Arts Mid-Hudson to award funding to 50 local projects
MILTON — Arts Mid-Hudson (formerly the Dutchess County Arts Council) will present grant awards for 50 projects in three categories - Individual Artist Commission, Project Grants and Arts Education Grants - at an awards reception on June 25 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 Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
The 50 community-based Project Grants will receive funding in 2014, serving an estimated audience of over 70,000 people. Project Grants support the arts and cultural activities of non-profit groups, organizations and artists in Dutchess, Orange and Ulster counties. 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 both counties.
The Orange County projects funded in 2014 are:
Albert Wisner Public Library - Celebrate Asian and Pacific Cultures - Warwick
Cornwall Public Library - World/Ethnic Music in America
Creative Theatre Group - Mainstage Productions - Monroe
Friends of the Newburgh Free Library - Habitat for Artists
Friends of the Pine Bush Area Library - Artist Salons and Clay Day Workshops
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra - GNSO Free Summer Pops Family Concert
Greenwood Lake Public Library - Music Makers Concert Series
Hudson Valley Jazz Festival - 2014 Festival
Hudson Valley Parents of Performing Students - Alice in Wonderland - Walden
Josephine Louise Public Library - Narrative Art Workshop - Walden
Monroe Free Library - Music in Central Valley
Orange County Ballet - Dance for all in OCBT's 51st Year
Robert Skinner/Orange County Land Trust - Salt of the Earth - Warwick/Sugar Loaf
Sugar Loaf Music Series - Seligman Salon Series
Warwick Summer Arts Festival - 2014 Festival
Arts Mid-Hudson has administered this state re-grant program for Dutchess County since 1979, for Ulster County since 1988, and for Orange County since 2013. The grant guidelines and applications for 2015 will be posted mid-July for projects occurring in Dutchess, Ulster and Orange counties.
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