Art Tripping receives operating support grant

LITCHFIELD — Connecticut Humanities, the statewide, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded Art Tripping a $5,000 Connecticut Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant.

The grant will enable Art Tripping to produce an arts festival on the Green in Litchfield in June, “Litchfield Makers Market”; to provide enhanced art programming for students in the community; to offer art therapy to clients with disabilities and clients of domestic violence service providers; and improve the management of its digital infrastructure, according to a statement.

Art Tripping was one of 624 organizations in Connecticut that was awarded Connecticut Cultural Fund support totaling $16 million from Connecticut Humanities. the CTCFOSG are part of $30.7 million of support allocated to arts, humanities, and cultural nonprofits through CTH over the next two years by the General Assembly and approved by Gov. Ned Lamont. The CTCFOSG will assist organizations as they recover from the pandemic and maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public.

The grant was administered by Connecticut Humanities, with funding provided by the state Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts, from the Connecticut State Legislature.

Art Tripping was founded in 2018 “to create community art experiences, to nourish creativity, to develop art and educational programs, to be a significant catalyst for community development, to bring people of various economic and social strata together, to develop, inspire, and understand the unlimited possibilities that experiencing art, in all of its forms and genres, brings to our world,” according to a statement.