Woonsocket Wins $50,000 NEA Grant For Interactive Sculpture Contest
U.S. Senator Jack Reed announces "Our Town" grant for arts, economic development.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has given Woonsocket a $50,000 “Our Town” economic development grant the city will use for a sculpture contest to encourage artists to live and work in the city's arts district. City Planner Jennifer Siciliano said the grant will fund a plan to draw artists to live and work in the city, in the already-established arts district on Main Street. Within the district, artists do not have to pay sales tax on work they sell, nor do they have to pay state income tax, Siciliano said. To attract artists to live and work there, Siciliano said the city will use the lion's share of the grant money, about $45,000, to commission the work of the winner of a sculpture contest. The contest will ask artists to …
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8:57 am on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
If you are interested in arts in Woonsocket, come to the City's Community Development Forum Brown Bag Lunch on Wednesday, July 25 from 12 to 2 PM at the 2nd floor conference room of City Hall. We will be discussing the NEA Our Town Grant and arts in general in Woonsocket. If you would like to attend, please RSVP by July 23rd to Jennifer Siciliano at 401-767-1418 or jsiciliano@woonsocketri.org more ›