The Art Connection Announces Artful Seeds Artists Fellowship, a New Program Connecting Artists and Non-Profits That Share Common Foundation
Every three months, The Art Connection will partner local artists with non-profit organizations to create long-lasting bonds and collaborate on artworks for permanent installations.
Boston, MA, October 31, 2019 --(PR.com)-- The Art Connection is proud to announce the launch of its new Artful Seeds Artist Fellowship as a way to deepen connections between local artists and artists of color with underserved, under-resourced non-profit organizations and the communities they serve.
Through the Artful Seeds Artists Fellowship, The Art Connection provides non-profits a direct hands-on experience with an artist, introducing them to the full cycle of art, ideation, physical making and exhibition, over a three-month period. The artist will create custom works for the non-profit’s space, lead art workshops with their community members, and take groups on a field visit to a Boston-area gallery or museum to get a fuller, more diverse art experience. The Art Connection commissions the artist’s work, and ensures permanent location at the non-profit’s space. The total value of these services going to the non-profit agency is $9,600, with $6,000 of that total value paid directly to the artist.
“We test piloted the fellowship program by pairing emerging Cambridge artist Cicely Carew with Bay Cove Human Services in early September,” said Jeanne Dasaro, executive director at The Art Connection. “We could not have made a better match. Cicely and the members of Bay Cove are in constant communication, collaborate constantly on what pieces Cicely is creating for them, and continue to build a bond that will carry on after their three-month program is complete. Seeing this work out as well as it did gave us the confidence to make the Artful Seeds Artists Fellowship a permanent part of The Art Connection curriculum.”
Bay Cove Human Services partners with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential by providing individualized and compassionate services for people facing the challenges associated with developmental disabilities, mental illness, homelessness, aging-related needs and/or drug and alcohol addiction. At its core, Cicely Carew’s work is about radical wonder and hope. Each of her pieces contain a record of the process and informs the next, telling a story through vibrant color, rebellious mark making, lines, shapes and sweeping gestures to capture the fleeting magic of “the now.”
The culmination of Cicely’s work with Bay Cove Human Services will take place in November with a full art exhibition and a mural unveiling that Cicely collaborated on with several members of Bay Cove at their offices at 85 East Newton Street in Boston’s South End neighborhood.
“The Art Connection perfectly aligned me with an organization that shares the same mission, ethos and foundation for why I create the artwork that I do,” said Cicely Carew. “As a result, working with Bay Cove has opened me up to new friends, new fans and new audiences that I would not have been able to reach if it wasn’t for the fellowship program.”
In its 24-year history, The Art Connection has given rise to more than 400 permanent art installations, containing nearly 8,000 original artworks at hundreds of community-serving agencies throughout Greater Boston. Artists and non-profit organizations interested in being considered for future strategic alliances through the Artful Seeds Artists Fellowship, as well as potential donors who would like to learn more about The Art Connection, can send an email to info@theartconnection.org or call The Art Connection offices at 617-338-7668.
About The Art Connection:
The Art Connection, founded in 1995, is the only non-profit organization in the Boston Metro area that enriches and empowers underserved communities by providing access to original works of visual art. We use the universal language of art to build connections between social service non-profits, community members and artists. What we’ve learned is that art – and equitable access to art – continues to serve as a catalyst for reflection and meaningful social change in our communities. For more information, please visit www.theartconnection.org.
Through the Artful Seeds Artists Fellowship, The Art Connection provides non-profits a direct hands-on experience with an artist, introducing them to the full cycle of art, ideation, physical making and exhibition, over a three-month period. The artist will create custom works for the non-profit’s space, lead art workshops with their community members, and take groups on a field visit to a Boston-area gallery or museum to get a fuller, more diverse art experience. The Art Connection commissions the artist’s work, and ensures permanent location at the non-profit’s space. The total value of these services going to the non-profit agency is $9,600, with $6,000 of that total value paid directly to the artist.
“We test piloted the fellowship program by pairing emerging Cambridge artist Cicely Carew with Bay Cove Human Services in early September,” said Jeanne Dasaro, executive director at The Art Connection. “We could not have made a better match. Cicely and the members of Bay Cove are in constant communication, collaborate constantly on what pieces Cicely is creating for them, and continue to build a bond that will carry on after their three-month program is complete. Seeing this work out as well as it did gave us the confidence to make the Artful Seeds Artists Fellowship a permanent part of The Art Connection curriculum.”
Bay Cove Human Services partners with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential by providing individualized and compassionate services for people facing the challenges associated with developmental disabilities, mental illness, homelessness, aging-related needs and/or drug and alcohol addiction. At its core, Cicely Carew’s work is about radical wonder and hope. Each of her pieces contain a record of the process and informs the next, telling a story through vibrant color, rebellious mark making, lines, shapes and sweeping gestures to capture the fleeting magic of “the now.”
The culmination of Cicely’s work with Bay Cove Human Services will take place in November with a full art exhibition and a mural unveiling that Cicely collaborated on with several members of Bay Cove at their offices at 85 East Newton Street in Boston’s South End neighborhood.
“The Art Connection perfectly aligned me with an organization that shares the same mission, ethos and foundation for why I create the artwork that I do,” said Cicely Carew. “As a result, working with Bay Cove has opened me up to new friends, new fans and new audiences that I would not have been able to reach if it wasn’t for the fellowship program.”
In its 24-year history, The Art Connection has given rise to more than 400 permanent art installations, containing nearly 8,000 original artworks at hundreds of community-serving agencies throughout Greater Boston. Artists and non-profit organizations interested in being considered for future strategic alliances through the Artful Seeds Artists Fellowship, as well as potential donors who would like to learn more about The Art Connection, can send an email to info@theartconnection.org or call The Art Connection offices at 617-338-7668.
About The Art Connection:
The Art Connection, founded in 1995, is the only non-profit organization in the Boston Metro area that enriches and empowers underserved communities by providing access to original works of visual art. We use the universal language of art to build connections between social service non-profits, community members and artists. What we’ve learned is that art – and equitable access to art – continues to serve as a catalyst for reflection and meaningful social change in our communities. For more information, please visit www.theartconnection.org.
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