BRATTLEBORO — Art in the Neighborhood, a Brattleboro-based nonprofit, recently received grants from the Crosby-Gannett Fund and the Dunham-Mason Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation.
The grants will provide tuition-free art classes to students receiving services from Health Care and Rehabilitative Services, the regional mental health agency.
Art in the Neighborhood has been collaborating with that agency since 2015. These grants allow continued funding for the program.
Mollie S. Burke, Executive Director of Art in the Neighborhood, said in a news release that “Art in the Neighborhood is extremely grateful for the support of these two locally-based funds dedicated to the betterment and vitality of the Brattleboro area. We use the arts to empower and enrich the lives of children with multiple challenges. And by extension this improves the greater community.”
Since 2008, Art in the Neighborhood has been providing tuition-free art classes to Brattleboro children in low- and moderate-income housing communities, including Westgate, Ledgewood Heights, and Moore Court.
This newly-funded project extends their mission to those students most in need of enrichment through the power of the arts.
For more information on Art in the Neighborhood, visit www.artintheneighborhood.com.