Photo – Elaine Cloutier

   Island Arts 2025 Report to our County Residents

In 2025, our own local Island Arts offered an amazing variety of concerts, musical theater, youth events, classes, and opportunities for artisans right here in Grand Isle County. An all-volunteer non-profit, Island Arts provided these activities and attracted visitors to help support our local businesses.

Appropriations approved by the voters in all five County towns and generous donors helped make:

• 40% of our concerts free for everyone

• 100% of concerts free for ages 22 and under

• Financial assistance available to help 8 of our County youth study music, dance, or art

• 175 youth able to enjoy an Island Arts concert or class

The 2025 season had the highest attendance in Island Arts’ 40-year history: 2,400 adults
attended an event or class.

Island Arts presented over 40 events in our County:
live music, dance, musical theater, yoga, family movie nights, art & crafts classes, and 10 youth events.

• 13 concerts—jazz, funk, classical, barn dance, choral, pop—some concert inside, some outside on the grass

• 4 weekly classes—Yoga, Tai-Chi, dance––free by donation

• 17 classes—from singing to cards & wreath-making, to painting to birding walks and zoom talks

• 3 artisan marketplaces

• A 2-day book sale––and star-gazing

• 9 artists were featured in the Island Arts Art Gallery in the Community Bank of South Hero

We are proud of our mission to foster the arts for the enrichment of all in our community. And we are proud that 37 local businesses chose to support Island Arts by purchasing ads in our season brochure.

Thank you for supporting our yearly appropriation, unchanged in over 6 years. Your support helps Island Arts present and foster the arts here in our County and continue to serve the youth, residents, and visitors of Grand Isle County, Vermont.