[CW-Grad] FW: Artist Residency Opportunities at betterArts

[Bryan G Bradford]

Dear Program Coordinators & Directors:

I am writing to spread the word about and invite your students, alumni, and faculty to apply to the writer and artist residency at betterArts in northern New York State.

betterArts, Inc., is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization affiliated with Better Farm, an organization that works to bring citizens around the rural Thousand Islands region together for arts and environmental sustainability programming.  So far, in its three years as a residency, betterArts has hosted an aesthetically diverse group of writers, musicians, and artists from around the U.S. and beyond, many of them in the early stages of their careers.  As a poet who grew up in the Thousand Islands, I can say that the area, in its beauty and rural tranquility, is very generative for creative work-and our communities, which struggle with a certain amount of economic and cultural depression, benefit greatly from the presence of betterArts residents and the work of the organization as a whole.

I have attached a more in-depth letter detailing the betterArts residency, and I would be grateful if you would share it with your students, faculty, alumni, and anyone else that might be interested.  We're located in cyberspace at http://www.betterfarm.org/ and http://betterarts.moonfruit.com/.

Thank you very much!

Kind regards,
Noel Tague

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