Burlington City Arts Provides Operational Support Grant
"Blue Alchemy," an installation created by artist Renee Greenlee, featuring a collection of cyanotypes on silk, to be installed at the @theframe.btv as a public art exhibition. Photo courtesy BCA.
Big Heavy World sends a bear-huggish ‘Thank you!’ to the staff of Burlington City Arts and members of the committee that awarded $3,000 from the 2023 Community Fund to support our work!
Since 2016, the BCA Community Fund has supported over a hundred amazing artists and organizations that foster a vibrant creative community and ensure that Burlington continues to be an inspired and joyful place to live, visit, and engage with friends and neighbors. These funds help Vermont artists create exciting community-oriented projects including theater, performing arts, painting, and outdoor sculpture as well as supporting local arts organizations that are still reestablishing themselves after the pandemic. This year, with support from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), BCA was able to double the Community Fund, granting a total of $70,000 directly to 11 artists and 10 arts organizations. The full list of artists and organizations is below.
Individual Artists & Artist Groups
Calling All Grandmothers
A community storytelling event, intended to celebrate and honor the lessons, traditions, and wisdom passed down from our elders.
Calvin Mondele
An artist who creates large-scale acrylic paintings that explore the diverse backgrounds and circumstances of individuals facing homelessness, with the intention of challenging societal perceptions and fostering empathy.
Champlain Park Revitalization
A program that works with neighbors to revitalize the Champlain St. Park through a series of improvements and events that promote positive social interactions.
Longing Is Just Our Word for Knowing
Burlington-based Corrine Yonce, in collaboration with Old North End youth, creates public, site-responsive, collaborative and 3-dimensional paintings reflecting ideas of home, rest, and belonging in the Old North End of Burlington.
Hanna Satterlee/ANIMAL Dance presents Dance and Discourse
Burlington-based performance and production company ANIMAL will create public presentations with conversation of dance works-in-progress by professional VT dance artists.
Blue Alchemy
An installation created by artist Renee Greenlee, featuring a collection of cyanotypes on silk, installed at the FRAME as a public art exhibition.
Let’s Grow Together
A project by mixed-media artist Mahntra Hennessey that will engage with families within the Old North End through workshops in partnership with community gardens, an imaginative play circle, and an art workshop hosted in the ONE Community Center.
Rolyang Lobling
A Tibetan music school founded by Migmar Tsering that connects young Tibetan Americans to their roots through music.
Everyday Neighbors 2024 Multilingual Community Wall Calendar
Burlington-based songwriter and illustrator Ivan Klipstein will Illustrate, design, and print the “Everyday Neighbors” 2024 Multilingual Community Wall Calendar.
Life Lines, by Benjamin Mayock and John P. Hastings
A free outdoor performance in Waterfront Park that will feature wooden boats, a brass ensemble, and colored lines (ropes) connecting the boats to shore.
Davis Studio in Collaboration with King Street Laundry
A series of hands-on art workshops for children and their families.
Arts Organizations
Omega Jade Enterprises
Hip-hip artist Omega Jade will support the Black Artists Market and write a children’s book on Kwanzaa.
The Tibetan Association of Vermont
The TAV continues to work to establish a Community Cultural Center to further their efforts to protect Tibetan culture by offering a permanent place to hold community gatherings and classes while serving as a resource for the entire Vermont community.
SEABA (South End Arts + Business Association)
Funding will support SEABA’s mission to promote the interdependence between art and business and to enhance the vibrant, creative, and diverse community of the South End Arts District.
The VTIFF Screen Room
This project will allow VTIFF to expand its current program to include an event space and a screening room in order to hold public events and screenings without needing to rent a separate location.
Big Heavy World
This funding will assist BHW in preserving the historical record of music originating in Vermont.
Young Writers Project (YWP)
This funding will assist YWP with inspiring, mentoring, publishing, and promoting young writers and artists.
ONE Arts
This funding will assist ONE Arts with their mission to facilitate and coordinate unique and significant art experiences in our local community and to build a larger creative community for Vermont artists by encouraging artistic dialog.
The Off Center
This funding will assist The Off Center with their mission to provide an affordable theater space that supports experimentation, education, and engagement for artists, audiences, and the community.
The Arts Collective
This funding will assist the Arts Collective with their work toward ensuring opportunities for artists who have experience with mental health and/or substance use challenges to connect, create, and exhibit work.
The Green Mountain Book Festival
This funding will assist the festival with creating events to promote marginalized voices and showcase LGBTQIA, BIPOC, and young authors.