Invest in the Sustainability and Growth of Artists and Arts Organizations
National Dance Project-supported Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE | photo by Mancebo Photography
NEFA’s support for artists continued to grow in 2021. We also looked to the future as we all yearn to safely reconnect and share in the potency of live performing arts.
We expanded our Public Art grantmaking from the city of Boston to the entire state of Massachusetts and our Public Art Learning Fund reached the entire New England Region.
We hosted the Intersections Summit, a regional dance convening designed to foster a culture of abundance in New England’s creative landscape.
We launched a new grant opportunity for artists, New Work New England, and provided necessary resources to the arts and culture sector with the New England Arts Resilience Fund.
We held our first virtual Idea Swap, where artists and presenters from across the region reconnected, some of whom had not seen each other in two years.
National Dance Project and National Theater Project continued to increase their support and to make changes to address the needs of the field.
Center Stage will bring artists from Argentina, Armenia, Colombia, Peru, and Taiwan in 2022 and 2023 and posted a call for artists from Ethiopia, Philippines, and South Africa to tour the U.S. in 2023.
Our Creative Economy team worked with constituents to make improvements to CreativeGround, our New England directory of creative enterprises and people. The new site is set to launch in 2022.
Your support of NEFA’s Annual Fund provides the critical unrestricted resources we need to support the sustainability and growth of artists and arts organizations as we move forward with a sense of hope.
We hope you will make a gift to NEFA’s Annual Fund this year to invest in the future of the arts in New England and beyond.