Small Town Big Arts

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  • Reporting from Radically Rural: Lupinewood Collective

    Reporting from Radically Rural: Lupinewood Collective
    Sep 30 2024
    Geoff takes his annual September visit to Keene, NH for the Radically Rural Conference.
    At the conference he took the opportunity to interview two of the conference panelists. The first is Andrew Huckins of the Lupinewood Collective. This queer and trans community of artists have been living and working collectively since 2017 when they moved in to a falling-apart mansion with a dream to transform it into something beautiful and lasting. Out of this sprang the Lupinewood Collective, part collective living community and part arts organization, this unique org saught a space to live and work together and found it in Greenfield, MA (pop. 17,768).
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    49 mins
  • Two Year Anniversary- Checking in on Second Stage Amherst

    Two Year Anniversary- Checking in on Second Stage Amherst
    Aug 27 2024
    Celebrating two years of Small Town Big Arts!
    Small Town Big Arts is collaborating with the University of Lynchburg on a new online course called Thriving Community Arts: Strategies for Sustainable Success. A limited number of discounted seats will be available to those who work at a nonprofit organization. Please email pdi@lynchburg.edu from your nonprofit account to receive a discount code.
    This month we are continuing a tradition. In 2022, Small Town Big Arts was formed out of a strategic planning process Geoff facilitated at Second Stage Amherst in Virginia. Geoff discovered there were few online resources for an organization like Second Stage, a community arts space in a town of 2,200 and a county of 31,000. We check in with Second Stage's Executive Director, Jessy Shipe and see how they are doing. Spoiler: They are doing well. m
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    58 mins
  • The Cultivator: Woods County, OK

    The Cultivator: Woods County, OK
    Jul 9 2024
    Sometimes the catalyst for artistic output isn’t an artist or an arts organization but an economic development office or a community development corporation. I call this "The Cultivator."
    I had the good fortune the last couple of months to colaborate with SMU DataArts as they released their Top 30 Most Arts-Vibrant Rural Counties study. This collaboration involved taking a deeper look at these fantastic communities and put me touch with Kay Decker with the Freedom West CDC in Woods County, Oklahoma, one of the top 30 most arts-vibrant counties identified in the study.
    Kay opened my eyes to another category of organization that can thrive in a small community. In this month's podcast, we talk about how a non-arts focused organization can be the catalyst to arts vibrancy in a community.
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    57 mins
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