After many years of good work supporting arts education in our state, the Vermont Alliance for Arts Education (VAAE) has decided to dissolve the organization. At a meeting of the Board of Directors held on December 13, 2011, the board voted unanimously to dissolve effective December 31, 2011.
“We hoped that we could reinvigorate the Alliance when we hired a new part-time executive director in January of this year, and Janet very effectively moved our planning forward,” said Board Chair Cathy Archer. “Unfortunately the Kennedy Center, our parent organization, lost a significant amount of its funding from the Department of Education and cannot provide any program support to state Alliances for the foreseeable future. This, along with other financial hurdles, was a devastating blow, and we are unable to continue.”
We are very grateful for your support of the Vermont Alliance for Arts Education, and hope you will continue, as we will individually, to work to assure that all students in Vermont receive arts instruction as part of a complete education.
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