New England Center for Circus Arts in Brattleboro and Yellow Barn in Putney were two of seven Vermont arts organizations that were recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' first round of grant funding for fiscal year 2018.
NECCA will receive $12,000 to support artist residencies for circus arts performers, while Yellow Barn will receive $10,000 for the Yellow Barn Program and Artist Residencies, a professional artistic development project.
“I'm proud that Vermont received seven grants in this round of competition for scarce federal funds,” said Karen Mittelman, executive director of the Vermont Arts Council, in a news release. “It's a recognition of the diversity and richness of Vermont's arts landscape that the grants reach from small towns to galleries to college campuses and support a wonderful variety of disciplines from literature to circus arts.”
Grants also were awarded to Kingdom County Productions, the Marble House Project, the President & Fellows of Middlebury College, the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and the Governor's Institutes of Vermont.