Trust Transfer Project (TTP) Presented by Community Music School of Springfield & Springfield Cultural Partnership

nat rosasco • June 28, 2021

What is the Trust Transfer Project?


Trust Transfer Project is a partnership between Community Music School of Springfield and Springfield Cultural Partnership, led by Program Director Vanessa Ford. This new initiative allows our local artists to lead in health messaging that will directly impact the lives of their family, neighbors and friends.


This project model offers a unique opportunity for us to depend on one another to share and receive health messages in a creative and inspirational way.


We’re building trust through the eyes of the most impacted by Covid-19. This project seeks to transform the health of our communities one artistic message at a time.


Our incredibly talented and brave local artists are being lifted and supported by our dedicated community partners who range from small businesses to bodegas to churches & childcare centers to large institutions and organizations.

Throughout Springfield in the months of June and July artists work (visual art, poetry music created by Trust Transfer artists will be displayed throughout the city to inspire and encourage community members to seek information, to engage in conversations about their health and stopping the spread of Covid-19.


“I was honored & proud for my kids to create art, but also overwhelmed to find out how they felt about their 2020 experience, I had no idea that they felt so strongly about it. I thought they were just happy to be out of school, but I was so wrong, sometimes we don’t ask kids their perspective on things, but this project made me think differently.” said mother of Trust Transfer youth artists, Tina Tucker-Garner.


In challenging times like these. We must have an anchor. After we’ve exhausted all of our other typical strategies for change, the only thing left is trust. Not just trust for this moment, but for moving forward. We’re planting a seed of trust now, watering it and giving it enough light to grow abundantly, branching out into the most vulnerable segments of our city with creative messages of truth, healing & hope for a better future for us all.


— Vanessa Ford, Director of Trust Transfer Project. May 20, 2021


Read the full press release from CMSS/SCP here 


Read the full press release from Commonwealth of MA here


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