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Aldrich Awarded $75,000 Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation For The Visual Arts
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum $75,000 to support its 2022 exhibitions program. These essential funds will help realize three important exhibitions: the group exhibition 52 Artists: Revisiting a Feminist Milestone, and two solo exhibitions by artists Milano Chow and Duane Slick.
SBA Celebrates Women’s History Month
Join us to celebrate Women’s History Month where we highlight the contributions of women to events in history, culture and contemporary society.
Advocacy Alert
Representative John-Michael Parker (House District 101 – Madison + Durham) is hosting an organizing call for interested advocates, allies, and supporters of the arts, culture, and tourism sector to discuss H.B. 6119 “An Act Concerning Arts, Culture, and Tourism Funding”.
Forward into the Light
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and women’s constitutional right to vote, buildings and landmarks across the country will light up in purple and gold on August 26, 2020 as part of the nationwide Forward Into the Light Campaign, named in honor of the historic suffrage slogan, “Forward through the Darkness, Forward into the Light.”
House Proposes Budget Increase to the NEA for FY 2021
Earlier today, the U.S House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee strongly rejected President Trump’s fourth consecutive annual budget request to eliminate both the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) by instead appropriating $170 million in funding for each for fiscal year FY 2021! This represents an increase for both agencies of $7.75 million each over the current FY 2020 funding level of $162.25 million and it is the same amount that we recommended to Congress.
Connecticut Poet Laureate, Receives Poet Laureate Fellowship From The Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce that Margaret Gibson, Poet Laureate of Connecticut, has been awarded a grant of $50,000 as part of the 2020 Poet Laureate Fellowship program.
Arts community shares virtual support for Black Lives Matter protests
Social movements and the arts community often go hand-in-hand, as illustrated by arts institutions across the country calling for change and calling for justice over social media.
The Lucy Prince Prize
In December 2019 we announced our first writing contest, the Lucy Terry Prince Prize for rural poets of color, which honors the legacy of the first known African-American poet in English literature.
Readi Talks: Chris Webby Featuring James Bye
On January 29th at Real Art Ways, Connecticut Office of the Arts in partnership with Now You Know Ent. presents you with a chance to experience a 1:1 in depth conversation with artist, entrepreneur and creative Chris Webby.
Harmony Hammond’s Art Is Bold and Prickly as Ever
With all the hullabalooaround the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, it’s easy to forget that, well into the 1970s and beyond, to be an out gay artist was to court mainstream-career suicide.