The Friends of the Dublin Art Colony is a nonprofit organization devoted to recognizing the historic and continuing role of the arts in the Monadnock region of southeastern New Hampshire. The organization was founded in 1995 with a mission to promote appreciation of the arts, focusing on artists associated with the historic Dublin Art Colony and artists who currently live and work in the region. The Dublin Art Colony was an informal group of artists and writers who summered in the shadow of Dublin’s Mount Monadnock in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Painters including Frank Benson, George de Forest Brush, Alexander James, Rockwell Kent, Aimee Lamb, Abbott Thayer and Joseph Lindon Smith, and authors Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling and Amy Lowell all spent time in Dublin. These talented people lived and worked in isolation, but gathered regularly to socialize. Talks and lectures on a variety of subjects were held, and plays and pageants were performed, often with Joseph Lindon Smith and George de Forest Brush playing leading roles. Although this group never labeled itself as an organized art colony, its participants cultivated a unique sense of community centered on the arts. The Friends of the Dublin Art Colony endeavors to foster a similar sense of community among artists and art lovers in the towns around Mount Monadnock today. Your membership support enables us to offer programs and information about current artists and the Dublin Art Colony to the public. As a member, you will receive notices of our special events, including the annual fall Open Studio Art Tour, and an invitation to our Annual Meeting and Party in June.