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Submissions for the 2020 CT Book Awards are closed, the books are in, and the readings are underway! This year the Connecticut Center for the Book received 93 submissions across four categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Books for Young Readers (Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Books). Authors and illustrators send in six copies of their work to be distributed to judges (one … [Read more...] about Book Awards Update – Ready to Ship to Judges

The coronavirus pandemic has affected us all in one way or another. For artists and performers, coronavirus has seemingly closed the door on their creative outlets and, for many, their livelihood. But as days in self-isolation have turned into weeks, many in Connecticut’s creative workforce have found ways to make it work. Their innate ingenuity has them exploring new … [Read more...] about Connecticut Conversations: Art and Resiliency in the Time of Coronavirus

With the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating effect on practicing artists, Assets for Artists quickly redesigned its business and financial education programming to provide artists with new, crisis-focused, distance-learning opportunities that largely retain the intimate cohort-focused style of our in-person workshops. Some workshops translate our usual offerings into a webinar … [Read more...] about CT ROUND 2: A4A Webinars for a Post-COVID World

The second cycle of the Tri-State Relief Fund to Support Non-Salaried Workers in the Visual Arts will open this Tuesday, May 19 at 10:00 AM EDT and close on Wednesday, May 20 at 11:59 PM EDT. The Fund will distribute one-time unrestricted cash grants of $2,000 each to freelance, contract, or non-salaried archivists, art handlers, artist/photographer’s assistants, cataloguers, … [Read more...] about Tri-State Relief Fund to Support Non-Salaried Workers in the Visual Arts