Redfern a Creative Campus Innovations Grants Semifinalist

From Bill Menezes, Redfern:

The Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Arts Presenters) has announced that the Redfern Arts Center is one of 31 semifinalists in the 2010 Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program. The Creative Campus initiative began in March 2004, following the 104th American Assembly at Columbia University, where more than 60 arts and higher education leaders gathered to examine the factors that characterize effective partnerships in education and the arts - the projects, proposals, curricula, and creative forces that make such partnerships work.

Keene State is one of 31 semifinalists chosen from a pool of nearly 150 applicants for the 2009 grants. Each school will be given $7,000 to help develop a project concept for full consideration as part of the final selection process of this grant program. Up to 10 one- to two-year project grants, ranging from $100,000 to $200,000 each, will be awarded in August 2010 to college- and university-based presenters from among these semifinalists (see the complete list here).

In 2006, Arts Presenters initiated The Creative Campus Innovations_ _Grant program with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This program was designed to support a set of innovative performance-based projects on American campuses that exhibit the importance of the arts to the educational, service, and scholarly missions of the academy and that fully integrate the performing arts into the life of the academy and the community. In 2007, eight campus-based presenters were awarded one- or two-year grants to implement projects that had the potential to increase value and expand support for integrating the performing arts into the academy and the campus community.