NEW HAMPSHIRE ARTS NEWS

[ Volume XXXIV Number 3 Autumn 2008 ] ­ 2008

2009 Fellow Hideaki Miyamura’s carved vase with blue hare’s fur glaze. 18.5” x 7.5”

Photo courtesy of the artist TABLE OFCont ents

From the Director ...... 1 FROM THE DIRECTOR Staff/Council News ...... 2 Director Meet the 2009 Fellows ...... 4 Traditional Arts Apprenticeships ...... 15 Autumn at the State Arts Council feels watercolors and lively woodcuts and Surprised By Joy ...... 20 like the start of a new school year, time engravings from two New Hampshire to put the energizing days of summer treasures, Nat Burwash and Herbert Captain Fiddle’s Festival Lessons ...... 21 site visits behind us and fill our days with Waters. Both artists were paid a weekly the busyness of meetings and reports. salary by the WPA to keep on working Dollars for the Arts ...... 22 New Hampshire Arts News We are now working at getting and giving through the 1930s. (To see examples of Dobbs with Verse...... 26 the monies that flow through our agency. their work, go to www.nh.gov/nharts/art- This means writing a new biennium sandartists/exhibitgallery/index.htm New Hampshire Arts News is published budget request for 2010-2011, reporting and click on the 2003 exhibition, quarterly. It reaches 6,500 people free of Around the State ...... 27 to the National Endowment for the Arts Artists at Work.) charge. To change address information, on what we did with last year’s grant to please e-mail [email protected], or write From a Green-Thumbed Artist...... 31 us, and convening new applicants to So, we hope, when we request the to New Hampshire Arts News, State Arts Council Grant Deadlines ...... 32 help them compete for State Arts Council restoration of these funds in FY2010- New Hampshire State Council on the grants for 2010. The cycle is as 2011, that those who have the power to 1 Arts, 2 ⁄2 Beacon Street, Suite 225, predictable as the seasons. appropriate funding to the State Arts Concord, NH 03301-4447. Council won’t just see dollar signs, they On the Cover What is not predictable is how much will see what they become and what State of New Hampshire money we will have to work with from they mean to New Hampshire citizens. Department of Cultural Resources Hideaki Miyamura, Kensington year to year. This year, for example, we These meager dollars become artists Division of the Arts thought we were going to have $43,000 teaching students in dozens of schools, © NH State Council on the Arts “Over the last few years, I have experimented to discover new more in grant money to award than we artists guiding elderly and ill patients to Concord, New Hampshire USA glazes which combine crystallization with iridescence,” Hideaki actually do. This reduction came about express their hopes and fears through Miyamura writes in his artist’s statement. “I have researched because of the bad economy and its artmaking, artists performing on stages crystal glaze techniques in the United States, Europe, Japan effect on state revenues, which are great and small, artists taking time in and China. In the long history of crystal glazes, I could find no heavily dependant on real estate transfer studios and studies to create new work, iridescent crystal glaze. This fueled my ten-year-long passion taxes and vacation dollars for rooms and artists passing on the skills honed and intent to create an iridescent crystal glaze which has never meals taxes. Staycation, anyone? through generations of artmaking to their been made anywhere, at anytime in history.” Hideaki is currently apprentices, and the work of artists of working with a glaze he calls “Yohen,” which means “Stars While we understand that state govern- this time and times past being exhibited Editor: Jane Eklund ment needed to cut back, we would like Production Manager: Julie Mento glistening in a night sky.” and performed throughout the state. to think that protecting the state’s All of this activity contributes to the Graphic Design: Brian Page, Read more about Hideaki and the other 2009 Artist Fellows, investment in the arts could have helped creative economy. Dharma Creative beginning on page 4. the economy. This is the argument we Contributors: Hetty Startup, Rachel Lehr, plan to make for restoring those funds in This issue of New Hampshire Arts News Sarah Haskell, Arts the next biennium budget. We see the focuses on some of the state’s artists Council Staff Correction arts not only as economic stimulus but who will be spinning fiscal 2009 dollars also as essential to the human spirit. into metaphoric gold, art for all. The Spring-Summer issue of New Hampshire Arts News What a two-for combination that is. contained an incorrect photo credit. The photo of Sylvia During the Great Depression, the arts Miskoe cutting cake at her retirement party was taken by kept hope alive, gave hints of better Evelyn Roberts. Apologies for the error. times ahead, and the federal and state Visit the State Arts government knew that paying artists to keep working through hard times was Council’s Facebook group. Rebecca L. Lawrence necessary. In this state, the League of Director, Division of the Arts This newsletter is available New Hampshire Craftsmen is a legacy from a public investment in 1932. The electronically or in alternative State Library has a collection of vibrant

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New on Staff The dynamo behind the success of Saint-Gaudens 2009 AVA Gallery is Bente Torjusen, Jane Eklund has joined the staff of the Sculptor-in-Residence whose vision and drive helped the New Hampshire State Council on the Leesa Haapapuro Arts. As Programs Information Officer, organization accomplish its capital works on a heroic- she’ll be working, in consultation with fundraising goals and the substantive scale clay figure. Director Rebecca Lawrence and other renovation of the building, which program coordinators, to get out the includes many “green” initiatives. word about opportunities available to artists, organizations, schools and com- Photos by Lynn Martin Graton munities through the State Arts Council. Jane’s role includes editing the agency’s Diora, by Gary Haven Smith, one of the quarterly newsletter and biennial report, Upper Valley Arts Staff Tour coordinating the Artist Fellowship fellows whose work is featured in the Sharon awards program and overseeing the Arts Center exhibit, was recently installed on August was the time, and the Upper Valley was the place for Percent for Art program, which selects the lawn of the State Library in Concord. the State Arts Council staff members’ annual site visits. artwork for state buildings. The sculpture was commissioned by the The visits provide a first-hand view of the successes of an arts State Arts Council. community and the challenges it faces. Typically, visits include A longtime journal- meetings with artists in their studios, tours of facilities, meetings The Upper Valley ist, Jane worked Photo by Julie Mento with board members and staff of grantee organizations, and a site visits included for 15 years at the performance or two. This year the packed two-day tour, organ- a stop at Northern Monadnock ized by Creative Communities Coordinator Judy Rigmont, Stage. The theater Ledger-Transcript A Decade of Fellows included the Enfield Shaker Museum, sculptor Emile Birch’s in Peterborough, company’s Project Here’s a great opportunity to see studio in Canaan, the Upper Valley Arts Alliance, the newly where she served Playwright what some of New Hampshire’s best renovated AVA Gallery in Lebanon, the Lebanon Farmer’s as arts writer and Market, Opera North (and a production of Mozart’s The Magic encourages and editor and helped contemporary visual artists are up to: a Peterborough gallery is hosting an Flute), Northern Stage, the Hood Museum, and the supports young develop, and then Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site. went on to edit, the exhibit of work by artists who received writers. paper’s monthly Individual Artist Fellowships from the magazine supple- State Arts Council during the last 10 years. New Programs ment, The Occasional Moose. She is also The Sharon Arts Center is showing Information Officer a poet and fiction writer who in 2000 “A Gathering of New Hampshire Visual earned an artist fellowship in poetry Jane Eklund Arts Fellows: The Last Decade” in its from the State Arts Council. In addition, Exhibition Gallery through November Photo by she’s received grants from the Iowa Arts 29. The 25 artists in this group show Marilyn Weir Council and the Astraea Foundation, work in a wide variety of mediums, and has won numerous awards from the including painting, photography, sculpture, New Hampshire Press Association, ceramics, installation art, and film. Opera North’s 2009 season included including being named Writer of the Year a production of Puccini’s Madame three times. Individual Artist Fellows have been recognized annually since 1981. Butterfly, requiring a number of Jane has a bachelor’s degree in English Fellowships are awarded in three cate- stylish wigs. from Colby College and a Master of Fine gories, Visual and Media Arts, Arts degree from the University of Iowa Performing Arts, and Literature, and are Writers’ Workshop. She lives in the highly competitive. Monadnock Region. AVA has a strong youth education program The Sharon Arts Center Exhibition One of the Enfield exhibits and, thanks to recent renovations, it has ample Gallery is located at 40 Grove Street in supported by the State Arts downtown Peterborough. For more studio space to hold classes. Council explored the tradition information, call 924-7676, or visit www.sharonarts.org. of Shaker chair making. 2 3 ArNew Hampshire Arts News: Autumnts 2008 Council NewsNew Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Meet the 2009 Fellows Clark Knowles, Fiction Writer, Portsmouth Here they are – the latest New Hampshire Artist Fellows. This talented group represents the range of professional artists who live and work in New Hampshire. Each 2009 Artist Fellow rose to the top in By Jane Eklund anonymous peer reviews of work samples from over 100 visual, media, literary, and performing artists. The artists, while at different points in their careers, have all proven a commitment to their work over time. Clark Knowles had been working very short stories in such prestigious journals as Glimmertrain Stories and the Black To be considered for a 2010 State Arts Council Fellowship, submit an application by the deadline of Friday, happily at the Music Hall, Portsmouth’s April 10, 2009. Updated guidelines and an application form will be posted on www.nh.gov/nharts by nonprofit performing arts center, for Warrior Review, and earned the Mark November 1. seven years, moving into a position as Twain Award for Short Fiction from Red There’s a public side and director of facility and production, when Rock Review. a private side to Lawrence he had, as he puts it, “a minor, Siegel’s life as a composer. approaching-30 freak-out.” The State Arts Council The problem wasn’t with his job; rather, fellowship will help him it was the realization that for years, he’d nurture the private side – been calling himself a writer, but he writing music in his hadn’t been writing. studio in Westmoreland. Clark, who grew up in a Virginia suburb Photo by Jane Eklund of Washington D.C., had moved north, after graduating from George Mason The fellowship award University, with the intention of earning a will buy time for master’s degree in creative writing at the Francestown screen- University of New Hampshire. He wasn’t writer and filmmaker accepted to the master’s program, Hilary Weisman Graham. however, and settled in to the Music Hall The money will allow job instead. her to concentrate on His small “freak-out” brought him back to new projects. his original aim. He took a fiction writing He’s currently at work on his third novel; Clark Knowles lives and writes in Photo by Julie Mento workshop at UNH, and his work was the fellowship award will help him finish good enough to get a slot in the university’s it. But winning the fellowship isn’t just the Portsmouth The funds from Hideaki Miyamura’s graduate program and, eventually, an about the $5,000, Clark says. “I’m really farmhouse that he fellowship will help cover the costs of a instructor job in the English Department. psyched about the money. It’s going to and his wife have new kiln for his Kensington studio. Along the way, he earned a Master of be a big help. But the really cool thing is been restoring. Photo by Julie Mento Fine Arts degree at Bennington College. just outside of the money, what it Photos by means,” he notes. “It feels like this is a And he put writing at the center of his Jane Eklund first step in the rest of my writing life.” Clark Knowles, a life, where it shares space with his family Portsmouth fiction (his daughter, Grace, nine, is a fourth- In Clark’s case, it’s a step into deep writer, will use his grader, and his wife, Gail, works in water, fictionally speaking. His novel-in- fellowship to complete e-commerce), with teaching, and with progress was sparked by the 2004 a novel that takes renovating an early 19th-century tsunami in Indonesia, and then fueled by place over the course farmhouse in Portsmouth. He’s published Hurricane Katrina. The first chapter, of 10,000 years. “It’s a which he submitted to the State Arts risky piece of writing,” Council as part of his fellowship Poet Jennifer Militello of Goffstown works in a says Clark, shown here application, takes place in the watery backyard studio built by her husband. Her award with dog Fielding. aftermath of an apocalyptic flood. money will provide a teaching-free summer to Photo by Jane Eklund work on a manuscript titled Body Thesaurus. continued on next page

4 Photo by Jane Eklund 5 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Writer New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 I remember now. Something was chasing blackbirds from my mouth. My hands Clark Knowles were willows or their speechless wives. (continued) Poet — from “The Museum of Being Born” “I’m really psyched about the money. It’s going to be a big help. Jennifer Militello, Poet, Goffstown But the really cool thing is just outside of the money, what it By Jane Eklund means. It feels like this is a first step in the rest of my writing life.” Imagine seeing as a kind of feeling. Poetry then took her south, to the Imagine the waking world overlapping University of North Carolina, where she “It’s a risky piece of writing,” he admits, First drafts are the hardest for him. with dreams, with nightmares. Imagine earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. But one that steps outside the realm of Rewriting, though, is another story. language that shifts like weather. soon she was back in New Hampshire, realism and wades into myth. “It’s going “I love revising,” he says. “That’s when living in Nashua and working on her first A Jennifer Militello poem can propel you collection of poems. A job teaching at to cover about 10,000 years.” I can really make the writing come alive into a universe of image and leave you for me.” River Valley Community College took Clark, who’s 42, says, “It’s taken me a hovering on the edge of something her to Claremont in 2002. These days fantastic and evocative. “If you pin long time to figure out who I am when What else fuels his writing? things down too much,” Jennifer says, I sit down to write.” His process has “I drink a lot of coffee,” he says. “you lose that play that allows you to changed over the years, too, and it’s capture the reality – the kind of interior, depended, in part, on the circumstances underneath reality.” of his life. There If that sounds like Emily Dickinson’s was a time when “In On Becoming a Novelist John “Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant,” it’s his writing sessions not surprising: Jennifer herself was Gardner likens the life of a writer to were very sched- propelled into the world of poetry after uled, when he’d get a practice, or yoga. Each day, at stumbling upon a collection of Dickinson’s up early and work my dark little basement writing poems. She was 10 years old, poking before his family ‘area,’ I push deeper into that world around in a back bedroom at her grand- began to stir. In his parents’ house, and when she read the about which the warnings have been poems, she remembers, “I thought, This last house, he wrote so clear. The writing itself has paved is something I want to do.” in an unfinished the way for me to be a different, basement, on a Born in The Bronx and raised mostly in desk made of a better man. I’m comforted by my Rhode Island, Jennifer chose UNH for sheet of plywood knowledge that the words (and work) college because her family had taken many camping and skiing trips to the state. and two sawhorses, can sustain me; indeed they must “I wanted to live here from the first couple she commutes to River Valley from Jennifer Militello in an area presided sustain me. I believe in the work, in of times that we came,” she says. “I loved Goffstown, which is midway between Clark Knowles over by an oil tank and furnace. In the trusting my imagination, in writing in the winter, the fact that you could hear Claremont and Cambridge, Mass., Photo courtesy of farmhouse, he’s got an attic space set like my life depended on it, in the the quiet.” She also loved the state’s where her husband, Kieran Clyne, is a Jennifer Militello aside for writing – once he’s able to license plate slogan, “Live Free or Die,” horticulturist at Harvard University. hopeful act of creation.” renovate it. For now, he writes in the which struck her, as a child, as very bold. Kieran is the person behind Jennifer’s living room, when he has time. – Clark Knowles, At UNH, Jennifer says, she was naive: backyard studio, a cozy and elegant from his artist’s statement “I knew I loved poetry, but I didn’t know building that rivals anything you might what that meant yet.” She took a form and find at an artists’ colony. He built it theory class with Charles Simic (who himself, working nightly after coming recently wrapped up a stint as U.S. home from his day job while Jennifer Poet Laureate), and “learned a lot, was carrying their baby (son Dylan is really quickly.” now one). Nestled into a wooded area, continued on next page 6 7 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Jennifer Militello

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it’s a tranquil spot for Jennifer to write Jennifer’s poems are driven more by poetry, a process she describes as voice than by image or metaphor; she’s Hideaki Miyamura, Potter, Kensington intense, complicated, and ruthless. looking to capture the intensity of voice, By Julie Mento she says, the furiousness of the eye. Her She culls the best work from pages of first full-length collection, History of the The long driveway to Hideaki Miyamura’s free writing, then culls and culls again – Always Pain, comes out next spring after which she culls some more. house leans into a deciduous forest. from Tupelo Press. She’s now working Hideaki welcomes me into his studio, a “I’m putting out this dirt through a sieve on a manuscript titled Body Thesaurus. about 47 times,” she says. She takes the spare white space that reminds me of the “It’s like I’m Her State Arts Council fellowship will chalky surface of clay pots before they’re pieces and then, she says, “I look to see fund a teaching-free summer in which to carnivorous in what they want to do.” Eventually, she fired. Jewel-colored vessels are arranged finish that manuscript and start working on towering shelves – a kind of temporary writes a draft. Later she types it on a on new poems. my process. I typewriter; still later she enters it into a pottery nursery where they await dispersal destroy drafts. computer, where it goes into a file – only Having time to work in a concentrated to homes, galleries, and museums around to be taken apart again when she comes fashion is an immense gift, she says, as the world. I sacrifice back to it. well as an affirmation of her work and Outside is the chaos of a construction worth as a writer. “It’s just like some- them. I’m not site. “That,” Hideaki says, “is where my “It’s like I’m carnivorous in my process. body saying to you, Great: you’re worth new kiln will be.” The modest structure going to make I destroy drafts. I sacrifice them,” she some support.” says. “I’m not going to make really good will house a kiln that will allow him to really good poems unless every single moment in Online: www.jennifermilitello.com create vessels more than 40 inches in those poems is good.” height; currently he is limited to 28 inches. poems unless The $5,000 fellowship award will cover a every single percentage of the cost. He is anxious to complete the project and fire up the kiln What We No Longer Know Finished works moment in sometime this winter. those poems Whether the severe theater of your shadow awaiting trans- breaks into ravens or is broken into crows. Hideaki, who specializes in high fire portation to their is good.” porcelain clay, is currently developing a final destination Whether morning makes a list of last night’s weapons, glaze he calls “Yohen Crystal.” Yohen or if warmth is any kind of reminder. means “stars glistening in a night sky.” Glazes, specifically Tenmoku glazes Whether the night is a wide car worth driving. dating back to China’s Sung Dynasty, Whether angry water makes martyrs of the stones. inspired him, as a youth, to become a potter. Born in Japan to an architect and When exactly fear, crushed by your feet civil engineer, Hideaki apprenticed for six as you entered the room, gave off its slight odor. years with a master potter. During that time, he developed more than 10,000 When exactly you opened your mouth test pieces. Some of his current glazes are and I saw the teeth of a laid trap. inspired by contemporary glass blowers. If pieces of ourselves are darker when apart. Hideaki is a regular exhibitor at the How my skin healed if it was never cut. League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s annual fair. His simple and elegant displays, Whether open doors everywhere ever open further. Hideaki Miyamura with white walls and a dozen or so vessels, When two voices at once become the same voice twice. Photos by Julie Mento draw repeat visitors and newcomers alike. (This poem originally appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review.) Pottercontinued on next page 8 9 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Hideaki Miyamura (continued) Composer “I want my pieces to feel in balance with their environment, to feel Small pre-fired as though they co-exist naturally with their surroundings.” cups in a row. Lawrence Siegel, Composer, Westmoreland

He has been a juried member of the By Jane Eklund League since 1995 and was awarded his first fellowship from the State Arts “This is the beginning of the story,” says A program in which such a piece is Council in 2002. His work is collected by Larry Siegel, leading the way up a short created and performed by members of a individuals, corporations, and museums path from his house to a remote studio. community.”) “That became my day job, all over the world, from New Zealand to The house itself is already remote – and my teaching job,” he says. Israel and Tokyo to Vienna, but he is down a street that winds through the most proud of his representation in town of Westmoreland, up a long dirt collections at the Sackler Museum at road and over the crest of a hill, then a Harvard, the Art Institute of Chicago, thousand feet up a steep dirt driveway. the Minneapolis Museum of Art, the “This choice of life here in a rural village American Craft Museum, the Carnegie in New Hampshire, and a studio in the Museum, the Renwick Museum, and the woods, and a life that’s not focused on a Pucker Gallery in Boston. teaching job, but on project-based work, “I create my own interpretations of was borne 25 years ago at the classical forms, while trying to achieve a MacDowell Colony,” Larry says says. clarity and simplicity of line,” Hideaki And while, unlike residents at the presti- says. “I am very conscious of the ways gious Peterborough retreat for artists, he in which a form interacts with the space has to make his own lunch, he finds the around it. I want my pieces to feel in same quiet and inspiration in the studio balance with their environment, to feel beyond his home. as though they co-exist naturally with their surroundings. When I create my The State Arts Council is a big part of pieces, I hope to make people feel good the story of Larry’s life as a composer. when they look at my work. My goal is Back in 1990, he answered the agency’s That’s part of the public aspect of his Lawrence Siegel to try to evoke a feeling of inner peace call for proposals for projects celebrating work, along with conducting and with and tranquility.” life in rural New Hampshire. That led to staging pieces of his own creation (most Photo by recently he mounted “Kaddish,” a song “Village Store Verbatim,” a “folk opera” Jane Eklund Online: www.miyamurastudio.com co-written with Valeria Vasilevski. While cycle about the Holocaust, which he was putting “Village Store” together, debuted in May at Keene State College he had a brainstorm about doing similar and is now touring). Hideaki’s studio projects, but conducting them as The private aspect – composing in his kiln, under residencies during which community studio – is the one he plans to nurture members would do the writing and construction with his fellowship. “I definitely have in performing. mind writing chamber music,” he says. Photos by Since then, he’s done about 25 Verbatim He’s percolating on a couple of trios for Julie Mento projects under the aegis of Tricinium, his musicians he knows. nonprofit organization. (Verbatim is defined on his web site as “A musical continued on next page theatre piece whose text comes directly, word-for-word, from gathered dialogue. 10 11 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Filmmak Hilary Weisman Graham, Filmmaker & Lawrence Siegel Screenwriter, Francestown

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Larry came to composing comparatively shares his house with his family. His wife, It’s one of those all-too-familiar rainy which she competed against other film- late in his school career, though he’d Leigh Marthe, is a poet who works as a days we’ve had this summer when I travel makers for a million dollar development been playing piano since the age of district coordinator for Congressman to visit Hilary Graham. As if directed by deal with Dreamworks. “On the Lot” three. Growing up in assorted places Paul Hodes; children Julian, three, the weather, everyone and everything received 12,000 submissions from around the United States, he listened to Jonah, nine, and Clair, 18 (a student at seems to be in shades of gray. A soggy across the country; Hilary made it to the classical and folk music. “And I would Plymouth State), are all musical, he notes. trek to her door isn’t the way I want to Top 10 in the competition before being really listen,” he says. “It was very start out. Hilary greets me as I step into eliminated. “I’ve made it a point to live an artist’s meaningful to me. There’s some call of her home, dripping wet. “Welcome! life,” Larry says – and he’s done it in a Humor is a common thread throughout music. It was from inside, a real visceral Would you like some green tea?” She way that expands the function of art. her work and, more specifically, the work response to music.” beams, seemingly unaffected by the she submitted for review to the fellowship disagreeable weather. award panel. One of the four short film “I make an effort to use genre of music as a compositional element. submissions, The Legend of Donkey-tail Willie introduces viewers to a young man My style is as many styles as possible.” named Willie, born with a donkey’s tail, and his tale of misfortunes.

During his college years, he spent some The mission of the nonprofit Tricinium, As we discuss her various projects, time studying piano in Italy – and came for instance, is to harness the power of we chuckle about the storylines and to the realization that he didn’t want to the arts to nurture civic engagement. His Hilary’s misadventures and struggles pursue a career as a concert pianist. collaborative projects offer communities, while participating in “On the Lot.” When he returned to the City College of organizations, and schools unthreatening The conversation is a welcome antidote New York, he consulted with a professor, ways to look at and talk about difficult to the drab day. who pointed him toward composition. issues or to raise questions – in addition Hilary Weisman Hilary has even more good news to He went on to graduate school at to celebrating themselves. Graham share about her work. Censored was the Brandeis University, earning a doctorate It’s not surprising that the toughest question Photo courtesy of in music theory and composition and grand prize winner at the Gimme Credit for Larry to answer on grant applications Hilary Weisman making a couple of forays to MacDowell, Screenplay Competition and the film will is: “What kind of music do you write?” be produced this autumn. Censored is Graham

which prompted him to forge his er The first time I met Hilary was at the also one of the top five short screenplays sometimes solitary life. It’s not too solitary, It all depends on the circumstances and State Arts Council’s annual Arts in though; while his studio is isolated, he the context, says the composer. In his at the Bare Bones Screenplay Education Conference back in 2002. Verbatim pieces, the conversations Competition and one of the top four She was appearing at the conference as among participants trigger the type of finalists at the 2007 Picture Start Awards. music that he selects. “I make an effort a new member of the Artist Roster. She The Green Balloon was one of the top 10 to use genre of music as a compositional has come a long way in those few years, screenplays at the Wild Sound One Page element,” he says. “My style is as many and I’m looking forward to catching up Screenplay Contest. Her feature screen- styles as possible.” with her. play Freebird was selected as one of 20 finalists in the 2008 Script Pimp screen- We climb the stairs to the loft where she On the web: www.tricinium.com writing competition and both The Grass is writes most of her screenplays and Always Greener and Bad Mommies are organizes her past and future projects. semi-finalists in the PAGE International The first thing I see there is her director’s Screenwriting Awards. chair from her stint on Fox Channel’s reality series “On the Lot,” produced by continued on next page Stephen Spielberg and Mark Burnett, in 12 13 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 2009 Traditional Arts Hilary Weisman Graham Apprenticeship Grants (continued)

The $5,000 fellowship award will buy Cultivating our Heritage Hilary some time, literally. Some of the By Lynn Martin Graton funds will go to day care for her young son so she can concentrate on future During harvest season we have many reminders of the importance of cultivating what is most important to us. Just as food nourishes the body, our traditions nurture projects. Living in a small town has Master and our communities. Each year, the Traditional Arts Program supports the preservation afforded her focus time and quality of of traditional arts by funding Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grants, which support a apprentice teams life for her young family. The use of the master artist to teach an experienced apprentice in one-to-one sessions. In Fiscal typically meet for Internet and other technologies allows Year 2009, the State Arts Council will support nine master/apprentice teams for a 80 to 120 hours her to not just stay informed and in total of $31,526. The grantees represent a diversity of traditions. National Endowment over a six- to for the Arts funds make it possible for the State Arts Council to support Border State touch with Los Angeles and other film 10-month period. hubs, but to compete and thrive as a Apprenticeships, wherein one member of the team must be a resident of New Funds awarded writer and filmmaker. Hampshire and the other may be from one of the neighboring states of Vermont, Maine, or Massachusetts. cover a modest Closing the door behind me and walking fee for the master back to my car, the sun has come out. artist’s time, It’s as if it had been there all along. supplies and Blacksmithing On the web: www.hilarygraham.com mileage essential Garry Kalajian, Bradford, to the apprentice- master artist – $3,000 ship. In order to Mike Cook, Weare, apprentice – $828 take full advantage of this unique Garry will be working with Mike on a pair Hilary’s director’s chair from her stint on Fox opportunity, the Channel’s reality show “On the Lot” of andirons. They will fabricate, harden, and temper the specialized tools that apprentice is Photo by Julie Mento Mike will need for the work. Garry will expected to have cover a variety of difficult techniques, the fundamentals including how to execute mortise and of the art form tenon joinery, forge weld, and how to Garry Kalajian in his workshop well in place make a “basket weave” decorative Photo by Lynn Martin Graton element. The team may also tackle a before applying traditional fireplace set consisting of a for the grant. poker, a broom handle, and a shovel. The marketing poster for Hilary’s short film Donkey Tail Willie Historically, blacksmiths played an essential role in the community, producing items necessary for agriculture and around the house. Forged iron is an excellent medium for artistic expression as well. – Garry Kalajian Screenwriter

14 15 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 TraditionsNew Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Blacksmithing Chinese Dance

Lucian Avery at Lucian Avery, Hardwick, Maine, Keke, Weston, Mass., master artist – $3,000 master artist – $2,327 his forge Ree-Ven Wang Dai, Hollis, apprentice – $1,000 Nathan Colpitts, Monroe, Photo courtesy of apprentice – $1,000 In 2007 Keke and Ree-Ven received a Lucian Avery Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grant to Lucian will be starting Nathan off with the skills work on classical Chinese dances. In 2009, needed to make a basic set of blacksmithing tools, they will be working together again, this including tongs, punches, and hammers. The skills time on dances that involve the use of fans, Apprentice involved in this work include forging and including dances that can be traced to the tempering. They will then move on to a variety Tang Dynasty (circa 600-900), dances from Ree-Ven Wang Dai of functional projects. the Qing Dynasty (circa 1641-1911), and Photo by Lynn dances developed in the 1930s by the Beijing Dance Academy in honor of the Martin Graton Dai tribe.

Blacksmithing is one of the foundation trades on which our civilization was assembled. ... As greater audiences are exposed to Chinese folk and classical dance styles, the need to learn I think the skills themselves should be preserved in order to help us feel connected to and and preserve accurate dance techniques becomes ever more important. learn from the past, to enrich our lives in the present and as part of a shared cultural resource – Ree-Ven Wang Dai to draw on in the future. – Lucian Avery

Blue Grass Banjo Bruce Stockwell, Putney, Vt., master artist – $2,000 Ron Raiselis works on a barrel with Bruce Stockwell Bill Jubett, Rindge, apprentice – $839 Cooperage Glenn Lael backstage Bruce has an ambitious outline of material to cover Ron Raiselis, Portsmouth/ Photo courtesy of Photo courtesy of with Bill. They will start off with lessons on the Earl Scruggs-style of banjo picking. Over the course of Lebanon, Maine Glenn Lael Bruce Stockwell 20 lessons they plan to cover music theory, chords, master artist – $2,508 strategies for playing in major and minor keys, Glenn Lael, Portsmouth, melodies in the upper octaves, time signatures, apprentice – $662 playing harmony, and the extensive repertoire of Earl Scruggs and other great bluegrass players. Initially, Ron will be working with Glenn to refine his skills in making straight-sided buckets and tub shapes. They will then move on to the more difficult skills involved in making shaped barrels and kegs. These skills include shaving barrel staves, raising and assembling jointed staves, and making barrel heads and hoops. Their goal is to make three 10-gallon, water-tight kegs in white oak.

I’ve spent most of my life studying players who invented bluegrass, up close and personal, Ron is one of the few remaining master coopers in this country. ... Working with someone that and I feel I enjoy a special perspective that’s for the most part no longer available does that craft every day shortens the road and makes you a better craftsman. to young players first hand. – Glenn Lael – Bruce Stockwell

16 17 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Decoy Carving New England Contra Dance Fiddling Rodney Miller

Fred Dolan, Strafford, master artist – $2,885 Rodney Miller, Antrim, master artist – $3,000 Photo by Lynn David Kittredge, Newport, apprentice – $867 Jon Anderson, Harvard, Mass., apprentice – $1,000 Martin Graton Fred will begin by introducing David to the history Rodney will be working with Jon to expand his Fred Dolan and evolution of the decoy, the regional differences fiddle repertoire from the traditional Southern in style, and the works of the early masters. Fred Appalachian fiddle tunes he currently plays to with one of his will spend some time on the importance of observing the distinctive traditions of New England social carved decoys postures of wildfowl in natural settings and creating dance tunes. They will begin their work with forms that mimic these. Fred will then move to the techniques that include bow grip, bowing Are you looking Photo by Lynn carving aspects of a traditional floating decoy strokes and patterns, ornaments, and drones. for a traditional Martin Graton including the traditional rigging. They will cover the They will spend time on the New England artist to make a various types of wood that can be used, the finer dance repertoire and how to play these tunes presentation in techniques involved in carving, and use of hand for dancers. They will cover a wide range of tools. The last stage of the apprenticeship will rhythms from the contra dance repertoire your community? cover painting techniques. including reels, hornpipes, jigs, and waltzes. Remember to check out the Decoy carving is related to cultural heritage in that it is an unbroken link to a past that dates Along with the annual town hall meeting, contra dance traditions must be preserved and Traditional Arts back more than 1,000 years in this country alone. Decoy carving continues a chain of living passed on to future generations as [they] so importantly help define who we are and what we & Folklife history, links us with nature and with tradition. are about as a people. Listing on the – Fred Dolan – Rodney Miller www.nh.gov/nharts website. Click on “art & artists” on the left navigation Fly Tying bar to find it. Scottish Accordion Mark Favorite, Rochester, master artist – $2,705 Sylvia Miskoe, Concord, Mark Favorite master artist – $2,142 in his workshop Chris Clark, Lisbon, apprentice – $1,000 Douglas Brunson, Derry, Photo by Lynn apprentice – $763 Mark will cover all aspects of Martin Graton constructing the most impor- Sylvia will be working with Sylvia Miskoe and tant Classic Atlantic Salmon fly Douglas to provide important apprentice Douglas historical background on Scottish patterns. They will begin with Brunson the history of the art form and music and the composers who its evolution. They will move on to how to select the correct feathers for the specific have contributed to the genre. They plan to build upon Douglas’s music-reading Photo courtesy of skills and introduce him to playing tunes in a variety of keys. Sylvia plans to focus patterns they will cover, which will progress from basic to more complex with Sylvia Miskoe attention to the symmetry, balance, and proportion of each part of the fly. One of the their work around the five basic styles of Scottish music – airs, jigs, marches, reels, more complex techniques involves building up the “wing” of a fly using tiny strands and strathspeys. They will touch upon the use of the accordion in other music of up to five different types of feathers. traditions, including Quebecois music from Canada and Jewish Klezmer music.

Classic Atlantic Salmon Fly Tying is considered the highest form in fly tying and the I am excited to participate in this apprenticeship with Mrs. Miskoe because she shares methodologies push the tier to develop museum-quality work. my love for traditional Scottish music and I believe that she is the best person to teach me the – Mark Favorite feelings in the tunes. – Douglas Brunson

18 19 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Captain Fiddle’s Festival Lessons

Surprised by Joy By Judy Rigmont

By Hetty Startup Teaching artists rarely manage to find He noted that his experience as a student the time and extra dollars to become will assist him in facilitating his arts “Surprised by Joy,” a series of six readings to complement the readings, ranging students again, even if for only a week. education work in New Hampshire. of poetry accompanied by music, is the from Bach to three of her original But Ryan Thomson (“Captain Fiddle”) of Immediately upon returning home, he brainchild of Portsmouth Poet Laureate compositions. On March 9, after the first Newmarket, a performer, teacher, and wrote, he “worked up a performance Elizabeth Knies. The 2008 program is performance at Edgewood Centre in author of books about traditional fiddling, piece for twin fiddles which my son and I part of Knies’s year-long project, the first Portsmouth, resident Tom Ahearn read was able to attend the week-long Festival incorporated into a hands on educational half of which involved developing a special Edgar Allen Poe’s “Annabelle Lee” and of American Fiddle Tunes in Seattle, workshop at the annual Newmarket six-week bereavement session for Susan Kisslinger recited her own thanks to an Artist Entrepreneurial Grant Heritage Festival where participants Seacoast Hospice that employed poetry poem/song, “Deep Water from the Well.” from the State Arts Council. This annual learn the foot clogging technique.” Video and writing in various genres as an act of event has a 30-year history of bringing of this has been remembrance and expression of grief. Performances were held at Langdon Place in Dover, at Webster at Rye, and at together master traditional fiddlers from added to his the Cottage in Portsmouth. One is coming around the world. web site. up November 2 at the Inn at Spruce Once a member of the teaching staff at Another major Woods in Durham. There will be a special the festival, Ryan decided to reverse benefit noted was performance for the general public at the roles to learn playing techniques, build the chance to Portsmouth Public Library on October 26 his repertoire of traditional musical improve his music- at 2 p.m. pieces, and become more familiar with making skills Under the auspices of the Portsmouth the history and lore of regional fiddling through collabora- Poet Laureate Program, the project is styles from a variety of cultures. He also tion with other funded by a grant from the New Hampshire performed in the participant showcase. performing teachers. Charitable Foundation, Piscataqua “I play and teach “Perhaps the most valuable part of the Region; the New Hampshire State Council several musical program for me is the opportunity to on the Arts; and the National Endowment instruments, and there were dozens of meet other master players and collaborate Ryan and for the Arts, as well as by contributions other attendees from around the country with them on a one-to-one basis,” Ryan from individuals and businesses. The with similar interests and skills. Brennish wrote in his grant application. “I will Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program is I was able to significantly expand my Thomson return to New Hampshire to use this dedicated to building community through teaching and performing repertoire,” knowledge directly in my performing, Photo courtesy poetry by appointing and supporting an Ryan wrote. He also had the opportunity teaching, and writing.” outstanding local poet as poet laureate to display and sell the numerous of Ryan The “Surprised by educational books and instructional Thomson Knies saw the potential of bringing poetry for the city, sponsoring events that On the final report required of all grant videos on traditional music that he has Joy” gang: standing, into retirement homes as a way of serving feature area poets and artists, and recipients, Ryan noted additional benefits written and produced. from left, Pat a population that doesn’t often get out to encouraging a love of poetry among of attending the festival: “I learned much people of all ages. about the importance of video demos Spalding, Bill Burtis, events in the community. She enlisted a Sounds as though “Captain Fiddle” and brochures and the benefits of being Gerry Duffy; seated, group of talented poets and actors (Bill For further information, visit accomplished what he set out to do highlighted in the print media as often as from left, Elizabeth Burtis, Gerry Duffy, Roland Goodbody, www.pplp.org. and more. Anne Rehner, and Pat Spalding) to possible. As a result of this, I have Knies, Anne Rehner, collaborate with her in selecting poems Supported by fiction, singing, gardening updated my web site, captainfiddle.com, For more information about the State Kristen Miller, Roland that trace the arc of the journey through and painting for fun, Hetty Startup teaches to include a large amount of video, Arts Council’s artist entrepreneurial Goodbody. life from childhood to maturity. Poems by art and architectural history at UNH and including both live performances and grants, visit www.nh.gov/nharts/grants/ Shakespeare, Yeats, Whitman, Housman, the New Hampshire Institute of Art and demonstrations of my educational school artists/artistentrepren.htm, or contact Photo by Frost, and Roethke are paired with lives in Manchester. programs. It has already paid off with Judy Rigmont at [email protected] Gina Carbone humorous work by Judith Viorst, Ogden significantly increased interest by potential or 271-0794. Nash, and Lewis Carroll, and with newer clients.” This additional marketing work by Wendy Cope, Alice Oswald, and technique got Ryan and his 11-year-old Joyce Sutphen. Cellist Kristen Miller son, Brennish, who often accompanies worked with the readers to choose music his dad, a gig at the Deerfield Fair during family day, along with other bookings.

20 21 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Canaan - Emile Birch, to support Lisbon - Ammonoosuc Region Francestown - Francestown FY09 $ for the Art$ the development and design of a Arts Council, to support the Lisbon Improvement and Historical web site, $525 Fall Festival of the Arts, $700 Society, to support the second Supporting the Arts one Grant at a Time year of Francestown Mascoma Valley Regional High, to Chris Clark, a Traditional Arts Documentation Project, instructing support “Experiencing the Arts,” Apprenticeship in fly tying, $1,000 For Fiscal Year 2009 (July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009) the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts middle-school students in exposing students to the arts in the filmmaking, $6,600 awarded 141 grants totaling $625,530 to communities, organizations, artists, and schools throughout the Upper Valley of New Hampshire Littleton - Arts Alliance of state and region. Requests for funding from 267 applicants totaled $1,280,459. and enabling community hands-on Northern New Hampshire, to Hilary Weisman Graham, Artist arts activities, $6,600 support a collaborative effort with Fellowship, $5,000 The grants awarded to date are listed below in county order and reflect the following types of grants: area health care agencies to offer Hanover - Revels North Inc., workshops, performances, and Goffstown - Jennifer Militello, For individual artists: Fellowship Awards, Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grants, and Artist Entrepreneurial Grants. operating support, $4,300 trainings for elders, their care Artist Fellowship, $5,000 providers, and families throughout For organizations, schools and communities: Artist Residencies in Schools, ArtLinks, Arts Education Haverhill - Haverhill Heritage Inc., the North Country, $3,000 Hollis - Hollis Primary School, Leadership Project Grants, Cultural Conservation Grants, Cultural Facilities Grants, Operating Grants, Mini to support the purchase and SAU 41, to support architectural Grants, Arts in Health Care Projects Grants, Traditional Arts Project Grants, Community Arts Project installation of a lighting system that Arts Alliance of Northern New landscape design to be used in Grants, Organizational Support Project Grants, and American Masterpieces Grants. will support theatrical productions, Hampshire, operating support, designing an outdoor classroom, musical performance, and other $13,800 $2,200 cultural programs, $5,000 Belknap Wakefield - Wakefield Projects Nelson - Bach with Verse, North Country Chamber Players, Ree-Ven Wang Dai, a Traditional Inc., to support restoration of the supporting the presentation of Haverhill Heritage Inc., operating to support a music and literary Arts Apprenticeship in Chinese Center Harbor - New Hampshire Historic Wakefield Opera House, Dobbs Hartshorne’s “One Man support, $2,800 concert based upon the life and dance, $1,000 Music Festival, operating support, work of Amy Beach, in collaboration $8,000 Show” at four New Hampshire Holderness - Holderness Central Manchester - Currier Museum of $15,000 state prison facilities, $1,250 with poet Marie Harris, $3,600 Cheshire School, to support a 12-day theater Art, operating support, $9,400 Gilmanton - Gilmanton School Rindge - Bill Jubett, a Traditional arts residence for all sixth, seventh, Meriden - Plainfield Elementary, District, SAU 79, to support student Alstead - Orchard School, to support and eighth graders using the to support an artist residency with Manchester Boys Club Inc., to Arts Apprenticeship in bluegrass support a collaborative effort participation in African drumming two arts camps: Clay Creation banjo, $839 theme of Global Warming, $5,000 Steve Ferraris in “The History and and dance during an artist residency and Comics Camp, $1,000 Mystery of Drums – An African- between the Majestic Theatre and with Theo Martey, $1,600 Westmoreland - Lawrence Siegel, Lebanon - City of Lebanon, to Harvest Festival,” $2,220 the Boys Club to provide workshops East Sullivan - Apple Hill Artist Fellowship, $5,000 support an 18-week traditional based on performing arts to Sanbornton - Sanbornton Central Chamber Players, operating arts music series at the Lebanon Monroe - Nathan Colpitts, a underserved children, $6,380 School, to support an artist resi- support, $6,000 Coos Farmers Market, $1,000 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in dency with Perry Alley Theatre, blacksmithing, $1,000 Manchester Choral Society, engaging students in playwriting, Keene - Colonial Theatre Group Berlin - Saint Kieran Community Lebanon Opera House Improvement, operating support, $3,400 Inc., operating support, $13,600 Center, to support a new rotating operating support, $12,800 Plymouth - Friends of the Arts creation, and presentation of Manchester Community Music puppet theater, $1,000 art exhibit series and other Plymouth, a regional arts council, Keene State College, to support integrated arts activities that will Opera North, operating support, to support the third year of its School, operating support, $12,800 Tilton - Union Sanborn School the performance and broadcast of showcase the work of local artists $12,000 after-school program “Arts in the Milton Ensemble’s dramatic Manchester School District, to Winnisquam District, SAU 59, to and artisans, $3,650 Lincoln - North Country Center Society,” $2,770 support existing music curriculum support student participation in reading of John Milton’s Book XII from “Paradise Lost,” $630 Tri-County CAP, to support a for the Arts, operating support, Friends of the Arts Plymouth, a at West High School and to African drumming and dance $6,800 include chamber music, $1,500 during an artist residency with new program of therapeutic regional arts council, operating Monadnock Arts in Education, mask-making for individuals support, $5,000 Steve Ferraris, $3,700 operating support, $5,100 New Hampshire Writers’ Project, recovering from drug and operating support, $6,400 Carroll Monadnock Family Services, to alcohol dependence, $2,820 Hillsborough support Acting Out collaborative Palace Theatre Trust, operating North Conway - Mountain Top Gorham - Family Resource Antrim - Town of Antrim, to support youth theater project for adoles- support, $13,600 Music Center, operating support, Center at Gorham, to support an a summer concert series and cents and teens that provides $3,900 interactive dance and movement puppet-making workshop, $700 Merrimack - Kim Chi Vu Potter, training and performance in audi- to support web site development, project for after-school programs Rodney Miller, a Traditional Arts Mountain Top Music Center, ence-interactive theater, $6,600 in Berlin and Gorham, $7,500 $600 presenting two concerts featuring Apprenticeship in New England The Moving Company Dance the work of 19th-century compos- Grafton contra dance fiddling, $3,000 Milford - Milford DO-IT, supporting Center, multi-disciplinary youth er Amy Beach and MacDowell a weekly lunchtime concert series arts afterschool and summer Bedford - Riddle Brook School, colonists Elizabeth Brown and Bethlehem - Friends of the Colonial on the Milford Oval, $425 programs, $2,500 Theater, operating support, $10,200 to support a residency with Rob Ernst Toch, $3,100 The city of Lebanon has received Rossel creating a historical tile Milford Middle School, Milford The Moving Company Dance Tamworth - Barnstormers Friends of the Colonial Theater, to several Mini Grants to support mural with students, $4,200 School District, SAU 40, to support Center, operating support, $9,800 support the design and construction an enrichment program for Theater Inc., operating support, performances at its Farmers’ Market. Deering - Town of Deering, to of an outdoor reception area and adolescents with Mont Vernon $7,500 Stonewall Farm, to support a support conservation treatment implement a drainage plan to artisans, $5,060 performance series of traditional and restoration of an historic artists for summer day campers, maintain the integrity of the building, $5,000 painted stage curtain, $2,644 22 $550 23 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Nashua - Charlotte Avenue Merrimack Henniker - San Ramon, to support Rockingham Clark E. Knowles, Artist Durham - Mill Pond Center Inc., School, Nashua School District, students creating comic books Fellowship, $5,000 to support “The Music in the to support an artist residency with Bradford - Garry Kalajian, a about their community for a Atkinson - Paul Wainwright, to Meadow,” a summer concert Krempels Foundation, to support a Emile Birch teaching techniques Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in cultural exchange with a support professional consultation series, $700 dance and movement program for of sculpture with students, parents, blacksmithing, $3,000 Nicaraguan sister community, $600 on book, $650 brain-injured clients, $1,265 Madbury - Moharimet and staff, $4,780 Deerfield - North Country Studio Canterbury - Canterbury Shaker Henniker Historical Society, for a Elementary School, to support Workshops, to support the biennial Krempels Foundation, to support a Nashua Symphony Association, Village, to support Harvest Day painted theater curtain, $8,000 an artist residency with Steve and Christmas celebrations with North Country Studio Workshops residency with musician T.J. Wheeler operating support, $12,800 for established craftspeople, $3,500 for brain-injured clients, $1,000 Ferraris and James Marshall in traditional craft and music, $3,500 Hopkinton - Maple Street West African dance and Nashua Symphony Association, Elementary School, SAU 66, to Concord - Capitol Center for the Derry - Douglas Brunson, a Glenn Lael, a Traditional Arts drumming, $3,500 to support the Nashua Youth support an artist residency with Apprenticeship in cooperage, $662 Arts, to support the pilot year of Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in (h)EARS program, $6,125 Theo Martey to engage students Scottish accordion, $763 Rochester - Mark Favorite, the Spotlight Café Series, $3,000 in African music, drumming, and New Hampshire Art Association, Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in Nashua Symphony Association, Dover - Children’s Museum of Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, Concord Community Music dancing, $3,200 fly tying, $2,705 to support connecting high school New Hampshire, operating operating support, $4,200 School, to support the seventh choir teachers and students to a New London - Northern New support, $12,000 Monarch School of New England, composer resulting in the choir annual Mandolin Festival, $4,000 England Repertory Theater New Hampshire Theatre Project, to support interactive performances singing poems written by students Company, to support a third year East Derry Elementary School, to operating support, $3,000 and workshops with storyteller Concord Community Music School, support an artist residency with $4,000 of energetic movement and act- Pontine Theatre, to support a Pat Spalding and Tribal Rhythms, operating support, $15,000 Robert Rossel to create a mural ing in eight New Hampshire state-wide tour of “Silver Lake $1,000 Yellow Taxi Productions Inc., to depicting the history of Derry, Concord Hospital Inc., to support schools, $3,295 Summer,” an original play based support the play “The Beard of $2,800 Monarch School of New England, the musician at the bedside pro- on the life and work of American Avon,” $2,550 Penacook - Martha Herron, to to support designing a balanced, gram and workshops for Intensive Exeter - American Independence poet and painter ee cummings, support attendance at the third integrated and comprehensive New Boston - New Boston Care Unit staff, patients and Museum, to support a Traditional $4,545 families, $2,400 annual SAORI USA/Canada Arts Village at the annual American arts program for students with Central School, Goffstown SAU, Pontine Theatre, operating Conference in Minnesota, $350 Independence Festival, $3,000 severe physical and developmental an artist residency of students The Concord Music Club, to support, $7,000 challenges, $2,500 participating in African dancing support renovation of the Warner - Mt. Kearsarge Indian Lincoln Street School, SAU 16, to Ron Raiselis, a Traditional Arts and drumming with Steve Annicchiarico Theatre in down- Museum, to support “Roots of support an artist residency with Rollinsford - Jewel Davis, to Apprenticeship in cooperage, Ferraris, $1,900 town Concord, $5,000 Tradition: 12,000 Years of Tim Gaudreau working with students support attendance at Vermont $2,508 American Indian Cultural to create an environmental College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Peterborough - Monadnock Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Expression,” an annual powwow, Writers’ Conference, $500 Music, to support three concerts: sculpture, $1,750 Seacoast Repertory Theatre, to Association, to support musician exhibition, and festival, $3,500 support production of work by “Ancient Voices,” “Off the Beaten Hampton Falls - T.J. Wheeler, to Strafford - Fred Dolan, a in residence for patients at the Shakespeare and performances in Path,” and “Dreams and Prayers: Regional support web site design and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in end of life at Merrimack County schools, $3,000 Music of Devotion,” $4,250 Nursing Home, $2,400 development, $750 decoy carving, $2,885 Hardwick, Vt - Lucian Avery, a Sandown - Sandown North Peterborough Players Inc., Kensington - Hideaki Miyamura, Michele O’Neal Kincaid, to support League of New Hampshire Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in Elementary, to support an artist operating support, $16,000 Artist Fellowship, $5,000 attendance at an international Craftsmen Inc., operating blacksmithing, $2,327 residency with Laura Campbell, support, $14,400 quilt festival, $525 Peterborough Players Inc., to Harvard, Mass - Jon Anderson, a Newmarket - Newmarket Main students will discover their relationship to the environment, support the production of Sylvia Miskoe, a Traditional Arts Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in Street Corporation, to support the Sullivan Newmarket Heritage Festival, $1,500 Thornton Wilder’s classic play Apprenticeship in Scottish New England contra dance $5,000 Claremont - Claremont Opera “Our Town,” $5,000 accordion, $2,142 fiddling, $1,000 Strafford House, to support repairing damage Sharon - Sharon Arts Center, Putney, Vt. - Bruce Stockwell, a Nottingham - Nottingham to interior plaster, $20,000 New Hampshire Community Recreation Committee, to support Dover - Arts In Reach: operating support, $14,400 Theatre Association, to support Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in performances and workshops by Encouraging Growth through the Claremont School District, to the 37th annual NHCTA Festival bluegrass banjo, $2,000 Temple - Gene Faxon, to support Jeff Erwin using recycled materials Arts, to support a six-week summer support concerts by Randy and Workshops, $850 attendance at the United Church Weston, Mass - Ke Ke, a and a concert by Infinities arts program for underserved Armstrong and Concord adolescent girls, $2,500 of Christ Musicians Association Strathspey & Reel Society of New Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in Chamber Ensemble, $900 Community Music School, $750 Conference, $400 Hampshire, to support the devel- Chinese dance, $3,000 Garrison Elementary School, to Plaistow - Timberlane Regional Cornish - Saint Gaudens National opment of a new web site, $1,700 support a mini-drumming residency Weare - Mike Cook, a Traditional White River Junction, Vt - School, support for the existing Historic Site, to support conser- Arts Apprenticeship in music curriculum to include with Randy Armstrong for third- Dunbarton - Dunbarton Northern Stage Company, to sup- grade students to perform in a vation of paintings by Augustus Blacksmithing, $828 chamber music opportunities for Elementary School, to support an port Project Playwright, a residency school-wide concert, $1,000 Saint-Gaudens, $8,000 of professional playwrights who students in grades six through12, Wilton - Andy’s Summer Playhouse, artist residency with Cynthia will work with Claremont Middle $3,000 Seymor Osman Community Newport - David Kittredge, a operating support, $5,500 Robinson for students to use Traditional Arts Apprenticeship in School sixth graders to increase Portsmouth - Friends of the Music Center and Youth Safe Haven, to nature journals for observing and decoy carving, $867 recording their environment, $1,150 their reading and writing skills Hall, operating support, $15,000 support middle-school students through play writing, $7,360 participating in the SOCC Franklin - Franklin Opera House Nancy Grace Horton, to support Afterschool Program, creating an Inc., operating support, $6,500 web site development and a animated film with roster artist marketing campaign, $625 Huey, $5,810 24 25 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Dobbs with Verse From Classical Bach to Classic Doo Wop: Around the State N.H. Musician Performs in Afghanistan

By Rachel Lehr During the month of May, Richard though not as loud as a cello, is more Congratulations to... Dual Citizen – Deux Citoyennet’s “Dobbs” Hartshorne performed Bach and resonant, with the same range as a blends memoir and music. Donald Hall, Wilmot resident and humorous original compositions on his human voice. www.LucieT.com. former U.S. poet laureate, who double bass for a wide range of audiences A group of Francestown students in Afghanistan. Dobbs’ tour was sponsored Dobbs was dressed every part the turned 80 on September 20. The and their mentor, filmmaker by the nonprofit organization Bach with Afghan with a gold embroidered, mirrored milestone was celebrated with a Verse, and was Pashtun vest over his long Afghan shirt reading, book signing and reception Hilary Weisman Graham, who hosted by the and baggy trousers, topped off with a at the Silver Center for the Arts, were honored by New Hampshire Welfare Association woolen pakol hat. He told the story of Plymouth State University. Hall’s Public Television for their for the Development “The Saddest Day,” when he was an latest book, Unpacking the documentary, Memories of the of Afghanistan, an eight-year-old and his pet turtle ran Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Homefront from Francetown, N.H. Afghan organization away. Dobbs was inspired to write this Poetry, describes the making of a Sandown Meetinghouse The project was funded by the musical story, performed in Pashto, working at the poet, from his childhood in State Arts Council through an English, French, and German, in response grassroots level in Connecticut to his appointment Photo by Paul Wainwright ArtsLink grant and sponsored by to 9/11. Not intending to make light of education, civic as poet laureate in 2006. the Francestown Improvement the events of 9/11 but wishing to bring a education, and Poet Alice Fogel of Acworth, and Historical Society. The students drug control. The childlike perspective, he sang “maybe I wouldn’t feel so bad about the terrorist whose collection Be That Empty are Kelsa Danforth, Jakob Rupp, nonprofit arranged hit the poetry bestseller list in July. Elizabeth Taft, Jimmy Gombas, performance venues, attack and the war in Iraq if only my turtle came back.” He prepared audience “She may not be poet laureate or Austin Hoffman, Mathew Foote, Dobbs Hartshorne in transportation, and hospitality for Dobbs even Mary Oliver, but Alice Fogel Emily Peters, Joel Barwood and in Kabul and the eastern regional members for the story by giving them Afghanistan scores big, jumping to number 8 Ben Wescott. capital Jalalabad. permission to laugh if they thought it was funny. Although the Americans in the with her latest, Be That Empty,” D. Quincy Whitney, whose book Photo by Rachel Lehr Working and traveling in Afghanistan is audience could not understand the story reported the Poetry Foundation risky, and one must always take extra as recited in Pashto, the music tickled web site. The foundation’s best Hidden History of New Hampshire security precautions as a routine matter our senses of humor. A few of us began seller lists are based on sales was just released by The History of daily life. That can be especially chal- to titter when he sang “mon Coeur” in from retail booksellers. Press. The book provides a lenging when lugging around a 150-year- vibrato French and we were doubled over narrative of New Hampshire’s old bass that weighs 35 pounds and is by the time he got to singing, in classic The Write Sisters, a group of most notable newsmakers and 6 feet tall. Dobbs, with the assistance of 1950s doo-wop style, “Since I Don’t children’s writers who live in remarkable events. the nonprofit organization, was able to Have You” … in falsetto… in Pashto. southern New Hampshire. Their present 21 performances of his program collection, Women of Granite: “One Man Show” on this recent visit to The Afghans, seated on cushions around 25 New Hampshire Women You the salon, were moved by his music and Afghanistan. I was fortunate to attend a Should Know, was selected by touched by his attempt to sing and perform Dobbs performance where he introduced the New Hampshire Center for across the language barriers. Later we the audience to classical music with the Book to represent the state at found out the turtle story, performed Donald Hall Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1, including a the National Book Festival in prelude and five dances, explaining that here for the first time in Pashto, hadn’t made much sense to them because Photo by Stephen Ratiner Washington, D.C. The Write listening to silence between movements Sisters are Janet Buell, Kathy and waiting until the end for applause “turtle” had been translated as “lizard,” Deady, Muriel Dubois, Andrea was for better enjoyment. Dobbs says he and the irony of a turtle quickly running Murphy, Barbara Turner, Sally loves playing Bach around the world away was entirely lost. What was not lost Black and white photographer because “the music is simple and anyone was the resonance of transcendent music Paul Wainwright of Atkinson, Wilkins, and Diane Mayr. Ken Burns with Francestown students, and the respite from conflict that brings whose first book, The Colonial can understand it. It has emotional depth Singer Lucie Therrien of from left, Joel Barwood, Jakob Rupp, joy and appreciation for all who share in Meetinghouses of New England, that is powerful if you are open to it.” Portsmouth, who has released a Elizabeth Taft, Jimmy Gombas, Dobbs has tuned his instrument to be the experience. will be published by the book and CD set in honor of Colby Goodrich able to play the entire Bach Cello Suites University Press of New England. Feltmaker Rachel Lehr is part of the Quebec’s 400th anniversary. exactly as they were written, but on a New Hampshire Artist Roster. Release date is early 2010. Photo courtesy Hilary Weisman Graham bass. He feels that the sound of the bass, 26 27 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Around the State

Welcome to... Ann Alexander, who retired as In 1999, Bruce moved with his Ed, who gave up pottery on the Business Manager for Monadnock wife and son, Schuyler, to advice of his doctors and began Christina Meinke, Managing Music in Peterborough after about Urbania, where he spent five making computer illustrations at Director at Monadnock Music. 30 years of service. She’s now years renovating a 400-year-old age 89, died April 20 in Green Now in her fifth season with highly valued as a volunteer there. stone farmhouse. He cleared Valley, Ariz. Monadnock Music, Christina has brush, uncovering views of the been involved in all aspects of Vicki Wright, Director, Museum of Italian countryside, rebuilt stone The State of New Hampshire rt, University of New Hampshire, the organization as operations A walls, learned to tile roofs and honored the Scheiers in 2003 who left her post at the end of manager, and works behind the built all of the house’s furniture. with a shared Lotte Jacobi Living scenes at the summer concerts, September. After almost 22 years Treasure Governor’s Arts Award. in addition to organizing the at UNH, she is moving on to a In Italy, he also returned to a At that time, one of their pots was annual Christmas fair, garden new position as Director of former love, painting, creating donated to the State Arts Council’s tour, and various other Collections and Exhibitions at the pieces that a friend described as Living Treasure Collection. It is Monadnock Music special events. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in energetic and full of color. currently on view at the Office of southwest Michigan. the Attorney General. Cynthia Geary, Development Henry Milnor “Jim” Mitchell Manager at Monadnock Music. Remembering … Born in the Bronx, Ed worked for In his capacity as a newscaster Cynthia comes to Monadnock the New Deal’s Works Progress Bruce Sanford Brook for several Boston radio stations, Jim Mitchell, owner of MainStreet Music with experience as a general Administration in the 1930s. As a Jim Mitchell became known for BookEnds in Warner manager, vice president and Paul Povnick An architect and painter who coordinator for the Federal Art the human interest stories he producer at a PBS member station. designed the first phase renova- Project, he traveled to galleries in reported from around the world. Photo courtesy of Katharine Nevins Cynthia’s fund-raising, producing tion of Concord’s Capitol Center the South, where he met Mary, a Monadnock Region, where she In his capacity as co-owner of and interviewing talents were for the Arts in the 1980s, Bruce gallery director. The two went on was lead staff for the region MainStreet BookEnds, he kept his He served on numerous town utilized in the Festival America Sanford Brook died March 27 in to set up a pottery shop in rural working with the Monadnock focus more local: on the town of committees and as a director of documentary series, for which she Urbania, Italy, at the age of 61. Virginia, and soon after won second Warner. A friend to artists, writers, the annual Warner Fall Foliage received two Emmy nominations. board, local fund establishers prize in a national ceramics exhi- musicians, and children, Jim died Festival. He was named the Cynthia’s award-winning world and nonprofits. Bruce grew up in Wilmette, Ill., at his home in the Warner book- town’s Citizen of the Year in 2004. music film projects have garnered and earned a bachelor’s degree in Farewell to... store on June 4. He was 58. “He will forever be remembered,” high rotation exposure on studio art from Carleton College and a Master of Architecture from states his obituary in the Concord Sundance Channel’s “24 Frame Paul Polivnick, Music Director Jim, born in Charlottesville, Va., Harvard University. In 1984 he and Monitor, “for his clear voice, his News,” MTV, CNN, Discovery’s and Conductor of the Lakes served in the Vietnam War and his wife, Laurel, moved to Concord, humble nature, for his million People+Arts channel, and E!. Region’s New Hampshire Music was named Airman of the Year in where he established Brook small gestures of kindness, his Cynthia has served as guest Festival since 1992. He has 1970. He began his radio career Design Associates. The firm’s ability to make everyone laugh lecturer for TV/film departments conducted more than 75 orchestras in Laconia and was hired as projects included educational and and feel at ease, and his ‘free of several educational institutions, internationally and in the United weekend news anchor for WBZ child care facilities, financial balloon hour’ in the bookstore.” including American University. States, Canada, England, France, NewsRadio in 1998. That same institutions, cultural centers, retail Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, year, he and his sister and Ed Scheier and office space, master planning Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, brother-in-law, Katharine and Neil and renovations of historic Hungary, Russia, Korea, and Nevins, established MainStreet Ed Scheier’s legacy as artist, buildings – including the library China. Paul was the fifth music BookEnds. craftsman, teacher, and progenitor director in the festival’s 56 at St. Paul’s School in Concord. of the studio art movement stems Beth Healy, recently hired year-history. The shop became a gathering from the 20 years he spent living An artist in residence for the Development Director at MoCo place in town; Jim coordinated in New Hampshire and teaching at State Arts Council, he also taught Arts in Keene. Prior to this, Beth Carmen Trafton, Grants Manager hundreds of events there each year, UNH. It’s a legacy the renowned Childcare Design Institute classes spent 11 years as Senior at MoCo Arts in Keene for more including concerts, lectures, classes, potter shares with his wife, Mary, at Harvard. Ed and Mary Scheier Foundation Officer at New than three years. story hours and opportunities to with whom he worked side-by-side Hampshire Charitable Foundation meet with presidential candidates. until her death in 2007 at age 99. Photo courtesy of UNH 28 29 ArNew Hampshire Arts News: Autumnound 2008 the State New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Around the State Reflections From a Green-Thumbed Artist

By Sarah Haskell bition in New York City. In 1940, Marianne, who died August 19, David Campbell of the League of was a major figure in New I am a gardener, not a farmer. I tend a ideas that I “plant.” It requires patience New Hampshire Craftsmen brought England folk dance. A graduate 20-foot circular vegetable patch in my and respect. And there are times when I the couple to this state, and of Boston University’s Sargent yard that yields a small amount of food just need to let go and allow the project arranged the UNH job for Ed. College, she went on to be certified for my family. After 30 years of garden- to take on its own life. Mary also worked at the university, to teach Scottish country dance ing, I have learned that I am a more as an artist in residence. The two by the Royal Scottish Country successful gardener when I am patient For over 10 years, I have worked as an stayed at UNH for 20 years. Dance Society. and open to the unexpected. When I am artist in many health-care sites, from observant and value what each vegetable state psychiatric hospitals to private In 1968 they moved to Oaxaca, Through the State Arts Council, rehabilitation centers and assisted living Mexico, where Ed expanded his she was artist in residence at Designed by Andre Belanger of Berlin facilities. As I approach every residency, focus to include weavings, elementary, middle, and high there is one attitude that I maintain. It is paintings, and wood carvings. schools around New Hampshire. Belanger, a resident of Berlin, is a a desire to help each individual that After the Scheiers settled in Before Marianne’s death, her sign carver and painter who is on I come into contact with to feel better. Arizona in 1968, he returned to the State Arts Council’s Traditional I listen. I observe. I try to understand pottery. Over the years, the couple friend Sylvia Miskoe shared a story about her, which is posted Arts & Folklife Listing. what each individual needs to feel made many trips back to New successful. I wait. I nudge. I make jokes Hampshire for arts events, including on the Monadnock Folklore Sister Cities Society’s web site. Despite having (mostly about myself), and I wait some exhibits of their work. This fall, the Henniker-San just had surgery and learning that more. To me this is the essence of the Ramon Sister Community Project Marianne Taylor she had a sarcoma, Marianne, in arts in health care. We artists offer a will use a new tool to build cultural March, “was not about to pass up window of time, space, and materials for bridges of friendship and under- During an opportunity to work with Old people to bring voice to their concerns standing between the children of Marianne New England in her Town Hall. and their stories. We provide an opportunity New Hampshire and Nicaragua: Taylor’s final She sat down for the evening, for each person we work with to be who comic books. weeks, her propped her leg on a chair, took they need to be at that moment. And friends in the an extra pain killer and called Starting in September, students at like my zucchini, they might just create contra dance the dance.” the Henniker Community School something pretty wild! community set will create comics during work- up a rotating Sarah Haskell is a long-time member of shops with Marek Bennett, creator With the mandala are needs and wants to do, I am a happier schedule to the State Arts Council’s Artist Roster and In the News of the comic strip “Mimi’s Doughnuts.” gardener. Just as an example, my zucchini play music for volunteer Pa’Mela is on the faculty of the New Hampshire Each student’s comic will tell a story plant wants to go wild and produce her. It was a New Hampshire Medal Ramsey, Center for Institute of Art in Manchester. As an about the community. dachshund-sized fruit. So at times I just fitting way for Marianne to make of Honor Artist Picked Cancer Care Office educator, she believes that people of all Spanish language students from let it do that, go wild! her departure; the co-founder of the ages and abilities are capable of having Honor, dignity, humility, and John Stark Regional High School Manager Thomas Folk Arts Center of New England Last month I completed an artist-in- a positive art experience, whether it be respect are all embodied in Andre will help translate the comics into Jean, Sarah Haskell, in Melrose, Mass., and a founding residency project in the Oncology Unit at in a school, community, prison, or health Belanger’s design for the New Spanish. The group will then and Medical Director member of the Strathspey & Reel Frisbee Memorial Hospital in Rochester. care facility. For more information about Hampshire Medal of Honor, share the comics with the town of Society of New Hampshire, she Dr. Vivek Samnotra. Over the course of two weeks, I worked Sarah, read her listing in the Arts in designed to honor residents of the Henniker at a public reading in taught folk dance for over 50 with the hospital staff, volunteers, and Health Care Artist Directory at: state who have given their lives in December, and with Henniker’s Photo courtesy of years, played piano with the patients to weave a Mandala Community www.nh.gov/nharts/artsandartists/aih- defense of the United States. sister community of San Ramon, Sarah Haskell Scottish dance band Weaving. Creating this project is rather cartistdirectory.html. Consisting of a ribbon and pendant, Nicaragua, during Henniker-San Tullochgorum and the Lamprey like tending my garden. The project is the medal’s elements represent Ramon’s next delegation in River Band, and was a sometimes round and it develops from a variety of the natural beauty of the state, the early 2009. caller at the Town Hall contra continuum of life, the many facets dances in Deerfield, where she lived. of the United States, and the hon- ored person and his or her family. 30 31 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 ReflectionNew Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008s New Hampshire State Council on the Arts New Hampshire State FY 2010 Deadlines Council on the Arts

Arts Organizations Established in 1965, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the New Grant Name Deadline Hampshire Division of the Arts comprise Mini-Grant (FY 2009) January 2, 2009 the state’s arts agency. Funding comes Arts in Education Leadership Project Grant February 6, 2009 from appropriations from the State of For grant guidelines Department of Organizational Support/Community Arts/Traditional Arts March 2, 2009 New Hampshire and the National and application Endowment for the Arts, a federal Two-Year Operating Grant March 6, 2009 Cultural Resources forms visit, agency. Volunteer Arts Councilors set Cultural Conservation Grant March 27, 2009 www.nh.gov/nharts policies, approve grants, and advise the Van McLeod, Commissioner Cultural Facilities Grant March 27, 2009 Commissioner of the Department of 20 Park Street For more Mini-Grant April 1, 2009 Cultural Resources on all matters Concord, NH 03301 concerning the arts. information: ArtLinks Grant April 24, 2009 603/271-2540 603/271-2789 American Masterpieces: N.H. Inspirations May 1, 2009 The State Arts Council’s mission is to Mini-Grant July 1, 2009 promote the arts to protect and enrich Division of the Arts Project Grant (Community Arts Only) October 1, 2009 New Hampshire’s unique quality of life. NH Relay Services Rebecca L. Lawrence, Director General Phone: The Director of the New Hampshire Mini-Grant October 1, 2009 1 603/271-2789 TTY/TDD: 2 ⁄2 Beacon Street, Suite 225 Division of the Arts administers the 800/735-2964 Concord, NH 03301-4447 agency, which is part of the Department URL: Arts Partners 603/271-2789 of Cultural Resources. www.nh.gov/nharts Grant Name Deadline [email protected] New Hampshire Fax: Arts in Health Care Project Grant (FY 2009) January 2, 2009 Division of Arts Staff State Arts Councilors 603/271-3584 Mini-Grant (FY 2009) January 2, 2009 Marjorie Durkee, Grants & Contracts Arts in Education Leadership Project Grant February 6, 2009 Chair TTY/TDD: Technician, 603/271-6332 800/735-2964 Artist Residencies in Schools Grant February 6, 2009 Karen Burgess Smith, Exeter [email protected] Organizational Support/Community Arts/Traditional Arts March 2, 2009 Office Hours: Jane Eklund, Programs Information Cultural Conservation Grant March 27, 2009 Vice Chair 8:15 am – 4:15 pm Officer, 603/271-0791 Closed all State Cultural Facilities Grant March 27, 2009 Jacqueline R. Kahle, Wilton [email protected] and most Federal Mini-Grant April 1, 2009 Randy Armstrong, Barrington Cassandra Erickson, holidays ArtLinks Grant April 24, 2009 Richard W. Ayers, Sanbornton Chief Grants Officer, 603/271-7926 American Masterpieces: N.H. Inspirations May 1, 2009 Robert Begiebing, Newfields [email protected] Mini-Grant July 1, 2009 Wendy Cahill, Concord Arts in Health Care Project Grant July 1, 2009 Robert Duff, Etna Lynn Martin Graton, Traditional Arts Coordinator, 603/271-8418 Mini-Grant October 1, 2009 Sara Germain, Dublin Peter McLaughlin, Hanover [email protected] Elizabeth Morgan, Amherst Individual Artists Carey Johnson, Arts Research Specialist, Toni H. Pappas, Manchester 603/271-0792 Grant Name Deadline Tim Sappington, Randolph [email protected] Artist Entrepreneurial Grant (FY 2009) January 2, 2009 Grace Sullivan, Deerfield Artist Entrepreneurial Grant April 1, 2009 Edra Toth, Farmington Julie Mento, Visual Arts Associate, Dorothy J. Yanish, Peterborough N.H. Artist Roster April 3, 2009 603/271-0790 [email protected] Individual Artist Fellowship April 10, 2009 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant April 20, 2009 Catherine O’Brian, Arts Education Traditional Arts and Folklife Listing April 20, 2009 Coordinator, 603/271-0795 catherine.r.o’[email protected] Artist Entrepreneurial Grant July 1, 2009 Artist Entrepreneurial Grant October 1, 2009 Judy Rigmont, Creative Communities Coordinator, 603/271-0794 [email protected] 32 New Hampshire Arts News: Autumn 2008 Promoting the arts to protect and enrich New Hampshire’s unique quality of life since 1965. Inside this issue FY 2009 Fellowship Awards FY 2009 Traditional Arts Apprenticeships A N.H. musician in Afghanistan Reflections from a Green-Thumbed Artist Surprised by Joy: Poetry in Times of Need Coming up in future issues

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