NEW HAMPSHIRE ARTS NEWS

New Hampshire 40 North Main Street State Council on the Arts Concord, NH 03301-4974

[ Volume XXI Number 1 Spring 2003 ] Enriching New Hampshire’s quality of life since 1965. 2003 Inside Fellowship Applicants Alert First Gathering of Nation’s Poets Laureate Governors’ Arts Awards Nomination Form Hidden Treasures: New Exhibit Opens New Partnership between Arts Council and NH State Lottery Hands of Ryan Parker Coming up in future issues Jazz Musician 2003 New 2000-2001 Biennial Report Hampshire Arts Fellow

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New Hampshire 40 North Main Street State Council on the Arts Concord, NH 03301-4974 T ABLE OFC ontents Arts Council Alerts ...... 2 FROM THE DIRECTOR Hidden Treasures Series ...... 4 Making Music Together ...... 5 Director Gathering of Poets Laureate ...... 8

Governors’ Arts Awards ...... 10 We are featuring Arts Council partnerships What becomes apparent in looking at the New Governor/New Poem ...... 13 in this issue of NH Arts. When money is many ways the arts intersect our lives is Around the State ...... 14 tight, as it is right now in state government that we must support the teaching of all and always has been for state funding of the forms that the arts take and provide Around New England & the World ...... 16 the arts, partnerships don’t just make conditions for lifelong learning in the arts. NH-Quebec Dance Exchange ...... 18 2002 Medal of Arts Recipients ...... 20 Percent for Art Update ...... 22 “When money is tight... Grant Deadlines ...... 24 Staff & Arts partnerships don't just make sense, Councilor News Director Rebecca they are a necessity..” NH Arts News On the Cover L. Lawrence was NH Arts News is published quarterly. The jazz improvisations of 2003 Fellow recently elected It reaches 6000 people free of charge. Ryan Parker of Dover can be heard on to the board of the sense they are a necessity. The NH Arts The world needs artists who are skilled To change address information, please Deep Oceans, K&R jazz label. The compact National Assembly Division is a small agency as government in their craft and creative in their thinking. e-mail, [email protected], or write disc was produced in collaboration with of State Arts agencies go. We have only nine people The world needs people who, through to NH Arts, New Hampshire State Chris Van Voorst Van Beest, Les Harris Jr., Agencies (NASAA) to do the work of 12, so we reach out to learning and experiencing the arts, stay in Council on the Arts, 40 North Main and Herb Pomeroy. for a three year term. other New Hampshire and New England touch with their own creativity even if they agencies and nonprofits to expand our choose different paths professionally. Street, Concord, NH 03301-4974. Traditional Arts financial and people resources. Usually Coordinator Lynn State of New Hampshire the partnerships are a natural fit: Arts The NH Arts Council needs to support the A New Look Graton, Arts in Department of Cultural Resources and historic sites; arts and schools; arts artists, organizations, and communities Education Division of the Arts for a New Season and libraries. Sometimes the partnerships that make the state a welcoming place Coordinator for this kind of creativity. One way we can © NH State Council on the Arts As we welcomed in 2003 we also welcomed a new graphic surprise: Arts and on-ramps? Arts and Catherine O’Brian, do that is through creative partnerships. Concord, New Hampshire USA designer, Brian Page, Art Director of Dharma Creative in Nashua. scratch tickets? Arts and fly-fishing? and Council Chair This issue of NH Arts highlights only a Page has over 10 years of experience in developing a public Yes, we have programs and projects Christine Dwyer few of our partners, but we also would image for nonprofits and businesses. Clients have ranged from that feature all of these combinations. served on National like to thank all of our partners who help the American Textile History Museum to Cabletron. In keeping Endowment for the To look at partnerships only as a necessity, us support the arts in New Hampshire. with the Yankee philosophy of “making do,” the Arts Council’s Arts panels this year. however, diminishes their worth to the You know who you are. request for proposals specified “creative frugality” as a criterion work we do. Partnerships, especially for new design work. Page embraced the challenge. To comment Community the more unlikely ones, remind us and on our new look, e-mail Julie Mento, [email protected]. Arts and ADA the public that the arts do play a role We look forward to your feedback! Coordinator Judy in everyone’s life. Sometimes the arts Rigmont served on Editor: Rebecca L. Lawrence are the means that help teachers teach, Rebecca L. Lawrence a national review Production Editor: Julie Mento marketers sell, and manufacturers make. Director, Division of the Arts panel for VSA arts. Graphic Design: Dharma Creative Other times, they are an end in them- Contributors: Lynn Martin Graton, selves, bringing pleasure, easing pain, Yvonne Fried, Judy Rigmont increasing understanding, and bridging cultural differences. This newsletter is available electronically or in alternative formats. Please call 603/271-2789 2 O

“More and more New Hampshire Proposed Budget Cuts NewGrant Opportunity communities are seeing the arts as the Cultural Facilities Grants for Communities The State Legislature created the Cultural More and more New Hampshire commu- Facilities program in 1987 with new nities are seeing the arts as the energy energy source for revitalizing downtowns pportunity legislation and an appropriation of $25,000. source for revitalizing downtowns and In FY92, the Legislature doubled that jumpstarting sluggish economies. and jumpstarting sluggish economies.” appropriation to $50,000. Now, faced Littleton, Portsmouth, Manchester, and with state budget deficits, the Governor’s Newport all have had success with this recommended budget includes only $1 strategy and now the State Arts Council Arts Council Alerts per year for cultural facilities grants. is offering a new grant category to help every community in these kinds of All Grant Info Now Online Attention Fellowship Applicants! Over the 15 years of the program’s efforts. The new Community Arts existence, 185 grants went to 71 facilities Development Grant, up to $7,000, will The State Arts Council asked staff to Updated Grant Guidelines, application in 47 communities. This was the only support communities in the planning take a fresh look at the guidelines for forms, and the New Hampshire Artist “bricks and mortar” grant that the State and implementation of arts projects applying for Artist Fellowships. The Arts Roster are currently available on the Arts Council could award. Grantees such as: cultural assessments, inventories, Council wanted to make sure that this website of the NH State Council on the matched the grants with private dollars plans, or resource guides; and establishing opportunity both encourages new talent Arts, www.state.nh.us/nharts. for everything from making historic new local arts agencies with local and celebrates sustained creativity. theatres accessible to wheelchair users government support. This new category They will not be mass mailed to This has led to some new policies of to purchasing new kilns for student use. also supports partnership projects formed Important Notice: organizations or individuals. People particular interest to past fellows. needing access to the Internet may go to While the state budget is being debated to include the arts in master plans or in FY2004 Grant local libraries, which offer public Internet Building upon recommendations from by the House and the Senate, the State local, state or regional economic impact Guidelines & NH access terminals free of charge. If you have the Artist Advisory Committee, the Arts Arts Council has put the program on studies that focus on the economic Artist Roster Are trouble downloading, contact Grants Council has approved several changes. indefinite hold. Should funds be restored, benefits of the creative industries. Some changes have to do with review Updated & Online Technician Margie Durkee at 603/271-2789 a new grant deadline will be announced. The focus of this grant is to create and panels. Others affect which artists may or [email protected]. strengthen partnerships between the arts apply. These changes to eligibility have groups and government or community No hardcopy version of the NH Artist been added to the online guidelines for agencies. Roster will be available. A limited number FY04 awards: The New Hampshire of hard copies of the Grant Guidelines The first application deadline was March A Fellowship award recipient must Institute of Art in only may be picked up in person at the 14, 2003. Additional deadlines will be wait five (5) years from the year in Manchester is the downtown Concord offices of the New announced as funds are available. The which he/she receives the award to Hampshire State Council on the Arts complete grant guidelines, including first and only free of charge. If mailed, there is a fee. apply again, i.e. a fiscal year 2003 sample projects, and applications are nationally accredited Fellow may apply again in calendar online at www.state.nh.us/nharts. Cost for mailing one hard copy of the year 2007 for a fiscal year 2008 award. independent college For more information, contact Guidelines, $5.00. Add $3.00 each of art in the state. for duplicate Guidelines mailed to the Individual artists are limited to three Community Arts Coordinator Judy same address. Make check payable to Fellowship awards per lifetime. Upon Rigmont, 603/271-0794 or Each semester the “Treasurer, State of New Hampshire” receiving the third award, they will [email protected]. Institute hosts guest and send to: be eligible for special recognition lecturers and visiting opportunities. Grant Guidelines artists for presentations NH State Council on the Arts If you have any questions or comments and talks in the 40 North Main Street about these changes, please direct them to: French Auditorium Concord, NH 03301 Artist Services Program The Apple Hill Chamber Players perform on which are open to NH State Council on the Arts stage at the Colonial Theatre in Keene with 40 North Main Street students and the Concord, NH 03301 approximately 150 school children from the public free of charge. surrounding region. Each year The Colonial Photo by Theatre holds six free concerts for local students Gary Samson Photo courtesy of the Colonial Theatre Attention!2 3 New Hampshire’s Federal Art Project, The Summer exhibition slot is being left Moose Plates, a New Cultural 1935-1942, in historical context, using open for outside, compatible exhibitors. Resource on the Move items donated to the New Hampshire Plans are underway to show an exhibition Artist Archives, a joint project of the from Ireland, highlighting the story of Thanks to the growing number of New or nonprofit 501 (C) 3 organizations that State Arts Council and the Library. recent conflicts. Hampshire citizens who are making manage publicly owned historic artworks voluntary purchases of conservation or cultural facilities that are located within license plates (a.k.a. Moose Plates), the State of New Hampshire. What: Artists at Work, 1935-1942: cultural as well as environmental New Hampshire Remembered The deadline for applying is April 30, 2003. conservation projects have Where: Department of Cultural Resources, a new funding source. Each $2 requested must be matched Administered by the with $1 of in-kind contributions of goods NH State Library, second floor, Department of Cultural or services or cash (or any combination 20 Park Street, Concord of the two). Resources, a portion of When: March 19 through June 4 Library hours these new funds allow Application forms and complete are Monday-Friday 8:30 am–4:15 pm the NH State Arts guidelines, including funding criteria Council (NH Division and sample projects, are online at of Arts) to offer a new type of www.state.nh.us/nharts. It combines WPA paintings, graphic arts, The Fall exhibition is being organized grant. These grants may be used to and photographs in the State Library by the Division of Historical Resources. conserve publicly owned, historic cultural The other two divisions in the Collection with archived items including It will portray the architectural history facilities or artworks over 50 years old Department, the State Library and the an artist’s work table and tools, personal of the State House that contribute to New Hampshire’s Division of Historical Resources also are photo albums, WPA correspondence and Complex with cultural heritage. offering new grant programs for conser- vation projects specific to libraries and newspaper stories of the time. photographs, For FY2004, about $40,000 is available architectural historic properties. These do not require The two featured artists are Herbert to the State Arts Council to offer Cultural drawings and items that the buildings be used for arts Waters (1903-1996) and Nathaniel Conservation Grants of up to $10,000 that were displaced programming or that the objects to be Burwash (1906-2000), both of whom each. All levels of government are eligible as part of earlier preserved have artistic as well as historical donated their papers to the NH Artist to apply, including municipalities and remodeling projects. significance. Contact those divisions for Archives. Several other organizations, towns, counties, state agencies other than more information. including the NH Art Association and A small November the Department of Cultural Resources League of NH Craftsmen, have loaned exhibition, organized and its Divisions, and federal agencies artworks and artifacts to fill out the story by the Arts Division, of 1930s New Hampshire and the arts. will complement the Artists at Work received funding from Governors’ Arts the New Hampshire Conservation Trust Awards. It will New Hampshire’s Hidden Treasures: and Public Service of New Hampshire. showcase some of the original eagle New Exhibition Opens awards designed by different artists to Nathaniel Burwash The State of New Hampshire owns a The exhibition planning committee, be given to the seven diverse collection of art and artifacts that facilitated by Arts Director Rebecca new award recipients. has been in the making for 100s of years, Lawrence, includes representatives from yet the public is mostly unaware of these the three Divisions: Julie Mento for Arts, hidden treasures. A number of the art- Russell Bastedo for Historical Resources, works and artifacts placed in the state’s and Charles Shipman from the care are kept at the Divisions of Libraries, State Library. Arts and Historical Resources. The Department of Cultural Resources, led by The pilot exhibition, curated by State easures Herbert Ogden Commissioner Van McLeod, wanted to bring Library and Division of Historic Resources these treasures to light. So, the staff focused on World War II posters. Waters Department launched a new series of The second exhibition, Artists at Work, Photos courtesy of exhibitions, each one designed to highlight 1935-1942, which opened on March New Hampshire some aspect of the state’s collections. 19th places artworks produced for Artist Archives 4 5 Tr “Songs that resonate again and again with people’s lives, become part of a collective expression, part of the Spotlight: Making Music Together community, part of a tradition.”

Singing alone does not build what Building upon the initial survey of Bernardo Guzman Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, musical traditions that led up to the they endure, traditional songs often traditional songs to a wider audience and (seated) leads his capture the evolution of language— help honor the artists and communities calls “social capital,” that glue of Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Julien family—wife connectivity that builds community. But Olivier, Jack Beard, and Jeff Warner will giving us a window into vernacular who preserve these songs. expressions of former times. Maria, daughter singing and making music together, now carry out additional fieldwork for this Complimentary copies of Songs of that’s a different story. The State Arts new project. Olivier, a specialist in The theme of this particular collection the Seasons will be sent to schools and Monica, and son Council’s Traditional Arts Coordinator French-Canadian traditions, journeys of songs—work and celebration related libraries around the state. It will be Bernardo—in Lynn Graton not only searches for people north to research traditional fiddle music to the seasons—will provide insight into available for purchase through the State singing a variety who make music together, she records and song in the Colebrook and Berlin Northern New England’s changing Arts Council and at the State House of family them, and finds ways to share their area. Jack Beard, a specialist in ethnic relationship to the environment. And Visitors Center gift shop. Or you might musical traditions with everyone else. music and contra dance, is doing regardless of the climate, celebrations— just be the lucky winner of a free copy Christmas songs Traditional songs are often passed down fieldwork in the Manchester and Nashua and the songs associated with them— with your purchase of a lottery ticket! at a recording within families—and while some would areas. Jeff Warner, a community scholar often parallel the change in seasons and studio in North call the melodies and lyrics old fash- noted for his publications of folk music provide a punctuation point to the cycles Stay tuned for the release date and Sutton. ioned, they usually are well loved for collected by his parents as well as his of life. The songs will draw from New information on how to obtain a copy of their ability to express both joy and own interpretations of traditional songs, Hampshire’s English and Celtic roots, Songs of the Seasons: Traditional Songs sorrow. Songs that resonate again and is doing fieldwork in the seacoast region. Yankee and French-Canadian traditions, of Work and Play in New Hampshire. again with people’s lives, become part Research for the project will be featured as well as the heritages of Latino and For a copy of Choose Your Partners: of a collective expression, part of the on a new web site being developed by other communities who have settled in the Contra and Square Dance Music in community, part of a tradition. the State Arts Council as a curriculum state more recently. This new compact New Hampshire, contact Smithsonian resource on New Hampshire folklife for disc will bring the humor, wisdom, and Folkways (www.si.edu/folklife) or visit The State Arts Council’s first compact teachers and students. The New the State House Visitors Center gift shop disc, Choose Your Partners: Contra and love of language that can be found in Photo right (small): Hampshire State Lottery Commission’s in Concord. Square Dance Music in New Hampshire, promotion will help educate an even which grew from the research done for The Cote family wider audience about the diversity of the 1999 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, musical traditions in New Hampshire. sing songs of their was distributed on the Folkways label. French Canadian Now Graton has engaged a team of Songs of the Seasons will focus on researchers to identify songs for a new vocal traditions in different languages. heritage at a compact disc, Songs of the Seasons: Traditional songs relay, in poetic and recording studio Traditional Songs of Work and Play in memorable form, the challenges and joys in North Sutton. New Hampshire. And this music project of individuals, families, and communities. has attracted a surprising new partner to Usually, traditional songs are not composed help promote it, the New Hampshire by professional songwriters, but rather Lottery Commission. The Lottery will by ordinary people with a gift for putting feature the compact disc as a prize in the experiences of life to words. Because Regina Delaney several summer promotions. plans to record a variety of Irish songs, some acappela and some accompanied by harp.

Making6 Music Photos by Lynn Martin Graton 7 The poets arrive Thursday evening and speech by the incoming Chairman of New Hampshire to Host First-time the event begins Friday morning when the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poets Laureate travel to the reading poet and essayist Dana Gioia. Gathering of US Poets Laureate venues, accompanied by New Hampshire poets. On Saturday, the conference will For more information contact Katie take place at The Highlander Inn and Goodman at the New Hampshire Writer’s For the first time in history, Poets together,” Harris explains. Her initial Conference Center in Manchester. Panel Project at 603/226-6649. Laureate from around the nation will brainstorm broadened into the three-day discussions include Poet as Citizen; gather in New Hampshire on Thursday, event with the involvement of the New Poetry and Education; Poetry, Human April 24 through Saturday, April 26, Hampshire Writers’ Project and The Creativity and the Brain; Poetry and the Dana Gioia, for a conference on the role of poetry in Academy of American Poets. Media; Poets and Politicians and Poetry National and the Spirit. Endowment for the Arts “The idea of bringing poets and Saturday night a gala dinner at the Center of NH will celebrate the gathering of poets Chairman, to be politicians together was a natural for and recognize the state’s supporters of Keynote Speaker poetry and the arts, with a keynote the state that plays a unique role in US politics.” NH Poet Laureate Marie Harris Dana Gioia confirmed as new society. The event is being hosted by The conference has three primary goals, Chairman of the NEA the New Hampshire Writers Project in according to NHWP Executive Director association with the American Academy Katie Goodman. “We want to gather the Photo courtesy of poets in one place and provide informal of Poets. The three-day event, dubbed the NEA “Poetry and Politics,” will bring together opportunities for them to exchange poets laureate representing some 30 information, ideas, and concerns. The states, plus prominent politicians, role of the laureate is not well defined in Dana Gioia Confirmed as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts educators and media moguls for a any state, and it seems to be up to the ground-breaking discussion of the role individual to interpret the position and to Washington, D.C. – Dana Gioia, nominated by President of poetry in society. The brainchild of initiate presentations, programs and George W. Bush as the ninth Chairman of the National New Hampshire Poet Laureate Marie occasional poetry that address the place Endowment for the Arts was unanimously confirmed by Harris, the event will take place in a of the poet in society. the United States Senate on January 29, 2003. variety of locations around the state. Secondly, we want to make sure that Upon his confirmation Mr. Gioia said, “Leading the National “The idea of bringing poets and politicians poetry and culture are part of the political

-time together was a natural for the state that discussion in the upcoming election Endowment for the Arts is a great privilege and an enormous plays a unique role in US politics,” season. So we’re not just putting poets responsibility. Both the arts and arts education face many NH Poet Laureate Marie Harris explains. and politicians in a room together, we’re challenges at present, and the Endowment has much to do.” taking the visiting poets, along with our “During the primary season, New Mr. Gioia assumed office in early February, having recently native New Hampshire poets into New Hampshire is where a lot of the key completed a book of literary essays and an opera libretto. issues facing our country get defined Hampshire communities. He succeeds Michael P. Hammond as Chairman. Mr. Hammond and debated. We want to make sure that Finally, we see this not as an end in assumed office on January 22, 2002 but passed away shortly culture and, specifically, poetry, is part itself, but rather a beginning of the after on January 29. Eileen B. Mason, who was appointed of that discussion,” Harris said. discussion which will certainly continue, Senior Deputy Chairman by the Bush Administration, has in one form or another, for years. And, “While the tradition of state poet laureate been leading the agency since that time. has been around since the 1930s most although we have no expectations of state poets laureate have never met. specific outcomes, we’re confident that A biography of Dana Gioia is available on the NEA’s web site. the issues raised will serve to ignite There wasn’t even a central list of who For more information, contact the NEA Office of Communications they all were until we began to put this further exploration of the poet’s public role,” says Goodman. at 202-682-5570 or visit the NEA Web site at www.arts.gov. 8 9 First Confirmed C

Governors’ Arts Awards 2003 Eligibility Individual Nominees must be residents of Please be selective. In the past, the Nomination Form Deadline: May 21, 2003 New Hampshire and not have previously strongest nominations have provided

received a Governors’ Arts Award. the judges with carefully selected, elebration The New Hampshire State Council on Posthumous nominations may not be made. relevant information and clear, the Arts issues a call for nominations for persuasive narratives. the 2003 Governors’ Awards in the Arts. Organizational Nominees must be VSA Arts New Hampshire again joins physically located in New Hampshire. In addition to the paper copies submitted, the State Arts Council as a partner in the 2 page narrative must be available sponsoring the Cultural Access Leadership With the exception of the Community on disk or electronically in 16 pt. Award. Seven honorary awards will be Spirit and Cultural Access Leadership accessible font, double-spaced. (Arial, made in recognition of outstanding Awards, self-nominations are not eligible. Helvetica, Times Roman or Verdana) contributions to the excellence, growth, How to Make a Nomination support, and availability of the arts in Nominees for the Cultural Access New Hampshire. The Individual Arts Patron Award Complete a nomination form (available Leadership Award will be visited by recognizes a New Hampshire resident in several formats). Make six (6) a member of the Award Selection Award Categories who has made a significant contribution to copies of the completed form and Committee as part of the review process. Cultural Access Leadership Award, the support of the arts in New Hampshire. use the original and copies as cover Deadline sponsored in partnership with VSA Contributions may include donations of sheets for each of the seven (7) copies Arts New Hampshire, recognizes a New money, time, goods, or services that of the narrative and attachments that Nominations must be postmarked no later Hampshire non-profit arts organization over time have significantly increased make up your nomination. than May 21, 2003 or hand-delivered to funding for the arts. the NH State Council on the Arts by for practicing exemplary cultural access Prepare up to two (2) pages stating 4:15 PM on that day. that includes and exceeds physical The Distinguished Arts Leadership Award your nominee’s accomplishments access. Programmatic access involves recognizes an individual who has played and contributions to the excellence, Selection adapting the presentation of art-making, a sustained role in the advancement, growth, support, and availability of An awards selection committee, art exhibits, musical performances, and direction, or management of a New the arts in New Hampshire as they appointed by State Arts Council theatrical productions so that people Hampshire nonprofit arts organization. relate to one of the award categories. Chairman M. Christine Dwyer, will with and without disabilities have the Examples include: Executive Director, Be as specific as possible in addressing review the nominations and make their same opportunities to experience the Artistic Director, and Board President. the different criteria for each award. arts, as audience and artists. The award recommendations to the Governor. celebrates sustained leadership in the The Arts Education Award recognizes an Gather additional written documentation Presentation and Celebration arts that includes people with disabilities, organization, individual, school district or to support your nomination, which must their families, and their friends. community that has made an outstanding include at least 3 letters of support for Governor Craig Benson will be invited to Photo (upper right): contribution to arts education during the the nomination. Other written materials present the Governors’ Arts Awards at The Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure Award past five years. Contributions might include might include newspaper articles, an evening event on November 12, 2003. recognizes a New Hampshire artist, in any New Cultural Access increased financial commitment to arts brochures, statistics, biographical All nominees will be recognized. Each discipline, who has made a significant Leadership Award to education or innovation in the classroom. information, etc. If applicable, you award recipient (groups will share a contribution to his or her art form and to may also include two (2) sets of slides, be presented this year. The Community Spirit Award recognizes single award) will be given an original the arts community of New Hampshire, catalogues, or recordings of an artist’s the city, town, or village government or artwork by a New Hampshire artist, Created by Joy reflecting a lifetime of achievement. work. NOTE: Visuals may also be community wide non-arts organization which interprets the two eagles designed Raskin of Concord, NH submitted electronically as TIFF or JPG New Hampshire Folk Heritage Award (e.g., Chamber of Commerce, Main for the top of the State House dome. files to [email protected]. recognizes a New Hampshire traditional Street organization) that significantly The original 1819 eagle, now housed Photo courtesy of VSA at the NH Historical Society, was the folk artist, who has made a significant fostered the arts within the last five years Collate the nomination form, narra- Arts NH state’s first public art commission. contribution to his or her art form and to through funding and/or program initiatives. tive, and written attachments into Performances by New Hampshire artists his or her cultural community, reflecting Examples include: major municipal seven (7) packets for each member of will enhance the celebration. a lifetime of achievement. Traditional support to a cultural facility or public the award selection committee to art forms are those art forms, passed art program, unique public/private review prior to their meeting. Place informally from generation to generation, partnerships to promote cultural tourism, audio/visual materials and catalogues, that reflect the culture of a particular significant increases in local public if included, in a separate packet. community defined by ethnic heritage, support for the arts. Audio/visual materials and catalogues occupational, religious, geographic, will be shared at the review meeting. or familial groups. Materials will not be returned, do not send one-of-a-kind valuable materials. Awards10 11 2003 Governors’ Arts New Governor, New Poem

Governor Craig Benson asked New During her term, Harris has been Awards Nomination Form Hampshire Poet Laureate Marie Harris to fascinated with defining the public role compose a new poem for his inaugural of poet laureate. She has taken her Nominee ______Nominator ______ceremonies, which took place on quest to the nation by inspiring the first Phone (day) ______Phone (day) ______January 9, 2003. Harris had begun the gathering of state poets laureate, which tradition of writing a new poem for new will take place in New Hampshire e-mail ______e-mail ______beginnings in state government with this April (see related article on former Governor Shaheen’s inauguration. page 8). Address ______Address ______Past NH Poets Laureate, when invited to City______, NH City______, NH participate in inaugurations, had selected one of their poems from previously Zip ______Zip ______published works to read. Arts Affiliation ______Arts Affiliation ______Category (select one) New Year, New Hampshire Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure Arts Education By Marie Harris, New Hampshire Poet Laureate Return by NH Folk Heritage Community Spirit May 21, 2003 to: New Hampshire Individual Arts Patron Cultural Access Leadership “How few have ever had anything Governor Governors’ Distinguished Arts Leadership Craig Benson Arts Awards more of a choice in government than NH State Council Please state in one brief paragraph, the key reasons why this nominee Photo courtesy of should receive an award. Confine response to space provided. on the Arts in climate?” the Governor’s Office 40 N. Main St. John Adams, Thought on Government Concord, NH 03301

This information Photo (left): is available The Hunger Moon draws icy tides upriver, electronically or in heaving gray-green slabs of seawater onto the salt marshes. Inland, a house New Hampshire’s alternative formats. Past Recipients of Governors’ Arts Awards rides snow swells into evening Poet Laureate, Please call v/tty 2001 Rawn Spearman, Dudley 1993 Herbert Waters, Peggy Senter, while inside the householder, satisfied Marie Harris 603/228-4330 or Laufman, Genevieve Aichele, David & Rosamond Putnam, in the knowledge of a well-provisioned root cellar, [email protected]. Henry Melville Fuller, City of Exeter Arts Committee Board a woodshed stacked with even cords, Photo by Manchester, Deborah Stuart of Selectmen pulls the shutters to, turns from the darkening window. Neil Lovett 1999 Tomie dePaola, Larry & Henry 1991 Robert Hughes, Dwight Graves, And still, quarrelsome winds bay down the chimney. Riendeau, Patricia Lindberg, Kimon S. Zachos, Greater Dover Peter Karagianis, The City of Chamber of Commerce The urge to retreat to hearth Claremont, Edith Grodin 1989 Karl Drerup, Alton School Board, and leatherbound studies of certainty 1997 John Woodsum Hatch, Bob May & Sam Gruber, City of Nashua is as strong as the pull of the moon; McQuillen, Nancy Brennan, but there are times 1980 Lotte Jacobi, Federated Arts, NH The City of Rochester, when what we may need most Youth Orchestra Grace A. Casey, Arthur Hall are the rude and raucous disputations 1995 Donald Hall, Newt Washburn, that sputter and spark David Bresnahan, Elaine Krasker, like bonfires on frozen ponds, Town of Newport attracting a quorum of neighbors. 12 New Governor 13 Kenneth Kiesler, who is in his first Nancy Nemec, who passed away in Around the State season as Conductor and Music Director February, was a fine arts printmaker Congratulations to… for the New Hampshire Symphony and active member of the League of Orchestra. A graduate of the University New Hampshire Craftsmen and the Patryc Wiggins, roster artist/tapestry Milli Janz, Nashua playwright and writer, of New Hampshire and the Peabody New Hampshire Art Association. She was weaver from Guild and Director of the whose play, The Murder Party, was Conservatory at John Hopkins also active in community work in Warner, Economic Corporation of Newport, awarded Honorable Mention in the Stage University, Mr. Kiesler served for NH, where she had lived since 1971. for being honored with a “Women Who Play Script category of the 71st Annual 15 years as Conductor of the Illinois Make A Difference” award in October. Writer’s Digest Writing Competition which Symphony Orchestra, is Founder and Her work was exhibited and collected The award recognizes women who make attracted more than 19,000 entries. Director of the renowned Conductor’s internationally. Recognition of her work a difference in the lives of those they included medals of honor from Audubon Edith L. Grodin, former Chair of the Retreat at Medomak, and is Director of touch. Patryc was praised for revitalizing the Orchestras and Orchestral Artists, the National Association of Newport economically and culturally NH State Council on the Arts and retired Women Artists, and the Connecticut Board President of the League of NH Conducting Program at the University and for reviving interest in the machine of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He plans to Academy of Fine Arts Exhibitions. The tool industry. Craftsmen, for receiving a Lifetime League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Emeritus Award at the League’s award continue with the latter position while commuting to New Hampshire to fulfill honored her work and her teaching in an Robert M. Larsen, managing partner of preview party preceding their 69th exhibit, The Mentor Connection, in 2000. the Concord law firm Sulloway & Hollis, Annual League of New Hampshire’s his NHSO commitments. for being selected as one of 18 executives Craftsmen’s Fair. Remembering… nationwide whose works were included Mark Your in After Hours Executive Creativity, a 2003 Artist Fellow Tim Gaudreau, Lee Dennis, freelance writer from Keene visual and literary arts exhibit held in photographer and sculptor from and charter member of the Monadnock NH Arts Calendars Portsmouth, who recently participated in New York this past fall. The exhibit Writers Group, who passed away last Arts Awareness Day highlights the level of creativity among a six-week cultural exchange program in summer. Lee had a distinguished career business executives and reinforces links India sponsored by Rotary International. with more than 50 articles published in On Thursday, April 10, 2003, NH Citizens between business and the arts. Tim had the opportunity to interact with such publications as Yankee, Spinning for the Arts (formerly Arts 1000) is other artists and to collaborate with Indian Wheel and Collectibles Illustrated. In sponsoring an Arts Awareness Day to The following New Hampshire artists artists in a workshop format exploring addition, Lee had two books published celebrate the arts and their impact on who were recognized at the 2002 and developing a project in the spirit of on American games and was an our lives and the State’s economy. Biennial Regional Juror’s Choice his community activist eco-art work. acknowledged expert in her field. She and Activities include breakfast for legislators competition at the Thorne-Sagendorph Welcome To… her husband, Rally, operated the Game and arts advocates, 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM Art Gallery at Keene State College in Preserve in Peterborough, a museum of at the Tuck Library of NH Historical October: Georgia Fletcher, Dublin, Juror’s Elisa Gerasin, who is the new Assistant over 1,200 early board and card games. Society, 30 Park Street, Concord. There Award of $500 for her oil-on-canvas Director at Ballet Theatre Workshop and will also be performances and special portrait; Jane Frances Collister, the Children’s Repertory Ballet Company. Francis X. Gardner, who passed away in presentations throughout the morning. Walpole, second place award of $300, Ms. Gerasin, also a talented dancer in her January, was a lifelong actor, singer, and NH Citizens for the Arts, is a nonpartisan, for her maple and bronze sculpture; own right, was born in Mexico where she director. He was a member of the statewide, grassroots advocacy group. Kris Calnan, Sharon, honorable mention trained and became a company member Concord Community Players for many For more information, email for her collage; and Genevieve Groesbeck, at the Victoria Ballet in Guadalajara. She years and appeared professionally at [email protected] Peterborough, for her ceramic piece. later continued her training at Point Park area summer theatres. He also served College and the Pittsburgh Ballet School, as the Technical Director for the Capitol Frederick Moyer, roster artist and pianist Annual Business Awards Dinner performed with Colorado Ballet and Center for the Arts. He retired in 1998 from Lee, on the release of his new returned to the Victoria Ballet where she from his “day job” as a purchasing agent The New Hampshire Business Committee recording, Enoch Arden, Melodrama for performed and taught before returning for the State of New Hampshire. for the Arts will be announcing this Speaker and Piano with music by to the United States. Ms. Gerasin has year’s recipients of awards honoring Richard Strauss. For this collaborative He provided invaluable assistance to taught several classes at BTW and is businesses that support the arts on work, Moyer teamed up with Benjamin the State Arts Council in its research on now assisting with the administration of May 1, 2003 at their annual banquet. Luxon, one of the world’s great baritones, the history of the agency. He conducted the school and company. Each honoree will receive original artwork

elcome to... elcome the first survey of NH theatres in the who reads poetry by Alfred Lord Tennyson by a New Hampshire artist. while Frederick plays the music of Strauss. mid-1960s to demonstrate the impact of the arts on the state’s economy.

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“...Hughes’ chickadee, along with the The Creative Economy Council is an “We also anticipate that Americans for industry association committed to advancing the Arts will continue to focus on work New England’s cultural-based creative that results in more resources for the ornaments by the other artists, became sector economy. Under the leadership of arts, arts education for all Americans, the New England Council and the New and better communities in partnership part of the permanent White House England Foundation for the Arts, the with the arts, as we have done over the Creative Council will support and initiate last 40 years.” art collection.” policies, partnerships and programs that strengthen the creative sector and enhance www.artsusa.org/press/lillyletter.html its contribution to the regional economy. Around New England & Around the World Seventy-five people, representing all six New England states, have been named New Hampshire Chickadee Lands in to the Council. They include leaders in White House, Thanks to North Country Artist the arts, government, education, and At the invitation of First Lady Laura Bush School of Design’s Alumni of the Year in business sectors. and Governor Jeanne Shaheen, Robert 1989, and the Living Treasure Governors’ The luncheon event was hosted by Hughes of Berlin created New Hampshire’s Arts Award in 1991. Cathy Minehan, President of the Federal Christmas ornament for the 2002 White Reserve Bank of Boston. House Christmas tree based on the Following its appearance on the White House Christmas tree, Hughes’ chickadee, theme, “All Creatures Great and Small.” The keynote speaker for the event along with the ornaments by the other Copyright for Creative Works was John Kreidler, Executive Director, Hughes decided upon the Black-capped artists, became part of the permanent Extended by 20 Years Foundation for Cultural Initiatives Chickadee. Although the birds are most White House art collection. Silicon Valley. In an effort to put more creative works populous in Alaska and Newfoundland, in the public domain, Internet publisher they can be found year round in all parts The New Hampshire members of the Eric Eldred of Derry, NH challenged of New Hampshire, in deciduous to mixed Creative Council are: Christine Dwyer, Congress’s extension of copyright on forests and suburban to rural bird feeders. RMC Research; Paul Hodes, Shaheen & creative works to 70 years after the Gordon Professional Associates; Artists from all 50 states were invited to author’s death. The U.S. Constitution, as Bryon Champlain, Jefferson-Pilot; a reception hosted by First Lady Laura a way to promote the arts and sciences, Nancy Sununu, NH Furniture Masters; Bush at the White House to view their allows Congress to grant exclusive rights Susie Lowe-Stockwell, League of ornament on the tree. “Walking in the to authors for limited times, which in NH Craftsmen; Rebecca Lawrence, front door (of the White House) is truly 1790 translated to 14 years. Recently, the NH Division of Arts; Joan Goshgarian, amazing,” recounts Roberts Hughes’ U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 20-year Photo (right): NH Business Committee for the Arts; wife, Marie. “Laura Bush is a charming extension. Practically speaking, the ruling Mary McLaughlin, Bank of New and gracious hostess. She welcomed us means that most works created from 1922 Robert Hughes’ Hampshire; and Steve Blackmer, and told us that we were their very first on will be protected until at least 2019. Black-capped Northern Forest Center. Christmas party. We met a great many Proponents for having more works in the Chickadee ornament artists from all over the country.” Americans for the Arts Gets public domain cite free access as a way hanging from a $120 Million Gift Robert Hughes was born in 1915 in to promote these works, many of which bough on the White have been forgotten, to more people. Providence, Rhode Island, graduated Americans for the Arts is canvassing Seeking middle ground between perpetual House Christmas Tree. from the Rhode Island School of Design its constituents before its board goes exclusive rights and public domain, in 1939, and moved to Berlin, New into a February retreat to decide how some groups, such as Creative Photo courtesy of Hampshire where he began a 43 year best to use the $120-million gift recently Commons and Open Content, have Robert Hughes teaching career in the Berlin Public presented to them by philanthropist Ruth sprung up to encourage authors to cede Schools. Hughes has been the recipient Lilly. The organization’s director, Robert Creative Economy Council Holds some rights—for educational purposes, of numerous awards and commissions. Lynch, says, “No doubt this gift will prove Inaugural Meeting for example—while retaining royalty In acknowledgment of his enormous to be one of the largest ever given to the income for their heirs. impact on the high school art department, The New England Council began turning cause of advancing the arts in America.” Hughes was officially recognized by the its blueprint for the Creative Economy Lynch, in a letter to constituents, expects State of New Hampshire as “Teacher of into an action plan with the first official the funds to go into an endowment, and the Year” in 1975. Other awards include convening of the Creative Economy the John Hays Fellowship, Rhode Island Council on January 16, 2003. Ar16 ound 17 “If this model program proves successful, other similar exchanges with other Border Crossings: New Hampshire & Quebec colleges and dance programs could be Choreograph a Dance Exchange initiated on both sides of the border.”

Setting the Stage… Choreographing a Plan Community Arts Coordinator at the to receive input on the selection of a State Arts Council, to Montreal to see Quebecois dance company and to make As reported in an earlier issue of NH Arts, Agreement was reached that the the work of Quebecois dance companies arrangements for a 2004-05 dance tour. an official Quebec–New Hampshire exchange will take place over two years and choreographers. They attended Bill is also busy writing an Expeditions Cultural Cooperation Agreement was in two phases. In May of 2004, Keene numerous showcases featuring Quebecois Grant to the New England Foundation signed during a Trade, Cultural and State College will send a few of its top dance companies offered on and off site for the Arts to assist with planning the Compagnie Tourism Mission to Canada in October, dance students and faculty to Montreal at the CINARS conference, met and touring and outreach program phase Marie Chouinard's 2001. During that visit, State Arts for a two to three-week immersion in the learned more about the work of (step two) of the exchange program Council Director Rebecca Lawrence met Montreal dance scene which, tentatively, Montreal-based choreographers and over the next year. It’s a great 24 Preludes by with Dena Davida, Director of Tangente, could include: meeting and studying with companies at an afternoon video collaborative effort. Chopin. a Montreal-based dance presenting peers in dance studios at universities showcase, and attended an evening Watch for the public premiere of New organization and incubator for new and professional training programs; showcase of 14 choreographers/artists Artistic Director, choreographers. Together, they laid the creating a short piece; presenting an Hampshire-Quebec’s First Dance at Tangente’s studio. Menezes, who Marie Chouinard. groundwork for a new dance exchange evening showcase at Tangente; sharing stayed a few days longer, had an Exchange in 2004. program. A lot has happened since then… three to five-minute studies; and guest exhaustive, stimulating full week and Photo courtesy of teaching for KSC faculty. On their return, returned with lots of printed materials In the spring of 2002, Davida traveled they would share new work at Keene Compagnie Marie south to meet with State Arts Council staff and videotapes to share. State College. If this model program Chouinard and New Hampshire dance presenters proves successful, other similar Rehearsals Scheduled and to introduce them, via videotapes, exchanges with other colleges and The exploration continues. Menezes to contemporary Montreal-based dance dance programs could be initiated on continues his research of Quebecois companies, both large and small. both sides of the border. Together, they explored possible dance Dance Companies. He traveled to Quebec exchange projects. Next, Keene State College would host a City in February to more showcases and Quebec dance company for a multi-week will be presenting videos and promotional During the subsequent Quebec cultural residency, followed by an extended materials to members of two regional delegation’s official visit in October 2002, tour to other New Hampshire and New presenting consortiums, New England Davida was joined by Diane Isabelle of England venues. With this plan in place, Presenters and the Association of the Quebec Arts Council to pursue Bill Menezes, Director of the Redfern Presenters in Northern New England, performing arts exchanges. State Arts Arts Center at Keene State College Council staff arranged site visits and volunteered to help organize the dance meetings to build on previous discussions. exchange project. This past November A planning meeting, which included he led a NH delegation, including Jane representatives of the Quebec Ministry Forde from the Music Hall in Portsmouth, of Culture and Communications, the NH Ford Evans from the dance department Arts Division (NHSCA), the NH Cultural at Dartmouth College, Marcia Murdock, Resources Department, and New England choreographer and chair of Keene State Foundation for the Arts was held in College’s dance department, Mary Portsmouth to make concrete plans for a Chapin Durling, representing Fitchburg dance exchange and funding strategies. State College and the Association of Presenters from Northern New England (APNNE), and Judy Rigmont,

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Al Hirschfeld, Philippe de Montebello, 2002 Medal of Arts Recipients artist/caricaturist, New York, N.Y. museum director, New York, N.Y. (deceased) Honored at the White House Philippe de Montebello has led The Al Hirschfeld is best known for the witty Metropolitan Museum of Art for more President George W. Bush and First Trisha Brown, caricatures of theater personalities he than 25 years. During his tenure, Lady Laura Bush presented nine dancer/choreographer, New York, N.Y. produced for the The New York Times the Met has doubled in size, made signif- National Medals of Arts in an Oval from 1928 until his death in January icant acquisitions, mounted acclaimed hite House Office ceremony at the White House in As a member of the Judson Dance Theater in the 1960s, Trisha Brown 2003. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions, developed wide-reaching March. The National Medal of Arts is the publications and is in the collections educational programs and reinstalled Photo (right): highest award given to artists and arts pushed the limits of choreography, changing modern dance forever. Brown of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, much of its permanent collection. Born patrons by the US Government. During Museum of Modern Art, Whitney in Paris and an American citizen since Dancer and the past 18 years, more than 200 has received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, Museum of American Art and the 1955, his numerous honors include choreographer extraordinary patrons and artists in the St. Louis Art Museum. the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, fields of visual, performing and literary and five NEA fellowships. She also served Trisha Brown was on the National Council on the Arts. the Spanish Institute Gold Medal Award arts have been honored. George Jones, and the Blérancourt Prize. recognized for her country singer, Nashville, Tenn. Each year, the National Endowment for innovations in the William “Smokey” Robinson, Jr., the Arts seeks nominations from across George Jones’s first hit song, Why Baby singer/songwriter, Detroit, Mich. First Lady Laura field of modern dance. the country. The National Council on the Why, came in 1955. White Lightning, Arts, the Endowment’s advisory body, his first number one country record, One of pop music’s legends, Smokey Bush enjoys a reviews the nominations and provides followed in 1959. More hits followed. Robinson achieved more than two dozen moment with recommendations to the President, who His autobiography, I Lived To Tell It All, Top 40 pop hits with The Miracles, and Philippe de selects the recipients. reached number six on The New York wrote and produced more hits for Times bestseller list. Jones won a Motown performers. He has received a Montebello, director National Endowment for the Arts Grammy in 1999 as Best Male Country Grammy Living Legend Award, a Soul of The Metropolitan Chairman Dana Gioia had the privilege Vocalist and was elected to the Country Train Heritage Award and a Lifetime Museum of Art for of notifying the 2002 medalists. Music Hall of Fame in 1992. Achievement Award from the National the past 25 years. “We honor these individuals for the Academy of Recording Arts and singular distinction of their artistic Ming Cho Lee, Sciences. He has been inducted into careers,” said Gioia. “Whether they Uta Hagen, painter/stage designer, New York, N.Y. both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and were creating stunning choreography, actor/educator, New York, N.Y. Ming Cho Lee arrived from China in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. re-conceiving contemporary stage 1949 and has led American stage design design, or adding Motown to our nation’s Uta Hagen’s acting career spans 60 The President’s Committee on the as a practitioner and teacher since the musical vocabulary, these remarkable years. She has won Tony Awards for her Arts and the Humanities provided 1960s. He has designed extensively for people have made significant contributions roles in The Country Girl and Who’s support for the 2002 National Medal major theatres in the US and has Country singer to our nation’s cultural life.” Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In 1998-99, she of Arts with special assistance from was honored with a Lifetime received Tony, Ovation and Helen Hayes George Jones Burt and Deedee McMurtry, the Vin The 2002 Medal of Arts Recipients Achievement Tony Award. Hagen is the Awards. A member of the Theatre Hall and Caren Prothro Foundation and the was honored for a author of Respect for Acting and A of Fame, he has received the Mayor’s Florence Knoll Bassett, Perkins-Prothro Foundation. successful career Challenge for the Actor. Award for Arts and Culture (New York designer/architect, Miami, Fla. City). He has taught theatre design at spanning four Lawrence Halprin, Florence Knoll Bassett profoundly the Yale Drama School since 1969. decades. landscape architect/environmental influenced Post World War II design planner, San Francisco, California with her innovative approach and her First Lady Laura Bush and Ming Cho Lee, pioneering interiors of functionalism and Lawrence Halprin has been at the nationally known and celebrated painter and contemporary beauty. Her work is in the forefront of urban design innovation collections of the Museum of Modern in the United States for 50 years. His stage designer, at the White House reception Art, Metropolitan Museum, Smithsonian, awards include the American Institute following the presentation of the 2002 and the Louvre. of Architects’ Thomas Jefferson Award National Medal of Arts. and the American Society of Landscape Architects’ Gold Medal for distinguished Photos by Jocelyn Augustin achievement. Courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts H20 onored 21 Veterans 23 ome, A veterans chosen h where caring is assured, friendships surround, and good lives go on. For more than a century, the New For more than a century, Home has Hampshire State Veterans’ been a home and health resource for Granite State armed forces veterans. Established in 1890 as the Soldier’s it has Veterans, Home for Civil War provided care and comfort for thousands The Home’s who have served their country. mission states: orld War II. He spent much of his day orld War family photos through an image-transfer- to-fabric process. Her memories of his time there inspired the quilts that will now belong to all the veterans residing at the home. Robert Hughes takes his inspiration from the time he served officer as naval during W on the conning tower from where he often he could view the entire ship. Very would view groups of sailors fishing for animals relaxation while seagulls and sea were constant visitors and entertainment evokes His bird mobile for the crew. some good memories from those stressful times. Hughes’ mobile involves variously sized and colored figurative bird shapes that range from one to four feet in length. The construction consists of painted wood with steel rods in place for support and balance as the wooden shapes move. The mobile will respond to slight breezes and air currents after it is placed in the primary and largest atrium. The work will hang eight feet or more from the ground. Hughes hopes the birds’ gentle flight will spark good memories and that the continual motion will be soothing. Robert Hughes’ “Bird Mobile”, NH Percent for Art Photos by Julie Mento ” ® will is more than ee of Life Tr New Hampshire , will hang at approximately into which she incorporated Sheldon Cassady’s Sheldon Cassady’s for protection against both moisture and ultraviolet radiation. own father resided in the New Kincaid’s Home until he Hampshire State Veterans’ passed away in 1997. While there, he hung a quilt she made for him, entitled halfway complete with a view from atop Mount Kearsarge in the Dartmouth- Sunapee Region. This 360-degree interior panoramic view is planned for the of one of the two secondary atria. work to Cassady is excited to show his the Site Advisory and Art Selection spring. Committee, scheduled for early The other secondaryhouse two atria will O’Neil framed quilts by quilter Michele highly- Kincaid. One brightly colored and detailed quilt entitled 4’ from the floor to allow for easy viewing of its detailed craftsmanship. Both quilts are appliqued, hand-beaded, machine hand-embroidered, embellished with machine “stems”, and “Scotchguarded hang high up in one of the secondary atria. The second, smaller quilt, entitled Quilt Dad’s October Frost Mountainous Landscape series indows trompe W for easy viewing the images from is now 90% complete. indows Coming Home viewing wheelchairs. may have poor eyesight or be W for residents and visitors who floor to allow hang approximately 4’ from the different types of windows, will oil painting series entitled ercent for Art Update: for Art ercent eterans’ Home may have experienced on paintings on plywood cut out to resemble captures typical views that residents at the V their journey home from war time to their families and friends. The visitors to the home will be reminded of the scenes and values that these veterans fought to preserve. Each “window”, individual As the New HampshireAs the New State Veterans’ project, expansion ambitious Home’s which will resultadditional 100-bed in an progresses, so too are the capacity, ambitious projects artists of four who will spaces in the Veterans’ enhance the public artworks.Home with commissioned Sheldon Cassady, Gordon Carlisle, Robert Hughes, and Michele O’Neil Kincaid werefrom selected of dozens artistswho bid on the project. Proposals included murals, sculpture, quilts, floor mosaics, stained glass, and existing paintings. All the proposals together requested $84,541. There was $21,400 available to spend. multi-paneled Gordon Carlisle’s P Home Artwork NH Veterans’ Completion Nears l’oeil Coming Home The Site Advisory and Art Selection Committees are reviewing the pieces as the final details are worked out. The final touch will be to apply varnish to protect the paintings from fading under ultra-violet radiation that comes from the natural sunlight that flows in from the windowed corridor where they will be placed. Carlisle’s

Photos by Julie Mento Gordon Carlisle’s “Windows Coming”, NH Percent for Art Photos (this page): 22 FY2004 Grant Deadlines New Hampshire State For projects occurring between July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004 Council on the Arts Across Programs Established in 1965, the New Hampshire Grant Name Deadline Amount State Council on the Arts and the New Mini-grant Quarterly* $1,000 Hampshire Division of the Arts comprise the state’s arts agency. Funding comes Peer Mentorship On-going $500 from appropriations from the State of ArtLinks Initial proposal May 30, 2003 $10,000 New Hampshire and the National For more Artist Services Program Endowment for the Arts, a federal Department of information and Grant Name Deadline Amount agency. Volunteer Arts Councilors set application forms: policies, approve grants, and advise the Cultural Resources Individual Artist Fellowship May 2, 2003 $5,000 Commissioner of the Department of www.state.nh.us/ New Works May 2, 2003 $5,000 Van McLeod, Commissioner Cultural Resources on all matters nharts Percent for Art Varies Varies 20 Park Street concerning the arts. Concord, NH 03301 Arts Advancement Program The State Arts Council’s mission is to 603/271-2540 Grant Name Deadline Amount enrich New Hampshire’s quality of life New! Cultural Conservation Grant April 30, 2003 $10,000 through the arts. The Director of the Division of the Arts General Phone: Cultural Facilities On Hold Until Further Notice $8,000 New Hampshire Division of the Arts 603/271-2789 Annual Advancement March 14, 2003 $7,000 administers the agency, which is part of Rebecca L. Lawrence, Director FY05-06 Operating November 21, 2003 $12,000 the Department of Cultural Resources. 40 North Main Street URL: Concord, NH 03301 www.state.nh.us/ Arts in Education Program nharts New Hampshire 603/271-2789 Grant Name Deadline Amount State Arts Councilors Fax: Artist Residency February 7, 2003 $5,000 Division of Arts Staff Chair 603/271-3584 AIE Leadership Initial proposal August 14, 2003 $5,000 Yvonne Fried, Assistant Director, AIE Planning Ongoing $1,000 M. Christine Dwyer, Portsmouth TTY/TDD: Photos (below): 603/271-0791 800/735-2964 Community Arts Program Vice Chair Judy Rigmont, Community Arts Exterior view and Grant Name Deadline Amount William Hallager, Lincoln Coordinator, 603/271-0794 Office Hours: Trial Courtroom of Development March 14, 2003 $7,000 8:15 am – 4:15 pm Gerald Auten, Hanover Catherine O’Brian, Arts Education Closed all State new Dover District Project Quarterly* $3,500 Richard W. Ayers, Hopkinton Coordinator, 603/271-0795 and most Federal Courthouse Traditional Arts Program Mimi Bravar, Bedford holidays Paul Hodes, Concord Lynn Martin Graton, Traditional Arts Grant Name Deadline Amount Photos by Julie Mento Jacqueline R. Kahle, Wilton Coordinator, 603/271-8418 Project March 14, 2003 $4,000 James Patrick Kelly, Nottingham Julie Mento, Artist Services Coordinator, Apprenticeship April 28, 2003 $3,000 Peter McLaughlin, Hanover 603/271-0790 *Quarterly Deadlines: Edward J. McLear, Meredith April 1, 2003 for projects beginning on or after July 1, 2003 Gary Samson, Concord Dawn Nesbitt, Accountant I, July 1, 2003 for projects beginning on or after October 1, 2003 Jasmine Shah, Nashua 603/271-7926 Tim Sappington, Randolph October 1, 2003 for projects beginning on or after January 1, 2004 Marjorie Durkee, Grants & Contracts Grace Sullivan, Manchester January 1, 2004 for projects beginning on or after April 1, 2004 Technician, 603/271-2789 Melissa Walker, Madbury April 1, 2004 for projects beginning on or after July 1, 2004 Sarah Chalsma, Arts Program Assistant, Two New Percent for Art Opportunities Coming Soon 603/271-0792 Two new Percent for Art Projects are coming soon! Project details and Request for Artist Proposals will be available beginning the Spring of 2003 for the Dover District Courthouse in downtown Dover, and the Carroll County Courthouse in rural Ossipee. For more information about New Hampshire’s Percent for Art Program and how to become involved, visit the State Arts Council’s website under “grants and services” or contact Julie Mento, Artist Services Coordinator at [email protected].

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