How to Boost Your Arts Organization with Business Volunteers for the Arts
You’ve heard the acronym. You know it’s relevant, but what can it actually do for YOU? Over the past eight months, you’ve probably heard us at the Arts Council ...
Category: Art @ Work
I Am An Artist and You Are, Too
We all have an artist within us. Whether you just signed up for an improv class or your interest peaked with one poem in your Junior year English class, the I A...
DIY Tissue Paper Collage
From fashion advertising to abstract art, collage is emerging as one of the most popular mediums – and for good reason. As our Featured Artist and collage...
My Summer @ the Greater Hartford Arts Council
As I complete my summer internship at the Greater Hartford Arts Council, I wanted to write this post to thank everyone who has allowed me to work alongside them...
Arts Break: Keep Calm & Create Mandalas
In Sanskrit, a mandala translates to both circle and center, implying that it represents both the visible world around us and the invisible one (deep inside our...
Arts Break: Jackson Pollock Inspired Art at UTC
With our United Arts Workplace Campaign well under way this year, there have been a plethora of creative arts activities taking place in corporate lobbies and c...
Kicking Off the New Year with Mintz + Hoke
Only two weeks into the New Year, we kicked off the first employee giving event of the 2015 United Arts Campaign with one of New England’s largest adverti...
Creating a “Work of Art” at Aetna
The Greater Hartford Arts Council has enjoyed a long and beneficial partnership with Aetna to deliver community-based arts experiences to those who live ...
Art is Aetna's Healthy
Last year Aetna launched a new campaign asking people “What’s Your Healthy?” to inspire people to make healthier choices when it came to food,...
A Great Day for a 5k
Voya, formerly known as ING, has done it again! For the 7th year, Voya held a 5k run/walk around their Windsor campus to support the Greater Hartford Arts Counc...