Arts Mid-Hudson to Award Over $116,000 to 61 Projects
Throughout Dutchess, Orange and Ulster Counties
Event: Date and Time:
2017 DEC Grant Award Reception Monday, May 1st, 2016 from 4:30-6:30 pm
Location:
The Barn at Buttermilk Falls, 220 North Rd. Milton, NY 12547
Arts Mid-Hudson will present grant awards totaling over $116,000 to artists and organizations throughout Dutchess, Orange and Ulster Counties. The grant awards will be made in three categories – Project Grants, Individual Artist Commission, and Arts Learning at an open awards reception held at The Barn at Buttermilk Falls. These awards are made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
46 Community-based Project Grants will receive funding in 2017, serving an estimated audience of over 31,000 people. Project Grants support the arts and cultural activities of non-profit groups, organizations and artists in Dutchess, Orange and Ulster Counties. Recipients can be found from Tivoli to Beacon, Poughkeepsie to Amenia, Warwick to Newburgh, Big Indian to Kingston and many more. These include professional and community based arts activities benefiting the general public in theater, dance, music, film, video, literature, visual arts, historical and cultural activities, and the use of libraries and museums as venues for the arts. Project grant programs are designed to serve all ages and ethnically diverse populations from all geographic areas of all three counties.
Arts Mid-Hudson is excited to be able to include four Individual Artist Commission Grants in the 2017 Awards. This grant program supports the creation of new work by an individual artist, which involves the community as context for creating the work. This year’s recipients include Marline A. Martin, “Hard Ears (Hayd Ayz)” and Steven Steele Cawman, “Cultivating Ecological Interdependence” in Dutchess County, and Jing Shuai, “Fan Your Talents” and Robert Juan Rodriquez, “Afro-Cuban Music Composition” in Ulster County.
Arts Learning Grants supports sequential, skill-based workshop series focused on the arts and artistic process. Projects can take place in-school during the school day and/or in after-school and community-based settings for youth and/or senior learners. Eleven projects were approved for funding to take place during 2017. Projects include visual arts, dance and theatre among others.
A full list of recipients for each category can be found at the bottom of the release. Please RSVP prior to Thursday, April 28th by calling: 845.454.3222
Funding opportunities for FY2018 to be announced in June. See website for details.
The mission of Arts Mid-Hudson is to provide vision and leadership to support thriving and diverse arts in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Through our art partners, a diverse offering of arts and cultural programs, many free, attract a range of age groups, and are produced across a broad geographic area.
For more information on Arts Mid-Hudson: www.artsmidhudson.
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2017 PROJECT GRANTS
DUTCHESS COUNTY
Akin Hall Association – Views from the Hill; Stories from the Valley – Pawling
Beacon Arts Community Association – Beacon Independent Film Festival – Beacon
Dutchess County Art Association, Inc – Poughkeepsie Prints – Poughkeepsie
Linda A. Curtis – Unleash Your Inner Artist– Rhinebeck
Mid Hudson Heritage Center (Art Centro) – Ceramics Workshop Series –Poughkeepsie
Mid-Hudson Heritage Center (Art Centro) – Community Clay Day – Poughkeepsie
Mid-Hudson Heritage Center – Poughkeepsie Open Studios – Poughkeepsie
Morton Memorial Library and Community House – Third Annual Short Play Festival –Rhinecliff
Mount Gulian Society – Women: Their Rights and Nothing Less– Beacon
Northeast Community Council Inc. – Kinship Circles Cultural Festival – Millerton
R.E.A.L. Skills Network, Inc. – Juneteenth Black Emancipation Event – Poughkeepsie
Town of Amenia – Amenia’s Performing Arts Program – Amenia
Trinity Players, Inc. – Songs for a New World – Lagrangeville
Village of Tivoli – 17th Annual Tivoli Street Painting Festival – Tivoli
ORANGE COUNTY
Albert Wisner Public Library– Warwick Literary Festival – Warwick
Amanda Light – Middletown First Saturday – Middletown
Community 2000 – The Warwick Summer Arts Festival – Newburgh and Monroe
Four Seasons Chorale, Inc. –Music Crossing the Atlantic – Port Jervis
Greenwood Lake Public Library –Writing Workshops – Greenwood Lake
Krishna Protects Cows, Inc. –An Indian Arts Experience – Newburgh
Greenwood Lake Theater – Greenwood Lake Theatre- Summer 2017 – Greenwood Lake
Monroe Free Library – Music in Central Valley – Monroe
Newburgh Community Land Bank, Inc.– Newburgh Urban Farming Fair – Newburgh
Newburgh Free Library – ArtSMART Story Quilts – Newburgh
The Pine Bush Area Library – Artists Salons – Pine Bush
Warwick Historical Society –Warwick’s Story- Warwick
YMCA of Middletown –Percussion Class – Middletown
ULSTER COUNTY
A.J. Williams Meyers African Roots Center – Stories from the Street – Now & Then –Kingston
Andrea Adler. – On Life Force –Rosendale
Big Indian Native American Cultural Center, Inc. – Pow Wow Festival – Big Indian
Elting Memorial Library – Music in the Garden with Dean Jones & Friends – New Paltz
Gardiner Library– Gardiner Studio Tour – Gardiner
Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance Art – The Universal Bubble–Rosendale
Hurley Library – Exploring Connections Between Art & Children’s Literature – Hurley
Jewish Federation of Ulster County – Kingston Community Multicultural Festival –Kingston
Marlboro Free Library –Ulster County Poetry Project– Marlboro
O+ Festival Inc, – Kingston O+ Mural Tours – Kingston
Pine Hill Community Center – Catskill Cabaradio – Pine Hill
Purring Tiger Inc.– Popup! – Kingston
RUPCO, Inc. – Kingston: An Architectural Legacy Then & Now – Kingston
SageArts, Inc. – Women Empowering Women – Rosendale
Saugerties Hudson River Partnerships, Inc. – Saugerties Artists Studio Tour –Saugerties
Stone Ridge Public Library – African Drumming and Dance– Stone Ridge
The Secret City, Inc. – The Secret City, Woodstock – Woodstock
Town of Rosendale Youth Program – Art is Everywhere Workshops– Rosendale
Woodstock Comedy Festival – Film Program for 5th Annual Woodstock Comedy Festival –Woodstock
INDIVIDUAL ARTIST COMMISSIONS
Marline A. Martin – Hard Ears (Hayd Ayz) – Dutchess – Poughkeepsie
Steven Steele Cawman – Cultivating Ecological Interdependence – Dutchess – Poughquag
Jing Shuai– Fan Your Talents – Ulster – Highland
Robert Juan Rodriquez – Afro-Cuban Music Composition -Ulster – Stone Ridge
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE/PUBLIC SCHOOL
Bryan Perrin and Susan Shaftan Perrin – Water, Color & Clay– Woodstock Elementary School –Olivebridge
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies – Art+Science Summer Course – Millbrook
Kingston Library – Kingston Teen Art Lab – Kingston
Millbrook Arts Group – Pros Meet Pupils – Millbrook High School – Millbrook
Moustapha Diedhiou – African Drumming Residency– Myer Elementary School – New Paltz
Pamela Dailey – Rombout Design Parti – Rombout Middle School- Beacon
Northeast Community Council, Inc. – NECC Summer Connection: Installation Art Workshop for Youth – Millerton
Regla Llanos – Music & Dance in Our Lives – Poughkeepsie High School- Poughkeepsie
Shawn Dell Joyce – Following in the Footsteps of Jane Colden, America’s First Female Botanist – East Coldenham- Newburgh
Susan Griss – WOODLANDANCE for Elders –New Paltz
Voice Theatre – Bullying & Belonging Workshops– Saugerties High School- Saugerties
