PUBLICK OCCURRENCES — November 5, 2020
Conversations on the Commons invites you to:
History Funding from Local Cultural Councils: Talking through and workshopping LCC grant applications
November 6, 2020, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
A Conversation with Ymelda Laxton, Assistant Curator at Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, and Heather Kowalski, Executive Director of the Bidwell House Museum.
SPECIAL GUEST: Lisa Simmons, Manager of the Local Cultural Council Program, Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Outside of Boston, Local Cultural Councils are a good source of funding for programming for history organizations. Applications are due on November 16. What should you apply for? What makes an application likely to get funded? Join us for a conversation on cultural councils and their preferences. Plus, we’ll be workshopping applications! Bring your draft application as well as any priorities statements by your Local Cultural Council. (Check out online application information here!)
The conversation will be moderated by Penni Martorell, curator of collections at Wistariahurst Museum and Holyoke’s City Historian. Registration is free.
This Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive.
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- Heather Kowalski joined the Bidwell House Museum staff in the fall of 2015 after moving to the Berkshires with her husband and two children. She became Executive Director in 2017. Prior to working at the Bidwell House Museum, Heather served as Registrar for the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh for 11 years and before that she spent six year as Assistant Registrar at the Carnegie Museum of Art, also in Pittsburgh. Heather grew up in nearby Niskayuna, NY and holds a BA in Art History from Penn State University.
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- Lisa Simmons is the Program Manager for the Community Initiative at the Mass Cultural Council which includes the Local Cultural Council Program. The Community Initiative works with 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts to support arts and culture in every community. In addition, Ms. Simmons was the former deputy director of the Mass Office of Travel & Tourism. She is the Artistic Director and Producer of the Roxbury International Film Festival (RoxFilm), now in its 23rd year whose mission it is to support filmmakers, and present films and film programs that celebrate people of color around the world