Arts in Healthcare

AGAR’s Programs for Seniors

AGAR also coordinated a virtual song class for CVACL seniors.

​AMHERST GLEBE ARTS RESPONSE, INC (AGAR) has delivered twice each month an average of 650 pages of “Poems on Trays with Meals on Wheels” to seniors receiving delivered meals through Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living, Fairmont Crossing Amherst and Blue Ledge Meals on Wheels. Four living poets, Virginia poets Ron Smith, LuAnn Keener-Mikenas and Grace Hoyt (Grace passed away April 12, 2021, having reacher her 101st birthday.) and North Carolinian Florence Nash, gave AGAR permission to use their poems, AGAR paid for Anne Spencer’s poems, was given permission to use poems of the late Alma Rountrey (born Amherst VA in 1914, died 2010 in Altavista), whose book of poems, "Hunting Quarter"  AGAR published in 2009. We also used a few poems that were in the public domain. Poems were delivered with meals to a total of over 800 individuals this year in Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford and Campbell counties and the towns of Bedford and Lynchburg.

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Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) arts and Humanities Projects in 2021-2022 are funded as follows::
 
AGAR’s concerts are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts,
and The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, with marketing assistance from SHARE Greater Lynchburg.
This project is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. AGAR’s arts programs for individuals receiving meals delivered at home are also funded in part by CENTRA and Amherst Woman’s Club.
 
The Digital Residency by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc., organized in partnership with Cecilia Smith and
Lafayette Harris, Jr., has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America through its Residency Endowment Fund. These concerts are delivered online as a “thank you” during the COVID-19 times to medical and non-medical staff and to patients at Centra Health and CVACL, Lynchburg; Virginia Commonwealth University Health in Richmond, Tappahannock, and South Hill; and to Gifts of Art, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
 
The NEA BIG READ is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
 
AGAR’s Virginia History Programs are supported in part by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
and Virginia Humanities (VH).

Funding for a VH/SHARP grant to AGAR has been provided by Virginia Humanities and the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities
​through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.

Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR)  |  156 Patrick Henry Highway, Amherst, VA 24521 
US Mail:  PO Box 117, Clifford, VA 24533   |   (434) 989-3215
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