Making a creative place

BRATTLEBORO—Imagine a black-and-white map of Brattleboro.

Now, imagine marking the map first with bright blue flags for every place focused on the arts, then with light blue flags for the areas supporting the arts.

“You’d see a lot of blue,” said Kate Anderson, the chair of the Brattleboro Town Arts Committee (TAC), who has organized an effort to explore a new grant opportunity from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)... Continue reading story

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Traditional talent

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Making a creative place

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Tension and rabbit holes

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