HVAL's Work in the Community
In addition to our ongoing Scholarship Program, HVAL organizes numerous events each year which are advertised to the general public. The response we continually get lets us know that our community is benefitting from our outreach. All our workshops, lectures, slide shows, demonstrations, etc. are attended by residents of our area, including artists, teachers and community organizers.
Mary Sipp-Green showed slides of her work to a large audience in January 06
Our community project Housatonic River Summer 2004 brought together arts, environmental, educational and religious organizations in a 7 month schedule of events which received attention far beyond the geographic region known as the Berkshires. While HVAL is no longer the lead organization in what is becoming an annual celebration, we continue to cooperate with other cultural institutions in an ongoing basis.
HVAL is cooking up other means of reaching out into the world, artistically and culturally. Currently we are building on our successful collaborations with the Nature Conservancy, the Sheffield Land Trust and Sheffield farming community to raise artistic and regional awareness throughout the area; this will involve at least two different projects in 2009-10.
In addition to our ongoing Scholarship Program, HVAL organizes numerous events each year which are advertised to the general public. The response we continually get lets us know that our community is benefitting from our outreach. All our workshops, lectures, slide shows, demonstrations, etc. are attended by residents of our area, including artists, teachers and community organizers.
Mary Sipp-Green showed slides of her work to a large audience in January 06
Our community project Housatonic River Summer 2004 brought together arts, environmental, educational and religious organizations in a 7 month schedule of events which received attention far beyond the geographic region known as the Berkshires. While HVAL is no longer the lead organization in what is becoming an annual celebration, we continue to cooperate with other cultural institutions in an ongoing basis.
HVAL is cooking up other means of reaching out into the world, artistically and culturally. Currently we are building on our successful collaborations with the Nature Conservancy, the Sheffield Land Trust and Sheffield farming community to raise artistic and regional awareness throughout the area; this will involve at least two different projects in 2009-10.