Acton-Boxborough Cultural Council received a Gold Star Award

Representatives Atkins and Benson and Senator Eldridge help present the Acton-Boxborough Cultural Council with a Gold Star Award.

Each year, the Gold Star Award program recognizes model projects funded through the Local Cultural Council Program. Gold Star Projects build common ground among people of diverse interests and cultures, engage people in community life, and foster community pride.  The cultural program “Re-Visioning Acton: A Creative Model-Building Activity,” funded by the Acton-Boxborough Cultural Council, received a Gold Star Award.

On March 4, the Massachusetts Cultural Council honored the project and the funding Local Cultural Council as part of the 30th anniversary celebration of the MCC’s Local Cultural Councils at the State House.

Read below of a description of the project:

Re-Visioning Acton: A Creative Model Building Activity:

Nominated by the Acton-Boxborough Cultural Council

Architect and MCC creative teaching partner Ann Sussman led Re-Visioning Acton as a community planning and design project that invited residents to explore alternative possibilities for an underutilized local intersection. Through public workshops, exhibitions, and internet accessibility, participants used large scale aerial maps, planning diagrams, craft materials, and online 3-D virtual reality site “Second Life” to create their own vision of an improved and walk-able community.