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...
“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...
As darkness settled on Salem’s Point neighborhood last Saturday night, machines began to fill the warm spring air with haze. Then the crowd of dozens of people gathered in a parking lot at 34 Peabody St. ooohed as lasers lit up the air—blue and green and red, lines...
Essex County Community Foundation, in partnership with the Barr Foundation, has awarded grants to 11 creative partnerships with plans to serve Essex County communities through public art and creative placemaking projects. The grants, which total $300,000 and will fund...
ECCF partners with the Barr Foundation to make $750,000 investment in our Creative County Danvers, MA— Essex County Community Foundation announced today that it will spearhead the first ever comprehensive countywide effort to elevate arts and culture in our region....
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