Arts Mid-Hudson to Award Over $97,000 to 50 Projects
Throughout Dutchess, Orange and Ulster Counties
Event: 2015 DEC Grant Award Reception
Date and Time: Thursday, May 7th, 2015 from 4:00-6:00 pm
Location: The Barn at Buttermilk Falls, 220 North Rd. Milton, NY 12547
Details:
Arts Mid-Hudson (formerly the Dutchess County Arts Council) will present grant awards totaling over $97,000 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 Artist in Residence/Public School Grants 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.
39 Community-based Project Grants will receive funding in 2015, serving an estimated audience of over 50,000 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 Rhinebeck to Beacon, Poughkeepsie to Wassaic, Warwick to Newburgh, Shandaken 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 2015 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 Nestor Madalengoitia, “100 Portraits of Poughkeepsie’s Middle-Main” and Karen Michel, “Stories To Go” in Dutchess County, Judy Thomas, “MATRIX” in Orange County and Keiko Sono, “Disappearing Pond Project” in Ulster County.
Artist in Residence/Public School Grants support in-school residencies by artists and/or cultural organizations, and focus on sequential, skill based knowledge. Seven projects were approved for funding to take place during 2015. 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 Friday, May 1st by calling: 845.454.3222
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.org,
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2015 Project Grant Recipients
DUTCHESS COUNTY
Anderson Center for Autism – Expressive Outcomes Theater -Staatsburg/Rhinebeck
ArtCentro/Mid-Hudson Heritage Center – Art Centro Ceramics Workshop Series – Poughkeepsie
ArtCentro/Mid-Hudson Heritage Center – Community Clay Day & Night – Poughkeepsie
BeaconArts- Beacon 3D 2015 – Beacon
BeaconArts- Beacon Independent Film Festival – Beacon
City of Beacon – The African Drum Experience – Beacon
Grupo Folklorico de Poughkeepsie – La Guelaguetza 2015- Beacon
Hudson River Housing, Inc. – Day of the Dead Celebration 2014 – Poughkeepsie
Mid-Hudson Catskill Rural and Migrant Ministry – Breaking the Wall – Poughkeepsie
Mid-Hudson Catskill Rural and Migrant Ministry – Yogis of Color – Poughkeepsie
Mount Gulian Society – James F. Brown Day: A Celebration of Freedom – Beacon
Northeast Community Council, Inc.- Art in the Market 2015 – Millerton
REAL SKILLS Network-African American Heritage – Poughkeepsie
Somos La Llave del Futuro, Inc.-Latino artists in La Voz Magazine
Tangent Theater- NEWvember new Plays Festival -Tivoli
The Wassaic Project – Art Scouts – Wassaic
Village of Red Hook – Sculpture Expo 2015 – Tivoli
Village of Tivoli – 15th Annual Tivoli Street Painting Festival- Tivoli
ORANGE COUNTY
Albert Wisner Public Library- Conversations with Anne: Growing Up in Hiding- Warwick
Creative Theatre Group, Inc.- Creative Theatre Mainstage Productions- Monroe
Friends of the Newburgh Free Library-Habitat for Artists- Newburgh
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Corp- Enriching Lives Through Music – Newburgh
Greenwood Lake Public Library- Color Your World- Greenwood Lake
Newburgh Free Library- Looking Back: The Sounds of Newburgh- Newburgh
Pine Bush Area Library- Artist Salons & Clay Day Workshops- Pine Bush
Robert Skinner/Orange County Land Trust- Preserves for the People- Warwick
William Bull and Sarah Wells House Association- Art/History Trail- Campbell Hall
ULSTER COUNTY
Catskill Heritage Alliance- Shandaken Art Studio Tour- Shandaken, Boiceville & West Shokan
Ellenville Public Library & Museum- Cultivating Community Through the Arts- Ellenville
Friends of Historic Kingston- Jervis McEntee: Kingston’s Hudson River School Artist- Kingston
Gardiner Library- Mask-Making Workhops for Kids- Gardiner
Kingston Library- Kingston Teen Art Lab at Kingston Library- Kingston
Pine Hill Community Center- Community Shape Note Singing Schools- Pine Hill & Phoenicia
Ritenuto Foundation, Inc.- 12th Annual Wall Street Jazz Festival-Kingston
Rosendale Theatre Collective, Inc.-Youth Puppet and Performing Arts Immersion Week- Rosendale
Saugerties Hudson River Partnerships, Inc.- Saugerties Artists Studio Tour- Saugerties
The Ashokan Foundation, Inc.- 2015 Ashokan Summer Hoot- Olivebridge
Ulster Ballet Company- Festival of Dance- Kingston/Saugerties
Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Inc.- A Memorial Day Tribute to Our Troops and Veterans- Woodstock/Stone Ridge
2015 Arts Education Projects
Bryan & Susan Shaftan Perrin – Watercolor & Watershed Part 2 – Ecosystems & Habitat – G. W. Elementary School
Mercedes Cecilia – MultiCultural Book Family Tradition, Stories & Art – Woodstock Primary School
Paul Ellis – The Living Newspaper – Chester Academy
Regla Llanos – M*POWER – Music in Our Lives – Poughkeepsie High School
Shawn Dell Joyce – Following in the Footsteps of Jane Colden: America’s First Female Botanists –
East Coldenham Elementary
Starling Productions Inc., – Writing Your PTECH Life – Hudson Valley Pathways Academy (P-TECH) at Ulster BOCES
The Wassaic Project – Wassaic X Webutuck – Webutuck High School
2015 Individual Artist Tier Grant Recipients
Judy Thomas – “MATRIX” – Visual Arts – Newburgh
Karen Michel – “Stories To Go” – Media (film/video/radio) – Dutchess County
Keiko Sono- “Disappearing Pond Project” – Media (film/video/radio) – Bearsville/Woodstock
Nestor Madalengoitia – “100 Portraits of Poughkeepsie’s Middle-Main ” – Visual Arts – Poughkeepsie
