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JULY 1, 2010 — JUNE 30, 2011 Images: Top: Gordon Stone & Elhadji Mamadou Ba

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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends: ARTS It is a pleasure to present this annual report to you because it gives us time and opportunity to reflect on the value of the Vermont Arts Council’s pro- the Vermont arts Council was founded in grams and services.

1964 on a simple and powerful premise: As many of you are aware, political and financial uncertainty have both made a huge impact on how the Vermont Arts Council does business. A declin- that the arts enrich lives, expand minds ing commitment to the arts from the Federal Government has made our and form a vital thread in the fabric of advocacy work in the US Congress (where our delegation is outstandingly arts-supportive!) a much higher priority than we would have expected a year Vermont community life. or two ago.

Any difficulty at the federal level, however, is offset by our nearly universal bipartisan support in the Douglas/Shumlin administrations as well as in the In keeping with its community focus, the Vermont State House—the result of which has been level state funding for Council is a grassroots organization with each of the last three years. Our budget, however, has sustained an overall trustees from every region of the state. decline, resulting in the loss of another staff position and diminutions in our They are elected from and by its mem- community grant programs. Note to selves: the next time we see our state or bership. It is the only not-for-profit state federal legislators, be sure and thank them for their incredible support for inspiring arts agency in the nation and as such it the arts. They all truly deserve it! is uniquely qualified to unite both public and private resources to serve its mission: In these difficult circumstances the Council has recommitted itself to the arts sector by focusing more and more on programs and services that are to advance and preserve the arts at the designed to help artists and arts organizations help themselves. We offer center of Vermont communities. significantly more professional development grants and we have hosted four very well-received “Breaking into Business” workshops for artist/entrepre- The Council accomplishes its mission neurs which have resulted in nearly unanimous “high satisfaction” responses by pursuing the following goals: from participants.

• Increasing opportunities for everyone On the education front we have seen the first full cycle of our new outreach in Vermont to experience and/or program to underserved communities: “Cultural Routes.” Imagine reaching the mission of the Vermont arts Council participate in the arts. high school without once going on a field trip to the Flynn or the HOP or the Athenaeum. This happens to many students in Vermont often because their is to advance and preserve the arts at the • Demonstrating and promoting the schools can’t afford a bus. This program underwrites a portion of that cost, positive benefits of investing in Vermont and already the results have been heartwarming! communities through the arts. center of Vermont communities. Descriptions of these and many other programs and services are highlighted • Expanding and sustaining the capacity in these pages. For now, please know that the Vermont Arts Council contin- of the Vermont Arts Council to serve its ues to explore new collaborations within state government, and is open constituencies. to any and all great ideas.

The Council’s funding comes from the With thanks for your support, and wishes for a brighter, more State of Vermont, the National Endow- art-filled future. ment for the Arts, members, and other Sincerely yours, private contributors.

David Carris Alexander L. Aldrich Images: Front Cover (from top to bottom): 1. In-Sight Photography, 2. Eric & Ines Bass, 3. Members of the Big Action Performance Ensemble Chair Executive Director Above: 1. MIchelle Ollie -– Center for Cartoon Studies, 2. Weston Playhouse – Cast of Death of a Salesman, 3. Performers at the Chandler Center for the Arts as part of their New World Festival, 4. a student from www.vermontartscouncil.org Jamaica School creating a mural with Terry Sylvester, 1 VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL 2011

GRANTS

CreationOur Creation Grants help artists grow...

Creation grants support the creation or a finite process. Working on the CD sparked commission of new work by Vermont artists. other creative endeavors for Robin, including Artists often say that the most important thing a writing project about her grandmother’s life these grants provide is time…time to create, and work. The project also helped to increase time to develop their skills and time to reach both audiences and teaching opportunities for out to their audience. the duo. “This grant enabled us, financially, to make the record. But more than that, the When robin macarthur requested a grant for affirmation and support from the Council her band, Red Heart the Ticker, to record, enabled us to make the project a priority in print and fund a national publicity campaign our lives, to establish ‘recording’ hours, and to for a new CD, it was no small undertaking. One believe in the importance and legitimacy of this of Robin’s goals for the project record and our creative work in “was to reinvent the musical general.” language of Vermont balladry for new listeners by re-imagining the When Jamie Keithline, the founder sounds and textures of the songs, of Crabgrass Puppet Theatre thereby bridging the gap between found out that he had received contemporary aesthetics.” a creation grant, he wrote to the Arts Council saying: “We’re very The creation of Your Name in excited…this funding will really Secret I Would Write was a family affair in more help us bring our vision to fruition.” The vision ways than one. Not only does Robin co-lead that Jamie referred to was “Haiku, HipHop and www.vermontartscouncil.org the band with her husband Tyler Gibbons, but Hotdogs! Puppets do Poetry,” a collaboration she learned many of the album’s songs from with Irish performer Fergus Walsh that would the singing of her grandmother, folk artist and explore poetry through puppetry. One of the former Arts Council juried artist and Walter Cerf goals of the project was to get children and award recipient, margaret macarthur. On her families excited about poetry, and through the website, Robin states: “I consider this record feedback that Keithline has received, it seems an ode, an elegy, and an attempt to sing along clear that this goal was accomplished. “Since with someone who’s gone…The intent is to keep we opened the show we have received a lot of these songs alive, and heard, and living, as she feedback from teachers, children, parents and would have wanted them to be.“ other puppeteers. Everyone is thrilled with what Although her creation grant allowed for we have created.” completion of one project, it was by no means

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GRANTS ROUTES CommunityOur Community Arts Grants CulturalCultural Routes Grants build connections... transporting to the arts…

Community Arts Grants fund programs Cultural Routes is an initiative that the Arts in venues ranging from sidewalks to Council created to help underwrite the cost of symphony halls, and from churches school field trips to attend events such as live to coffee houses. While the scale and music, dance or theatre performances, exhibits type of presentations may differ, their at art museums, etc. The goal of the program is common goal is to create and celebrate to address a growing need for arts-related field communities through the arts. trips, as many in-school arts programs are be- ing reduced or eliminated due to the pressure Among the pile of handwritten thank you notes When the south end arts and Business of dwindling budgets. that the Arts Council received from the stu- was formed in 1986, the association (seaBa) the Grass roots art and Community effort dents who attended, we received thanks for primary goal of the organization was to “en- (GraCe) offers close to 400 workshops on an Who would think that a 206 mile (round-trip) everything from “allowing us to stop after 2 ½ courage the creative economy in and around annual basis in the small town of Hardwick. ride on a school bus would be a welcomed hours for bathroom and food” to “I loved the Pine Street by supporting an economic devel- A grant from the Arts Council allowed them to opportunity? The students of Gilman Middle bus and driver” and “if it weren’t for you guys, opment strategy of local ownership.” One way keep their community arts workshops free to School, that’s who. The school requested a Cul- we wouldn’t have gotten there.” of doing this was through a FREE, weekend- the public. These workshops provide opportuni- tural Routes grant to attend a performance of long event that showcases the creative activi- ties for “community integration and social in- the Vermont Symphony Orchestra performing Additional Cultural Routes grants funded: a trip ties of SEABA members. This event, now in its teraction,” all while maintaining “access to the “One Green Earth” at the Flynn Center in Bur- for kindergarteners, first – second –, and third- 18th year, is known as the South End Art Hop. arts for underserved individuals in Vermont” lington. Barbara Connelly who submitted the graders from Fair Haven Grade School to attend This year’s Hop included more than 500 artists and implementing GRACE’s mission to “dis- performances at Castleton State College; travel exhibiting in nearly 100 locations. The Art Hop cover, develop and promote self-taught artists, grant stated that this grant “allowed us to take has been proving itself to be good for artists including elders and other special populations a trip to an organization that we might have oth- to Montreal for Lamoille Union High School and good for business. In SEABA’s grant report, in rural Vermont.” erwise been unable to visit [and] students who students to a performance by Cirque du Soleil; they noted that “Lake Champlain Chocolates, normally do not have access to live professional and a trip for 120 North Country Union High whose manufacturing facility was an exhibiting performances were given the opportunity.” School students to attend a performance of Ro- site (chocolate art) realized their highest ever meo and Juliet presented by Kingdom County visitor volume and retail sales” during the Hop. Productions and Catamount Arts. Grant funding provided “essential support” in allowing SEABA to put on the South End Art Hop, and estimates are that the event reached Images (top to bottom): A student more than 40,000 people state wide. drawing of the bus taking them to a show, Students in Burlington attending a show at the Flynn Center. Images (top to bottom): The Vermont Arts Council Van at the South End Art Hop, Artwork on a building in the South End of Burlington, Children with art they created at GRACE.

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Poetry OUT LOUD

Claude Mumbere of Burlington High School Poets Laureate: Robert Frost, Galway Kinnell, took top honors in Vermont’s Poetry Out Loud Louise Glück, Grace Paley and Ruth Stone. state finals this year. The 11th grader recited “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Mumbere received a $200 cash award plus Dylan Thomas and Cornelius Eady’s “I’m a Fool an all-expense paid trip to Washington, DC to to Love You” for his first two selections, and compete in the national finals. Burlington High his delivery of his final poem, “The Passionate School received a $500 stipend for the pur- Shepherd To His Love” by Chris- chase of poetry books. Nora Gair, topher Marlowe clinched him first a senior at St. Johnsbury Academy place honors in the state event. was the runner up. She received $100, plus $200 toward poetry Students from 35 high schools books for her school. vied to represent Vermont in the national competition that encour- In an exciting twist to the story, ages students to memorize and Mumbere was hired to narrate a perform great poems. Created by the National new NASA film after coming to the attention Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foun- of producers as a result of his participation in dation, the program builds on the resurgence the nationwide poetry recital competition. Re- of poetry as an oral art form, as seen in the leased in 2011, the science film Loop high- popularity of slam poetry and rap music among lights the oceanic circulation system. youth. Students chose poems from an anthology of great poets. Among them were Vermont’s five www.poetryoutloud.org

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Arts Learning GRANTS Cultural GRANTS Our Arts Learning Grants Cultural Facilities Grants inspire creative learning... make the arts accessible in communities… The Cultural Facilities Grant Program helps Arts Learning Grants bring artists into schools improve, revive or refurbish historical for hands on experiences in the arts. Funding Vermont buildings as community and is also available to build the creative skills of cultural gathering places. The program is a teachers and the teaching skills of artists. partnership between the Arts Council, the

Vermont Division of Historic Preservation and Today in this room I was not just another the Vermont Historical Society. inmate, I was unique access to books and films, but also offers was skeptical of the things I had to share the Cutler memorial library in Plainfield the public access to public computers and image of masks received a grant to support the installation provides programs open to the public and not what I expected, of a new furnace. The library, which was meeting space for local groups.” so many feelings - formally designated as a public pain still very much with me library in 1913, is located on The process of restoring the ongoing PTSD Pierce Hall Community Center in a silent protest Route 2, and serves not only Rochester has been going on for uncomfortable murky waters Plainfield, but the greater community as well. It does so six years. Aside from the school, These are just a few self-revealing lines of through children’s programming, the Hall is the only building in writing that came from the hearts of women a vibrant poetry group, and Rochester that can accommodate housed at the Northwest State Correctional to support art and writing groups at the prison its connection with the ARTT more than 30 people, making the Facility – words elicited within a group beginning last September. program which offers hands-on restoration a necessity. Efforts facilitated by sarah Bartlett, Director of art experiences for teachers as towards restoration have included Women Writing for (a) Change – Vermont. Her Sarah started this group well aware of the part of an annual summer workshop series. structural and safety issues from roof repairs organization received an Arts Learning Grant power of trust given to her by participants, and With notoriety as “Plainfield’s Living Room,” and sprinkler systems to new flooring and with the humble intention of allowing women the Cutler Memorial Library acknowledged foundation work. A grant from the Arts Council to “connect with who they are.” Everyone was the need for a “functional” heating system— was used to expand audience space to 150 or reassured, “It’s not what you produce, it’s who more by making repairs to the balcony area you become in the process.” Treating her writers especially during the cold Vermont winter. A of the center. A letter from Valerie Levitan, with respect helps to create a safe emotional letter of support from the Town of Plainfield environment for creativity. For example, she Select Board stated: “On a modest budget, the Pierce Hall executive director, had this to calls everyone by their first name – the only the Cutler Memorial Library not only provides say about their grant: “Your role in Vermont place this happens for the incarcerated. Sarah is so important. For those of us who are and promotes empowerment by encouraging voice, have been volunteer board members, the and celebrating change. The writing circle process of restoration seems long; but when allows many of the women to feel they are we hear from you with a much needed grant, “being seen for who they truly are.” we become revitalized.”

Images: Artwork done at the Women’s Writing Photos top to bottom: Alex Aldrich and members of the Vermont Workshop. Children’s Theater, Wardsboro Library barn board being reinstalled, 8 9 Interior of the Pierce Hall Community Center VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL 2011

B REAking i n TO B USinESS Advocacyart suPPorts me The Vermont Arts Council believes every Ver- collected video of hundreds of artists and arts W ORk SHOPS monter should have access to the arts, every supporters telling us how art supports them. child should have arts education in the class- The message of and support for the campaign room, and every community should have a grew exponentially throughout the year as we thriving arts presence. gathered more video and testimonials from Jim Lampman of Lake Champlain Chocolates, As the state’s primary arts advocate, the Arts Senator , Green Mountain Cof- Council has developed a comprehensive strat- fee Roasters, professors During our 2009 “listening tour” we heard from what one person had to say: “The day was well egy to achieve this vision and work toward in- and thousands of artists and arts supporters many artists who expressed a need for more pro- planned and structured, so it went wonderfully. creased public fund- across the globe. The concept was clear, con- ing. At the top of the fessional development opportunities. In response, The info was pertinent and extremely helpful and list is the Council’s the Council created the Breaking into Business the delivery was super. I really enjoyed meeting role at the State House program. The two-day workshop offers business other artists and the time in the small groups. I and in Washington, and marketing planning specifically tailored to especially loved that there were artist “elders” for DC. Every spring Arts the needs of artists, as well as an opportunity for us newbies to see/meet/learn from.” Council staff joins ad- vocates from across peer networking. Upon completion of the country for Arts the program, participants are eligible Another artist echoed the sentiment Advocacy Day in Wash- to apply for grant funding to imple- and added: “[The] speakers were won- ington, DC. Our visits ment aspects of their business plan. derful, knowledgeable and entertain- with Vermont’s Congressional delegation are cise, and something people could easily relate always amiable as Vermont has one of the most to. The messages of exactly how “Art Supports ing. It was also wonderful to be in such pro-arts delegations in the nation. Me” were shared via radio, television and print This year’s workshops took place in a large group of people with similar advertising, in addition to weekly messages to Burlington and Windsor. The two ses- goals in business–something artists In 2011 we developed and promoted a state- the legislature. wide public awareness campaign to encourage sions were attended by 47 artists rarely talk about.” and improve knowledge of the impact of the Thanks to this campaign the Council has started from around the state. We are indebited to our arts on individuals, businesses and communi- the process of growing a virtual army of arts ad- friends at Main Street Landing for allowing us to The survey results overall were enthusiastic, posi- ties throughout Vermont. “Art Supports Me” vocates. Young and old, from all walks of life, use their space and to Ernst and Young and the tive and supportive of Breaking into Business. launched at the South End Art Hop where we these advocates understand the message and have no reservation in saying “Art Supports Me.” Vermont Community for their ongoing support to 81% of respondents indicated that they felt they this program. were better prepared to start or sustain a business after the workshop. “This was an amazing work- l e G islatiV e a rts CauC us After completion of the workshops, we conducted shop. So much helpful information. I can’t wait to Rep. Joe Acinapura, Brandon Rep. Peter Fagan, Rutland Rep. Jason Lorber, Burlington Rep. Gerald Reis, St. Johnsbury an anonymous survey of the attendees. This is get my plans in motion!” Rep. Margaret Andrews, Rutland Rep. Gary Gilbert, Fairfax Sen. Richard McCormack, Bethel Sen. Diane Snelling, Hinesburg Rep. , Bennington Rep. , Rochester Sen. Hinda Miller, Burlington Rep. Tom Stevens, Waterbury Rep. , Brattleboro Sen. Robert Hartwell, Manchester Center Rep. Mary Morrissey, Bennington Rep. Will Stevens, Shoreham Rep. Margaret Cheney, Norwich Rep. , Montpelier Rep. Michael Mrowicki, Putney Rep. Tess Taylor, Barre Rep. Gregory Clark, Vergennes Sen. Vincent Illuzzi, Newport Rep. , Windham Rep. , Jericho Inset: Attendees at the Vermont Arts Councils’ ‘Breaking into Business’ workshop. Rep. Alison Clarkson, Woodstock Rep. Willem Jewett, Ripton Rep. Albert “Chuck” Pearce, Richford Rep. Lawrence Townsend, Randolph www.vermontartscouncil.org Rep. Sarah Copeland-Hanzas, Bradford Rep. Mitzi Johnson, South Hero Rep. Peter Peltz, Woodbury Rep. , Shelburne Rep. Gale Courcelle, Rutland City Rep. , Vergennes Rep. Peter Perley, Enosburg Falls Rep. Suzi Wizowaty, Burlington 10 Rep. Sarah Edwards, Brattleboro Rep. Lucy Leriche, Hardwick Rep. , South Burlington 11 VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL 2011 VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL 2011

Dana Walrath Julia Zanes Orleans Elementary School Circus Smirkus Underhill Saxtons River Orleans Greensboro $500 to hire a consultant to redesign $400 to support preparation of artist $2,400 to support a 10-day residency $5,000 to support the production and a website. presentation for the Waterbury Public with YES! Theater utilizing circus, story presentation of Circus Smirkus’ 2011 2011 Safety and Forensic Lab project. and performance to build empathy and Big Top Tour. Marian Willmott healthy risk taking. Hinesburg Fairfax Community Library $705 to attend a workshop with Tim arts learninG The Pomfret School Fairfax Hawkesworth at the Art New England South Pomfret $2,462 to support a series of live musi- summer workshops at Bennington Arlington Area Childcare $1,100 to support a portion of the ex- cal performances for the community in gRAnTS In FY 2011, the Vermont Arts Council awarded 202 grants College. Arlington pense of a two-week residency in circus Fairfax. $3,500 to support an arts enrichment arts with Circus Smirkus. totaling $608,141 to individual artists, arts organizations, Woods Tea Company program for children, parents, teachers Families First in Southern Vermont schools and community groups. Grants help support the creation of new work, the presentation of cultural St. Albans and community members. Revels north Wilmington $1,000 to support attending the Hanover $2,000 to support the public perfor- activities, improvements to community facilities, and opportunities for creative learning for students of all Assocation of Performing Arts Present- Braintree Elementary School $2,000 to support after-school pro- mance of an orginal mixed-abilities ages. Because the application process for all grant programs is rigorous and funds are awarded through a ers conference in City. Braintree gramming for K-6 students in African theatre piece, “Raising Our Voices”. $1,550 to support Arts Bus program- music, songs, stories and dance. competitive peer review, receiving a grant not only provides financial support but also valuable community William Workman ming, bringing hands-on arts to the Flynn Center/Discover Jazz Festival recognition and credibility. Williston youth of Braintree at school and com- Robinson School Burlington $500 to support building a munity locations. Starksboro $5,000 to support the 2011 Burlington The Arts Council encourages you to seek out grant recipients in your community and to support their efforts. commerce-enabled website. $2,500 to support professional devel- Discover Jazz Festival and related Burlington High School opment for K-6 faculty to use the Flynn educational programming. Dianne Yelton Burlington Center’s Words Come Alive! program. Londonderry $1,344 to support an 8-day dance Frog Hollow Craft Association artist DeVeloPment Helen C. Drew Patrick keppel Charles W. norris-Brown $500 to support hiring a photographer residency with Karen Amirault in all PE Society of Vermont Artists Burlington Post Mills Brattleboro Burlington to update images for publicity, classes with all teachers including a and Craftsmen $5,000 to support the costs associated Zelda Alpern $500 to redesign a website to include $1,000 to support the production, $500 to support a residency at the including a web site. final show. Ludlow with creating, touring and installing Johnson workshops and images of artwork. development and filming of the puppet Vermont Studio Center. $2,500 to provide scholarships to original works of art using symbols $1,000 to support working with an piece “Triangle” at the Center for Rob Zollman East Montpelier Elementary School the Young Artist Day Camp for provided by violent crime survivors. editorial consultant. kerry O. Furlani Performance Research in Brooklyn. Jennifer O’Brien Brandon East Montpelier underserved children. Rutland Montpelier $500 to support rebuilding a website. $3,500 to support the Flynn Center’s grass Roots Art and Community Effort AO glass $1,000 to support assisting master Laura koplewitz $500 to support the creation of Words Come Alive program at East Vermont Studio Center, inc. Hardwick Burlington carver John Neilson in Wales. Brattleboro collateral materials. art in state BuilDinGs Montpelier Elementary School. Johnson $5,000 to support GRACE’s community $500 to update a website and increase $1,000 to support hiring a consultant $3,490 to support creative revitaliza- art workshops and exhibitions for elders internet marketing capacity. Carmel Furtado for website and brochure design. Janice Perry Jim Cole green Mountain Youth Symphony tion residencies for visual art/english and other underserved Vermonters. Manchester Center Ferrisburgh West Rupert Montpelier teachers to support new curricula. Willow Bascom $500 to complete a commercial website. Antoinette Lane $750 to help with lodging, attendance $10,000 to support the fabrication and $3,500 to support the 2011 Green Helen Day Art Center, inc. Plymouth Brattleboro fees, and ground transport costs for installation of sculpture at the State Mountain Youth Symphony summer Waterbury Duxbury School District Stowe $499 to support use of Becky graber $500 to implement the first phase of a three conferences. Archives building in Middlesex. music program for intermediate- Waterbury $5,000 to support a collaboration MYOB Account Edge. Brattleboro marketing plan for Pie-Productions. advanced young musicians. $2,100 to support the development of between 21 artists in three different $450 to support the development kathy Stark gregory gomez a “Welcome to Winter in Waterbury” communities through the Habitat for Eloise Beil of a website. Pamela Mandell Craftsbury Common Newtonville The in-Sight Photography Project lantern parade. Artists project. Vergennes Williamsville $900 to attend a five-day encaustic $21,000 to support the creation of an Brattleboro $480 to create a website and be norine grant $900 to support a two-week stay at the workshop in Kingston, NY interior sculptural installation at the $3,500 to support three traditional Women Writing for (a) Change – The Hub Teen Center & Skatepark trained in updating it. Richmond Vermont Studio Center. Vermont Fire Academy in Pittsford. photo classes at In-Sight and three Vermont, LLC Bristol $515 to support attendance at the Tim Stout digital photo classes with collaborating Burlington $2,500 to support a collaboration be- Ethan Bond-Watts Music Teachers National Association Alyssa Morar White River Junction Daniel gottsegen non-profits. $3,300 to support art and writing work- tween teens and artists to paint murals Charlotte Conference in March, 2011. Brattleboro $380 to support a review of legal Woodstock shops for incarcerated women at the on the walls of the local skatepark. $1,000 to develop a website. $500 to support improvements to documents and to purchase Dragon $800 to support preparations as a integrated Arts Academy at Northwest State Correctional Facility. Carolyn Enz Hack promotional materials. Dictate 2.0 software finalist for the Waterbury Public Safety H.O. Wheeler island Arts Tony Conner Thetford Center and Forensic Lab Project. Burlington North Hero Bennington $925 to support a residency at the Heather Morris Brendan Taaffe $5,000 to support a 10-day residency CommunitY arts $5,000 to support creative opportuni- $300 to support the development of Vermont Studio Center. Charlotte Brattleboro H. keith Wagner Partnership with Stuart Paton of the Burlington ties within the Island Arts Academy collateral materials. $500 to purchase Quickbooks and hire $525 to record and transcribe Burlington Taiko group. Arts Council of Windham County including after-school arts classes Wendy Hansen an accountant to set up an accounting traditional Zimbabwean choral songs $800 to support the preparation for a Brattleboro and evening and weekend classes for Trisha Denton St. Johnsbury system and to hire a designer to create while studying with an ethnomusicolo- presentation of the Waterbury Public Local Agricultural Community $4,000 to support a visual arts pro- adults. Burlington $500 to design and implement a banner. gist at the University of Zimbabwe. Safety and Forensic Lab project. Exchange gram for economically disadvantaged $667 to support work with a graphic a website. Barre children and youth in Brattleboro. Jeh kulu Dance and Drum Theater designer and web designer to create Dena gartenstein Moses Cara Trezise Donald Saaf $5,000 to support a collaboration Burlington a web portfolio. Chris Jeffrey Putney Brattleboro Saxtons River between local artists and at-risk youth Big Action Performance Ensemble $5,000 to support after-school African Barre $1,000 to fund the creation and dis- $1,000 to participate in a 10-day $400 to support preparation of artist to create a public mural based on local Middlebury arts programming in Vermont schools. Diane Donovan $500 to develop and print a brochure. tribution of brochures for the Vermont advanced singing and improvisation presentation for the Waterbury Public foods and herbs. $5,000 to support technical production St. Johnsbury Center Weaving School. training with master teacher Rhiannon. Safety and Forensic Lab project. costs associated with the performances kids’ Fest $500 to attend the “Large Format Jeh kulu Dance and Drum Theater new England Youth Theatre of Everyone Can Dance (ECD). East Montpelier Plein Air” workshop taught by Michael Burlington Riki Moss Claudia Venon Jim Sardonis Brattleboro $4,000 to support the production of a Chesley Johnson in Sedona, AZ. $500 to purchase software and hire an Grand Isle Burlington Randolph $2,800 to support instruction for stu- Building a Better Brattleboro grassroots community musical about accountant for instruction in financial $1,000 to support the work of a $500 to support hiring a web designer $800 to support preparations as a dents in full-scale scenery production Brattleboro Pete Seeger’s life and music. Judy Dow record keeping. professional photographer/videographer to improve a site. finalist for the Waterbury Public Safety for professional-level theatre shows. $2,500 to support the 9th annual Essex Junction to document an installation. and Forensic Lab. Brattleboro Literary Festival. kingdom County Productions $313 to support work with Emily Rip keller kathryn Lipke Vigesaa northern Stage Barnet Johnson learning techniques to create Hardwick Ruth Murphy Belvidere Sarah-Lee Terrat White River Junction Chandler Center for the Arts, inc. $5,000 to support Kingdom County fish skin lanterns. $500 to design a website. Burlington $749 to support the presentation of a Waterbury $3,500 to support a collaborative Randolph Presents, a series of professional $695 to attend a cold glass course at the video on Kuna textiles at Textile Society $800 to support preparation of artist schools program in 2010–2011 $5,000 to support artist fees for Chan- dance, music, film and theater events. Corning Glass Museum in Corning, NY. conference in Lincoln, NE. presentation for the Waterbury Public centered around “The Things They dler’s New World Festival celebrating Safety and Forensic Lab project. Carried” by Tim O’Brien. Celtic & French Canadian music. www.vermontartscouncil.org 12 13 VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL 2011 Burlington City Arts sPeCial ProJeCts Vermont Children’s Theater Lamoille Union High School Burlington East Burke Hyde Park $3,000 to support an artist-in-residence Curtains Without Borders Molly Davies $5,518 to support access improvements $200 to support travel to Montreal to program at two local pre-schools in Burlington galen Peria to restrooms, the entrance, and parking see a performance of Cirque duSoleil Burlington. $500 to restore and install a painted Stowe Burlington areas. titled ‘Quidam’ at the Bell Center. curtain in the Contois Auditorium in $3,000 to support the completion of $3,000 to support the creation of a Lake Champlain Chamber Music a 10 – 15 minute single screen, 4 Lost nation Theater, inc. Burlington. Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble debut music album of original songs. Festival channel video on the theme of “transi- Vermont Studio Center, inc. Milton Town School District Montpelier Fairfax Johnson Milton $2,500 to support a partnership between Winooski $5,000 to support the rehearsal and tions” to be presented at River Arts, governor’s institutes of Vermont Julia Shipley $20,000 to support the installation of a $200 to support seventy students’ at- Lost Nation Theater and Central Vermont Montpelier $5,000 to support performances and presentation of six commissioned works in Morrisville and the AVA Gallery. Craftsbury three stop lift in the Red Mill building. tendance of Radio Macbeth performed Community Action Council providing $7,000 to support the immersion outreach activities during the 2011 the 2010–2011 season. $3,000 to support the completion of by the SITI Company at the Flynn workshops, performances and trainings of Vermont high school students in Lake Champlain Chamber Music Clare Dolan a series of essays about small scale Weston Community Association Center in Burlington. in Washington and Orange Counties. a two-week program exploring the Festival. Vermont MiDi Project, inc. Glover agriculture titled “Hewn: Dispatches Weston creative experience in all areas of the Essex Junction $3,000 to support the creation of a From Broken Ground”. $20,000 to support the installation Montessori School of Central Vermont Paramount Center, inc. arts, including dance, music, poetry, Lost nation Theater, inc. $5,000 to support professional composer multi-media installation in Glover, Montpelier Vermont, entitled The Museum of of a sprinkler system in the Weston Montpelier Rutland painting and theatre. mentoring for student compositions cre- Signe Margueritte Taylor Playhouse. $200 to attend the Vermont Interna- $2,000 to support the integration of arts $5,000 to support four mainstage pro- ated for live concert performance. Everyday Life. Norwich tional Festival in Essex. for children and families at risk. governor’s institutes of Vermont - ductions and the education programs of $3,000 to support the creation of a Wilder Club and Library Hathaway Memorial Lost Nation Theater’s 2011 Season. Vermont Performing Arts League Peter gould documentary film about students White River Junction nFi VT/Caledonia School River Arts of Morrisville, inc. Montpelier Burlington Brattleboro working with female inmates on a play $20,000 to replace the library’s front St. Johnsbury Morrisville $2,500 to support the Jay Hathaway Middlebury Studio School $5,000 to support the Vermont Interna- $3,000 to support completion of “Seed about women in prison. entry steps. $200 to view exhibits and $1,500 to support 2010-2011 Head Start Memorial Scholarship Program for Middlebury tional Festival, an annual celebration of Man,” a novel for young adults. participate in a workshop at the Shel- Arts activities for youth and providers in students enrolled in the Governor’s $1,940 to support costs associated with world cultures in our community. Sophie Hood burne Museum on 9/30/10 . Lamoille County. Institute on the Arts for summer 2011. clay classes for organizations whose Cultural FaCilities Cultural routes participants/members have limited Vermont Symphony Orchestra inc. Lyndonville access to the arts. $3,000 to support the creation of north Country Union High School new England Foundation for the Arts Burlington Bryan Memorial gallery Bishop John A. Marshall School Newport loCal arts Partners $5,000 to support the 8-concert Made in wearable sculptural forms for a Jeffersonville Boston Morrisville $200 to support 120 students’ $12,500 to support NEFA programs Monteverdi Music School Vermont statewide tour and a commission performance piece intended to be $10,000 to create an office and meeting $200 to visit the Shelburne Museum. attendance at The Acting Company and Burlington City Arts for Vermont artists and arts organiza- Montpelier from a Vermont composer. performed in public locations such as space within the gallery. $5,000 to support a program of parks, schools, or shopping areas. Guthrie Theater’s performance Burlington tions.

workshops, masterclasses, ensemble Center for Technology, Essex of Romeo and Juliet produced by $7,000 to support Burlington City Arts Vermont Youth Orchestra Association Cutler Memorial Library Essex Junction Kingdom County Productions and in providing art classes, exhibitions coaching and student recitals. Colchester Jamie keithline Plainfield Vermont Alliance for Arts Education $200 to attend a performance by Balé Catamount Arts. artist residencies, and partnerships with Montpelier $4,500 to support the Vermont Youth Or- Brattleboro $3,260 to support the installation of a Folclórico da Bahia at the Flynn Center schools and service organizations. $4,000 to support planning, outreach, Opera north chestra’s spring performances at Harwood $3,000 to support the creation of “Haiku, new furnace. in Burlington. Richford Jr/Sr High School and the organization of “Teacher Lebanon Union High School and the Flynn Center. HipHop and Hotdogs! Puppets do Po- Richford Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Talks,” a video project that facilitates $5,000 to support three community etry,” a collaboration with Fergus Walsh, Estey Organ Museum. inc. outreach and education programs for exploring poetry through puppetry. Compass School $200 to attend the Vermont Burlington finding and sharing best practices in Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival Brattleboro Westminster children and adults in towns through- International Festival in Essex. $7,000 to support the Flynn in provid- the work of Vermont’s arts educators. Irasburg $7,625 to support access improvements $200 to support an eighth grade arts ing performance space and performing out Vermont. $5,000 to support performer and guest art- Alexis kyriak to and winterization of the entrance and Northfield immersion trip to Boston. Each student Robinson Elementary School arts programming for the community, Vermont Crafts Council ist fees for Warebrook’s 2011 concerts. rest room areas, and install a multi- will attend a museum exhibit and the Starksboro Opera Theatre of Weston $3,000 to support the creation of a educational programming to schools, Montpelier media system compatible with assistive improv theater as well as interacting Weston portfolio of work utilizing the mediums $200 to attend “We the People”at the performing artist workshops, and visual $3,000 to support the 2011 Open Weston Playhouse Theatre Company listening devices. with urban art, galleries, and street $5,000 to support three Commu- of painting, sculpture and fiber arts. Flynn Center in Burlington. arts exhibitions. Studio Weekend. Weston performances. nity Youth Programs related to Opera $5,000 to support the school production/ Friends of the Wardsboro Library Rumney Memorial School Pentangle Arts Council Theater of Weston’s presentation of tour of Death Of A Salesman, with actor Alisha Laramee Wardsboro Vermont Design institute Fair Haven grade School Middlesex Woodstock Burlington Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Chris Lloyd in the title role. Burlington $10,250 to support the winterization of $3,000 to support the creation of ten Fair Haven $200 to attend a performance by Bale $7,000 to support Pentangle’s programs $1,500 support the development of the Red Barn community space. $200 to support kindergarteners, first Folclorico da Bahia at the Flynn Center Paramount Center, inc. essays exploring the idea of move- in the Town Hall theater and programs a vision for Vermont as a “Transition Winooski Coalition and second graders attending “Duck for Rutland ment, migration and travel; informed in Burlington. and partnerships with community orga- State” with the AIA-VT Conference and Winooski LPCTV Corp. President” then third graders $5,000 to support Paramount Theater’s by interviews with travelers, tourists nizations and schools in the Woodstock the VDI Colloquium. $1,500 to support the 2nd annual Winooski Ludlow attending “Jigsaw Jones” at Castleton Young Artist Classical Master Class and commuters in places of transit. Sheldon Elementary School area. Culture Hop in September 2010. $20,000 to support the construction of State College. Sheldon initiative. a new production studio and perfor- Vermont Folklife Center Robin MacArthur $200 to support grades 1-5 River Arts of Morrisville, inc. Middlebury Yellow Barn, inc. mance space for the community. Fairfield Center School attendance at “One Green Earth” at Readsboro Arts Corporation Marlboro Morrisville $2,000 to support the final phase of Putney Fairfield Readsboro $3,000 to support the creation of a the Flynn Center in Burlington. $7,000 to provide community arts bringing the refugee artist needs study $5,000 to support free outreach events Morristown Centennial Library $200 to attend “We The People” at the $1,000 to support the 2011 Readsboro full-length CD of original interpreta- programming. to completion. for seniors and at-risk children, as well Morrisville Flynn Center in Burlington. Arts Festival. tions of traditional Vermont folksongs. St. Johnsbury School District as public concerts and discussions in the $20,000 to support the installation of St. Johnsbury Rockingham Arts and Museum Project 2011 season. an elevator to allow access to all parts Folsom Educational and Community $200 to attend the Vermont Symphony (RAMP) Revitalizing Waterbury, inc. Josh Melrod of the library. teaCHinG artist Waterbury Woodstock Center Orchestra’s performance of “One Green Bellows Falls eXPress South Hero Earth”. $7,000 to support artists’ activities and $2,000 to support the 10th annual Creation $3,000 to support the completion Pierce Hall Community Center, inc. $200 to attend “In Search of Air” and to demonstrate that the activities create Essex High School Stowe Street Arts Festival in July 2011. of the documentary film “Cartoon Rochester College.” “We the People” at the Flynn Center in St. Albans City School healthy communities. Essex Junction kim Bent $9,810 to expand the audience space to Burlington. St. Albans Sandglass Center for Puppetry Montpelier $500 to support instruction by Irene 150 or more in the u-shaped balcony. $200 to attend the Vermont Interna- Vermont Arts Exchange Putney $3,000 to support the creation of a musical Polly Motley Lederer Lacroix in the glazing and $5,000 to support the 7th Biennial Stowe gilman Middle School tional Festival in Essex. North Bennington firing of pottery created by up to 32 stage adaptation of Katherine Paterson’s Town Hall Theater, inc. Gilman puppets in the Green Mountains $3,000 to support the creation of an $7,000 to support the organization students. novel “Lyddie.” Middlebury $200 to attend the Vermont Symphony HeaD start in its efforts to sustain, develop, and International Festival. intermedia performance installation $2,875 to install snow guards on the using combinations of dance, sound, Orchestra’s performance of “One Green strengthen community development and The Little School inc. Louisa Conrad slate roof. Earth” at the Flynn Center in Burlington. Brattleboro Museum And Art Center, South End Arts & Business Association video and lighting exploring seasonal arts partnerships in Bennington County. Weston Townshend inc. Burlington transitions in Vermont landscapes. $500 to support two days of art $3,000 to support the creation of a series Town of Essex Brattleboro $5,000 to support the 2010 South End Highgate Elementary School VSA Vermont, inc. instruction with Becky Graber. of flower paintings and drawings with text Essex Junction Highgate $3,000 to support the continuation of Winooski Art Hop, a free event for the entire from Robert Frost’s poems and flora col- Mira niagolova $20,000 to support the purchase and $200 to attend “We the People” and a partnership with BMAC and Early $7,000 to provide access to the arts for Milton Town School District community. lected from Homer Noble Farm. Essex Junction installation of new seating and seating “Virtually Me” at the Flynn Center in Education Services. people of all abilities by way of program- Milton $3,000 to complete production of platforms. “Welcome to Vermont,” a 50-minute Burlington. ming in preschools, schools, shelters, $500 to support two days of in-school www.vermontartscouncil.org documentary about the lives of refu- and community centers. art instruction with Peter Gould. 14 gees recently resettled in Vermont. 15 VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL 2011 VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL 2011 Red Cedar School, inc. Bristol Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra $900 to support a five-day residency Vergennes with Circus Smirkus. $800 to support a strategic planning retreat. Ripton Elementary School Circus Smirkus Community High School of Vermont Ripton Mount Abraham Union High School Greensboro Waterbury $1,500 to support a week-long residency Bristol $600 to send five employees to the 2010 $1,120 to support a one-week residency with Revel Kids, ending in a community $250 to support a day of workshops on American Youth Circus Organization with Judy Dow teaching science via vi- performance. LETTER African Dancing with Jeh Kulu and a Conference for Educators. school-wide performance. sual arts and working with CHSVT staff Development in professional development workshops. St. Johnsbury Academy St. Johnsbury Frog Hollow Craft Association Richford Elementary School Burlington Coventry Village School $800 support a five-day residency with To our contributors: Richford $800 to support improvements to Coventry Verandah Porche. $500 to support instruction and creation the Association’s website. of a mural with artist Carolyn Mecklosky. $1,000 to support a ten-day residency with PuppeTree. Underhill iD School Thank you! Your friendship and generosity means a great deal to Vermont’s cultural community. Jericho guilford Performance Lab, inc. West Rutland School Guilford Highgate non-Profit, inc. $1,187 to create “A Totem to Kind- West Rutland $650 to support attendance at the As the state’s primary source of arts funding, the Arts Council provides critical resources to art- Barre ness and Respect” during an in-school $500 to support a performance and two National Performance Network $1,500 to support bringing Montpelier’s residency with Maggie Sherman. ists, arts organizations, schools and community groups in Vermont. Last year the Arts Council days of workshops with Puppetree for conference in Dallas, TX. grades K-2. Shidaa African Culture Project to run five days of workshops for youth at the Walden School awarded over $600,000 to help support arts activities and cultural participation throughout the

Highgate Community Center for sum- West Danville Vermont Studio Center, inc. Westford Elementary School $1,412 to support a five-day residency Johnson state. In addition to our grants, the Arts Council serves our state’s artists and residents through Westford mer programming. and evening dance concert with Karen $810 to complete implementation plans our web services, marketing and advocacy efforts, workshops and training opportunities. From $500 to support two days of workshops and budgets for the Vermont Studio J.J. Flynn Elementary School Amirault. with Jeh Kulu. Center’s top access priorities. Burlington our “Breaking into Business” workshops that provide artists with the necessary skills to create $750 to support the production of a Whiting Elementary School teaCHinG artist Vermont Wood Products Marketing strategic marketing and business plans, to “Art Supports Me”, a multi-channel public awareness resiDenCY play with the Very Merry Theatre. Whiting $1,235 to support a book-making Council campaign, the Vermont Arts Council works each day to ensure that the arts remain at the center Rutland Jamaica Village School residency with Linda Lembke. Bishop John A. Marshall School $800 provide trade show training to the Jamaica of our communities. Morrisville exhibitors of the Vermont Fine Furniture $1,000 to support the creation of a $1,000 to support a residency with No teCHniCal assistanCe & Woodworking Festival. Strings Marionette. school mural with Terry Sylvester. Your contributions help guarantee that our efforts to promote and sustain Vermont’s arts com- Weston Playhouse Theatre Company Reading Elementary School Bella Voce Women’s Chorus, inc. munity and creative economy stay strong in the years ahead. We encourage you to visit our Christ the king School Weston Reading Essex Junction Burlington $450 to support the Director of Develop- $1,100 to support a one-week residency $600 to support conference registration website and subscribe to our e-newsletter, ArtMail, to keep informed of how your investment and $1,000 to support a five-day residency ment’s attendance at the Association in circus arts with Circus Smirkus. and attendance at the American Choral with Circus Smirkus. Conductors convention. of Fundraising Professionals in South our efforts continue to impact the state. On behalf of the staff and trustees of the Vermont Arts Portland, ME. Council, we thank you for your support and friendship to the arts!

The Vermont Arts Council extends its sincere Sincerely, Grant reVieW appreciation to the many individuals who CULTURAL FACiLiTiES contributed their time, expertise and judgment COALiTiOn as volunteer grant review panelists. www.vermontartscouncil.org Alex Aldrich COMMUniTY ARTS PAnELiSTS Nancy Boone ART inPanelists STATE BUiLDingS PAnELS Jeanne Kirby, Waterbury Judy Chalmer Jacqueline Calder Lindsey Carlson Vermont State Archives and Records Mamet McKee, Duxbury Mary Chapin Durling Administration (VSARA), Middlesex John Ostrum, Montpelier Paul Gambill Robert Hartwell Development Director Tricia Harper, Montpelier Tyler Scott, Essex Junction Danny Lichtenfeld Rob Hitzig, Montpelier Linda Willey, Waterbury Karen Taylor Mitchell LOCAL ARTS PARTnERSHiP gRAnTS Deb Markowitz, Montpelier Debbie New John Cusano Rep. Patricia McDonald, Berlin/Barre Art in State Buildings Legislative Peter Espenshade Wanda Minoli, Montpelier Advisory Committee CREATiOn gRAnT PAnELiSTS Mary-Margaret Schoenfeld Steve Rooney, Burlington Alex Aldrich, Executive Director, Paul Besaw Vermont Arts Council Susan Calza POETRY OUT LOUD Further input was also obtained by Judges: Gregory Sanford and Carolyn Antone. Rep. Alice Emmons, Chair Ned Castle House Institutions Committee Philip Baruth Vermont Fire Academy, Pittsford Gerry Myers, Commissioner, Zon Eastes Susan Bradt Alan Brown, South Burlington Dept of Buildings & General Services Miciah Gault Sarah Brock Peter Hack, Montpelier David Schutz, State Curator Jim Lockridge Alex Brown Bob Hooker, Pittsford Sen. , Chair Harry McEnerny Clarke Jordan Jim Litevich, Pittsford Sen. Institutions Committee Maggie Neale Gail Kilkelly Eileen McGee, Pittsford Ed Wolfstein, Chair, Jim Schley Jason Lorber Beth Miller, Middletown Springs VT State Board of Architects David Woolf Peter Money Michael Skaza, Pittsford Terry Youk Martha Zweig John Wood, Berlin/Barre ARTS LEARning PAnELiSTS Emcee: Wendy Cohen CULTURAL FACiLiTiES gRAnT PAnELiSTS Geof Hewitt Forensics Lab & Department of Dee Christie Kim Bent Teaching Artists: Public Safety, Waterbury Sara Doncaster Partridge Boswell Geof Hewitt Images (top to bottom): Theater Adventure program & Whitney Aldrich, Waterbury Alicia Fisk Andrew Crane Morgan Irons New England Youth Theater Dr. Eric Buell, Waterbury Lynn Haas Tracy Martin Verandah Porche 16 Lisa Ryan Baron Wormser 17

INDIVIDUAL inDiViDual Donors www.vermontartscouncil.org Robert & Nancy Pope Peter and Jan Brough > Continued David & Diana Raphael Maurice & Barbara Brown Rep. Gary Reis David Budbill & Lois Eby Alban & Margaret Richey Mary Byrnes Catherine Hall Lipke John & Robin Milne Lea Sneider Paul & Peggy Irons Donors Mildred Rose Carol Calhoun Recille C. Hamrell Anais Mitchell Ronni Solbert Sarah Kariko Peter & Nicolette Clarke David Rowell Marialisa Calta inDiViDual Celine Hargraves Linda & Edward Mitchell S.B. Sowbel Karolina Kawiaka Alison H. 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Holmes Elizabeth Nelson and Steve Stettler Rob Mermin Ruth Goldstone Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Dole Milton Simpson Katie Cleaver Virginia L. Hood Jeffrey Kinsey Judy & Will Stevens Peter Miller Andrew & Christine Hall Daniel A. Facilla Michael Singer Mr. & Mrs. Davenport Cleveland Lisa Hoyt Grace Nelson Robert Nassau & Nancy Storrow Andrea Morgante Louis & Margaret L. Kannenstine John Fagan John & Lizabeth Snell Dalen Cole Mariot Huessy Lisa Nelson Enrique Bueno & Yvonne Straus Donald L. Morrison Mary Louise Pierson & James Wert Stephen Ferber Anne Felton Spencer Rosalind Compain David & Barbara Hume Radetta Nemcosky Bob and Pat Swartz Grace Nelson John Russell Jill Fox Bob Stannard Steve and Mags Conant Henry Isaacs Lynn Newcomb Harlan C. Sylvester Brian O’Neill Gerianne Smart Mr. & Mrs. A. Corwin Frost Philip & Marcia Steckler John and Polly Connell Woody & Ingrid Jackson James & Penelope Nolte Brendan Taaffe John and Agnes Ormsby Hilary Gade & John Peters Meta Strick Louisa Conrad Ralph Jacobs Amy Noyes Suzanne Tanner Gordon & Sylvia Pettingell David & Gisela Gamper Stephanie Suter Carol and Malcolm Cooper Thomas & Marilyn James Margo Nutt Josephine Tate Ken Pick $500-$999 Sen. Robert T. Gannett Steve Swayne Brian Cosgrove Chris Jeffrey Cynthia Nye Carl & Ching-Wen Taylor Peter & Gay Regan Anonymous (1) Anne Germanacos Caro Thompson Paul Costello Tim Jennings Judith O’Brien Steven Thomas & Deborah Bassett Janet Ressler David Carris Elizabeth Gill & Thomas Muench Nick & Joan Thorndike Jay Craven & Bess O’Brien Jane May Jones Jean Olson Lydia Thomson Edward L. Richards, Jr. John & Laurie Chester Arnold & Virginia Golodetz Jonathan Udis Nancy Cronin Kenneth Jones Susan Osgood Margaret Torrey Larry Richardson David Ellenbogen Mr. & Mrs. Donald K. Gordon Paul Ugalde Ann Curran Mary Catherine Jones Anthony Otis Mark & Robin Twery Jerome & Erika Rogoff Richard Dreissigacker & Judy Geer William & Valerie Graham Denis Versweyveld & Judith Rey Alan Dater & Lisa Merton Melvin & Ynez Kaplan Amy Otten Claire Van Vliet Robin Rothman Wallace and Natalie Good Philip H. Gray Winifred S. Vogt Marie Davis Charles & Mary Keck Gayle Ottmann Amalia Veralli Jim Schley & Rebecca Bailey Lowell & Sandra Mintz Mr. & Mrs. Paul Growald Ruth Wallman Ronald & Martha Decoigne Rep. Emma Ottolenghi Lindsay Wade Benjamin Schore Peter Morris and Pennie Beach Carolyn Enz Hack Janet Wallstein Robert & Louise DeCormier Michael Fox Kennedy Rik Palieri and Marianna Holzer Naima Wade Jean Sharry John & Katherine Paterson Betsy Hallett Barry & Elsa Waxman Phyllis Demong Kristen King Marilyn Parker Susan Wahlrab Jill Skillin Mr. & Mrs. George W. Peck IV Paul Hartman & Barbara Conrey Londa Weisman Nancy N. Diefenbach Sen. John and Melinda Patterson M. Emmet Walsh Sallie Soule Ed & Jane Pincus Brooke Herndon & Eric Miller Richard White Thomas & Patricia DiSilvio Steven & Bonnie Klimowski Lucy Patti and Bill Merrylees Paul & Jennifer Waring George & Hanne Steinmeyer Andrea Rogers & Avery Hall Donald & Victoria Herzberg Wink & Bonny Willett Nelson & Carolyn Dittmar Patricia Klinefelter Collette Paul Andrew Weill Thea Storz Diane & Michael Scolaro Leo & Anna Hinkley Nat & Martha Winthrop Willie Docto & Greg K. Trulson David & Lowell Klock Henry and Barbara Payson Michael & Ethel Weinberger Richard Suitor Jim & Debby Stein Sharpe Jennifer Hopkins Greg Worden Frank & Ducky Donath Donald Knaack Eve S. Pearce Judith Weohsier Fred & Diane Swan Arthur & Hanne Williams Jed & Jini Hornung Gov. James & Dorothy Douglas John Lane Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith Peter Arthur Weyrauch Robert & Karen Tortolani Richard & Marie Houghton Sen. William & Olene Doyle Ms. Carol Langstaff Cristina Pellechio D. Billings & Sally Wheeler Daniel & Andrea Varney Nancy Howe $40-$99 Stuart & Shelli DuBoff Sydney Lea & Robin Barone Faith L. Pepe Stuart & Sarah Williams Peter Ker Walker $100-$499 Robert & Cora May Howe Anonymous (11) Katherine Johntra Jack & Susi Learmonth Ralph Perkins Marian Willmott Elizabeth Wallman Anonymous (9) Gale Hurd Susan Abbott & James Arisman J. Thomas Dunne Lynn Leimer Janice Perry Nancy Means Wright John Weaver Bonnie Acker & John Davis Eve Jacobs-Carnahan & Paul Carnahan Jackie Abrams & Sarah Taylor Kenneth & Robin Leslie Darrilyn Peters Mark Yorra & Catherine Gates John Willis Louis & Pamela Ahlen Stephanie Jerome Leslie Abramson & Fred Rossman Linda Durkee Bette A. Libby Amy Pollack Julia Zanes & Donald Saaf David Wilson & Irene Schrauth Wilson Patricia Passmore Alley Thomas P. Johnson & Ina Smith Joseph & Lois Acinapura Barbara D. Dworkin Kathryn Link Katherine Pond & Fred Stetson Michael Zeigler Leland Alper Diane Kemble Miriam Adams Alisa R. Dworsky William Lipke Verandah Porche Bhakti Ziek Gisela Alpert Frederick & Martha Lapham James & Brooke Adler Zon Eastes & Peggy Spencer Barbara Lipstadt Peggy Potter Stephen Alpert Jaime Laredo & Sharon Robinson Irving Adler Barbara Ekedahl Mr. & Mrs. Francis Lobdell David L. Powsner and Julia Alvarez & Bill Eichner Cherolyn & Robert Laston Ellen Smith Ahern Bill & Titia Ellis Carolyn Long Shona Marston $1-$39 Jon and Betsy Anderson Sarah Launderville Richard Alther Martha Elmes Norwood and Joanna Long Christopher Preston Anonymous (4) Jonathan Andrews & Lisa Rader Margaret Lawrence Jane Ambrose Jyl Emerson Daniel Lusk & Angela Patten Kate Purdie & Andy Reichsman Geoff & Carol Baker Anne M. August Gladwyn Leiman Z. Philip Ambrose John & Sandra Everitt Carol E. MacDonald Shanna Ratner Robert S. Bast Robert & Gretchen Babcock Jill Leininger Dawn K. Andrews Edward & Mary Feidner Joan MacKenzie Kathrena Ravenhorst-Adams Luis & Geraldine Batlle Mimi Baird Gertrude & Jeannette Lepine Eleanor Angell Robert & Cornelia Ferguson DeWitt & Vera Mallary Tiffany Rhynard Bill & Judy Beaney Robert H. Beach Jr. Rick Levy & Rhea Wilson Suzani Arnold Linda Gahneh Fox Theodore & Patricia Mandeville Susan Ritz Lois M. Beardwood Philip E. Beekman Christopher Lloyd & Vassie Sinopoulis John & Janice Avery Sarah R. Frechette Linda Maney Abby Rose Crawford Blagden Jeff & Julie Benay Robert Lloyd Rachel Baird Miriam K. Fredenthal William & Dana Mann Richard C. Rose James Borden Sandra Berbeco Todd Lockwood Barbara Barnes Paul Gagne Rep. Ann Manwaring Marcia & Joseph Rosen David & Lynne Brody David Binch & Willa Harris Chris & Ellen Lovell Sarah Bartlett & James A. Hester Jon Gailmor & Cathy Murphy Dennis W. Marden Jim & Ann Ross Enrique Bueno & Yvonne Straus Gregory & Karen Birsky Robert Lowary Eric & Ines Bass Galvin G. Gall Herbert & Joan Martin Kenneth Jr. Rothwell Kate Cadreact Edward & Marilyn Blackwell Ted Lyman Karen L. Becker Brenda Garand Benjamin and Anne Mason Barry & Arline Rotman William & Sandra Cathey Jan Blittersdorf Gene M. Lyons Kim Bent & Kathleen Keenan Barbara Garber Colin James McCaffery Harry M. Rowe Gloria Kamen Charney Willard & Maggie Boepple Janet MacLeod Iris M. Berezin Edward Gartner Dawn McConnell Ronald & Nancy Rucker Jennifer S. Cole Piero & Andrea Bonamico Arnie Malina Honorable Franklin S. & Pauline Billings Frank C Gaylord Lisa McCormick Lois Ruttenberg Meg Cottam Pal & Donna Borofsky Peter & Isabella Martin Elizabeth Billings & Michael Sacca Peter & Christina Gibbons Brent & Maya McCoy Jo Sabel Courtney Joan Curtis William & Ruth Botzow Robert McBride Sandra H. Bissex Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen Jeanne McWaters Ellen H. Satterthwaite Lois D’Arcangelo Robert & Maureen Brandt William & Elizabeth Metcalfe Dike & Reba Blair Peter Gould & Rep. Mollie Burke Pat Menduni Sue Schiller Sen. William & Olene Doyle Ray & Jody Brown Ralph Fine & Valerie Miller Casey Blanchard Becky Graber Rob Mermin Benson & Barbara Scotch Nicholas & Cornelia Emlen Jane Burkhardt Barbara & Mike Morrow Marianne S. Blanchard Joe & Susanna Grannis Rebecca Merrilees Wendy Severinghaus Christine Graham Elissa Campbell Polly Motley Eileen Boland James Heltz Marc & Chris Mihaly Michael & Jeanne Shafer Colleen Grout Maura Campbell Marv & Sue Neuman Bonnie J. Bollman & Blanche M. Lavoie Cindy Morgan Gregoire Lynn Miles Alice Simpson Janet Hazen Nicole Carignan & David Raphael Alan Nyiri Sarah Bowen John Barstow & Kate Gridley Gary D and Margaret Miller Shelby Hearon Michael & Nancy Sherman We have made every effort to ensure the John & Connie Carpenter Rosamond Orford Terry Boyle & Robin Worn Paul Gruhler Jean Miller David & Michelle Holzapfel John & Dianne Shullenberger accuracy of this report. We encourage Kathleen Carriere Jim & Mary Ottaway Charles & Gayl Braisted Allan Guggenheim Margaret Miller Maretta Hostetler Jeff Shumlin & Evie Lovett you to bring any errors to our attention. William & Priscilla Chester George & Jane Phinney Bread & Puppet Theater Robert & Barbara Haas Peter Miller Rachel Siegel James Hroncich Barbara Chick James & Judy Pizzagalli Laurie Brittain Carlos Haase Rep. Alice Miller Susan Smereka Linda Ingold 18 25 VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL 2011 Business & C ONTRIBUTIONS statement oF aCtiVities Organization Grants and Foundations Burklyn Arts Council Green Mountain Cultural Center Opera North Thunder Mill Design FY2011 Statement of Fiscal Activities * IBM Matching Grants Program Cabot Creamery Greensboro Free Library Opera Theatre of Weston Town Hall Theater, Inc. Polk Family Fund II Cambridge Arts Council H. Keith Wagner Partnership Paige and Campbell Town of Hartland Vermont Community Foundation Chaffee Art Center Helen Day Art Center Parish Players Town of Jamaica State Appropriation, Unrestricted REVENUE AMOUNT Chandler Center for the Arts Henry A. Bromelkamp+Co. Pierce Hall Community Center Town of Warren educational institutions Chelsea Green Publishing The Hub Teen Center and Skatepark Place Creative Company Upper Valley Arts Private Contributions, Governor’s Institutes of Vermont Other Revenue Chroma Technology IBM Corporation Poultney Historical Society Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. State General Fund, Unrestricted $ 507,607 Middlebury Studio School Concept II, Inc. In-Sight Photography The Puppetree Vermont Design Institute Monteverdi Music School Craftsbury Chamber Players Long Trail Brewing Company Revels North Inc Vermont Independent School Other Restricted State Revenue 230,913 VT State High School Dance Festival Darkroom Gallery Lost Nation Theatre River Arts of Morrisville of the Arts Wellspring School Federal Recovery Grant 1,000 Dorset Players Inc Lyric Theatre Company Sage City Symphony Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Other Corporations Ernst & Young Magic Hat Brewing Co Sayon Camara Drumming Association Restricted Federal NEA Grant 812,400 State Revenue Art on Main Eleva Chamber Players The Mailing Center Shelburne Vinyard Vermont Shakespeare Company Endowment Donations 21,840 Barre Opera House Discover Jazz Festival Main Street Arts Shidaa African Cultural Troupe Vermont State Employees Credit Union Basin Harbor Club Footprints Manchester Music Festival ShoeLess Management Vermont Symphony Orchestra Private grants, contributions, interest & misc. 128,663 Bella Voce - Women’s Chorus of Vermont Friends of Music at Guilford Middlebury Festival On The Green Social Band VSA Arts of Vermont Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Inc Friends of the Brandon Town Hall The Music Box South End Arts and Wooden Horse Arts Guild total revenue $1,702,423 Billings Farm and Museum Friends of the Vergennes Opera House No Strings Marionette Company Business Association Yellow Barn Musica School Bleu Sky Creative Frog Hollow Craft Association Oldcastle Theater Company Stowe Performing Arts NEA/Other Federal Grants Brattleboro Arts Initiative Green Mountain Chorus Onion River Sports Swenson Granite Company

staFF B oarD o F Gayle ottmann, Quechee EXPENSES trustees Gary reis, St. Johnsbury Arts Education Vergennes Grants alexander (alex) l. aldrich Pennie Beach, Gerianne smart, Vergennes Creation & Executive Director David Carris (Chair), Quechee Community Arts Community Montpelier steve swayne, Creation & Community Arts Grants $ 242,671 michele Bailey Grants Development Program Director Caro thompson, Grants James Clubb, Dorset West Danville Arts Education Grants 102,138 504/ADA Accessibility Coordinator Carlos Haase, Montpelier Paul ugalde (Vice-Chair), Community Development Grants 234,087 marie Bernier marie Houghton, Colchester South Burlington Executive Assistant stephanie Jerome, Brandon Greg Worden, Brattleboro Program Services, Partnerships, Projects 608,442 elaine Dufresne margaret (Peggy) lampe Governor Director of Administration Fundraising & Development 96,277 Kannenstine, (ex-officio) lindsey Harty Carlson Woodstock General, Administrative 303,386 Development Director margaret lawrence, t rustees WH o Sculpture Garden and Spotlight Gallery Curator Lyme, NH General, total expenses $1,587,001 s erV e D in tH e Administrative lori Hayer rob mermin, Montpelier Past Year: Fiscal and Technology Assistant Barbara morrow (Vice Chair), melinda moulton, Fundraising & Program Services, susan mcDowell Sutton Huntington Development Partnerships, NET ASSETS Program Coordinator Projects Total Net Assets, audited 6/30/10 $ 831,608 Jen Pelletier staFF WH o s erV e D Web and Communications Manager in tH e Past Year: www. Change in net assets, unaudited 115,422 sonia rae Diane manion scolaro vermont Artist and Community Services Manager Development and Communications Director arts Total Net Assets, unaudited 6/30/11 $ 947,030 aislinn Doyle stacy raphael council * Unaudited - Audit Report available upon request Education and Community Programs Manager Digital & New Media Manager .org John Zwick Art of Action Project Director Danielle Baroudi vermontartscouncil.org Peter Gould & Rep. Mollie Burke www. max matthews 20 26 21