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Vermont arts resilience network seeks formal role in emergency planning after 2023–24 floods
Summary
Amy Cunningham of the Vermont Arts Council described the Vermont Arts and Culture Disaster and Resilience Networks efforts to salvage collections, train cultural workers and coordinate with FEMA and other agencies after the 2023 and 2024 floods, and asked policymakers to help integrate cultural assets into emergency plans.
Amy Cunningham, deputy director of the Vermont Arts Council, told a Feb. 12 meeting that the Vermont Arts and Culture Disaster and Resilience Network has been coordinating salvage, training and recovery work for artists and cultural organizations affected by floods in 2023 and 2024.
The network, Cunningham said, deploys conservators and national heritage responders, catalogs damage, raises private funds to support treatment costs and coordinates communications among cultural organizations and state emergency managers. "We are not first responders. Let's all wait and let's have one coordinated communication," Cunningham said, explaining the network's role as a coordinated second-wave recovery resource.
Why this matters: Cunningham said the creative sector is an economic driver in Vermont and an important part of community recovery after disasters. She told the meeting that in 2022 arts and culture was a $1,100,000,000…
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