NASHUA – City Arts Nashua’s 17th annual ArtWalk is set for Oct. 16 through 23.

In collaboration with Access Nashua Community Television, the association has issued a call for artists, writers and performers to register for the event, which will be televised on Access Nashua Community Television Channel 96, streaming on accessnashua.org, cityartsnashua.org, City Arts Nashua’s social media pages and City Arts Nashua’s YouTube channel.

City Arts Nashua has transformed ArtWalk into ArtWeek, a virtual celebration, in 2020 during the pandemic, and is continuing to do so again in 2021 to keep all participants safe while celebrating and highlighting the artists and artmaking that makes this region vibrant.

The deadline to register is Sept. 24. Registration can be completed at cityartsnashua.org.

The virtual arts celebration features rtists, musicians, vocalists, dancers, actors, performers, writers, poets and craftspeople.

The week-long event will be an opportunity for the arts community to share its preferred creative art form and medium to a broad virtual audience. Throughout the week, and throughout each day on Access Nashua Community Television, City Arts Nashua’s website and social media, there will be profiles of artists and their works, with posts about each artist to be displayed on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn.

As in 2020, artists will have an opportunity to have a video produced either at their home/studio or at their Nashua studios by Access Nashua Community Television staff.

Those who already have a video of their work or performances recorded, it may be shared for the event. If artists created a video with Access Nashua Community Television last year and would like to have it updated, that can be done aswell. For new work, new platforms displayed or new contact information to share for the web page created by City Arts Nashua, this is the time to share that content. See the City Arts Nashua website for video submission guidelines and specifications.

Fees for ArtWeek 2021 registration:

• Paid promotion of your work and contact information that you share with us, $15

• Cost for promotion of your work and contact information that you share with us, with a new video we make for you, $25

City Arts Nashua formed in 2004 and is a volunteer arts services organization with a 501(c)3 IRS non-profit designation. Its mission is to enrich the quality of life by providing leadership to support and strengthen arts and culture in the Nashua region. City Arts Nashua helps expand and provide visibility for greater Nashua’s artistic and cultural community. It promotes, advocates, networks, produces events and projects, fundraises, and provides fiscal sponsorships. In addition, City Arts Nashua works closely with the Nashua Arts Commission, with local arts individuals and groups, community organizations, business, government and with State and national arts organizations. Among other events, City Arts Nashua produces ArtWalk, Nashua’s most celebrated art event every fall, now in its 17thyear, and the Meri Goyette Art Awards and Luncheon, recognizing contributions to the arts of non-artist community members and organizations, now in its eighth year. City Arts Nashua restored three important murals in Nashua, including, in 2016 Margaret’s View of Nashua by renowned artist Lucienne Bloch; in 2013, Vivian’s Dream, by Nashua mural artist Barbara Andrews; and, in 2015, the Yankee Flyer Diner by Nashua native and former Artist Laureate of New Hampshire, James Aponovich. City Arts Nashua was the fiscal sponsor of the planned Nashua Performing Arts Center until that organization reached independence. City Arts Nashua served as the fiscal sponsor of the Nashua International Sculpture Symposium, for 11 years; NISS is now independent and in its 14th year, and is the only such international sculpture symposium in the United States. As of 2019, City Arts Nashua now also administers an “Art Every Day” mini-grant to provide resources and art supplies to organizations, educators and others who are working to create art and arts programs and need the means and materials to do so.

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