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N E W H A M P S H I R E A R T S N E W S

2006

Larry Polansky:Four-VoiceCanons,New Music CD,Cold Blue Music.

Larry Polansky 2007 Fellow

[ Volume XXIV Number 2 Autumn 2006 ]

ContentsT A B L E O F

From the Director ..................................................1Arts Council News ................................................2US Poet Laureate ....................................................3Arts and Healing ................................................4-5Artist Workshops ................................................6-7ArtLinks/Gorham ................................................8-9Artist Opportunity Grants ....................................10Poetry Out Loud ..................................................11Meet the 07 Fellows ........................................12-17Trad Arts Apprenticeships................................18-20Trad Arts Listing Updates......................................21Percent for Art ....................................................22Public Dollars for the Arts ..............................23-27Around the State ............................................28-30National/Regional/International............................31Grant Deadlines ....................................................32

NH Arts NewsNH Arts News is published quarterly. It reaches 6000 people free of charge.To change address information, pleasee-mail, [email protected], or writeto NH Arts, New Hampshire StateCouncil on the Arts, 2 1⁄2 Beacon Street,2nd Floor, Concord, NH 03301-4974.

State of New HampshireDepartment of Cultural ResourcesDivision of the Arts© NH State Council on the ArtsConcord, New Hampshire USA

Editor: Yvonne StahrProduction Manager: Julie MentoGraphic Design: Brian Page, Dharma CreativeContributors: Arts Council Staff

On the CoverLarry Polansky ofHanover is a composer,performer, programmer,editor, publisher andprofessor of music at Dartmouth College.He is the recipient of a2007 NH Fellowship inrecognition of his composing work. Readmore about him and theother five NH Fellowsbeginning on page 12.

This newsletter is available electronically or in alternative

formats. Please call 603/271-2789

DirectorF R O M T H E D I R E C T O R

With the start of new fiscal year 2007,comes the opportunity to develop a newbudget request for state funding for thebiennium FY2008-2009. This year we planto request increased funding for basicgrants to arts organizations. This lineitem has either been reduced or frozenfor nearly 20 years! In the meantime,NH’s population has grown, new artsorganizations have emerged to meetincreased need, inflation has eroded thevalue of the dollar, and federal fundinghas become more restricted.

These changes have resulted in a shrinking investment by the state in theinfrastructure that delivers affordablearts experiences to its citizens—New Hampshire’s museums and galleries,performing arts centers and restoredopera houses, arts service organizations,nonprofit arts schools, and communityarts councils. Organizational Support ismade up of operating and project grants.The state currently contributes $160,000to this line item. FY07 requests for thesetypes of grants came to $460,049.Clearly, many applicants had to makedo with less or nothing at all.

In human terms, reduced dollars to artsorganizations mean staff burnout asfewer people take on more work, feweropportunities for audiences to experiencemore adventurous programs, shorterseasons, less support for individual artists(e.g., using recorded music instead oflive musicians), dropping outreach toschools, making tickets less affordable,and generally serving fewer citizens,especially those in rural or other under-served communities.

Compared with other New England states,New Hampshire’s arts organizationsalready meet budget needs with anabove average percentage of earnedincome. Private foundation and corporategiving is more limited in a state withoutthe population base provided by largecities like Boston or Minneapolis.Compared with other New England states,New Hampshire is at the bottom in stateper capita public funding. We contribute55 pennies per citizen compared to anational average of $1.26. Tiny RhodeIsland contributes $1.89 per citizen.

This year—with a governor and first ladywho promote the arts, with state fiscal2006 ending with a budget surplus of$41 million, with a growing population,with an increased appreciation of thebenefits of a creative economy—thisyear may be the year when elected representatives will listen and invest inNew Hampshire’s arts infrastructureappropriately. In 1984, New HampshireCitizens for the Arts (then called Arts 1000)lobbied for $1 per citizen. We need 45pennies more to get there. In 2007, thatgoal would translate into about $3 percitizen. Probably New Hampshire is notready for that, but surely someone canfind 45 pennies per citizen for the arts inthe FY2008-2009 budget. A state invest-ment of $1.00 per citizen would pay offmany times over. It has taken us morethan 20 years, but we are more than halfway there. Let’s not wait until 2030 toget us the rest of the way. Let’s do it now.

Rebecca LawrenceDirector, Division of the Arts

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Photo by Lynn Martin Graton

Arts News

Staff/Council NewsDrawing from Nature: Arts,Peacemaking and the Environment

The NH State Council on the Arts, inPartnership with the Kearsarge IndianMuseum, the Arts Alliance of Northern NH,and the NH Alliance for Arts Education,presents the 2006 Arts in EducationConference. Register now and join yourfellow teachers and artists Friday throughSunday, October 6th through the 8th atthe Sargent Center for Outdoor Educationin Hancock, NH. You can either overnightor attend as a day commuter.

Featuring:

Keynote Speaker Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Botanist, Gardener, Scientist,Writer and Award-Winning Author ofArboretum America: a Philosophy ofthe Forest (U Michigan Press, 2004).

Arts Advocacy Address by Emile Birch,NH Sculptor and Artist-Educator.

Eco-Artist and Community EducatorTim Gaudreau will be the conferenceArtist-in-Residence.

Experiential arts-integrated and interdisciplinary workshops led by NH Arts in Education (AIE) RosterArtists and guest artist-educators —many will take place outdoors.

Eco-Arts Exhibits: Resources and networking opportunity featuring AIERoster Artists, Artist in Residence(AIR) model projects, plus guest environmental educators.

A Barn Dance with Two Fiddles,Dudley & Jacqueline Laufman, andspecial guests will take place.

Native American Medicine Walk withDiana Beresford-Kroeger.

An Invitation to Teach Peace with KayMorgan, Master Educator, HS EnglishTeacher & Christa McAuliffe Scholar.

For additional conference details visit:www.nh.gov/nharts or www.aannh.org,or contact State Arts Council Arts inEducation Coordinator Catherine O’Brianat [email protected],

tel. 271-0795, or contact Arts Allianceof Northern NH Executive DirectorFrumie Selchen at [email protected],tel. 323-7302.

Free Grants Information Sessions

Want to learn about the work of the NH State Council on the Arts? Its grantsand programs are tailored specifically forarts projects. If you are planning onapplying for funding in the next round ofgrants and represent a school, communitygroup, nonprofit arts organization, or arean individual artist, you won’t want tomiss one of these informative sessions.Agency staff will provide an overviewpresentation that shows the range anddepth of the Council’s work and will helpyou identify the resources offered thatwill fit your specific needs. Staff will alsobe on hand for breakout sessions duringthe second half of the program and willclarify criteria and answer questionsabout funding available through theState Arts Council. Sessions will takeplace on October 23, 24, 26, 27 from3-5pm at the State Arts Council officesat 2 1/2 Beacon Street in Concord.

Registration is required. Please registerno later than September 29th. For more information or to register call603/271-2789, or visitwww.nh.gov/nharts for directions.

National Recognition forNew Hampshire Poet Donald Hall Appointed National Poet Laureate

Donald Hall of Wilmot has been named the14th Poet Laureate of the United States.The appointment is for a year, but can beextended, and carries a cash award of$35,000 and a $5,000 travel allowance.No specific duties are required for theposition but Hall has said that he willadvocate to have poetry’s reach extendedto the public through the mass media.

Hall, 77, is a two-time NH Poet Laureate(1984 and 1995) and was designated aNH Living Treasure at the 1995Governor’s Arts Awards. He is the third

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U.S. Poet Laureate with deep ties to NewHampshire. Since the post was establishedby President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937,Derry’s Robert Frost (1958-59) and Warner’sMaxine Kumin (1981-82) have served.

“I was totally surprised,” said Hall aboutthe news. “I really embraced it immediately,but I had to think about if I could do it atmy age — and I think I can.” A small statelike New Hampshire producing threeU.S. poet laureates doesn’t surprise Hall.“I’ve known a lot of New Hampshire poets,”he said. “There’s something about thelandscape, the rural culture, the cultureof separation and eccentricity.” Hall stillwrites poetry, prose and letters everyday. “The poems come,” he said. “Theycome more slowly, but they come.”

For the past thirty years the New Haven,CT native has lived on Eagle Pond Farmin rural New Hampshire, in the housewhere his grandmother and mother wereborn. His home has inspired his extensivewritings about life in New Hampshire“Seasons at Eagle Pond” (1987) and“Here at Eagle Pond” (2000). A thirdvolume, “Eagle Pond,” is scheduled forpublication in 2007.

Hall was married for 23 years to the poetJane Kenyon, who died in 1995. In 1998,he published “Without” (HoughtonMifflin), a collection of poems expressinghis grief over Kenyon’s death.

Hall has published 15 books of poetry,12 children’s books and 20 books ofprose, beginning with “Exiles andMarriages” in 1955. His most recentpublication is “White Apples and theTaste of Stone: Selected Poems1996–2006” (Houghton Mifflin). Hisworks have garnered many honors andawards including the Caldecott Medal for“Ox-Cart Man,” the Marshall/NationAward in 1987 for his “The Happy Man,”both the National Book Critics CircleAward and the Los Angeles Times BookAward in 1988 for “The One Day,” theLily Prize for Poetry in 1994, and twoGuggenheim Fellowships. He is a member of the American Academy ofArts and Letters.

Council N

ews

Books of poetry by Donald Hall

Exiles and Marriages (1955)

The Dark Houses (1958)

A Roof of Tiger Lilies (1964)

The Alligator Bride (1969)

The Yellow Room (1971)

The Town of Hill (1975)

Kicking the Leaves (1978)

The Happy Man (1986)

The One Day (1988)

Old and New Poems (1990)

The Museum of Clear Ideas(1993)

The Old Life (1996)

Without (1998)

The Painted Bed (2002)

White Apples and the Taste of Stone (2006)

Books of prose by Donald Hall

String Too Short to Be Saved (1961)

Henry Moore: The Life and Work of a Great Sculptor (1966)

Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball (1976)

Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport, MostlyBaseball (1985)

The Ideal Bakery: Stories (1987)

Seasons at Eagle Pond (1987)

Here at Eagle Pond: Essays (1990)

Their Ancient Glittering Eyes: Remembering Poets and MorePoets: Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, ArchibaldMacLeish, Yvor Winters, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound (1992)

Life Work (1993)

Principal Products of Portugal: Prose Pieces (1995)

Willow Temple: New and Selected Stories (2003)

The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon (2005)

Donald Hall is the new US

Poet Laureate.

Photo courtesy of the Library

of Congress

Save the date:

2006 Arts in

Education

Conference

October 6-8

Sargent Center

for Outdoor

Education

Hancock, NH

The Crotched Mountain RehabilitationCenter in Greenfield was founded by philanthropist Harry Gregg (1883-1972),father of Hugh Gregg and grandfather of

US Senator JuddGregg. Today, thischaritable organi-zation employsmore than 900people with a mission “to serveindividuals withdisabilities and theirfamilies, embracingpersonal choiceand development,and building

communities of mutual support.” It provides specialized education throughits school, rehabilitation through its hospitaland brain injury unit, and residentialsupport services. Walk through the doorsof Crotched Mountain and you can tellright away that it is a welcoming placefilled with light and uplifting views of thesurrounding landscape. CrotchedMountain sustains its own communitywhile, at the same time, embracing outreach to the community-at-large bysharing its many resources.

Because of its vision, vital arts programs,progressive and dedicated leadershipand staff, and total commitment to serving diverse populations, CrotchedMountain was chosen as the state’s first“hub site” for a multi-year regional arts

and healing initiative that the State Arts Council has embarked upon, inpartnership with the Vermont ArtsExchange and the MassachusettsCultural Council. Regional hub sites serveas hosts for multi-disciplinary professionalartist residencies, artist internships, and training opportunities for health care staff and artists from the three participating New England states.

For example, this past summer, afterparticipating in an artist orientation forthose chosen to participate in short-termresidencies, percussionist Michael

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PartnershipsNHSCA/ Crotched Mt. Foundation/Vermont Arts Exchange/Mass. Cultural Council

The Hills are Alive….

Wingfield, sculptor Emile Birch and kitemaker Archie Stewart developed andoffered programs designed around thetheme of flight. The artwork they createdwas shown at Crotched Mountain’s kitefestival held on the mountain campus.

Community Arts CoordinatorJudy Rigmont said, “It’s reallybeen inspirational to see allthat Crotched Mountain offersand to be able to enhancetheir programming throughour involvement. It’s rare thatthe State Arts Council canfocus on a multi-year arts initiative targeted to specificsites where the impact of thearts in these environments can be measured over time and shared locallyand perhaps even nationally with otherhealth care providers.”

Rigmont also applauds the pioneeringwork of the partner organizations overthe past two years. They have laid thegroundwork with programs at TewksburyHospital in Massachusetts, the Vermont

Veterans Home and Vermont ArtsExchange that were recently documentedon film. Another bonus provided by this hub-site approach is the training opportunities for artists and health carestaff at the different regional sites.

The State Arts Council looksforward to strengthening itspartnerships and providingCrotched Mountain with exemplary program and trainingopportunities, learning aboutthe impact that the arts poten-tially have in health care andresidential environments, andsharing the arts and healinginitiative’s resources, findings

and documentation with others in thearts and health care fields.

Note: Arts and Health Care Projects are also funded via the State ArtsCouncil’s Community Arts Project Grantcategory. For more information, go tohttp://www.nh.gov/nharts/grants/pro-jectgrantcom.htm or contact CommunityArts Coordinator Judy Rigmont at [email protected] or 603/271-0794.

Members of Crotched

Mountain’s adaptive

dance troupe Active

Ingredients (L to R):

Jenny, Shaina and Jen.

Photo courtesy of

Crotched Mountain

This aerial shot

shows the extensive

campus of Crotched

Mountain in

Greenfield.

Photo courtesy of

Crotched Mountain

L to R: percussionist Michael Wingfield; State

Arts Council Community Arts Coordinator

Judy Rigmont; sculptor Emile Birch; Deborah

DeCicco of Crotched Mountain; writer Peggy

Rambach; weaver Sarah Haskell; and Ilana

Hardesty of the MA Cultural Council.

Photo courtesy of Crotched Mountain

I want to express our deep appreciation for selecting us for this exciting

project. We are all looking forward with great anticipation to enhancing the

arts programs on our campus. Through this partnership/project we will

discover new ways of connecting our students, patients, clients, families

and staff with the world, drawing out talents, making new discoveries

about ourselves and building meaningful relationships.

Donald Shumway, PresidentCrotched Mountain Foundation

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Artists are the essence of our vital creativeeconomy even though they don’t alwayssee themselves as the small businessesthat they really are. Admittedly, manyartists don’t like to have to deal withbusiness matters themselves and rely ontheir spouses, a relative or an agent tohelp with marketing, creating and main-taining websites, legal issues, taxes, andscheduling bookings. Others strugglewith these tasks and resent the creativetime they have to give up.

In an effort to help artists hone theirbusiness and “survival” skills, last winterthe State Arts Council introduced a seriesof free workshops that addressed a widevariety of topics, such as developing abusiness plan, health insurance issues,marketing, working in communities, andwebsite development. The success ofthis new series was due, in part, to anew partnership with MicroCredit-NH,who facilitated the first two sessions.

MicroCredit-NH, a program of the NHCommunity Loan Fund, provides accessto business training, loans, and peer networking opportunities around the stateto self-employed and small businessentrepreneurs. Our partnership will continue for the fall/winter artist workshop series which will begin with a

co-sponsorship of MicroCredit-NH’sfourth annual Arts Day of Learning andNetworking on September 16th at RiverWoods in Exeter. Participants can attendthree sessions including: low-cost marketing and public relations strategies,pricing artwork and services, accountingand tax education, how to prepare aportfolio, refining your gallery approach,contracts/licensing, and an artist panelon “Artful Livelihoods.”

Forthcoming fall/winter workshop willfeature topics that have been decided uponbased on results of a participant survey,plus overflow demand for the previousseries. They will include sessions onmarketing, taxes and financial manage-ment, participating in public art projects,the pros and cons of becoming a nonprofit, and more. All sessions willencourage helpful dialog, resource sharingand peer learning, plus information ongrants and services offered by the StateArts Council and partner organizations.

A session on legal issues, includingcopyright, patents, cyberspace issues,and contracts, will involve an additionalpartnership with NH Business Committeefor the Arts (NHBCA) and FranklinPierce Law Center (FPLC). NHBCA educates, motivates and recognizes

PartnershipsNHSCA / MicroCredit-NH / NH Business Committee for the Arts

Supporting Artists as Entrepreneurs

businesses for their participation in andsupport of the arts. They offer suchservices as identifying and connectingarts projects with professionals whohave expertise in finance, law, insurance,information systems, marketing andhuman resources. Their Lawyers for theArts/NH program refers artists and artsorganizations to attorneys who can provide legal assistance for either areduced fee or pro bono.

The State Arts Council will continue to strengthen its partnerships withMicroCredit-NH and NHBCA for the

benefit of the creative sector, creativeworkers, and micro-entrepreneurs whose work enriches our lives and thestate’s economy.

For more information about MicroCredit-NHor the NH Business Committee for theArts, visit www.microcreditnh.org orwww.nhbca.org, respectively. To learnmore about the State Arts Council’s fallworkshop series for professional NH artists,go to: www.nh.gov/nharts or contact JudyRigmont at [email protected] 271-0794.

A series of workshops,

sponsored by the

State Arts Council

in partnership with

MicroCredit-NH,

included a session

on health insurance

for artists.

Photo by Julie Mento

ArtLinks8

ArtLinks The Family Resource Center at Gorham

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A State Arts Council ArtLinks grantencourages partnerships between community organizations, schools, andarts organizations to provide arts educationfor middle and high school-aged youthin under-served communities around thestate. Applicant “teams” are asked to

make a three-yearcommitment tothis program. Fundsare available forboth the planningand implementationof the project.

In addition tofunding, applicantsare offered technicalassistance, work-shops, peer learning

opportunities, and smaller grants to helporganizations document and evaluatetheir projects. Grant recipients and theirpartner organizations must also committo attending at least one meeting a yearfor the duration of the three-year grantperiod. The meetings assist participantswith project planning, documentation,peer learning and fundraising skills.

The Family Resource Center (FRC) atGorham – in the heart of the state’s traditionally under-served North Country –received an ArtLinks grant to plan andimplement after school programs. The programs took the shape of artistresidencies that involved middle schoolstudents and students from the first tofourth grades. The artists included NHRoster Artists sculptor Mark Ragonese,and textile artist Marcy Schepker. LocalAbenaki storyteller Michael Eastman alsoconducted a residency with Middle Schoolstudents. The projects successfully metthe Center’s objectives of expandingcommunity outreach and engagingyouth in community arts projects.

Mark Ragonese worked with MiddleSchool students for three days duringtheir April vacation. Their work resultedin the creation of a composite structuremade of individually designed woodenpanels, each with an outline of a student’shands incorporated into the design. The theme of incorporating their hands,called “Many Hands Make Light Work,”was conceived by the students themselvesand involved them in discussion andreflection as they planned and created thework. The resulting visually appealingdesign was displayed in the lobby of the FRC and in the schools of the participating students.

In another residency in February, studentsin the first through fourth grades workedwith textile artist Marcy Schepker todesign and create a tapestry of dyedwool that involved various stages in theprocess including carding and preparingthe wool, creating the design and thenweaving the design with the wool. Thistapestry was placed on display at theFRC and at family open houses atBrown and Bartlett schools. It was alsodisplayed on a rotating basis at severallocal businesses.

A variety of artists

of different media

were featured in

residencies that

were funded

through the

multi-year ArtLinks

grant. Attentive

students listen to

painter Deb Maher

as she explains

color theory.

Photo by Gail Scott

Mark Ragonese works with students in an

after school program sponsored by the FRC as

part of their ArtLinks grant.

Photo by Gail Scott

changed their focus to create more programming for preteen groups andprovided a more structured frameworkfor art-based activities. In addition, The FRC is now serving an after schoolenrollment that has increased by nearly200 students and have doubled theiroriginal staffing. This means that moreenergy and staff time can be devoted to getting new programs up and runningin the fall.

As McDowell says, “The experiencegained with previous ArtLinks grants hasallowed us toimprove our under-standing of how tocreate effective artsprograms in afterschool settings and also how toengage the widercommunity.”

The FRC partneredwith the Arts Allianceof Northern NH(AANNH) and wereable to coordinatetheir Classroom and CommunityConcerts Program with FRC’s afterschool programs thereby expanding thearts experience for their students as wellas the wider community. Students in theprograms and their families participatedin interactive performances with fiddlerPatrick Ross, Middle Eastern dancer Alia Thabit and a participatory danceprogram with Jeanne Limmer and theAxis dancers.

The FRC’s after school programs havehad a ripple effect into the communitiesof Berlin, Gorham, Milan, Randolph,Shelburne and Dummer, who have allbenefited from FRC’s programs.

To learn more about ArtLinks and otherarts in education grants and programsthat the State Arts Council offers, visit:www.nh.gov/nharts or contact Arts inEducation Coordinator Catherine O’Brianat [email protected] 271-0795.

Catherine P. McDowell, FRC’s ExecutiveDirector, observed that this last project inparticular was also successful in helpingbuild the self-esteem of students who

find it difficult to learn in a traditionalclassroom environment. She said, “This project and artist were extremelyeffective in engaging and focusing someof our more distractible and challengingstudents. The hands-on and activeaspect of the project allowed these students to use their creativity and energy in a way that normal classroomsdo not, and this made them feel bothproud and successful.”

In a third program, Michael Eastman,local Abenaki storyteller and craftsman,organized an overnight for middle schoolstudents in a traditional wigwam with thesides painted to look like a starry sky.The students listened to Abenaki storiesand created some stories of their own.They also had the opportunity to trytheir hands at Abenaki craftwork andlearned of the history and influence ofthis tribe in the region.

In July the FRC received a large grantfrom the U.S. Department of Education’s21st Century Community LearningCenter Program to provide new afterschool programs at Brown ElementarySchool, Bartlett Elementary School,Hillside Elementary School and BerlinJunior High School. Thanks to the ArtLinksfunding and assistance received throughthe State Arts Council, the FRC hasgained valuable experience in planningafter school programs. The new grant

Photo left:

Roster Artist

potter Kit Cornell

demonstrates a

pottery making

technique for

students.

Photo by

Gail Scott

Laura Viger,

Berlin Parks &

Recreation Dept.

Director (left),

and Jan Millis,

BEST BET Berlin

Jr. High after

school program

Site Coordinator

(right), explain

the mural to

town officials and

students attending

the unveiling and

how the students

told a story with

the pictures they

painted.

Photo courtesy

of FRC

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Artist Opportunity GrantsMeeting the Specific Needs of Individual Artists

The first Poetry Out Loud NationalFinals were held in May at thehistoric Lincoln Theatre inWashington, DC. Teal Van Dyck,a senior at Bow High School, wassecond place winner in the contestand received a $10,000 scholarshipprize. She was among the 51 statechampions from around the countrywho participated in the first nationalpoetry recitation contest, sponsoredby the Poetry Foundation and theNational Arts Endowment.

Back in April Van Dyck had wonfirst place in the NH Poetry OutLoud competition semifinals. She went home with a $200 cashprize and an all-expenses-paidtrip that took her to Washington,DC to compete in the NationalFinals. Bow High School receiveda $500 stipend to purchase poetrybooks for the school library. VanDyck has been writing poemsfrom “when I was knee-high” and the last few years has beenperforming them to the rock’n’rollaccompaniment of her band,“Teal and the Lickers.”

The national championship winnerwas Jackson Lille of Ohio, whoreceived a $20,000 scholarshipprize. Third place winner KellieTaulia Anae of Hawaii, received a $5,000 scholarship prize. The schools of the top 12 finalistseach received $500 for the purchase of poetry books. A totalof $50,000 in scholarship prizesand school stipends was awardedat the National Finals.

The other 12 finalists includedKendra Holloway of Kentucky;Riva Y. Dumont of Maine; AislinnLowry of Missouri; Ryan ArthurBerry of North Dakota;Alexzandria Ward of Oklahoma;Michael Santiago of Oregon; ChrisEstevez of Pennsylvania; KaylaJackmon of South Dakota; andAnjuli Joshi Brekke of Wisconsin.

Special guest judgespresided over the competition, includingpoetry advocateCaroline Kennedy,Pulitzer Prize-winningliterary critic MichaelDirda, best-sellingauthors Azar Nafisi andCurtis Sittenfeld, andauthor, poet, and former NEADeputy Chairman A.B. Spellman.Scott Simon, host of NationalPublic Radio’s Weekend Edition,served as master of ceremonies.

The Poetry Out Loud National Finalsfeatured three rounds of daytimesemifinals from which 12 finalistsadvanced to compete in the eveningnational finals. The event was theculmination of a pyramid structurecompetition that began in Januaryamong schools in every state andthe District of Columbia.

Eleven NH schools conductedclassroom and schoolwide competitions and sent winners tothe state finals. Poetry Out Loudawarded a total of more than$100,000 to state- and national-level winners. Each state-levelfinal awarded $1,000 in prizes tothe finalist, the runner-up, and theirschools, and each state championreceived an all-expenses-paid tripto Washington, DC. The NEA and the Poetry Foundationeach have contributed $500,000towards the 2006 Poetry OutLoud program in support ofmaterials, grants, prizes and theNational Finals. NEA grants toState Arts Agencies enabled themto implement the program in highschools in each state capital region,often in collaboration with localliterary organizations. The NEAand the Poetry Foundation alsoprovided free, standards-basedcurriculum materials for use byparticipating schools. Thesematerials include print and online

poetry anthologies containingmore than 400 classic and contemporary poems; a website(www.poetryoutloud.org); ateacher’s guide to help instructorsteach recitation and performance;and a CD featuring well-knownactors and writers such as AnthonyHopkins, James Earl Jones,Alyssa Milano, David Schwimmer,and N. Scott Momaday. The PoetryOut Loud National Finals wereadministered by the Mid AtlanticArts Foundation.

Poetry Out Loud seeks to buildon the resurgence of poetry as anoral art form, as seen in the slampoetry movement and the immensepopularity of rap music amongyouth. The program invites thedynamic aspects of slam poetry,spoken word, and theater into theEnglish classroom. ThroughPoetry Out Loud, students canmaster public speaking skills,build self-confidence, and learnabout their literary heritage.

Plans are underway for the 2007-2008 Poetry Out Loud competition.For information on how yourschool can participate, contactCatherine O’Brian [email protected],or 603-271-0795.

This grant category supports awide variety of opportunities thatcan advance the work of NH professional artists, includingstructured mentoring sessionsbetween master-level and emergingprofessional artists; professionaldevelopment opportunities, such as attending master classes,conferences and showcases; the development of promotionalmaterials, including websites andprinted materials; and opportunitiesto develop, exhibit or performnew works.

These grants are offered quarterlyand the first deadline was July 3rdfor projects beginning on or afterOctober 1, 2006. The next deadlinewill be October 3rd for projectsbeginning on or after January 1,2007. Here are a few of the applicants in this category thatthe State Arts Council has fundedduring the first round:

Nature painter Rosemary Conroyof Goffstown was granted $450to attend a week-long paintingworkshop at the AmericanAcademy of Equine Art toimprove her skills.

Musician Paul Bourgelaisreceived $385 to create anoriginal music composition fora summer dance intensive.

Dancer Deborah Kodiak wasawarded $420 to attend a celloworkshop with David Darlingand Chungliang Alhuang at theOmega Institute. While attendingthe State Arts Council’s 2005AIE conference, she becamecaptivated by Darling’s way ofincorporating body movementinto his music teaching.

Poet Charles Pratt received $325to attend a week-long writer’sconference at Vermont College.

Flutist Christina Kelsh received$695 to attend classes on BodyMapping and the AlexanderTechnique to help lessen fatiguecaused by playing the flute forextended periods of time.

This listing provides just a smallsampling of the types of activitiesthat this funding can support. To give a more thorough idea ofwhat can be accomplished withfunding in this category here area few more projects that an ArtistOpportunity grant can help facilitate:

Registration fees, tuition costs, travel and per diem forattendance at conferences,workshops, and/or artist showcases.

Enrollment in a master classto enhance artistic skills.

A performing artist wishes toshowcase his/her work at aconference for performing artspresenters.

An artist meets with collaboratingartists to design or create anew work.

An artist needs to consult with anartistic director/choreographer/playwright/writer or musicianin the planning and creation ofa new work.

A visual artist needs financialassistance to professionallyphotograph and frame artworkfor an upcoming exhibition.

An artist wishes to work with a consultant to develop a business plan.

A master professional artistmentors an “emerging” profes-sional artist during their earlycareer and is reimbursed forrelated expenses (i.e. supplies,travel, stipend).

An artist or professional company contracts with awebsite designer to improvemarketing of their work.

To learn more about ArtistOpportunity Grants and othergrants and programs that theState Arts Council offers, visit:www.nh.gov/nharts or contactCommunity Arts CoordinatorJudy Rigmont [email protected] 271-0794.

Poetry Out LoudNH Student Wins Second Place in Washington, D.C.

NH Poetry Out Loud winner Teal Van

Dyck, recites her poetry on the stage

of the Lincoln Theater at the national

finals in Washington, DC in April.

Photo by James Kegley

Elegy for a Black Bear, oil on canvas,

16” x 20” 2005, by Rosemary Conroy.

Photo courtesy of the artist

Cellist David Darling is a dynamic

and unconventional instructor who

uses body movement and vocal work

to teach music.

Photo by Yvonne Stahr

Fellowship recipientsMusician and composer Larry

Polansky is a 2007 NH Fellow.

Photo by Jody Diamond

Jeff Warner, Folk Singer/Musician, Portsmouth

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Congratulations 2007 Fellowship Recipients

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The State Arts Council is pleased to announce the six Individual Artist Fellows for 2007. Each artist willreceive a $5,000 Fellowship Award in recognition of artistic excellence and professional commitment.Panelists reviewed work samples from 90 applicants, most of whom are visual and literary artists.Professional New Hampshire artists in all disciplines are eligible to apply. The next postmark deadline isFriday, April 13, 2007. Application guidelines can be found on-line at www.nh.gov/nharts. For more information contact: [email protected].

Larry Polansky, Composer, Hanover

Jeff Warner attributes his interest inboth scholarship and musicianshipto the work of his parents, the wellknown music historians Frank andAnne Warner. At ages 3, 8 and 16Warner accompanied his parentson a few of their trips throughoutthe Eastern US and Canada andsat and listened while they recordedthe locals who remembered theold songs of their region andcommunities. These significantrecordings are preserved for pos-terity in the Library of Congress.

In his early years Warner lived inGreenwich Village with his familyand later attended Duke Universitywhere he earned a BA in English.After a two-year stint in the Navy,he continued his studies at NewYork University under the G.I. Bill.

In the 60s Warner was editor-in-training at Doubleday Bookclubs.He seemed headed toward a literarycareer, until a friend asked if hewould help out with a non-profitmusic school, called the GuitarWorkshop, in Roslyn, Long Islandin NY. Warner stayed with the schoolfor nine years as the only paidstaff person, and worked asadministrator, guitar teacher, grantwriter, and community programcoordinator. He says he learnedmusic theory and arrangementby teaching. His position alsohelped put him in touch with thesignificant people involved in thepost-WWII folk revival movementthat was embraced by both thecommercial and academic worlds.

In the 70s Warner left to carve outa career for himself in historicalmusic. Because of the USBicentennial there was an increaseddemand for American songs inschools and Jeff filled that needwith school outreach programs.

In explaining his work, Warner pointsout that he is not a traditionalsinger in the academic sense.

Warner prefers to refer to himselfas a singer of traditional songs.He takes an historical approach tothe music and has become knownas a “folklorist/historian andcommunity scholar.” In describing

his work, he says: “I teach Americanhistory and culture through tradi-tional song.” He borrows a phrasefrom historian David McCullough,who said, “my mission is to makehistory as interesting as it reallywas.” For Warner, old songs arelike archaeological objects,…they’re living historical artifactsthat serve as evidence about thepeople who used them and thetimes they lived in.”

In 1997, he moved to Portsmouthand began doing school outreachas a Roster Artist through theState Arts Council. He hasrecorded for Flying Fish/Rounderand other labels. His first solocompact disc, recorded in 2005,is Jolly Tinker on GumstumpRecords. His 1995 recording, TwoLittle Boys, received a Parents’Choice Award. He is the editor ofTraditional American Folksongsfrom the Frank and Anne WarnerCollection (Syracuse UniversityPress, 1984), and producer of theset Her Bright Smile Haunts MeStill: The Warner Collection(Appleseed Recordings, 2000),

which is comprised of his parents’recordings. He appears on the StateArts Council’s 2003 compact discSongs of the Seasons, for whichhe also co-wrote the liner notes.

From 1979 to 1993 Jeff Warnertoured nationally with theSmithsonian Associates and ispast president of the Country Danceand Song Society, and a pastofficer of the North AmericanFolk Music and Dance Alliance.He has been an artist for Virginia,Ohio and Utah Arts Councils andis past producer of the PortsmouthMaritime Folk Festival. He has beenthe recipient of numerous grantsfrom the NH Humanities Council.

This is Jeff Warner’s first Fellowshipfrom the State Arts Council.

New York City native Larry Polanskyis a composer of stage, orchestral,chamber, choral, vocal, piano,and electroacoustic works thathave been heard throughout theAmericas and in Europe. He is an innovator in the way he incorporates technology into hismusic-making, “…the unique thingthat I’m known for is using ArtificialIntelligence as a compositionalpartner – or getting the computerto do something a human woulddo.” Polansky is one of three co-authors (with Phil Burk andDavid Rosenboom) of the widelyused computer music languageHMSL (Hierarchical MusicSpecification Language), and hiswritings on music theory haveappeared in numerous journals.

Polansky has recorded six compactdiscs of his original compositionsand appears on many others asaccompanist and in anthologies.In 2002, Polansky released therecording “Four Voice Canons”and in 2004 “Trios,” a collaborationwith Douglas Repetto, Tom Eribe,Chris Mann and Christian Wolff.

Polansky also publishes, producesand distributes experimental andunusual works of other composersthrough Frog Peak Music, a composer’s collective that he co-founded with his wife JodyDiamond in 1982. Frog Peak hasbecome the main experimentalmusic producer in the world.

As a performer Polansky conductsand plays guitar, mandolin, electronics, gendér and many

other instruments. Although passionate about exploring thenew, he also holds a deep interestin traditional music. He sings withhis family in the Enfield ShakerChoir and values the strong culturalidentity of the people in hisadopted state. “NH’s virtue is inits extraordinary deep-thinkingpeople who feel very rootedhere,” he explains. “being in New Hampshire for so long hasinformed, nuanced, and deeplyaffected my work, not just theenvironment, but the people, theideas I’ve found here, and muchof the culture.”

He is also the co-author, with JudithTick, of The Music of AmericanFolk Song, the critical edition of abook length monograph by RuthCrawford Seeger.

Polansky has taught at DartmouthCollege since 1990 and is theJacob Straus Professor of Musicand Co-Director of the BregmanElectronic Music Studio. He teacheselectro-acoustic music in thegraduate program and courses in computer music, theory andcomposition to undergraduates.

He holds a BA in Mathematicsand Music from the University ofCalifornia Santa Cruz, and an MA in Music Composition fromthe University of Illinois atChampaign-Urbana. Polansky hasbeen the recipient of the BMIYoung Composers Award, FirstPrize in the Young Composers ofthe Western States competition, a Sony Music Fellowship,

a Dartmouth College SeniorFaculty Fellowship and the HenryCowell Award by the AmericanMusic Center. In addition, he hasearned numerous grants, mostnotably, a Parson’s Fund Grantfrom the Library of Congress, aFulbright Senior Research Grantand a Guggenheim Fellowship in Composition.

His fellowship award from theState Arts Council will enable himto complete a major work entitledEine Kleine Computer Music thathe has created in collaborationwith composer, Daniel Goode.

Larry Polansky is married tocomposer, performer, teacher andlecturer Jody Diamond. They livein Hanover with their daughterAnna, age 15, and a standardpoodle named Lyly. This is LarryPolansky’s second Fellowshipfrom the State Arts Council.

In 1942 Jeff Warner accompanied his

parents on one of their trips collecting

American song. In Minerva, NY his

father took this photo with singer and

logger John Galusha (1859-1951),

who shared with the Warners the

songs he picked up in the lumber

camps. Warner remembers that the

dog in the photo was named Flash.

Photo by Frank Warner

2007 Fellow Jeff Warner

Photo courtesy of Jeff Warner

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Fellowship recipients

In Joseph Monninger’s school days, theWestfield, NJ native seemed headed fora career in professional sports. He hadbeen a talented athlete and entered TempleUniversity on a football scholarship. Aninjury, however, forced him to put that

dream aside andfocus on academics.After earning his BAin English, he joinedthe Peace Corps andspent three years inAfrica expecting tohave the opportunityto travel, help others,and have adventures.His most pivotalexperience, however,was what he calls a

“moment of isolation” which, in retrospect,he feels is necessary for writers. Hebegan writing letters home and shortstories about his experiences with thelocal villagers and his encounters withAfrican magic and superstition.

Upon returning to the US he began thelife of a freelance writer, selling his storiesand non-fiction pieces to major magazinessuch as Sports Illustrated, Glamour,Readers Digest, American Heritage,McCalls, RedBook, Ellery Queen and theBoston Globe. He also wrote nine novelsthat were published by Athenaeum,Scribner’s, Simon and Schuster,Thorndike Press, Steerforth, D.I. Fine,and Random House. Throughout the 80she lived in Portsmouth, Providence,Vienna, New York City and in Concord.During that time he also enrolled in theUniversity of NH where he received anMA in English Writing. Since 1990, he hasbeen Associate Professor at PlymouthState University (PSU) where he teachesfiction, journalism, composition andintroduction to literature.

Monninger is the author of nine novelsbut, most recently, has turned towardwriting creative nonfiction. Two of these

are memoirs that have been widelypraised by reviewers: Home Waters:Fishing with an Old Friend (BroadwayBooks, 1999) and Barn in New England:Making a Home on Three Acres(Chronicle Books, 2001) His forthcomingbook is entitled Two Ton: One Night,One Fight — Tony Galento v. Joe Louis(Steerforth Press, 2006) for which hesays he has been “steeped in 1930sboxing” for three years. Locally, he isalso a columnist for the Valley News andLaconia Citizen.

Monninger’s awards include two NationalEndowment for the Arts Fellowships, aBooksense Award for Home Waters, andselection as an alternate for a Fulbrightscholarship to West Africa. He hasworked for many years with the NHWriters Project and the NH HumanitiesCouncil. He frequently lectures atDartmouth College, Keene State Collegeand Harvard University.

Monninger lives in Warren in a mid-19thcentury Dutch barn (whose renovationwas the subject of his book Barn in New England) with his wife Wendy, their16-year old son Justin, a cat, an oldblack lab named D-Dog, and fourAlaskan sled dogs who are employed inthe family’s dog sledding business calledCountry Dogs. This is Joseph Monninger’sfirst State Arts Council Fellowship.

A Barn in New

England by Fellow

Joseph Monninger

tells the story of

how he and his

family bought a

19th Century barn

at the foot of the

White Mountains

and made it liv-

able. Also shown

is Monninger’s

forthcoming book

on prize fighter

Tony Galento.

Joseph Monninger, Writer, Warren

The Brentwood house that Kevin Kinglives in was built in both the 18th and 19thcenturies. His small office is in the 18thcentury section and is where he works inthe winter. Of the room’s tendency to becold, the New Haven, CT native says,without a trace of irony, “It helps keepme alert.” In the summertime he prefersto do his work in the screened-in deckwhere he can look out on a beautifulgarden and be serenaded by birdsong.

King’s passion for poetry began in the fifthgrade when he came across a poem inan issue of RedBook. He only remembersthat the poem involved “an immovableobject meeting an unstoppable force,”but that was enough to spark a lifelonginterest. He later discovered the narrativeepic poem Sohrab and Rustum byMatthew Arnold, which tells of a similarencounter. He fell in love with the soundsof the improbable names of characters,such as Ivan Skavinsky Skivar andAbdul Abulbul Amir. Initially, he said, it was these tales of desert fighting,swordplay and derring-do “that appealedto an 11 year old.” In high school he triedhis hand at writing some poetry of his ownand his first published poem appeared inthe school’s magazine.

In spite of its difficulty, he feels that writing poetry is a kind of survival, “it’s a way that I cope with the world.”He explains, “You get your demons outand confront them and try to make senseof the world through writing.” He issometimes surprised by the connectionsbetween seemingly unrelated incidentsor people that take shape in his ownwriting, but discovers, “just where andhow we connect to others in a way that’s meaningful.”

King’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares,the Threepenny Review and MinnesotaReview and he has received awards for his poetry from The Plum Review,The Hollins Critic and The MeredithPoetry Exchange.

In addition to poetry, King wrote fictionin his youth and in high school won awriting prize for what he describes as a “Salinger-esque story of a student’sfailure.” The story was a response to ateacher’s retort to a student who asked ifthe class could have the option of writingfiction instead of the assigned essay. The teacher replied with a sneer andsaid, “As if one of you will ever becomea novelist…” King felt challenged andwrote a satireabout the incident.Shortly after the story waspublished, theteacher left theschool and Kingstill wonders if hisaccurate portrayalhad anything todo with it.

King’s two novels involve pivotal baseballhistory. All the Stars Came Out ThatNight (Dutton, 2005) is inspired by thestory of the negro baseball leagues during the days of segregation in majorleague sports. His forthcoming novel,The Birth of the Curse, is about BabeRuth’s career with the Red Sox.

King was a finalist in the 2002 JamesJones First Novel Competition. Hereceived his Bachelor of Arts from HolyCross College and has completed 21credits for a Master of Arts in EnglishLiterature at Harvard University’sExtension and Philosophy at Universityof South Carolina. He is currently a writing instructor for non-native speakersof the English language (ESL) at NH Technical College and NorthernEssex Community College.

Kevin King and his wife Ellen Wolff, who teaches English at Philips Exeter,live with their seven-year-old son Aidan.This is his first Fellowship from the StateArts Council.

Kevin King, Poet, Brentwood

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2007 Fellow

Joseph Monninger

poses in his con-

verted barn with

Laika, one of three

Alaskan sled dogs,

who he says is

“long and lean and

can run forever…”

The Monningers

run a winter dog-

sledding business.

Photo by

Yvonne Stahr

2007 Fellow

Kevin King

Photo by

Yvonne Stahr

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Fellowship recipients

Jenkins earned her Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Related Mediathrough the School of Visual Arts in New York and her Bachelor of Arts inFine Arts and Italian Cinema through

Colorado College and herAccedemia di Belle Arti inFlorence, Italy. She receivedthe New York State Councilon the Arts’ Media ProductionAward, a CalArts AlpertAward Nomination in Filmand Video, the Director’sChoice Award from BlackMaria Film and Video Festival,a Pollock Krasner FoundationArtist Fellowship and anAston Siskind Fellowship.She has been in residence atMacDowell Colony, Yaddo,Djerassi, and Harvestworks.Jenkins’ work has beenexhibited at the BrattleboroMuseum, Kustera Tilton

Gallery in New York City, Julia FriedmanGallery in Chicago, Inverness Museum inScotland, and Galeria Las Malvinas inBuenos Aires. Her work is part of manypermanent collections including theAnsel Adams Family Collection, theHerbert Johnson Museum of Art at

Cornell University, McKinsey Corporationand Velan per l’Arte Contemporanea inTorino, Italy.

About her work, she says, “My installationscombine diverse media of video, sculpture,writing, audio, and performance to

create spatiotemporal depths one canenter and experience. Transcending thestatic definitions of space and object, the projected video creates a poeticroom that emulates thought and memory.Conceptually, much of my artworkbegins with the seed of something frommy own life. This process includes theexamination of personal issues that arecommon within the act of living yet arenot often discussed within the publicsphere. It is a delicate process of allowing my own experience to becomea stand-in for shared experience.”

Jenkins will gain extra studio time withher Fellowship from the State Arts Council.“At this moment, I am intensely focusedupon my artwork,” she says. “A StateArts Council Fellowship will give me the

financial resourcesto focus solely on myartwork for severalmonths, as well asoffset some of theequipment costs formy current project.

Amy Jenkins’works in her studioin downtownPeterborough in the

Union Mill along the Nubanusit River andlives close by with her husband JohnSieswerda, and their 3?-year old daughterAudrey. Her next piece is a multi-channelvideo project entitled “We, Precarious”that she expects to complete in 2007.

Amy Jenkins,Video InstallationArtist,Peterborough

Reynolds received her Master of FineArts from Maine College of Art with aconcentration in Studio Arts and CriticalTheory, and her Bachelorof Fine Arts fromSyracuse Universitywith a concentration inArt Video and Sculpture.She has also studied atthe New HampshireInstitute of Art, MaineCollege of Art, and theUniversity of NH atDurham. She hasreceived scholarshipsfrom the Maine College of Art, The NH Charitable Foundation, and SyracuseUniversity and the Juror’s Choice Awardfrom the Cambridge Art Association.

Recently, she participated in Visiting Artistlectures at the Museum School of Fine Artsin Boston, The Massachusetts College ofArt, Maine College of Art and at thePortsmouth Public Library. Reynolds hasbeen adjunct instructor of art for theUniversity of New England and the ChesterCollege of New England and a ContinuingEducation Instructor at the New HampshireInstitute of Art. She has exhibited hersite-specific mixed media installations atThe Vox Populi in Philadelphia, ArtSpacein New Haven, Firehouse Gallery inBurlington, Evos Art Center in Lowell,Contemporary Art Center in North Adams,MA and exhibited her two-dimensional workat the Lincoln Levy Gallery in Portsmouth.

In describing her work, she says, “I createinstallations as theatre, as bizarre site-specific tableaus that evade certain knowing.The elements of an irresolvable narrative,architecture as dynamic and invasive andthe comedic grotesque intersect to createa situation that persistently destabilizesunifying interpretations. In this way, thework acts like a joker, clown, or trickster,by posing a problem to catalyze heightenedinteractivity and multiple interpretationsfrom the viewer.”

Reynolds describes the value that a NHFellowship will hold for her, “The regionaland national recognition associated with

the State Arts CouncilFellowship will stimulatethe advance of mycareer’s future growthby opening new possi-bilities and contacts forwork, initiating new professional relationships,furthering dialogue with the New Hampshirecommunity and promoting connections

with state and national exhibit venues.These benefits are pivotal for expandingmy contribution to New Hampshire’sgrowing arts culture as an active, professional artist.”

Reynolds is preparing for a busy 2007 withan exhibit at Hallwalls ContemporaryArts Center in Buffalo, NY. She and herhusband Peter Lankdon live in Newmarketin a house that they designed and built

themselves. Their first child is due inNovember. This is Reynolds firstFellowship from the New HampshireState Council on the Arts.

Kirsten Reynolds, Mixed Media Installation Artist, Newmarket

2007 Fellow

Amy Jenkins

Photos courtesy

of the artist

Film stills from

Jenkins’ video work

“Shelter for

Daydreaming.”

Materials for

Reynolds’ installations

include high-density

polyurethane board,

insulation foam, pine

board with faux

wood-grain, gator

board, silkscreened

patterns, acrylic

paint sawdust, and

latex material.

Photos courtesy

of the artist

2007 Fellow

Kirsten Reynolds


Traditional Arts ApprenticeshipsCarrying on traditions from person to person….

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Contra Dance Fiddling & Calling

Dudley Laufman, Canterbury – master artist

Neil Orzechowski, Newport – apprentice

Combined Grant Amount: $3,898

Laufman is a master fiddler and dancecaller, specializing in community-basedNew England social dances that originatedin the rural areas of England and NH. He received the 2001 Governors’ ArtsAward for Living Folk Heritage.Orzechowski is one of a family of musicianswho are well known for playing Swedishand New England contra dance music.He plays fiddle and piano.

Russian Chip Carving

Grigory Likhter, Sunapee – master artist

Justin DuMoulin, Warner – apprentice


Originally from Moscow, Likhter is masterof a distinctive style of decorative treat-ment on wood known as chip carving,that he learned as a young man in

Russia. Traditionally chip carving is usedto decorate altars, frames for icons, andspecial items for the home. DuMoulinhas taken a workshop with Likhter at theRussian Orthodox Church in Claremontand is ready for more in-depth study ofthe art form.

Decoy Carving

Fred Dolan, Strafford – master artist

Nathan Bronnenberg, Strafford – apprentice


Dolan is a nationally recognized carver ofdecorative decoys. He has been fundedas a master artist in this grant categorya number of times. Bronnenberg is anaspiring carver and very involved withoutdoor activities. Dolan will be instructinghim in the skills needed to create bothworking and decorative decoys includingobserving wildfowl postures in naturalsettings, and carving and painting techniques.

Bluegrass Mandolin Playing

Skip Gorman, Grafton – master artist

Andy Sicard, Tyngsboro, MA – apprentice


Skip Gorman is a nationally known masterof the mandolin. He is a very versatilemusician and learned Bluegrass mandolinby playing with Bill Monroe, known asthe Father of Bluegrass Music, and otherimportant musicians. Sicard is already asolid musician, but will learn the Bill Monroestyle of Bluegrass mandolin from Gorman.

Ash Basket Making

Liana Haubrick, Alstead – master artist

Sonja Heyck-Merlin, Gouldsboro, ME –apprentice


Haubrick is an accomplished ash basketmaker who prepares her own splits frompounded ash. She apprenticed with 2005Governors’ Arts Award Living Folk Heritagerecipient, the late Claude Smead. Sonjais well versed in ash basket making butwill be refining her skills and expandingher repertoire of basket forms.

Chinese Folk Dance

Ke Ke, Somerville, MA – master artist

Ree-Ven Wang Dai, Hollis – apprentice


Ke Ke is of Mongolian ancestry and is anaccomplished dancer versed in a varietyof Chinese folk styles. She received hertraining at the Beijing Dance Academyand moved to the US in 1999. She is veryactive in Boston’s Chinese community.Wang Dai is originally from Taipei,Taiwan and well versed in a variety ofChinese dance forms. Ke Ke will behelping to expand Wang Dai’s repertoirein folk dance forms and costuming.

Classic Atlantic Salmon Fly Tying

Bob Wyatt, Concord – master artist

Shane Piroso, Concord – apprentice


Bob Wyatt was himself an apprenticeunder master fly tyer Mark Favorite inFY04. Since then he has progressed sufficiently in his work to be considereda master fly tyer himself. This is Wyatt’ssecond Apprenticeship as a masterartist. Piroso is well versed in tyingworking flies for trout fishing. In thisApprenticeship, he will be taking on thechallenge of the pinnacle of the fly tyingart, Classic Atlantic salmon fly tying.

When you first see a carvedwooden duck decoy, or a hookedrug or a hand tied fishing fly, youmight be drawn to the beauty ofthe design, to the colors, and thetextures. When you listen to a fiddle tune, you may start tappingyour feet and feel like dancing.When you hear a bagpipe, youmay think of a parade. But, doyou stop to wonder how the craftswere made or where the tunescame from? Do you wonder howa person learns the intricacies ofa tradition and if that tradition willbe around for another generation?If you do, then you will be heart-ened by the efforts of the StateArts Council’s Traditional Artsprogram to help preserve traditionsby funding Traditional ArtsApprenticeship grants.

These grants provide an opportunityfor a master artist to teach analready experienced apprentice inone-to-one sessions. Applicantsmust find each other and applyfor the grant as a team. If funded,master and apprentice will worktogether on their own schedule.Master artist and apprentice teamsare funded for a combined maximum of $4,000. Fundsawarded to the master artist coverfor their time and a few supplies.Funds awarded to the apprenticeusually cover travel expenses and supplies.

The Traditional Arts Program hasreceived a steady stream ofexcellent applications over the pastfew years. Each year, a panel ofcultural specialists assembles toreview the applications. Theybase their recommendations on

excellence of the master artist’swork, experience and readiness ofthe apprentice, how appropriatenessof the art form is to this fundingcategory, and the clarity of theteam’s work plan. The panel’srecommendations are forwardedto the Arts Council, which is agovernor-appointed board, for approval.

In Fiscal Year 2007, the State ArtsCouncil will support elevenTraditional Arts Apprenticeshipteams and represent traditions incrafts, music and dance, for atotal of $35,185. Apprenticeshipteams will teach, learn, andimmerse themselves in their traditions. In this way, the beautyand community-based roots of atradition continue to ensure thesurvival of the state’s heritage asa living breathing force.

Carved and painted wooden decoy by Fred Dolan.


Master Chinese dancer

Ke Ke.

Photo courtesy of

the artist

Carved wooden

panel featuring

Russian chip carving

by Grigory Likhter.

Photo courtesy of

the artist

Pack basket by Liana

Haubrick.

Photo courtesy of

the artist

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The Traditional Arts & Folklife Listingcontains artists who represent a particulartradition and are able to give a skilled publicpresentation. The Listing appears on theState Arts Council’s website and can beaccessed by going to www.nh.gov/nharts

and clicking on “art & artists” on the leftnavigation bar. Each year, the State ArtsCouncil invites applications from artistswishing to be included in the Listing.

As the state becomes more diverse, thatdiversity carries over into the TraditionalArts & Folklife Listing. This year’s additionsbring their unique traditions to the state’scultural mix.

Neha Parikh, India

Neha Parikh is a native of Bombay, Indiaand currently lives in Nashua. She is anaccomplished Indian classical dancer,specializing in two styles known asBharatanatyam and Mohini Attam. Themovements of classical Indian dance areoften symbolic of ancient mythology andhave been handed down carefully throughthe generations. Hand, feet, and facialgestures are elegant and timed preciselyto the complexities of classical Indianmusic. The costumes, often lavish incolor and texture, are an important partof the tradition. Parikh began learning todance in Bombay when she was sixyears old. She has a Masters in Fine Artsin Classical Indian Dance and Philosophyfrom Nalanda University and is active inthe Indian Association of NH and has asmall dance school based in Nashua.

Traditional Arts & Folklife Listing UpdatesTraditional Arts & Folklife Listing New Additions

Theophilus Nii Martey, West Africa

Theophilus Nii Martey of Manchester isoriginally from Ghana in West Africa.Martey is a master of West Africandrumming and dance, a heritage thathas many subtle variations in rhythmicpatterns, dance styles and clothing, allspecific to a wide variety of tribal groupsfrom the region. Martey started hisdrumming and dancing studies in Accraat the age of six, working under masterdrummers and dancers. As a young man,he journeyed to London and Australiawhere he studied with other master artists.Since moving to Manchester, he hasfounded the Akwaaba Drum and DanceEnsemble, which offers weekly classesto people of all ages. Martey has becomeincreasingly active in community settings,giving demonstrations, performancesand school workshops. He is part of anetwork of musicians who love WestAfrican music and dance and whosometimes perform together.

Scottish Highland Piping

Lezlie Webster, Concord – master artist

Tammy Pratt, Raymond – apprentice


Webster is an accomplished and awardwinning Scottish Highland piper. Alongwith her husband Gordon Webster, sheco-directs the NH School of ScottishArts based in Manchester. Pratt servedan Apprenticeship with Webster in FY05.

Shaker Oval Box Making

Barbara Beeler, Contoocook – master artist

James O’Rourke, Center Harbor –apprentice


Master Shaker oval box maker BarbaraBeeler learned her craft from Steve Allman,who helped to pioneer the revival of thisart form in the 1960s. Beeler is the principal demonstrator of Shaker ovalbox making for Canterbury ShakerVillage. O’Rourke is a novice box makerhoping to expand his skills through hisapprenticeship with Beeler.

Tinsmithing (Shaker style)

Roger Gibbs, Concord – master artist

Clinton Pitts, Jr, Canterbury – apprentice


Gibbs, a highly accomplished tinsmithwho has devoted many years to recreatinga wide variety of basic and complex Shakertin forms, has been a regular demonstrator

for the Enfield Shaker Museum. Pitts iscompetent in basic tinsmithing and haspurchased a full workshop of antique tinsmithing equipment.

Rug Hooking

Pamila Bartlett, Loudon – master artist

Lynda Hadlock, Manchester – apprentice


Master rug hooker Pamila Bartlett partic-ipated in the restaging of the SmithsonianNH Folklife Festival in 2000 and wasrecently a finalist in the American Folk ArtsMuseum’s competition to create a rugsymbolizing an American icon. Hadlockis an intermediate rug hooker and underBartlett’s guidance will be focusing onher dyeing, designing, and shading skills.

Hooked rug by Pamila Bartlett

Photo courtesy of the artistLezlie Webster playing

Scottish Highland

bagpipes at the 1999

Smithsonian Folklife

Festival.

Photo by

Lynn Martin Graton

Shaker oval boxes by

Barbara Beeler.

Photo by

Lynn Martin Graton

Shaker style tin oil can by Roger Gibbs.


Bombay native Neha

Parikh is an Indian

classical dancer. She

lives in Nashua where

she runs her own

dance school.

Photos courtesy of

the artists

West African drummer and dancer Theophilus

Nii Martey is originally from Ghana. Martey

began his drumming and dancing studies in

Accra as a child of six.

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*Center Harbor* James O’Rourke,Apprenticeship in Shaker Oval BoxMaking, $500. *Gilford* Gilford MiddleSchool, artist residency with Emile Birchcreating Kinetic Sculpture, $4,250.*Gilmanton* Gilmanton School DistrictSAU # 79, artist residency with JeffWarner, $1,625. *Laconia* Belknap MillSociety, Operating Support, $8,400.*Sanbornton* Sanbornton CentralSchool, residency with Theresa Taylorcreating clay tiles/mural, $3,195.*Tilton* Spaulding Youth Center, artistresidency with T.J. Wheeler, $3,500.

Carroll

*Bartlett* Josiah Bartlett ElementarySchool, to support the constructionphase of the Bartlett Town Park Projectwith sculptor Emile Birch, $3,200. *N. Sandwich* Advice to the Players, to support 6 public performances ofWilliam Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,”$2,080. Advice to the Players, to hire a Managing Director for marketing,development, and outreach, $4,000.*North Conway* Mountain Top MusicCenter, Operating Support, $1,000.*Tamworth* The Barnstormers TheaterInc., Operating Support, $1,000.*Wolfeboro* Wolfeboro Friends of

Music, to support a part-time adminis-trative assistant for data maintenanceand other office functions, $2,100.

Cheshire

*Alstead* Liana Haubrick, Apprenticeshipin New England Split Basket Making,$2,696 *Dublin* The Friends of the DublinArt Colony, creation and promotion of anew website, $700. *Hinsdale* HinsdaleElementary School, artist residency withRobert Rossel making tiles for mural,$3,000. *Keene* Colonial TheatreGroup, Inc., Operating Support, $11,900.Monadnock Arts in Education, to supporta performance program based on the

FY2007 Public Dollar$ for the Art$As of July, 2006 the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts awarded 127 grants totaling $594,420 for Fiscal Year 2007 (July 1, 2006 — June 30, 2007) to communities,organizations, artists and schools throughout the state and region. Requests for funding totaled $1,337,094 from 262 applicants.

The grants awarded to date are listed below in county order and reflect the followingtypes of grants:

For Individual Artists: Fellowship Awards, Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grants,Artist Opportunity Grants

For Organizations, Schools and Communities: Artist Residencies in Schools,ArtLinks Grants, Arts Education Leadership Project Grants, Cultural ConservationGrants Cultural Facilities Grants, Project Grants, Operating Grants, 1st FY QuarterMini Grants

FY07 Grants by County

Percent for ArtNH Technical Institute’s New Dental Lab FacilityThis summer, the NH TechnicalInstitute’s new Dental Lab inConcord proudly unveiled threenew artworks commissionedthrough NH’s Percent for Art fundingprogram. Public art legislationpassed in 1979 establishes apartnership between the State ArtsCouncil and agencies undergoingnew construction financed throughthe capital budget bonding process.

A Request for Proposals wasreleased in February 2005 seekingworks by professional NH artists.Nine proposals totaling $39,928were received that included suchvaried media as digital photography,paintings, murals, quilts andexterior sculptures. The budgetfor the project was $7,000.

Upon review of the proposals,members of the Site Advisory andArt Selection Committees recom-mended artworks by Laura Morrisonof Concord and Teresa Taylor ofBarrington. The State Arts Councilthen approved the recommendationsin September 2005.

About NHTI’s Dental Lab

The NH Technical Instituteopened its doors in 1965 as the state’s largest residentialcommunity college and offerstechnical education plus a broadarray of academic, communityservice, and social/culturalopportunities. The Dental LabBuilding houses classrooms, clinical labs and faculty offices.

Proposal Descriptions:

Laura Morrison of Concord proposed multi-panel mixedmedia paintings to be placed inthe Dental Lab room and hallway.The total contract amount was$6,025. Morrison’s conceptfocuses on some of the wayspeople use their mouths. Theseinclude laughing, smiling, talking,tasting, singing, breathing, andkissing. She employs colorfulcartoon-like images of the mouthand words, such as LAUGH, GIGGLE, and GRIN to express thisconcept. The artist’s goal was toreinforce the students’ andinstructors’ career choices andhelp their patients feel at ease.

The 48”x48” mixed media paintingsin the Dental Lab are created ondurable, heavyweight canvas withgallery-wrapped edges. Acrylicpaint forms the base of the paintingsand images on paper are collagedonto the surface using acrylic mattemedium. Additional paint, graphiteand colored pencil were added ontop of the collaged materials. Afinishing coat of acrylic mattemedium and varnish seals thesurface from dust, dirt and moisture.

Hallway:

The 20”x 20” hallway acrylicpaintings are painted on canvaswith gallery-wrapped edges and

varnished like the project describedabove. The paintings are hungtogether very closely with slightlylarger gaps in between each wordgrouping. The brushstrokes are largeand expansive. The under-paintingis created using many layers ofglazes to create depth and texture.

Contracted artist Teresa Taylor ofBarrington proposed a ceramictile wall triptych for the publicconference room of the DentalLab for a total contract amount of$975. Each panel of the triptychconsists of several small clay tilescontaining an image inspired bynature. Images include leaves,pods, flowers, fish and seashells.Some textures were created fromelements found in nature alongwith impressions made by varioustools. While the panels relate toone another, they are not duplicates.Each panel will be approximately6”W x 24”T to form a triptychapproximately 26”W x 24”T. Thetiles are very tactile and the publicis encouraged to touch them.

To learn about future Percent forArt opportunities, sign up for theState Arts Council’s popular andfree e-news service, or check thehomepage regularly atwww.nh.gov/nharts.

Teresa Taylor’s clay tiles installed in

the public conference room focus on

the natural world


Morrison’s artwork celebrates what

our mouths do and includes words

such as “Laugh,” “Giggle,” and “Grin.”

Traditional artist

Marina Forbes poses

with her hand-crafted

Russian painted

dolls, Icons and eggs

at the Arts in

Education conference.

This annual partner-

ship initiative is

funded through the

State Arts Council.


theme “Galileo” with 8 schools, $5,650.The Moving Company Dance Center,Operating Support, $4,900. The MovingCompany Dance Center, to support the first year start up of a visual artseducation center, $4,650. The MovingCompany Dance Center, to providequality Arts Education to after schoolyouth programs, $9,800. The MovingCompany Dance Center, to hire anexperienced consultant to conduct afundraising feasibility study, $8,000.*Sullivan* Children’s Stage Adventures,Inc., to support the strategic marketingof the residency program, $2,400.

Coos

*Berlin* Saint Kieran Community Center, to upgrade technology and provideadministrative support for development,$5,650. Saint Kieran Community Ctr, to repair slate roof tiles and to wire firealarm to fire department, $8,000.*Colebrook* Poore Family Foundation North Country Conservancy, to completean outdoor performance area for largeraudiences, $3,200. *Gorham* FamilyResource Center At Gorham, afterschool programs connected to NH ArtsFrameworks, $2,450.

Grafton

*Bethlehem* Friends of the Colonial,summer film festival in collaborationwith Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation,$425. *Canaan* Mascoma Valley RegHigh School, to support “Experiencingthe Arts” experiential arts course andcommunity enrichment program, $2,450.*Enfield* Enfield Village Association, performances by traditional artists atweekly Farmers Market, $700.*Franconia* Town of Franconia,Operating Support, $4,800. *Grafton*Skip Gorman, Apprenticeship inBluegrass Mandolin, $2,866. *Hanover*Larry Polansky, Artist Fellowship, $5,000.*Hanover* Trustees of Dartmouth College,to support partnership with HanoverStreet School to bring world music anddance into the classroom, $3,920.*Haverhill* Haverhill Heritage Inc., to support arts education in filmmakingand African drumming/dance, $6,860.Haverhill Heritage Inc., Operating Support,$1,000. Haverhill Heritage Inc., to installan interior ramp in Alumni Hall and acontrol booth platform for sound & lightsystems, $5,800. *Holderness* Town ofHolderness, performance by theatre/roster artist Michael Zerphy for summerday camp, $250. *Hopkinton* PaulBourgelais, to support creation of amusic composition for summer danceintensive, $385. *Lebanon* AVA Galleryand Art Center, Operating Support,$11,900. *Lebanon* Lebanon OperaHouse Improvement, Operating Support,$8,400. Opera North, to support hiring adevelopment consultant, part-timedevelopment manager, and conductfundraising research, $5,650. *Littleton*Arts Alliance of Northern NH, to support“Mountain Links” Traditional Music atNorthern NH Historic & Heritage Sites,$4,000. Arts Alliance of Northern NH,Operating Support, $8,400. LittletonMain Street Inc., performances by traditional artists at Farmers Market,$550. North Country Chamber Players,Operating Support, $5,775. *Plymouth*Friends of the Arts Plymouth, A RegionalArts Council, Operating Support, $9,520.Friends of the Arts Plymouth, A Regional

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Arts Council, to support an artist residencywith Michael Caduto, $2,400. Friends ofthe Arts Plymouth, A Regional ArtsCouncil, to support expansion of afterschool program “Beyond the Bell,”$8,330. Plymouth State University, tosupport virtual exhibition, “More ThanBrown Paper,” $17,000. *Warren*Joseph Monninger, Artist Fellowship, $5,000.

Hillsboro

*Antrim* Town of Antrim, three-dayworkshop on kite making, flying and historywith Ron King, $700. *Francestown*Francestown Historic Improvement Society,to support youth art classes, $2,450.*Hollis* Ree-Ven Wang Dai,Apprenticeship in Chinese Folk Dance,$665. *Manchester* Christina Kelsh, toattend classes on Body Mapping and theAlexander Technique for flutists, $695.Currier Museum of Art, to supportpreservation of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed upholstery textiles, $8,000.Manchester Community Music School,Operating Support, $11,900. New ThalianPlayers, to support new summer theatrein the park program in downtownManchester, $850. NH Institute of Art,Operating Support, $11,900. NHPhilharmonic Orchestra, OperatingSupport, $10,200. Palace Theatre Trust,Operating Support, $3,000. Yellow TaxiProductions Inc, to produce a free musicalat Greeley Park in Nashua, $700. YellowTaxi Productions Inc, touring new playbased on work of Emily Dickinson toschools, $350. *Milford* Milford MiddleSchool/School District, to support 4-dayafter school courses taught by professionalartists, $2,450. *Nashua* Charlotte AveSchool, artist residency with Jeff Warnerand Steve Ferraris, $2,775. City ofNashua, to support hiring a part-timeexecutive director, $4,000. GreatAmerican Downtown, marketing effortfor Artwalk Nashua open artist studios,$850. Nashua Symphony Association, to create a orchestral/vocal work: “The Ripple Effect,” $5,650. White WingSchool, planning/design of natural playspace in downtown Nashua with rosterartist Ron King, $850. *Peterborough*Amy Jenkins, Artist Fellowship, $5,000.

Monadnock Music, Operating Support,$4,800. Peterborough Players Inc.,Operating Support, $14,000. *Sharon*Sharon Arts Center, Operating Support,$8,400. *Temple* Deborah Kodiak, toattend cello workshop with David Darlingand Chungliang Alhuang at OmegaInstitute, $410. *Weare* John StarkRegional High School, Artist Residencywith Mimi White and Hilary WeismanGraham, $4,250. Rosemary Conroy, toattend week-long painting workshop atthe American Academy of Equine Art,$450. *Wilton* Andy’s SummerPlayhouse, Operating Support, $7,650.

Merrimack

*Canterbury* Clinton Pitts, Jr,Apprenticeship in Tin Smithing, $500.Dudley Laufman, Apprenticeship in New England Barn Dance Fiddling andCalling, $2,898. *Concord* BrokenGround School, artist residency withEmile Birch, $3,750. Capitol Center forthe Arts, Operating Support, $10,200.Concord Community Music School,Operating Support, $12,000. ConcordPublic Library Foundation, to restore,reframe and reinstall “Wildflowers ofNew Hampshire” murals by MargaretMasson, $3,370. Kimball JenkinsCommunity Arts School, OperatingSupport, $4,900. League of NH CraftsmenInc., Operating Support, $4,900.

The historic Colonial

Theatre in Bethlehem

was the recipient of a

Cultural Facilities

grant that helped fund

extensive structural

renovations, including

reinforcement of its

roof trusses.

Photo by

Stephen Dignazio

Artist Mei Hung

taught the making of

Beijing opera masks to

sixth grade students

at Henniker

Community School

as part of an artist

residency project

focusing on China

that was funded by

a grant from the

State Arts Council.

Photo courtesy of

the Henniker

Community School

poetry into live performance, $2,450.Rochester Heritage Trust/Opera House,to restore seats in historic theater and to purchase lighting, $7,815. TouringActors Company, planning phase ofgathering stories about growing up inNH, $2,450. *Strafford* Fred Dolan,Apprenticeship in Decoy Carving,$2,970. Nathan Bronnenberg,Apprenticeship in Decoy Carving, $233.

Sullivan

*Cornish* Saint Gaudens NationalHistorical Site, to support the conservationof unique plaster sculptures by AugustusSaint-Gaudens, $14,000. *Hanover*Saint-Gaudens Memorial, to support“Music with a Latin Tinge” concert withRoster Artists Musicians of Wall Streetand Jose Lezcano, $700. *Newport*Library Arts Center, to stage 5 musicalperformances, $4,400. Neil Orzechowski,Apprenticeship in New England BarnDance, Fiddling and Calling, $1,000.*Sunapee* Gregory Likhter, Apprenticeshipin Russian Chip Carving, $3,000.

Regional

*Bellows Falls, VT* Great River ArtsInstitute, to implement after-school literacyprogram, $4,900. *Gouldsboro, ME*Sonja Heyck-Merlin, Apprenticeship inNew England Splint Basket Making,$1,000. *Somerville, MA* Ke Ke,Apprenticeship in Chinese Folk Dance,$3,000. *Tyngsboro, MA* AndrewSicard, Apprenticeship in Bluegrass Mandolin, $957.

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Lezlie Paterson Webster, Apprenticeshipin Scottish Highland Piping, $2,500. NH Public Radio, to support summerarts series for “The Front Porch,” $3,850.Northern Forest Center, to support TradArts and Performance Series for “Waysof the Woods” traveling exhibit, $3,400.Red River Theatres, to purchase chairsfor two large theaters, $8,000. Robert D.Wyatt, Apprenticeship in Classic AtlanticSalmon Fly Tying, $3,000. Roger Gibbs,Apprenticeship in Tin Smithing, $1,500.Shane Piroso, Apprenticeship in ClassicAtlantic Salmon Fly Tying, $600. TobeySchool Education Program, artist residencywith Mark Ragonese making wall murals,$3,500. VSA Arts of New Hampshire,Operating Support, $6,600.

*Contoocook* Barbara Beeler,Apprenticeship in Shaker Oval BoxMaking, $1,500. Maple St ElementarySchool, artist residency with Alice Ogden,$2,250. *Dunbarton* DunbartonElementary School, artist residency withCarolyn Parrott and Margaret Osterman,$1,725. *Franklin* Franklin OperaHouse Inc., to purchase chairs for audience seating, $7,815. *Henniker*Henniker Community School, artist residencies with 5 artists “Along the SilkRoad: India,” $4,250. New EnglandCollege, to install an elevator to makeart gallery accessible, $8,000.

*Hopkinton* Little Nature Museum Inc.,environmental programs by musician/roster artist Steve Schuch at NatureFest, $700. *New London* KearsargeElementary, artist residency creatingsculpture with Emile Birch for grades 3and 4, $4,250. *New London* NorthernNew England Repertory Theatre CompanyInc, to support acting workshops in 6 schools, $4,850. *Warner* JustinDuMoulin, Apprenticeship in RussianChip Carving, $1,000. Mt KearsargeIndian Museum, Operating Support, $4,800.

Rockingham

*Brentwood* Kevin King, ArtistFellowship, $5,000. Swasey CentralSchool, artist residency creating a tilemural with Robert Rossel, $3,660.*Deerfield* North Country StudioWorkshops, to support a biennial profes-sional development event for establishedNH crafts people and artists, $5,650.*Exeter* American IndependenceMuseum, to support the AmericanIndependence Festival, $3,400. CharlesPratt, to attend week-long writers conference, $325. *Londonderry* SouthLondonderry Elem School, artist residencylearning Traditional American music withJeff Warner, $1,225. *Newmarket*Kirsten Reynolds, Artist Fellowship,$5,000. Newmarket Main StreetCorporation, to support Newmarket’sAnnual Heritage Festival, $3,400.*Nottingham* Nottingham RecreationComm, summer concert with SusieBurke and David Surrette, $510.*Plaistow* Timberlane RegionalSchool/Performing Arts, to improveexisting music curriculum by includingchamber music, $5,000. *Portsmouth*City of Portsmouth, to support ArtSpeakcoordinator position to implement community art activities, $5,000.Friends of the Music Hall, OperatingSupport, $6,600. Jeff Warner, ArtistFellowship, $5,000. NH Theatre Project,Operating Support, $5,950. PontineMovement Theatre, Operating Support,$8,500. Strawbery Banke Museum, tosupport “Festival of Historic Crafts,”

$2,800. The Childrens Museum ofPortsmouth, to hire a public relationsconsultant, $5,650. The ChildrensMuseum of Portsmouth, OperatingSupport, $6,545. Tim Gaudreau, to create cross-disciplinary art-tech piece“NH Communities & Nature,” $1,275.*Raymond* Tammy Pratt, Apprenticeshipin Scottish Highland Piping, $800.

Strafford

*Dover* Arts In Reach: EncouragingGrowth through the Arts, to fund Voicesof AIR program with vocal instructionfrom Angelynne Hinson, $4,900.*Dover* Kate Kirkwood, to attendBroadway teaching lab for theatreartists, $575. *Rochester* RochesterHeritage Trust/Opera House, for a multi-year program designed to convert

A Cultural Conservation “Mooseplate” grant

to the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in

Cornish enabled the restoration of this plaster

statue of Diana by sculptor Augustus

Saint-Gaudens.

Photo by Henry Duffy

Shakespeare’s The

Tempest, is performed

by Robin Fowler and

Emily Karelitz of

NH Theatre Project’s

Youth Repertory

Company. The

organization is the

recipient of an

Operating Grant.

Photo by Sofia Piel

Around the State

Congratulations to…

Deborah Scranton of Goshen, director ofthe documentary film The War Tapes, forwinning the best documentary featureaward at this year’s Tribeca Film Festivalin New York City.

Enfield Shaker Museum for having theirmortgages paid off by an anonymousdonor. This allows them to focus on theirprogramming, including a series ofworkshops by craftspeople and a fallenrichment series with Mascoma ValleyRegional High School.

Portsmouth-based contemporary artist,Roger Goldenberg, who was honored bythe NH Small Business Association as its“2006 Home-Based Business Championof the Year.” Through his work as a boardmember of Art-Speak, Portsmouth’sCultural Commission, Goldenberg haschampioned the need for and benefits oflive/work space for artists.

Paula Terry, Director of the Office ofAccessibility at the National Endowmentfor the Arts, for receiving the 2006Leadership Exchange in Arts andDisability award from the Kennedy Centerand Christopher Reeve Foundation forher long-term efforts to encourage thenational arts community to be accessibleto people with disabilities. The award

Bank of America, Laconia SavingsBank, Church & Main, and SupremeAudio, recipients of the 2006 NHBusiness in the Arts Awards for theirsupport of arts organizations across thestate. Winners received a framed claytile by potter Maureen Mills ofPortsmouth. Peter Bloomfield, Presidentof Concord Steam Corporation, receivedthe Leadership Award for his long-termsupport of the Capitol Center for the Arts,Concord Community Music School, andThe New Hampshire Symphony.

Social Studies teacher Celeste Wilhelmat the Richmond Middle School inHanover, for receiving the FriendshipFund Award, administered by theFriends of Hopkins Center and HoodMuseum of Art, that recognizes exemplaryuse of the Hop and the Hood as resourceswithin their school arts curricula

TJ Wheeler and the Blues BankCollective for collecting and donatingthousands of dollars worth of musicalinstruments to the New Orleans PublicSchool system and southern Louisianaschools that are still recovering fromHurricane Katrina.

The recipients of New England StatesTouring Grants from NEFA for the spring quarter: The Colonial Theatre inBethlehem, to support a performance byFigures of Speech Theatre of Maine asthe kick-off in their summer children’sseries; and Monadnock Music inPeterborough, to support the presentationof the Jazz Tuber Trio as part of theirexperimental program, The MonadnockShuffle: Everything but the Kitchen Sinkfeaturing swing classics and vaudevillemasterpieces and blues.

St. Kieran Community Center for the Artsin Berlin, which has received a $7,500challenge grant from the Samuel P. HuntFoundation. Their $15,000 capitalimprovement-building project willinclude slate roof repairs and fire alarmsystem enhancements to the formerchurch building, which is listed on theNH State Registry of Historic Places.

Susanne Rowe of Grafton, whose mobileGathering Together, has been selected asthe League of NH Craftsmen’s AnnualOrnament for 2006. Her three-dimensionalmetal piece is of three birds gatheringaround a bird feeder.

New Thalian Players for having beenselected “Best of NH” by the editors ofNew Hampshire Magazine in recognitionof its outdoor summer “Theatre in thePark” program.

NH Roster Artist and theatre artist JewellDavis of Dover, who has been selectedfor inclusion in Who’s Who of America2007 and Who’s Who of AmericanEducators 2007.

Wood-firing ceramic artist John Baymoreof Wilton, who has been invited for thefourth time, in recognition of his skills asa woodfiring potter, to represent the U.S.at the International Woodfire Artist-inResidence program at the KanayamaPottery Center in Goshogawara-shi, Japan.

AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanonfor being awarded a $300,000 grant fromthe Timken Foundation in support of theorganization’s capital campaign for theupcoming building renovation project oftheir Eleven Bank Street building. TheTimken Foundation promotes civic betterment by capital fund grants.

honors individuals and institutions whoseleadership and work increases awarenessof the importance of accessibility inartistic venues and cultural institutions.

Arts Enrichment teacher Brenda Wrightat the Henniker Community School forwinning the Albert Einstein DistinguishedEducator Fellowship, making her thesecond NH teacher to win the prestigiousaward. As one of 14 Fellows chosen thisyear, Wright will spend the 2006-07school year on Capitol Hill helping todraft national legislation and influencepolicy to improve education in US schools.

Mekeel McBride, poet from Kittery, MEand professor of English at UNH, on therelease of her latest book, Dog StarDelicatessen: New and Selected Poems,1979-2006. This is her fifth publicationreleased by Carnegie Mellon University Press.

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L to R – Michael Whitney, Bank of America;

Elizabeth Brown, Church and Main; Laura Knoy,

master of ceremonies; Francelle Carapetyan,

Sandy Swinburne, for Supreme Audio;

Peter Bloomfield, Concord Steam Corporation;

and Tom Garfield, Laconia Savings Bank.

Photo by Althea Haropulos

The National Endowment for theArts (NEA) announced the 2006recipients of the NEA NationalHeritage Fellowships, the country’shighest honor in the folk and traditional arts. Eleven fellowships,which include a one-time awardof $20,000 each, are presented to honorees from nine states.

These awardees were chosen fortheir artistic excellence, culturalauthenticity, and contributions totheir field. They represent a cross-section of ethnic cultures includingHispanic, Hawaiian, Alaskan, andAfrican American artistic traditionsexpressed through art formsranging from hula dancing andcedar bark weaving to bluespiano and gospel singing.

The 2006 NEA National HeritageFellowship recipients are:

Charles M. Carrillo; santero(carver and painter of sacredfigures); Santa Fe, NM

Delores E. Churchill; Haida(Native Alaskan) weaver,Ketchikan, AK

Henry Gray; blues piano player,singer; Baton Rouge, LA

Doyle Lawson; gospel andbluegrass singer, arranger,bandleader; Bristol, TN

Esther Martinez; NativeAmerican storyteller; San JuanPueblo, NM

Diomedes Matos; cuatro (10-string Puerto Rican guitar)maker; Deltona, FL

George Na’ope; Kumu Hula(hula master); Hilo, HI

Wilho Saari; Finnish kantele(lap-harp) player; Naselle, WA

Mavis Staples; gospel, rhythmand blues singer; Chicago, IL

Treme Brass Band; New Orleansbrass band; New Orleans, LA

The 2006 Bess Lomax HawesAward goes to advocate, scholar,presenter, and preservationistNancy Sweezy of Westwood,Massachusetts.

National NewsNational Endowment for the Arts Announces 2006 Recipients ofNation’s Highest Honor in the Folk and Traditional Arts

Regional/International NewsNew England Foundation for the Arts and the Cultural Services ofthe French Embassy Announce International Dance Grant Awards

Dance projects entitled “O, O”

by Deborah Hay. This initiative was

funded by FUSED, a partnership

among NEFA, The Cultural Services of

the French Embassy and the French

American Cultural Exchange.

Photo by Marc Domage

French-U.S. Exchange in Dance(FUSED), an international collab-oration between NEFA’s NationalDance Project (NDP) and theCultural Services of the FrenchEmbassy in collaboration withFACE (French American CulturalExchange), has awarded $122,615in grants to emerging US andFrench dance artists. In 2004,NEFA, the Cultural Services ofthe French Embassy, and FACEcreated FUSED to promote cross-cultural exchange while fostering dialogue, consolidatingprofessional relationships, andspawning creative artistry andchoreographic innovation throughresidencies and touring.

Four venues each in the US andFrance were awarded funds tosupport residencies and presenta-tion of work by five French and

five U.S. artists in both countriesduring the 2006 – 2007 season.

In addition to providing supportfor presenting venues, FUSEDsupports the exchange of Frenchand American presenters to visiteach other’s countries throughoutthe year to observe and researcharts institutes and meet with artists.FUSED hopes to solidify a French-American dance network that willgenerate a self-sustaining, ongoingsystem for information exchange,enabling the continuous flow of astream of opportunities for bothcountries’ dance communities todiscover new artists and works.

Support for FUSED comes fromNew England Foundation for theArts National Dance Project withlead funding from the Doris DukeCharitable Foundation and the FordFoundation, the Cultural Services

of the French Embassy, and throughthe French American CulturalExchange (FACE) with lead supportfrom the Florence Gould Foundationand Mr. George De Sipio.

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Welcome to...

Jim Schley of South Strafford, VT, whohas been hired as executive director of

The Frost Place in Franconia.Schley has been co-editor ofNew England Review andeditor-in-chief of ChelseaGreen. He has worked as ateacher with CommunityCollege of Vermont, ElderHostel and the VermontHumanities Council. He is amember of the National BookCritics Circle and an associateof the journalists collectiveHomelands Research Group.His writings have been pub-lished in Garrison Keillor’sGood Poems anthology andthe chapbook One Another

published by Chapiteau in 1999. He hasbeen the recipient of individual grantsfrom the State Arts Council and theVermont Arts Council.

Farewell To...

Jill Hauser, former Publications and Web Manager, at the National Assemblyof State Arts Agencies based inWashington, D.C. After 16 years atNASAA, Jill will be devoting herself toparenthood and occasionally consultingon projects with NASAA.

Remembering…

Peter Bridges of New London, musicaldirector for many theatre companies inthe greater NH area, passed away at age50 on June 1. Bridges served as musicaldirector and musician for over 300 productions over the course of hiscareer. His credits included numerous

performances as music director for theNew Thalian Players, The Palace Theatre,Music and Drama Company, the PeacockPlayers, the New London Barn Playhouse,Concord Community Players, the MisfitToys Players, Manchester CommunityTheatre Players, the St. Anselm AbbeyPlayers, and the Majestic Theatre.Bridges also served as a volunteer MusicDirector for the Londonderry LeachLibrary Summer Drama Club. He workedat the East Derry School of Music andgave instruction in voice, piano and keyboard at his music studio at TedHerbert Music School in Manchester. He served as an Adjunct Faculty memberof Southern New Hampshire University,where he directed the University ChoralGroup, the SNHU Singers. A native ofYonkers, NY, he earned a Music Educationdegree with a concentration in organfrom Ithaca College.

This photo of the late musical director and

musician Peter Bridges was taken using a

camera timer. His wife Heather is seated with him.

Photo by Peter Bridges

Around the State

The Frost Place

Executive Director

Jim Schley.

Photo by

Luciana Frigerio

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New Hampshire StateCouncil on the ArtsEstablished in 1965, the New HampshireState Council on the Arts and the NewHampshire Division of the Arts comprisethe state’s arts agency. Funding comesfrom appropriations from the State ofNew Hampshire and the NationalEndowment for the Arts, a federalagency. Volunteer Arts Councilors setpolicies, approve grants, and advise theCommissioner of the Department ofCultural Resources on all matters concerning the arts.

The State Arts Council’s mission is topromote the arts to protect and enrichNew Hampshire’s unique quality of life.The Director of the New HampshireDivision of the Arts administers theagency, which is part of the Departmentof Cultural Resources.

New Hampshire State Arts Councilors

Chair

James Patrick Kelly, Nottingham

Vice Chair

Jacqueline R. Kahle, Wilton

Randy Armstrong, BarringtonRichard W. Ayers, SanborntonPeter McLaughlin, HanoverEdward J. McLear, MeredithToni H. Pappas, ManchesterGary Samson, ConcordTim Sappington, RandolphJasmine Shah, NashuaKaren Burgess Smith, ExeterGrace Sullivan, DeerfieldDorothy J. Yanish, Peterborough

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Arts Organizations

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Individual Artists


Artist Opportunity Grant Quarterly* $250-$1,500

Arts Partners


Mini-Grant Quarterly* $250-$1,000Community Arts Project Grant October 2 $1,000-$7,000

**Pending approval of increased appropriation in FY08-09 State Arts Council budget.

*Quarterly Postmark Deadlines:• October 2, 2006 for projects beginning on or after January 2, 2007• January 2, 2007 for projects beginning on or after July 3, 2007• July 3, 2007 for projects beginning on or after October 2, 2007

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