Arts Education Awards & Showcase – May 7th, 6 – 8 pm

 The Monmouth County Arts Council established the Arts Education Awards Showcase to honor Leaders in Arts Education, Community Champions of the Arts and Community Arts Education Leaders in Monmouth County, those individuals, schools, administrators and organizations that support great arts education and the Arts Council’s mission of “enriching the community by inspiring and fostering the arts.”

An annual event, the Arts Education Awards Showcase has become an exciting evening for students, parents, teachers and community arts supporters to come together to honor the awardees and to acknowledge the power of great art education.

 This year’s honorees for Leader in Arts Education are Brad Nicklaus, Allentown HS and Dr Gretna Wilkinson, Red Bank RHS; for Community Arts Education Leader, honorees are Angela Flynn Knox, former Director of the Summer Theater Program at Thompson Park, and Rebecca Flynn Harris, Managing Director of Holmdel Theatre Company; and lastly honorees for Community Champions of the Arts are the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and the Freehold School Foundation in partnership with the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and Barry and Star Tobias.

 The evening will take place at SICA, the Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park, on Monday May 7th, from 6-8:00 pm. Students performances and presentations from the 2012 Monmouth Teen Arts Festival will be showcased. Tickets are $10/adults and $5/students with proceeds supporting Arts Education programs. For more information contact Sandy Taylor at sbt@monmoutharts.org or by calling 732 212 1890.

 
 

Proposal Writing Workshop – Full Day

Wednesday, May 9th  from 9 am to 4 pm   

Location: Guild of Creative Arts ,620 Broad Street, Shrewsbury, NJ 07702 

Fee: $65 non members, $50 Monmouth Arts members (ind. or group) 

In this workshop, we will discuss what makes a project  compelling to a funder, and how to paint a vibrant picture of your organization and programs through the limited format of a typical proposal. 

In this introductory workshop, participants will:

  • Learn the language of proposal writing
  • Learn the eleven basic components of a proposal
  • Learn how to develop strong program objectives
  • Learn how to develop a proposal budget

Who should attend:

  • Proposal writers with less than three years of experience
  • Executive directors, program directors and development directors with proposal writing job responsibilities

Instructor: Pat Richter has been affiliated with the Support Center since 2002 in many capacities, including as a volunteer facilitator of workshops, affiliated consultant, interim director of consulting, and interim director of professional development. She has her own nonprofit consulting and coaching business, PR Quickhelp, which helps both nonprofits and foundations large and small.  Areas of expertise include proposal writing, strategic planning, program planning, research, and organization assessments.  Fields of expertise include health, developmental disabilities, the arts, and domestic and substance abuse.  Pat has a Master’s in Public Administration from Pace University and has completed advanced coursework in alchoholism studies from Rutgers University. 

To register contact:  Danny Tamez, Monmouth County Arts Council, 732 212-1890 ext. 3  OR  register online.      

 

Faces of Monmouth Arts

To celebrate our 40th Anniversary, the Monmouth County Arts Council has created the Faces of Monmouth Arts, a growing list of over 700 artists and arts leaders in all artistic disciplines who have contributed to the vibrancy of the arts in Monmouth County.  The list includes professional and community artists, those born here, living or working here and those who have left their legacy here in our community.

Check out the current list and add your favorite Monmouth artists below.   Our goal is a comprehensive compilation of all the artists and arts leaders, past and present with a Monmouth connection.  They are the reason Monmouth County is such a hotbed of creative activity.  Face it artists are everywhere!

 

Add an Artist to Our Faces of Monmouth Arts

40th Anniversary Fundraising Campaign

Help us meet our goal

To celebrate the Monmouth County Arts Council’s 40th ANNIVERSARY, MCAC is launching a campaign to raise $400,000 over the next four years, to build the organization’s capacity for the next 40 years of enriching the community by inspiring and fostering the arts.  (more…)