Do you know a person or business that has made significant artistic and cultural contributions to our community? ACE Award nominations OPEN!

The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County has announced that its Sixth Annual Daniel E. Offutt III Arts & Culture Empowerment (ACE) Awards Breakfast will be held at the Norwalk Shore and Country Club on June 15, 2022.
 
Nominations for the awards are now open! Do you want to recognize and thank those individuals, organizations, and businesses who have made significant artistic and cultural contributions to our community, as well as those who have supported the arts and culture sector through volunteerism and/or patronage? 
 
 
 
The ACE Awards have renamed the Daniel E. Offutt III Arts & Culture Empowerment (ACE) Awards in 2021 after a significant contribution from the Daniel E. Offutt III Private Foundation Trust.
 
Nominations are now open for everyone in the region to recommend candidates for the ACE Awards.
 
Nominations are made in five categories: Artist, Citizen, Corporate, Educator, and Nonprofit. Nominations, that include a brief statement (up to 150 words) explaining the reason for the nomination here.
 
Details of the award categories are below:
 
Artist Award: Recognizes a creative individual or group in Fairfield County who has demonstrated a commitment to artistic excellence as well as working for access, awareness, and/or advocacy for the arts and culture community.
 
Citizen Award: Recognizes an individual who has contributed significantly to the enrichment and prosperity of arts and culture in Fairfield County through volunteerism, financial support, and/or advocacy. 
 
Corporate Award: Recognizes a business that has helped to excite the interest and support of arts and culture in Fairfield County through encouragement, exposure and patronage; or that has made a significant contribution to the economic development of Fairfield County with an emphasis on elevating the creative sector.
 
Educator Award: Recognizes an individual, nonprofit or creative business that has made a substantial impact on the arts and cultural education of students and citizens of Fairfield County through innovative approaches to programming, access and/or advocacy.
 
Nonprofit Award: Recognizes an organization or leader that has made a distinct contribution to arts and culture in Fairfield County through visionary leadership, commitment to advancement, community engagement and/or creative innovation.
 
See awardees from previous years at: https://culturalalliancefc.org/news-events/ace-awards/
The keynote Breakfast speaker will be David Lehman, Commissioner for Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD). Also speaking will be Elizabeth Shapiro, Director of Arts, Preservation and Museums (DECD), and Jason Mancini, Executive Director, CT Humanities. All three speakers worked together over the last two years of the pandemic to discover and fulfill as much as they could the fiscal needs of cultural organizations devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and its social and economic ramifications. 
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