In 2021, 31,365 people took part in 562 activities hosted by us or by our community partners. We also gave nearly $169,000 in humanities grants to 52 Vermont organizations.
Along with the Vermont Arts Council, we gave $1.2 million to 146 Vermont cultural organizations in 2021 through the Vermont Cultural Recovery Program through a collaborative grant program made possible by American Rescue Plan Act funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Poet Sarah Audsley joined us at the Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park for Words in the Woods.
Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.
We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”
We supported Historic New England’s “More than a Market” project that explored the experiences of new Americans through food markets.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
