The Vermont Arts Council is excited to welcome new Executive Director Susan Evans McClure who began on May 8. As executive director, Evans McClure will lead the organization’s efforts to expand arts opportunities, cultivate creative placemaking, and energize the creative economy across Vermont.

Recognizing the power of the arts to educate and inspire, the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Community Foundation are pleased to announce another allocation of funding to support the state’s creative sector through a philanthropic partnership established three years ago.

The funding will help artists follow their inspiration and create new work. It will also support arts organizations, municipalities, and schools that strive to provide equal and abundant access to the arts in Vermont.

On April 27, the recipients of this year's Animating Infrastructure grants were announced.

Strengthening the connection between people and place, the award-winning projects of the Vermont Art Council’s 2023 Animating Infrastructure program promise to bring vibrancy and vitality to their communities through public art.

This is a great opportunity for a finance professional who loves art, wants to make a difference in Vermont through mission driven work, is seeking flexible, primarily remote work, and wishes to be a part of a high functioning team of dedicated professionals.

As the arts community works to grow and prosper in changing times, we need to rely on supporters like you. We encourage you to give what you can. We are grateful for your confidence in us as we move forward and all you do to keep Vermont’s creative landscape strong and vibrant. With your support, Vermont’s arts community will continue to entertain, provoke, and inspire. 

The Creative Segment Leader Spotlight series explores the seven Creative Segments that comprise Vermont’s diverse creative sector by shining a spotlight on the people who work within them. 

Martha Fitch of Montpelier is the executive director of Vermont Crafts Council, a nonprofit whose mission is to create and enhance an appreciation among the public of the quality, beauty, and history of Vermont crafts and artwork to encourage and sustain the creation of original craft and artwork in Vermont.

Vermont Cartoonist Laureate Tillie Walden discusses her two Eisner Award-winning graphic novels, Spinning and Are You Listening?, her Cosmic Slumber Tarot deck, teaching at the Center for Cartoon Studies, and more in this episode of Vermont Made.

CreativeGround is offering a series of tech-tip focused workshops to give you the skills to create a robust CreativeGround profile or give you a thorough springtime refresh to the one you already have.

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All workshops are from 2-2:30. Learn more and register.

Animating Infrastructure Grants support community projects that integrate art with infrastructure improvements. Through this program, the Council strives to demonstrate the positive impact of art in helping communities to meet goals of livability, walkability, safety, economic vitality, and community vibrancy, and to support the creation of unique infrastructure projects where function and art are one and the same.

The aim of this program is to provide aid to creative sector organizations and businesses that continue to struggle financially due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. These funds are for any regular operating expenses, including but not limited to payroll and benefits, utilities, rent, and insurance.