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