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WELCOME

We are growing along with our membership. In this our 41st year, we find ourselves opening new exciting possibilities for our community. In the spirit of our Marty Lecture theme: “Searching for the Usable Past” we took what worked in the past and extended and added to it.

My thanks go to our active volunteer Board who work together year-round to dream up, implement and assess our multifaceted program and to Paul Campbell, our Administrative Coordinator.

Our season of operation has been extended to allow gallery viewers to enjoy the work of our artists until September 25th.   We are seeking funding to provide arts program in the schools when  our physical doors are closed.  

Camp Imagination, our week-long morning program for young people ages (5-7) and (8-13) expanded from 10 workshops, (two each day) to holding as many as four workshops in one day.
This year, unlike last year, we are partnering with the Becket Athenaeum in several ways to extend and to enrich our Program. 

Multigenerational programming has been expanded. A Clay workshop and a Shakespeare weekend intensive will be added to our Families Dance Together at the Pillow and our Marmalade Puppet Big Puppet Day workshops.

Register early for ticketed events, adult & young people workshops, so they are available for you.
 
Free community events and selected young people workshops have been planned to share our resources and unique expertise.

In the spirit of our first constitution, the mission of the BAC is to provide an environment in which a diverse population can come together to share common interests while learning about and experiencing a variety of art forms. We are committed to a) encouraging new ideas from our local community members and supporters and b) recognizing and promoting the work of local artists and artists who live beyond our community.

Funding from local community grants for programs provide a very small percentage of our total budget. We count heavily on community members to provide support with their membership dollars and generous contributions. I thank our Becket Arts Center members, local businesses, the Avon Foundation,  Barrington Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The Puffin Foundation, The Community Foundation of Sarasota City, Inc. from the Elayne P. Bernstein Fund and the Town of Becket who value the Arts Center and continue their commitment to our mission. 

We look forward to your active participation in our season’s program.

 

Joan Lipson Davidson-Winston, President

 

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Becket Arts Center of the Hilltowns -
2011 Executive Board & Board of Trustees

Executive Board
Joan L. Davidson-Winston, President
Sally Soluri, Vice President
Joan Terry Drucker, Secretary pro tem
Joseph Bosworth, Treasurer

Board of Trustees
Hon, Rudy A. Sacco, Chairman

Members
Arlene Adler
Violet Brennan
Connie Chin
Jonathan Davidson
Arnold Drucker

Luba Fineson
Janet Goldmark
Gloria Goldstein
Robert Alan Hyde
Robert Koffler
Sherry Wells-Levine
Jessica Ochs
Wednesday Nelena Sorokin
Barbara Stuhlmann
Arthur Winston

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Funding

The programs of the Becket Arts Center of the Hilltowns are supported largely by membership contributions, We are grateful to the people and businesses who have taken ads in the brochure,

We thank the following for their generous support:
Massachusetts Cultural Council Local Cultural Councils of:
Becket, Chester, Hinsdale & Peru, Lee, Otis, Washington, Worthington
The Avon Foundation
GE Foundation
Sterling Foundation
New York Community Trust - Nancy & Michael Feller Fund
New York Community Trust - Anonymous
Barrington Foundation
The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.
The Community Foundation of Sarasota, Inc. from the Elayne P. Bernstein Fund

 

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We thank everyone who has helped kick start our Summer Program this year:
Michele Beemer
Sharon Bruno
Tony Kenny
Joanne Kneiss
Susie Dworkin
Sally Soluri
David Stein
Sue Warden
Val Welts
all the businesses who help support our Program Catalog
and our dedicated Board of Trustees who never stop giving.

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