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 New Hampshire State Council on the Arts PRSRT. STD 40 North Main Street US POSTAGE PAID Concord, NH 03301-4974 CONCORD NH 03301 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED PERMIT #1478 Photo by Julie Mento 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.