Danvers, MA – Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF), which has long supported arts and culture through our Creative County Initiative (CCI), is responding to the severe challenges artists and cultural nonprofits are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first is...
ECCF Kicks off Asset Mapping in the Merrimack Valley Michelle Xiarhos Curran, ECCF Communications Writer Groups of people sat around tables on which scatterings of art supplies lay: some crayons, markers, colorful rolls of tape and a blank canvas. “If we can create an...
People create maps to help them define, explain and navigate their way through the world. Without them, you’d hardly know how to get from point “A” to point “B;” where natural resources are most abundant or how climates differ. And without understanding how those...
“We’re looking for new ways, creative ways to get people to come downtown, to get people to come together,” Vilma Martinez-Dominguez, Community Development Director for the City of Lawrence, told a crowd gathered at Lawrence’s Pemberton Park on the evening of June 5....
On a recent damp morning, four students from the Northshore Education Consortium’s Topsfield Vocational Academy were busy helping construct an Essex clamming skiff at the Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum. It was probably the first time anyone had built...
