Deadline: 16-Apr-21
The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts has announced a call for nominations for the 2021 Governor’s Arts Awards.
The honorary awards to recognize outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support, and availability of the arts in New Hampshire.
Categories
Nominations for the 2021 Awards may be made in the following categories:
- Arts Education: Recognizes an individual, nonprofit organization, school district or community that has made an outstanding contribution to arts education within the past three years.
- Arts in Health: Recognizes an individual or New Hampshire nonprofit organization for providing increased access to the arts for people in health care settings and/or with physical, mental or emotional disabilities.
- Creative Communities: Recognizes a city, town, or village government or community-wide organization (e.g., Municipality, Chamber of Commerce, or Main Street program) or an individual that significantly fostered the arts through funding and/or program initiatives within the past three years.
- Distinguished Arts Leadership: Recognizes an individual who has played a sustained role in the advancement, direction, or management of a New Hampshire nonprofit arts organization.
- Folk Heritage: Recognizes a New Hampshire traditional folk artist who has made a significant contribution to his or her art form and the cultural community, reflecting a lifetime of achievement.
- Individual Arts Champion: Recognizes a New Hampshire resident who has made a significant contribution to the support of the arts in New Hampshire.
- Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure: Recognizes a professional New Hampshire artist, in any discipline, who has made a significant contribution to his or her art form and to the arts community of New Hampshire, reflecting a lifetime of achievement.
- New for 2021: Silver Lining Resilience- Recognizes an individual or New Hampshire nonprofit or for-profit organization, school district, collaborative/ partnership effort or municipality that has created, developed, implemented or supported innovative solutions for the arts, in a broad sense, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals nominated must be residents of New Hampshire or have made significant contributions to the arts while residents of the state.
- Organizations and cities/towns nominated must be physically located in New Hampshire.
For more information, visit https://www.nh.gov/nharts/artsandartists/gaa/2021GAA/nomination.html