In the last year in Essex County, we’ve experienced the incredible impact that collaborative public art and creative placemaking has on our communities: an interactive children’s museum in Peabody, a laser and sound installation highlighting the immigrant voices of...
Starting in early 2020, Essex County Community Foundation will offer a series of capacity-building workshops to help artists, arts and culture organizations, and creative entrepreneurs compete in our creative economy. The workshop series - an investment in the...
Michelle Xiarhos Curran Beverly, MA – You could hear a pin drop at The Cabot late Friday morning, Sept. 27, when Gloucester poet Caroline Harvey took the stage to deliver a powerful message about the transformative and essential role of arts and culture in our lives....
Gloucester poet Caroline Harvey performed this powerful piece, commissioned for the 2019 Essex County Arts & Culture Summit, on Sept. 27, 2019 for the hundreds of arts and culture advocates that came together to collaborate on ways to elevate arts and culture in...
Essex County Community Foundation announced today the details of a new $1.3 million investment in arts, culture and the creative ecosystem in Essex County. This new investment – the result of a $1 million grant from the Boston-based Barr Foundation and supplemented by...
Details To Be Released at the Sept. 27 Essex County Arts & Culture Summit at The Cabot Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) announced today that it is making an additional $1.3 million investment in arts, culture and the creative ecosystem of Essex County....
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...
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...
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...
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