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MAY 2015 
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LAUNCHING CREATIVE CITY
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PUBLIC ART GRANTS ANNOUNCED
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LAUNCHING CREATIVE CITY


NEFA is pleased to announce the launch of Creative City, a three-year initiative that will make grants to artists to create works that integrate public participation. 

Creative City will support individual artists, artist collectives, and artistic collaborations in all disciplines and with roots in diverse cultures, forms and aesthetics. The design of Creative City was informed by conversations with community-based artists, curators, producers, and presenters from across Boston, as well as a national review of artist support programs and creative place-making. 
 
Creative City is made possible with a grant from the Barr Foundation.
 
Image: Courtesy Fund for the Arts grantee Cedric Douglas

 

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JUNE 2-3, 2015 | KEENE, NH

The CCX is a peer-to-peer exchange of the strategies used in successful creative economy initiatives around New England. 
MAY 18, 2015 | BOSTON, MA

MAY 27, 2015 | BOSTON, MA
NOVEMBER 10, 2015 | WORCESTER, MA

PUBLIC ART GRANTS ANNOUNCED
NEFA has awarded $124,500 in grants supporting public art projects that will take place in the greater Boston area.

"This is an exciting time for the arts in Boston," said NEFA executive director Cathy Edwards. "NEFA's Fund for the Arts has a long history of investing in artistic projects that engage the public realm. From a permanent work conceived through a mobile arts lab in Dorchester to the artistic animation of the Harbor Islands, projects supported by NEFA engage diverse Greater Boston communities, respected community groups and important contemporary artists." 

 

Fund for the Arts supported As If It Were Already Here by Janet Echelman over the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Visit our Facebook page for photos from the opening celebration. Photo by Allie Fiske.
 

 

GRANTS AWARDED
NEFA recently awarded just over $560,000 in grants supporting dance, public art, theater, regional touring, and presenter travel:

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Upcoming application deadlines: 
(learn more at  www.nefa.org) 

 

JUNE 1, 2015 

New England States Touring (NEST) 

 

JUNE 8, 2015
National Dance Project Production Grant Final Application  (by invitation) 

 

JUNE 22, 2015 

National Theater Project Creation & Touring Final Application (by invitation)
 

AUGUST 3, 2015 

Creative City (application available soon)

 


Image: NEST-supported Zili Misik, by Duane Dale.

 

BOARD NEWS
Lawrence J. Simpson, board chair of the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), announced that Carrie Zaslow and Douglas Keith have joined NEFA's board of directors.

Carrie Zaslow is a program officer at Rhode Island LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation) and is the former vice chair of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

Prior to founding Lincolnshire Financial Advisors, a boutique advisory firm in Eliot, Maine, Doug Keith held positions with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Mellon Financial, Delta Investment Group and Morgan Stanley. Read more at nefa.org.