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JUNE 2015 
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LEADERS CONVENE AT CCX 2015
GRANT WORKSHOPS: CREATIVE CITY
JOIN US! UPCOMING EVENTS
NDP PRESENTATION GRANTS AWARDED
APPLY FOR A GRANT
         
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LEADERS CONVENE AT CCX 2015

NEFA's Creative Communities Exchange (CCX) took place in picturesque Keene, New Hampshire in partnership with local host Arts Alive! bringing together creative sector leaders from across New England. Creative Economy Award recipients Creative Portland (Maine) and Square One Initiative (Rhode Island) are pictured here, with National Endowment for the Arts chairman Jane Chu, NEFA executive director Cathy Edwards, Maine Arts Commission executive director Julie Richard, and Rhode Island State Council on the Arts executive director Randy Rosenbaum. 

Read more from panelist Jamie Hand of ArtPlace America and check out our Facebook album for highlights from CCX 2015.
 
 
Images courtesy Michael Moore.

 

GRANT WORKSHOPS: CREATIVE CITY

Interested in applying for a Creative City grant? Join us for a practical grant workshop where NEFA staff will answer questions and help artists prepare applications for the August 3, 2015 deadline! 

 

Artists residing within 495 and community organizations in the city of Boston are invited to bring project ideas and questions to the following free workshops:

JULY 01, 2015 | NEFA
JULY 13, 2015 | HIBERNIAN HALL
JULY 14, 2015 | MATTAPAN PUBLIC LIBRARY
JULY 15, 2015 | EAST BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
JULY 16, 2015 | CURTIS HALL
JULY 17, 2015 | NEFA

Find out more about Creative City and read the guidelines for applications by clicking here. 

 

Image: Fund for the Arts-supported Alliger Arts by Mark Matel.

 

JOIN US! UPCOMING EVENTS

JUNE 17, 2015 | CHICAGO, IL

JULY 13, 2015 | PROVIDENCE, RI
CreativeGround Office Hours

NOVEMBER 10, 2015 | WORCESTER, MA
NDP PRESENTATION GRANTS AWARDED
NEFA's National Dance Project recently awarded $696,280 in National Dance Project Presentation Grants. Presentation Grants are made to U.S. nonprofit presenting organizations to support the engagements of NDP Project Production Grants and Touring Awards


Image: NDP-supported Eiko Otake by William Johnston.
APPLY FOR A GRANT
Upcoming application deadlines: 
(learn more at  www.nefa.org) 

 

JUNE 22, 2015 

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

AUGUST 3, 2015 

Creative City

 

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

ROLLING DEADLINE 

Image: New Englad Presenter Travel Fund-supported Litchfield Jazz Festival by Nathan Turner.