The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts welcomes nominations for the 2025 Governor’s Arts Awards.
Donor Name: New Hampshire State Council on the Arts (NHSCA)
State: New Hampshire
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 05/02/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Nominations for the 2025 Awards may be made in the following categories:
- Arts Education: Recognizes an individual, nonprofit organization, school district or community that has made an outstanding contribution to arts education within the past three years. Contributions may include innovation and/or sustained contributions to arts education in the classroom, leadership in a school such as the implementation of a comprehensive arts curriculum, the securing of increased funding to arts education or other significant contribution to arts education.
- Arts in Health: Recognizes an individual or New Hampshire nonprofit organization for providing increased access to the arts for people in health care settings and/or with physical, mental or emotional disabilities, or contributions that align with public health priorities to reduce stigma, increase awareness, and inspire action that drives positive health outcomes for populations or communities.
- Creative Communities: Recognizes a city, town, or village government or community-wide organization (e.g., Municipality, Chamber of Commerce, or Main Street program) or an individual that significantly fostered the arts through funding and/or program initiatives within the past three years. Examples include major municipal support to a cultural facility or public art program, establishment of a local arts commission or council, the creation of unique public/private partnerships to promote cultural tourism and/or significant increases in local public support for the arts.
- Distinguished Arts Leadership: Recognizes an individual who has played a sustained role in the advancement, direction, or management of a New Hampshire nonprofit arts organization. Examples include an Executive Director, Artistic Director or Board President.
- Folk Heritage: Recognizes a New Hampshire traditional folk artist who has made a significant contribution to his or her art form and the cultural community, reflecting a lifetime of achievement. Traditional art forms are those art forms, passed informally from generation to generation, that reflect the culture of a particular community defined by ethnic heritage, occupational, religious, geographic, or familial groups.
- Individual Arts Champion: Recognizes a New Hampshire resident who has made a significant contribution to the support of the arts in New Hampshire. Contributions may include donations of money, time, goods or services that over time have significantly increased support for the arts.
- Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure: Recognizes a professional New Hampshire artist, in any discipline, who has made a significant contribution to his or her art form and to the arts community of New Hampshire, reflecting a lifetime of achievement. This award is named for the late Johanna Alexandra (Lotte) Jacobi (1896-1990), a photographer of great national and international renown. Jacobi emigrated from her native Germany to the United States and spent her later years as a resident of Deering, New Hampshire.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individuals nominated must be residents of New Hampshire or have made significant contributions to the arts while residents of the state.
- Organizations, businesses, and cities/towns nominated must be physically located in New Hampshire.
- The following are not eligible:
- Self-nominations (including nominations by members of an organization’s current Board of Directors)
- Posthumous nominations
- Nominations of or by currently serving Arts Council members and employees of the New Hampshire Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
For more information, visit NHSCA.
