New State Arts Grants Seeks Arts Partnerships as Economic Drivers
CONNECTICUT MIRROR
By Jan Ellen Spiegel
CONNECTICUT --- Barbara Schaffer, the director of development at New Haven-based Elm Shakespeare, hadn't been too worried last year when the newly reconfigured state Office of the Arts overhauled its grant system. She turned out to be wrong. Instead of giving away money mainly for general operating support as it had for decades, much of the grant system was reformulated under the philosophy of "creative place-making." A growing trend nationally, it seeks to merge the ideas of arts, community-building and partnership to present arts as an economic driver that attracts more people, arts and business to the cities and towns they serve. Grant-seekers in Connecticut this past year had to be able to prove all that. [link]
By Jan Ellen Spiegel
CONNECTICUT --- Barbara Schaffer, the director of development at New Haven-based Elm Shakespeare, hadn't been too worried last year when the newly reconfigured state Office of the Arts overhauled its grant system. She turned out to be wrong. Instead of giving away money mainly for general operating support as it had for decades, much of the grant system was reformulated under the philosophy of "creative place-making." A growing trend nationally, it seeks to merge the ideas of arts, community-building and partnership to present arts as an economic driver that attracts more people, arts and business to the cities and towns they serve. Grant-seekers in Connecticut this past year had to be able to prove all that. [link]
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