How Schools Engage Students: $1.5M Invested in Creative Projects

by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Dec 16, 2024 | History News, The Profession

12.16.2024 Amy Chu, Program Officer Creative Projects for Schools Artist Michael Aghoha standing in front of a mural created in collaboration between KIPP/SPUR/Aghohawa with KIPP Academy Lynn Charter District. The 2024-2025 school year coincides with a one-time...

Create, Connect, Catalyze: YouthReach in FY24

by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Dec 13, 2024 | History News, The Profession

12.13.2024 Erik Holmgren, Manager of Advancement and Strategic Partnerships; Amy Chu, Program Officer; and Käthe Swaback, Program Officer Creative Youth Development | YouthReach New Bedford Whaling Museum High School Apprentices participating in a Seaweed public...

Celebrating our Arts-Vibrant Communities

by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Dec 12, 2024 | History News, The Profession

12.12.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs SMU DataArts’ Top 40 Most Arts-Vibrant Communities of 2024,Ranked by Per Capita Supply, Demand, andGovernment Support for the Arts A week ago Mass Cultural Council celebrated the news that Massachusetts...

HLI Takes Public History to the Streets

by American Association for State and Local History | Dec 11, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession

By Andrea Jones, Director, History Leadership InstituteWith Nicole Martinez LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Curator, Indiana Historical SocietyDoes our daily grind stand in the way of creating necessary change in the field of public history? With the constant Zoom...

Mass Cultural Council Seeks $28M in the FY26 State Budget

by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Dec 11, 2024 | History News, The Profession

12.11.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Budget Mass Cultural Council, the Commonwealth’s independent state arts agency, is primarily funded each year through the Commonwealth’s General Appropriations Act, often referred to as the annual state...

Sharon McMahon — The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Dec 11, 2024 | History News

Sharon McMahonFrom the Publisher: In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the...