ArtsHERE
Above: Multimedia artist and scholar Kaylynn Sullivan Twotrees (left) and musician Mikahely (right) at the historic Clemmons Farm.
Clemmons Family Farm is one of 112 recipients of an ArtsHERE grant in 2024, selected from a nationwide pool of 4000 organizations who applied for the opportunity. An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with South Arts and in collaboration with the other five Regional Arts Councils, ArtsHERE aims to strengthen organizations’ capacity for community engagement and boost arts participation for underserved groups and communities across the country.
The ArtsHERE grant will support Clemmons Family Farm's overall marketing research and outreach strategies to promote the historic Clemmons Farm in Charlotte, Vermont to artists and scholars who are on faculty at New England universities and who have special expertise in the cultures and artistic expressions of the African diaspora. A pilot cohort of up to six pairs of faculty from any or all six New England states will be invited for a 3-day "mini-residency" on the Farm, to participate in a peer-to-peer interview about their insights and experiences; give a talk or workshop to Vermont artists and our local community; and provide feedback and recommendations to help the Clemmons Farm be a welcoming and inspiring residency space for visiting faculty.
The ArtsHERE grant will support Clemmons Family Farm's overall marketing research and outreach strategies to promote the historic Clemmons Farm in Charlotte, Vermont to artists and scholars who are on faculty at New England universities and who have special expertise in the cultures and artistic expressions of the African diaspora. A pilot cohort of up to six pairs of faculty from any or all six New England states will be invited for a 3-day "mini-residency" on the Farm, to participate in a peer-to-peer interview about their insights and experiences; give a talk or workshop to Vermont artists and our local community; and provide feedback and recommendations to help the Clemmons Farm be a welcoming and inspiring residency space for visiting faculty.
|
Anticipated Outcomes of the "Luminary Faculty Consultancy & Pilot Residencies" Through our work with a pilot cohort of African diaspora arts and humanities faculty who will do short-term consultancies and residencies on the Clemmons Farm, Clemmons Family Farm will design visiting scholar-in-residence programs that include the following outcomes: 1. Visiting scholars-in-residence will have a beautiful welcoming, inspiring, and comfortable space to study, to learn, and develop their arts and humanities creative works; 2. As part of their on-farm sabbatical/residency, each visiting scholar-in-residence will contribute: |
|
a. one mentoring or professional development workshop for members of the Vermont African American/African Diaspora Artists Network (VAAADAN) members; and/or
b. one arts & culture community event on the farm.
3. The long-term goal is that funds generated through visiting scholars' eventual on-farm residences and sabbaticals (paid by their universities or grants) will contribute to:
a. the farm's operating costs and;
b. an “Arts Equity Transportation Fund” to assist VAAADAN members, Black Vermonters, and other underserved communities with free rides or travel stipends to attend arts & culture programs on the Farm.
4. New relationships will be built between Clemmons Family Farm, the New England Foundation of the Arts Leaders of Color Fellows, and New England scholars with expertise in African diaspora arts and culture.
b. one arts & culture community event on the farm.
3. The long-term goal is that funds generated through visiting scholars' eventual on-farm residences and sabbaticals (paid by their universities or grants) will contribute to:
a. the farm's operating costs and;
b. an “Arts Equity Transportation Fund” to assist VAAADAN members, Black Vermonters, and other underserved communities with free rides or travel stipends to attend arts & culture programs on the Farm.
4. New relationships will be built between Clemmons Family Farm, the New England Foundation of the Arts Leaders of Color Fellows, and New England scholars with expertise in African diaspora arts and culture.
|
|
