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Tape Art’s Temporary Murals Suggest Possibilities for Towns
Greg Cook/ @aestheticresear At the end of July, silhouettes of people drawn with green and blue tape began appearing across Groveland, West Newbury and Merrimac. They depicted locals from the past hundred years—police chiefs, garden club members, the people who...
A River Runs Through It
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...
Asset Mapping the Merrimack Valley | Press Release
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...
ECCF Announces Lineup for Sept. 27 Arts & Culture Summit | Press Release
If you are someone interested in emboldening Essex County’s arts and culture community, supporting the creative economy and increasing the vibrancy of our region, you might just want to mark your calendar for Sept. 27, 2019. Essex County Community Foundation has just...
The Importance of Cultural Planning | Press Release
Arts and culture are powerful tools for communities to engage, connect, learn and grow. In 2018, when Essex County Community Foundation launched its Creative County Initiative – a partnership with the Barr Foundation to elevate arts and culture in Essex County – we...
Iluminacion Lights Up Lawrence To Highlight Revitalization
“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....