That’s changing. Richmond and Luppold, along with other artists, community leaders and volunteers, are working together to help Sullivan County establish an identity as a Granite State arts destination. Work began earlier this year when a six-person team received a grant from the National Association of Counties and Americans for the Arts to use the county’s artsbased, cultural, architectural and natural assets to attract visitors, residents and new businesses. “The team is focused on figuring out what the arts-based assets are across the county and creating a strategy to connect them,” says Penny Whitman, a UNH Extension economic development field specialist who’s part of the team.
When I think of creativity and the creative economy, there are a lot of people who are creating in this area. If they’re connected to each other with a shared sense of purpose and identity, it could get people in this region to realize there’s more going on here than they thought. — S TEPHANIE KYRIAZIS, SAINT-GAUDENS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
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