Several area arts organizations and museums will receive grant awards through the New York State Council on the Arts.
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced in a media release the grants will support more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations and 500 individual artists across the state.
In this funding cycle, four awards categories were announced: Support for Organizations, Support for Artists, Targeted Opportunities and Regrants and Services.
Support for Organizations grants will provide $31,887,411 to 1,021 arts groups including museums, visual arts programs, arts education organizations, and music, dance, and theater companies. Local awardees are: Catskill Symphony Orchestra Inc., $40,000; Chenango County Historical Society, $49,500; Chenango River Theatre Inc., $30,000; Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO), $49,500; Fenimore Chamber Orchestra Inc., $20,000; Franklin Stock Company at Chapel Hall Inc., $40,000; Glimmerglass Opera Theatre Inc., $49,500; Lexington Foundation Inc., $49,500; Roxbury Arts Group Inc., $30,000; West Kortright Centre Inc., $30,000.
Support for Artists grants will provide $5,040,000 to 504 artists of all disciplines. Local awardees, award amount and projects are: Bright Hill Press, $10,000, Nicholas Kelsh — “New York Country Roads: Where We’ve Been. Where We Are. Where We’re Going”; Hancock Partners, $10,000, Laura McManus — “Four Seasons along the Delaware River”; Roxbury Arts Group Inc. $10,000 each for Anne Elizabeth Moore — “My Inevitable Murder,” Jennifer Kabat — “NIGHTSHINING”, and Marisa Caruso — “Tonic Clonic, or How Seizures Became Medicine in a Sicilian Abattoir”; West Kortright Centre, $10,000 Adrianna Newell — “Still Here”.
Targeted Opportunities grants will provide $2,997,034 to support folk art apprentices for individual artists, rehearsal and studio spaces for the performing arts and performing arts residencies. Foothills Performing Arts Center will receive $20,000 to provide rehearsal and studio space for performing arts.
Regrants and Services grants will provide $6,619,516 to 25 regional arts and culture organizations across the state to extend the impact of NYSCA’s grantmaking. Roxbury Arts Group Inc. will receive $104,000 — $80,000 for regrants and $24,000 for administration.
Additional funding will be provided to 729 multi-year grantee organizations, across all disciplines, for a total of $34,445,805, the release said.
In 2021, the New York State Council on the Arts overhauled its funding strategies to allow greater access to art funding across the state and recommitted its support to artists, the release said. As a result, NYSCA awarded grants to 84% of first-time applicants and more individual artists than ever before. In this round, 70% of funding went to organizations with budgets less than $1 million; and 53% of funding went to organizations with budgets less than $500,000.
The council is still accepting applications for $37 million in grants for the Capital Projects Fund through Jan. 11, 2024, the release said. NYSCA’s Capital Projects Fund supports arts and cultural nonprofits seeking state funding for investments in capital improvements to allow organizations to sustain and expand cultural programming for diverse audiences, promote accessibility and environmental sustainability, preserve and create jobs and ultimately contribute to the growth of New York’s dynamic arts and tourism sectors. Visit the NYSCA website for details.