinesburg Essex Junction Bennington $350 to support attendance at Tim $500 to support the purchase of digital $500 to support the creation of a new Hannah Dennison Hawkesworth’s workshop entitled The photographs and website updates. website and business cards. Chelsea Mark and Beyond, Painting: A Doorway $350 to create a website. to Possibility. Sheryl Fletcher Eve Passeltiner Putney Lyndonville Martin Gil $493 to support the design and $500 to support the production of Burlington ARTIST DEVELOPMENT printing of marketing materials. professional photographs for marketing $450 to support a writer’s residency at GRANTS FOR BREAKING purposes. the Vermont Studio Center. INTO BUSINESS Ingrid Gitnick ATTENDEES Moretown Stephen Procter Jennifer Koch $500 to support the development of Brattleboro Burlington Althea Bilodeau a new logo and website. $500 to support rebuilding and $500 to attend a printmaking workshop North Chittenden improving the functionality of a to learn a new process (Image-On). $500 to support the development of a Jessica Halterman website. website. Waterbury Antoinette Lane $500 to purchase Quickbooks Pro Gowri Savoor Brattleboro Casey Blanchard and hire an accountant to set up Montpelier $498 to support attendance at the Shelburne bookkeeping. $375 to support the design, production, Spymonkey Clown master class with $500 to support a software upgrade to printing, and distribution of marketing Aitor Basauri. improve inventory, client, marketing, Robert Hooker materials. and finance management systems. Pittsford Erik Nielsen $500 to support professional Susan Shannon Brookfield Jason Boyd consultation on upgrading a website. Pittsford $400 to support professional recording Burlington $500 to support consultation with a and reproduction of two concerts of $500 to support the design and printing Lisa Kippen professional web developer and to choral and vocal compositions. of rack cards and hanging tags. Tunbridge develop a website. $500 to hire a photographer to create Lorraine Reynolds Linda Bryan high resolution images for use on a Andrea Stoehr Williston Newbury website and in promotional materials. Danby $500 to overhaul marketing strategies, $500 to support updates to a website $500 to support the design of brochures create new branding, and improve web including the addition of integrated Melissa Kristiansen and a website. presence with a new site. marketing tools. Poultney $400 to support the printing of rack Swan & Stone Millinery, LLC Larry Richardson Margaret Cook cards and note cards and to support Brandon Vernon Northfield website improvements. $500 to support the implementation $400 to upgrade a website. $500 to support the cost of legal fees of a legal partnership agreement and for setting up an LLC. to set up accounting systems using Quickbooks. 12 V E R M O N T AR T S C O U N C I L 2 0 1 2

Gabriel Tempesta Integrated Arts Academy at Catamount Film and Arts Center Vermont Arts Exchange Craftsbury H.O.Wheeler St. Johnsbury North Bennington $500 to support hiring an accountant Burlington $7,000 to support cultural $7,000 to support the organization to provide instruction on bookkeeping $5,000 to support a ten-day residency programming and services to the local in its efforts to sustain, develop and and accounting. with Jeh Kulu Drumming and Dancing arts community. strengthen community development Theater. and arts partnerships in Bennington Ruth wplk Flynn Center for the Performing Arts County. Putney Main Street Arts Burlington $500 to support a change from a Saxtons River $7,000 to support the Flynn in VSA Vermont, Inc. sole proprietor business model to LLC $1,800 to support the after-school providing performance space and Winooski and partially fund the purchase of Creative Arts Program. performing arts programming for the $7,000 to provide events in preschools, “NeatDesk” digital filing system. community, educational programming shelters, community centers and Town Hall Theater, Inc. to schools, performing artist schools with the goal of increasing Middlebury workshops, and visual arts exhibitions. accessibility of the arts. ART in state buildings $5,000 to support the development of a replicable arts integration model with a The In-Sight Photography Project Terrence Boyle local high school. Brattleboro TEACHING ARTIST Huntington $7,000 to support The Insight RESIDENCY $10,000 To fabricate, coordinate and Troy School Photography Project’s programs and install a garden seating area on the North Troy partnerships, providing photography Albany Community School exterior of the Forensics Lab and Dept. $2,650 to support a two-week education in schools and in the Albany of Public Safety in Waterbury. residency for K-8 students with YES! community. $1,500 to support a five-day residency Theater. with Karen Amirault ending with an Daniel Gottsegen Lost Nation Theater, Inc. evening event entitled Moovin’ and Woodstock Waterbury Duxbury School District Montpelier Groovin’. $5,000 To create a final design for the Waterbury $6,300 to support programs and Forensic Lab & Department of Public $3,500 to support the River of Lantern services that include theatrical Catamount Film and Arts Center Safety Facility in Waterbury. Parade project in Waterbury. productions for adults and children, Bristol technical assistance and equipment $5,000 To start creating 2 paintings in $1,200 to support a two-week residency Willowell Foundation loans, and educational programming. with Karen Amirault. the lobby, a series of sculptural glass Vergennes banners, and create commemorative $5,000 to support the creation of art New England Youth Theatre Cambridge Elementary School bricks for the Forensics Lab and Dept. and theater with students and teachers Brattleboro of Public Safety in Waterbury. Jeffersonville for Monkton’s 250th birthday. $7,000 to support theater programs $1,500 to support a residency with No and educational services to youth of all Strings Marionette for grades 4-6. Women Writing for (a) Change - ages and abilities. ARTs Learning Vermont, LLC Danville School Burlington Paramount Center, Inc. Danville Arlington Area Childcare $5,000 to support the Writing Inside Rutland $1,100 to support a six-day residency Arlington program for women incarcerated in $7,000 to support the Creative with Peter Gould and Kailie Larkin $5,000 to support an arts enrichment Vermont prison and to publish the work. Partnerships Series, Vermont Artist ending in a school-wide production program for children, parents, Series and economic/municipal during the school’s Arts Festival. teachers, and community members. outreach initiatives. ARTs Partnership Elm Hill School The Barre Opera House, Inc. Pentangle Arts Council Springfield Barre Brattleboro Museum and Art Center Woodstock $1,500 to support a residency with $5,000 to support the development of a Brattleboro $6,300 to support Pentangle’s Veranda Porche. play writing intensive for underserved $7,000 to support a series of public programs in the Town Hall Theater populations of Barre and surrounding exhibitions, lectures with film and programs in partnership with Folsom Educational and Community areas. screenings, concerts with artist talks, community organizations and schools Center family events and school-museum in the Woodstock area. South Hero Essex Middle School partnerships. $1,000 to support 5 days teaching and Essex Junction River Arts of Morrisville, Inc. guidance from Lida Winfield of the $1,950 to support implementation of Burlington City Arts Morrisville Flynn Center. the Flynn Center’s “Words Come Alive!” Burlington $6,300 to provide community arts program. $7,000 to support Burlington City Arts programming. Georgia Elementary & Middle School in providing art classes, exhibitions, St. Albans Friends of the Brattleboro Music Center artist residencies, and partnerships Rockingham Arts and Museum Project $1,300 to support a five-day residency Brattleboro with schools and service organizations. (RAMP) with PUPPETKABOB ending with a $5,000 to support the Music in the Bellows Falls performance. Schools program. Carving Studio and Sculpture Center $7,000 to support artists’ activities West Rutland and to support activities that create Glover Community School $7,000 to support the Carving Studio’s healthy communities. Glover programs and services including $2,000 to support K-8 students in a residencies, international exchanges, two-week residency with YES! Theater. educational workshops, exhibitions, lectures and special events. www.vermontartscouncil.org

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J.J. Flynn Elementary School Building a Better Brattleboro Guilford Performance Lab, Inc. Vermont Shakespeare Company Burlington Brattleboro Guilford North Hero $750 to support a residency with Jeh $2,500 to support expenses for travel and $4,650 to support a residency with $5,000 to support the fifth season of Kulu for K-2 students. lodging, venue rentals, and marketing of choreographer Victoria Marks for Shakespeare in the Park. the Brattleboro Literary Festival. underserved girls in Bellows Falls. Newport Town Elementary School Vermont Symphony Orchestra Inc. Newport Center The Burlington Book Festival Kingdom County Productions Burlington $1,500 to support a residency with Williston Barnet $5,000 to support a commissioned Circus Smirkus for grades K-6. $5,000 to support the seventh annual $5,000 to support the presentation of work and statewide tour. Festival. fifteen performing arts events in St. Northfield Middle and High School Johnsbury and Lyndonville. Vermont Youth Orchestra Association Northfield Burlington Choral Society Colchester $1,500 to support a one-week Burlington Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival $5,000 to support a school tour residency and performance with $5,000 to support two concerts of the Winooski program. Wunderle’s Big Top Circus for students Burlington Choral Society’s 35th- $5,000 to support artist fees for the 2012 grades 4-8. anniversary season. Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival. Weston Playhouse Theatre Company Weston Orange Windsor Supervisory Union Chandler Center for the Arts, Inc. Lakes Region Youth Orchestra, Inc. $5,000 to support the production and South Royalton Randolph Rutland outreach of SAINT-EX. $1,000 to support an after-school $5,000 to support artist fees for the $4,650 to support a joint youth orchestra residency with Puppetree. New World Festival celebrating Celtic festival exchange concert in Weston. and French Canadian music. CULTURAL FACILITIES Ripton Elementary School Middlebury Studio School Ripton Eleva Chamber Players, Inc. Middlebury Brookfield Community Partnership $1,300 to support a residency with Waterbury $2,715 to support pottery classes for Brookfield Burlington Taiko for students grades $2,000 to support planning and students who are under emotional or $6,000 to support the building and pre K-6. presentation of two concert series and economic stress. installation of a fire escape from the coaching music students in Montpelier auditorium. Rochester School public schools. Sandglass Center for Puppetry Rochester Putney Carving Studio and Sculpture Center $1,000 to support a one-week Fairfax Community Library $5,000 to support the Puppets in the West Rutland residency with Circus Smirkus. Fairfax Green Mountains Festival. $29,000 to support the installation of $1,545 to support a series of live two ADA-compliant bathrooms and a Sara Holbrook Community Center musical performances. South End Arts & Business Association new furnace system. Burlington Burlington $1,000 to support student and teacher First Night Burlington $5,000 to support free exhibition at the Fletcher Free Library workshops with the Flynn’s “Words Burlington Art Hop. Burlington Come Alive!” program. $5,000 to support a one-day $16,729 to support audio/visual and substance-free performing arts festival Vermont Center for Photography technical improvements to three public Smilie Memorial School for the community and state. Brattleboro spaces. Bolton $5,000 to support monthly exhibitions in $1,500 to support a five-day residency Flynn Center/Discover Jazz Festival 2011 and 2012. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts with Jon Gailmor ending with a Burlington Burlington performance. $5,000 to support the discovery of jazz Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble $30,000 to support the purchase through quality live performances and Fairfax and installation of new seating and St. Johnsbury Academy educational programs. $4,650 to support three concerts of improvement to wheelchair seating St. Johnsbury Nielsen’s The Crane Maiden and two areas. $500 to support a residency with Focus on Film concerts of poetry and music. Verandah Porche. Montpelier Friends of the Opera House $5,000 to support the 15th Green The Vermont Jazz Center Enosburg Falls Underhill Central School Mountain Film Festival in Montpelier. Brattleboro $18,601 to support the purchase Underhill Center $5,000 to support the Center’s concerts and installation of drapes and sound $1,500 to support a one week Grass Roots Art and Community Effort and educational programming. equipment. residency with the Junkman (Donald Hardwick Knaack). $5,000 to support community art Vermont MIDI Project, Inc. Rutland Area Art Association workshops and exhibitions for elders Essex Junction Rutland and other underserved Vermont $4,000 to support online mentoring $30,000 to support the rewiring of Community Arts residents. by professional composers for student the building and upgrade of electrical compositions. services to ensure code compliance. The Big Heavy World Foundation, Inc. Green Mountain Cultural Center Burlington Waitsfield Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra Shires Media Partnership, Inc. $4,650 to support the presentation of $4,650 to support the Green Mountain Montpelier Bennington a wide variety of Vermont-made music Opera Festival, a three-week residency $5,000 to support a broad, cultural $9,000 to support the purchase of and its history. program, and the production of La music program serving underserved new station automation software, Boheme. constituencies in the Central Vermont hardware, and wiring. region. www.vermontartscouncil.org

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Town of Ferrisburgh Gowri Savoor Ferrisburgh Montpelier $5,500 to support the purchase of $3,000 to support the creation of a operable curtains with valances for the series of environmental sculptures four large windows in the Community using natural, found materials. Center space. Lida Winfield Vermont Folklife Center Burlington Middlebury $3,000 to support the development of $7,500 to support the construction of a new dance piece exploring memory, false wall, wiring, and the purchase and identity and lineage. installation of a projector for the new Vision and Voice Gallery. Julia Zanes Saxtons River $3,000 to support the creation of Creation Grants puppets for the “The Green Gold Tree.”

Leslie Fry Bhakti Ziek Winooski Randolph $3,000 to support the creation of a $3,000 to support the creation of series of mixed media sculptures and a new weaving for an invitational drawings entitled “Ruins Regenerated.” exhibition at The Durango Arts Center.

Wylie Sofia Garcia Burlington CULTURAL ROUTES $3,000 to support the creation of a new body of work for the exhibition “Self/ Alburgh Community Education Center Fabricated.” Alburgh $200 to support attendance at the Karen Hansen Golden Dragon Acrobats at the Flynn Hartland for grades K-3 and 6. $3,000 to support the creation of original music for “Vanitas,” an original theater Bakersfield School production. Bakersfield $200 to support travel costs for K-2 Honeybee Press students attend the Vermont Symphony Burlington Orchesta’s performance of “A Carnival $3,000 to support the creation of hand- of Animals” at the Flynn. made books of poetry and prose by Vermont writers. Bellows Free Academy UHS District #48 Saint Albans Cynthia Huntington $200 to support transportation to the Post Mills Flynn Center for “Cuentos,” presented $3,000 to support the completion of a by storyteller David Gonzales. collection of poems titled “White Spaces: A Hallucinatory Memoir.” Bishop John A. Marshall School Morrisville Seth Jarvis $200 to support attendance for Burlington grades5-8 at “Four Score and Seven $3,000 to support the development of a Years Ago” at the Flynn. new theatrical work entitled “Icon.” Champlain Islands Parent Child Center Joan Morris S. Hero Hartford South Hero $3,000 to support the creation of six $200 to support travel for preschoolers new textile art works on the theme of to see “Sylvester and the Magic luminality. Pebble” at the Flynn Center.

Steve Paxton Compass School East Charleston Westminster $3,000 to support the creation of a new $200 to support travel to New York dance work for a small space with video. City, where 9th and 10th graders will visit a museum of their choosing. www.vermontartscouncil.org

We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this report. We Images: Top: A 2012 Governor’s Institutes on the Arts participant marches in a local parade. encourage you to bring any errors to our attention. Center: A performer at the “New World Festival” wows the crowd. Bottom: Work by artist Kathryn Lipke, displayed in the Spotlight Gallery. 15 V E R M O N T AR T S C O U N C I L 2 0 1 2

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East Montpelier Elementary School Wolcott Elementary School Special TEACHING ARTIST East Montpelier Wolcott EXPRESS $200 to support attendance for grades $200 to support travel costs for all Governor’s Institutes of Vermont 1 and 2 at a performance by AXIS sixth graders to attend the Vermont South Burlington Academy School Dance Company at the Flynn. International Festival. $7,000 to support the immersion Brattleboro of Vermont high school students in $500 to support two days of map- Hunt Middle School a two-week program exploring the making with teaching artist Mollie Burlington Head Start creative experience in all areas of the Burke. $200 to support the attendance of 85 arts, including dance, music, poetry, seventh and eighth grade students at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center painting and theatre. Barre Town Elementary and Middle the Flynn’s production of Jason and the Brattleboro School Argonauts. $3,000 to support the continuation of Governor’s Institutes of Vermont Barre a partnership with BMAC and Early South Burlington $500 to support an artist visit with Jon Hyde Park Elementary School Education Services. $2,500 for a privately funded Gailmor in celebration of the school’s Hyde Park scholarship program for four students. garden. $200 to support attendance at “Duck Burlington City Arts for President” at the Flynn for grades Burlington New England Foundation for the Arts CP Smith K-3. $3000 to support an artist-in-residence Boston Burlington program at two local pre-schools in $12,500 to support NEFA programs for $500 to support a residency and NFI VT/Caledonia School Burlington. Vermont artists and arts organizations. performance of The Marvelous Land of St. Johnsbury Oz with grades 4-6 and the Very Merry $200 to support a trip for 25 students Lost Nation Theater, Inc. Orchestra Engagement Lab Theater. to the Vermont International Festival. Montpelier Montpelier $3,000 to support a partnership $3,000 to support the pilot year of the Hilltop Montessori School Robinson School between Lost Nation Theater and Orchestra Engagement Lab summer Brattleboro Starksboro Central Vermont Community Action institute at Champlain College, $500 to support two days arts $200 to support travel costs for grades Center providing workshops, integrating schools programs outreach instruction with . 3-6 to attend “The Marriage of Art and performances, and trainings in and teaching artist professional Science” at the Flynn. Washington and Orange Counties. development. Milton High School Milton Sheldon Elementary School River Arts of Morrisville, Inc. Vermont Crafts Council $500 to support two days of instruction Sheldon Morrisville Montpelier in monoprinting for the Art II students $200 to support travel costs for $2,000 to support 2011-2012 Head $3,000 to support the 2012 Open Studio by teaching artist Lyna Lou Nordstrom. grades 4 and 5 to attend the Vermont Start Arts activities for youth and Weekend. International Festival. providers in Lamoille County. Milton Town Middle School Vermont Folklife Center Milton Swanton Central School Vermont Arts Exchange Middlebury $500 to support two days of arts Swanton North Bennington $2,000 To support the development instruction with Peter Gould. $200 to support travel for two 5th grade $3,000 to support partnerships in of “next steps” in the collaborative classes to attend David Gonzalez’s both Bennington and Rutland counties outreach project to diverse populations. storytelling performance at the Flynn with Head Start agencies to provide Center. services to young children and early childhood educators in using the arts for expressive learning.

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The VermontPanelists Arts Council extends its sincere appreciation to the many individuals who contributed their time, expertise and judgment as volunteer grant review panelists.

ART IN STATE BUILDINGS PANELS CULTURAL FACILITIES Forensics Lab & Department of GRANT PANELISTS Public Safety Andrew Crane Whitney Aldrich Don Hirsch Dr. Eric Buell Richard Kershner Jeanne Kirby Tracy Martin Mamet McKee John Ostrum Peg Schwartz CULTURAL FACILITIES Tyler Scott COALITION Linda Willey Alex Aldrich Jacqueline Calder AtnS Br i tATE uildings Judith Ehrlich Legislative Advisory Committee Alex Aldrich, Executive Director, ARTS PARTNERSHIP GRANTS Vermont Arts Council John Cusano Rep. , Chair, House Peter Espenshade Institutions Committee Mary-Margaret Schoenfeld Sen. Robert Hartwell, Chair, Senate Institutions Committee POETRY OUT LOUD Michael Obuchowski, Commissioner, Judges: Dept. of Buildings & General Services Cristina Alicea David Schütz, State Curator Alex Cherington Ed Wolfstein, Chair, VT State Board Morgan Irons (accuracy) of Architects Jason Lorber Peter Money Jim Schley ARTS LEARNING PANELISTS Julia Shipley Stephanie Jerome (chair) Christina Weakland Kate Anderson Teaching Artists: Kelly Becker Geof Hewitt Janet Van Fleet Morgan Irons Hannah Weisman Verandah Porche Baron Wormser COMMUNITY ARTS PANELISTS Special Guests: Piero Bonamico Sydney Lea, Vermont State Poet Bruce Bouchard Armando Villaseca, State Commissioner of Education Laura Kopelwitz Margaret Lawrence Teaching Artist Roster: Jim McKimm MONTPELIER: David Rowell Judy Dow Dawn Ellis Paul Gambill CREATION GRANT PANELISTS Lynda McIntyre Dana Burchfield BRATTLEBORO: Deb Ellis Peter Amidon Roy Feldman Stephen Dybas Miciah Gault Matthew Perry Jessica Kaminsk SHELBURNE: John Killacky Judy Klima Beth Miller Lindsay Pontius Chris Thompson Pete Sutherland

Images: Left: Students rehearse the final number of their performance at the Barre Opera House. Right: A piece by Artist Development Grant recipient Carolyn Enz Hack. 17 V E R M O N T AR T S C O U N C I L 2 0 1 2

Creators Elissa Campbell Theodore and Patricia Mandeville John and Janice Avery Contributors($5,000 and above) Maura Campbell Sandra Mangsen Bonnie Baird Nicole Carignan and David Raphael Liz Markowski Barbara Barnes Anonymous John and Connie Carpenter Christopher and Patricia McVeigh Barre Opera House New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Kathleen Carriere Sandy and Muffie Milens James A. Hester and Sarah Bartlett Adelard and Valeda Roy Foundation William and Priscilla Chester Kathryn Milillo Eric and Ines Bass Barbara Chick John Miller Luis and Geraldine Batlle Convenors Chroma Technology Ralph Fine and Valerie Miller Mary Beck ($1,000-4,999) Peter and Nicolette Clarke James and Kristin Nealon Bella Voce - Women’s Chorus of Vermont Susan Baker Oliver Goodenough and Alison H. Marv and Sue Neuman Iris M. Berezin Coldwell Banker Classic Properties Clarkson North Country Union High School Big Heavy World Bari and Peter Dreissigacker Nicholas R. Clifford Alan Nyiri Dike and Reba Blair Ruth Goldstone and David Snyder Robert & Beverly O’Grady Casey Blanchard IBM Corporation Ralph Colin Rosamond Orford Eileen Boland James Wert and Mary Louise Pierson Shari Cornish and Edgar Davis George and Jane Phinney Antonello and Adriana Borra Gerianne Smart Tom and Rawiwan Cowles Ed and Jane Pincus Sarah Bowen Elizabeth Steele Judy Cyprian James and Judy Pizzagalli Charles and Gayl Braisted Bill Stetson and Jane Watson Stetson Barry and Laura Dagan Polk Family Fund II Brattleboro Music Center Vermont Community Foundation Will and Laurie Danforth Amy Pollack Henry A. Bromelkamp and Co. Ann Day Robert and Nancy Pope Peter and Jan Brough Nicholas I. Defriez Shanna Ratner Maurice and Barbara Brown Collaborators John and Alida Dinklage Rep. Gary Reis Gloria Bruce ($500-999) Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Dole Susan Ritz Honorable and Mrs. Alden T. Bryan Anonymous J. Allen and Gail Dougherty River Arts of Morrisville Kevin E. Bubriski and Laura McKeon James Burns Jonathan Schechtman and Deborah Jeffrey Roberts and Cari Clement Burklyn Arts Council David Carris Doyle-Schechtman Mildred Rose Burlington Magazine John and Laurie Chester John Fagan John Russell Mary Byrnes Edward Clark Stephen Ferber Maureen Russell Michael J. Caduto Concept II, Inc. Jill Fox Frank and Martha Salomon Klara B. Calitri Ann DeMarle Friends of the Brandon Town Hall Greg and Sally Sargent Marialisa Calta Ellis Music Company, Inc. A. Corwin Frost Alice Simpson Cambridge Arts Council Elisabeth Gordon Hilary Gade and John Peters Skip and Del Sheldon Jean Cannon Louis and Margaret L. Kannenstine Irwin Gelber John and Doreen Simko Kristen Carmichael-Bowers Lowell and Sandra Mintz Arnold and Virginia Golodetz Michael Singer Eve Jacobs-Carnahan and Paul Carnahan John and Katherine Paterson Mr. and Mrs. Donal K. Gordon Anne Felton Spencer John and Mary Carnahan Mr. and Mrs. George W. Peck, IV William and Valerie Graham St. Albans Artists Guild Diana Carris Avery Hall and Andrea Rogers Philip H. Gray Bob Stannard The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center Edie Sawitsky & Michael Keane Green Mountain Chorus Stave Puzzles Chandler Center for the Arts Caro Thompson Green Mountain Cultural Center Philip and Marcia Steckler Robert Christy Town of Bethel Carlos Haase Ruth Stevenson Cider Hill Garden & Art Gallery Arthur and Hanne Williams Helen Day Art Center Chartis/Stowe Mountain Resort Circus Smirkus Eric Miller and Brooke Herndon Swenson Granite Company Katie Cleaver Donald and Victoria Herzberg Symquest Group, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Davenport Cleveland F acilitATors Jennifer Hopkins Nick and Joan Thorndike John and Polly Connell ($100-499) Jed and Jini Hornung Town of Jamaica James and Barbara Connelly Anonymous (8) David Huddle Jonathan Udis Louisa Conrad Bonnie Acker and John Davis Gale Hurd Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. Constitution Brass Quintet Louis and Pamela Ahlen IBM Matching Grants Program Denis Versweyveld and Judith Rey Debora Coombs Patricia Passmore Alley Richard Jackson Ellen Bryant and Francis Voigt Roger and Sandi Cooper Gisela Alpert Woody and Ingrid Jackson Ruth Wallman Cornerstone Fulfillment Service, LLC Richard Alther Stephen and Andi Jacobs Janet Wallstein Craftsbury Chamber Players Bill Eichner and Julia Alvarez Stephanie Jerome Paul and Jennifer Waring Creative Works Jon and Betsy Anderson David and Wilma Kelley Andrea S. Wasserman Ralph Culver Jonathan Andrews and Lisa Rader Preston and Virginia Kelsey Barry and Elsa Waxman Knox and Lucy Cummin Robert and Gretchen Babcock Larry and Peg Keyes Greg Worden Alan Dater and Lisa Merton Mimi Baird Warren and Lorraine Kimble Workman Publishing Company Kathryn Davis Jeff and Julie Benay Landworks Malcolm and Marjorie Wright Ronald and Martha Decoigne Sandra Berbeco Frederick and Martha Lapham Rocki-Lee Dewitt Billings Farm & Museum Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson Members Nancy N. Diefenbach David Binch and Willa Harris Cherolyn and Robert Laston ($40-99) Thomas and Patricia DiSilvio Edward and Marilyn Blackwell Latchis Arts Nelson and Carolyn Dittmar William and Ruth Botzow Erika Lea Anonymous (6) Gov. James and Dorothy Douglas Peter and Susan Bradford Sydney Lea and Robin Barone Joseph and Lois Acinapura Sen. William and Olene Doyle Robert and Maureen Brandt Gladwyn Leiman Miriam Adams Matt Dunne & Sarah Taylor Jane Burkhardt Kenneth and Robin Leslie James and Brooke Adler Bill and Titia Ellis Paul Calter Chris and Ellen Lovell Jane Ambrose John D. Engels Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation The Mailing Center Z. Philip Ambrose Fair Haven Town School District Arnie Malina Art on Main Edward and Mary Feidner Artisans Hand

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Robert and Cornelia Ferguson Kathy LaBelle LaVoie Lois Ruttenberg Discover Jazz Festival Lynn Leimer Paul Sachs and Ruth Kennedy Leslie Fry William Lipke Howard Schapiro and Jan Carroll Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery Barbara Lipstadt Jeremy Seeger Diane Gabriel Linda Little and Brian McCarthy Jeryl and Shelagh Shapiro Paul Gagne Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lobdell A.J. Sherman Jon Gailmor and Cathy Murphy William and Alison Lockwood Michael and Nancy Sherman Galvin G. Gall Todd Lockwood ShoeLess Management Sen. Robert T. Gannett Carolyn Long Shrewsbury Historical Society Brenda Garand Norwood and Joanna Long Jeff Shumlin and Evie Lovett Barbara Garber Stephen and Margaret Lowe Rachel Siegel Tossy Garrett Lyndon State College Susan Smereka Edward Gartner Sandi MacLeod Lea Sneider Frank C Gaylord Martha Manheim D. B. Snelling Elizabeth Gill and Thomas Muench Rep. Ann Manwaring Douglas Sprigg Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen Dennis W. Marden Sydney Alonso and Jacqueline Springwater Jeff Glassberg and Amanda Bodell Paul and Deb Markowitz Jing Ji Stangel Bernice Godine Dawn McConnell Kathy Stark Robert Gold Ann McFarren Georg and Hanne Steinmeyer Marianne S. Blanchard Google Matching Gift Program Memphremagog Arts Collaborative Robert Troester and Joan Stepenske Naomi Bossom Becky Graber Carol R. Michaud Steve Stettler Honorable and Mrs. Alden T. Bryan Christine Graham Middlebury Festival On The Green Judy and Will Stevens Martha Burt Joe and Susanna Grannis Middlebury Studio School Enrique Bueno and Yvonne Straus Dan and Marta Cambra James Heltz Lynn Miles Suzanne Tanner Charlene Cutforth Greensboro Free Library Gary D. and Margaret Miller Julie Teta Chard and Elizabeth DeNiord Alice Greenspan Jean Miller Peter Jack Tkatch John and Rachi Farrow Paul Gruhler Margaret Miller Town of Hartland Portia Fitzhugh Allan Guggenheim Peter Miller Troy School Thomas and Cecilie French Robert and Barbara Haas Sarah Miller Mark and Robin Twery Ernest and Charlotte Gibson Mark Hage and Susan Mesner John and Robin Milne Valley Arts Foundation Janet Hazen Catherine Hall Barbara and Mike Morrow Claire Van Vliet Frederick and Peggy Henry Betsy Hallett Daniel and Kit Mosheim Vermont Hand Crafters, Inc. David and Michelle Holzapfel Recille C. Hamrell Axel and Anna Mundigo Vermont Jazz Center Sara Hotchkiss Karen Hansen Barbara Myhrum Vermont Shakespeare Company James Hroncich Elaine Harrington Lisa Nelson Vermont Symphony Orchestra Paul and Peggy Irons Philip and Nancy Harter Radetta Nemcosky Dana Walrath Bettina Krampetz Stephen and Catherine Hays Lynn Newcomb M. Emmet Walsh Aileen Lachs Zeke and Linda Hecker No Strings Marionette Company Walter S. Burnham Committee Rebecca Merrilees Inez Hedges Nancy A. Olson Knight and Mary Jane Washburn John and Agnes Ormsby Gerald Heffernan Terry Orr Michael and Ethel Weinberger John and Melinda Patterson Layne Herschel Susan Osgood Lynne Jaeger Weinstein and William Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith Nancy Hileman Gayle Ottmann Strauss Lucy Pellegrini Hilltop Montessori School Emma Ottolenghi Wells River Savings Bank Gordon and Sylvia Pettingell Dorothy Hines Paul and Elsie Paris Celeste and Walter Wetherell Edmund Piper Virginia L. Hood Parish Players D. Billings and Sally Wheeler Susan Pollock Mariot Huessy Marilyn Parker David G. White & Associates, Inc. Elisabeth Powell Charlie Hunter Bill Merrylees and Lucy Patti White River Craft Center Polly Quinn Robert R. Huntoon Collette Paul Ruth Fuller White Peter and Gay Regan In-Sight Photography Henry and Barbara Payson Alexander Wolff Janet Ressler Richard Conrad and Judith Irven Cristina Pellechio Christopher Wood Edward L. Richards, Jr. Ralph Jacobs Faith L. Pepe Wooden Horse Arts Guild Alban and Margaret Richey Julian and Joy Jaffe Ralph Perkins Baron and Janet Wormser Jim and Ann Ross Linda James Pierce Hall Community Center Judith Wrend Stephen and Virginia Sandy Chris Jeffrey Fred Stetson and Katherine Pond Yellow Barn Music School Benjamin Schore Jane May Jones Verandah Porche Mark Yorra and Catherine Gates Jill Skillin Melvin and Ynez Kaplan David L. Powsner Julia Zanes and Donald Saaf Jill Snapp Karen Karnes Michele Ratte Bhakti Ziek and Mark Goodwin Dan Snow Karolina Kawiaka Mildred A. Reardon Fred and Diane Swan Charles and Mary Keck Paul Reed Friends Robert and Karen Tortolani John Killacky and Larry Connolly Larry Richardson (up to $40) Douglas Trump Katra Kindar Marcia Rosberg George and Jodi Turner Caryn King Abby Rose Anonymous Peter Ker Walker The KitchenStore Donald S. Ross Leland Alper Elizabeth Wallman Patricia Klinefelter Barry and Arline Rotman Ana Alvarez Stuart and Sarah Williams Emily Kunreuther Harry M. Rowe Robert S. Bast Irene Schrauth Wilson and David Wilson George Kurjanowicz Roxbury Free Library Lois M. Beardwood Lamoille County Players Ronald and Nancy Rucker JessieMae Belcher John Lane Tina Ruth Crawford Blagden www.vermontartscouncil.org

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Lslativee g i A r t s C a u c u s

Rep. Joe Acinapura Rep. Gale Courelle Rep. Rep. Peter Perley Rep. Brandon Rutland City Vergennes Enosburg Falls Shelburne

Rep. Margaret Andrews Rep. Sarah Edwards Rep. Lucy Leriche Rep. Rep. Teo Zagar Rutland Brattleboro Hardwick South Burlington Barnard

Rep. Rep. Peter Fagan Rep. Jason Lorber Rep. Gerald Reis Rep. Suzi Wizowaty Bennington Rutland Burlington St. Johnsbury Burlington

Rep. Mollie Burke Rep. Gary Gilbert Rep. Mary Morrissey Rep. Tom Stevens Sen. Robert Hartwell Brattleboro Fairfax Bennington Waterbury Manchester Center

Rep. Margaret Cheney Rep. Rep. Michael Mrowicki Rep. Will Stevens Sen. Vincent Illuzzi Norwich Rochester Putney Shoreham Newport

Rep. Gregory Clark Rep. Rep. Rep. Tess Taylor Sen. Richard McCormack Vergennes Montpelier Windham Barre Bethel

Rep. Alison Clarkson Rep. Willem Jewett Rep. Albert “Chuck” Pearce Rep. Sen. Hinda Miller Woodstock Ripton Richford Jericho Burlington

Rep. Sarah Copeland-Hanzas Rep. Mitzi Johnson Rep. Peter Peltz Rep. Lawrence Townsend Sen. Diane Snelling Bradford South Hero Woodbury Randolph Hinesburg

Safft Bo o a r d f T r u s tees Alexander (Alex) L. Aldrich Gloria Bruce, West Charleston Executive Director David Carris (Chair), Montpelier Michele Bailey Ed Clark, Guildhall Program Director James Clubb, Dorset 504/ADA Accessibility Coordinator Marie Bernier Ann DeMarle, Jericho Executive Assistant Irwin Gelber, West Barnet Elaine Dufresne Elisabeth Gordon, White River Junction Director of Administration Carlos Haase, Montpelier Zon Eastes Stephanie Jerome, Brandon Outreach and Advancement Sarah Launderville, Williamstown Lori Hayer Fiscal and Technology Assistant Barbara Morrow (Vice Chair), Sutton Susan McDowell Gayle Ottmann (Vice-Chair), Quechee Program Coordinator Gary Reis, St. Johnsbury Sonia Rae Gerianne Smart, Vergennes www. Artist & Community Services Manager Steve Swayne, Quechee vermont Stacy Raphael Caro Thompson, Walden arts Education & Community Arts council Programs Manager Greg Worden, Brattleboro .org Governor Peter Shumlin (Ex-Officio) Employees Who Served in the Past Year: Lindsey Harty Carlson Development Director and Advocacy Manager Sculpture Garden and Spotlight Gallery Curator Jen Pelletier Web and Communications Manager Diane Scolaro 20 Communication and Development Director V E R M O N T AR T S C O U N C I L 2 0 1 2

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

FY2012 Statement of Fiscal Activities*

R EVEN U E State Appropriation, AMO U N T Unrestricted Private Grants, State Appropriation, Unrestricted $ 507,607 Contributions, Other Other Restricted State Revenue 239,758 Federal National Endowment for the Arts Grant 754,000

Other Private Grants, Contributions, Interest & Misc 115,321 Restricted State Revenue Endowment Donations 1,500

Total Revenue $1,618,186

Federal National Endowment for the Arts Grant EENSESX P

Creation & Community Arts Grants $ 189,471 Arts Education Grants Arts Education Grants 97,350 Creation & Community Community Development Grants 253,230 Community Arts Development Grants Grants Program Services, Partnerships, Projects 614,537 Fundraising & Development 49,317 General, Administrative 311,770

Total Expenses $1,515,675

General, Administrative N E T A S S E T S

Fundraising & Program Services, Total Net Assets, audited 6/30/11 $ 983,461 Develop- Partnerships, ment Projects Change in net assets, unaudited 102,511 Total Net Assets, unaudited 6/30/12 $ 1,085,972

* Unaudited - Audit Report available upon request

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Dear Vermont Arts Council: “Thank you again, Vermont Arts Council for continuing to support artists in schools… With the work that you are doing, our students are poised to greatly benefit, now and in the future, from getting to work directly with Vermont artists.”

Sincerely, Lauren Ashley Academy School, Brattleboro

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