
Congratulations to our 2025 grantees!
The Easthampton Cultural Council, a local cultural council of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, is pleased to announce the recipients of 2025’s granting cycle.
This was a historic year for the ECC with a record 71 applications for funding. Of these, we were able to award a total of $17,341.51 to 31 projects and events that will take place in Easthampton throughout 2025.
The volunteers on the ECC’s board work towards bringing funding into Easthampton to make quality cultural programming more accessible. Our programming is intended to benefit the Easthampton community, and further the diversity in Easthampton’s programming in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences.
We will be celebrating the grantees at a reception in April, where they will be invited to speak for a few minutes about their projects. We invite you to join us in celebrating these awardees now and in the future!
Stay tuned for more updates to come as projects start happening.
Projects and programs awarded funding in 2025:
Arts Integration Studio LLC / Truth Tellers Theater Ensemble Year 2
Barrow, Amanda / Conversations With Water
Beck, Heather M. / Copper Metalsmithing Workshops
Cadent Shakespeare Co. / Cadent Shakespeare Co: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Collaborative for Educational Services, Inc. / Circle Time Music
Collicelli, Steve / Easthampton Porchfest
Comeau, Robert / Cemeteries of Easthampton
Cushing, Carolyn A. / Easthampton Poet Laureate Retrospective in the ECA Gallery
Easthampton Theater Company Inc. / Easthampton Youth Theater Program
Ferry, Chris / Easthampton Film Festival 2025
Goldberg, Abbie / Easthampton Cat Parade
Haak-Frendscho, E. Maude / Press On: Indie Publishing Festival 2025
Hersey, Lisa / Book Scavenger Hunt
Johnson, Daniel / Memories: Music at the Council for Aging
Leader, Rachel / KlezCummington
Leshner, Sharon / 4th Annual Color Collaborative Showcase
Lieberman, Julie / Strings Without Boundaries
MacDuffie, Elizabeth / Books, Bards, Bands, and Brews: A Year of Cirques at the Brewery
Martin, Jess / Echoes in Nature: Hampshire County
Nashawannuck Pond Steering Committee / Easthampton WinterFest
Peirent, Lois / Mixed Media Mayhem
Post, Kathy / A New Blue Presents A Night at the Movies
Rodriguez, Julissa / We Are Each Other's Magnitude
Ryan, Elizabeth / Intergenerational Concert
Shiber, Mona / PeaceBirds Projects
Sjostedt, Michael / Cut Loose Collage Workshop: Found Word Poetry
Sticca, Paul / Acousticca Concert at Easthampton High School
Swanson's Fabrics / Building A Culture of Clothing Repair
Unbroken Wings, Inc. / Thunder in the Valley Concert & Fireworks 2025
Walton, Mykelle / Duo Acrobatic Workshop
Zaik, Marjory / Art Bazaar