Arts Mid-Hudson to award more than $116,000 to 61 projects

MILTON — Arts Mid-Hudson will present grant awards totaling more than $116,000 to artists and organizations throughout Dutchess, Orange and Ulster counties next month.
The grant awards will be made in three categories - Project Grants, Individual Artist Commission and Arts Learning.
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 46 community-based project grants will receive funding in 2017, serving an estimated audience of over 31,000 people. These grants support the arts and cultural activities of non-profit groups, organizations and artists 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.
2017 Project Grants in Orange County• Albert Wisner Public Library: Warwick Literary Festival
• Amanda Light: Middletown First Saturday
• 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
• Krishna Protects Cows, Inc.: An Indian Arts Experience - Newburgh
• Greenwood Lake Theater: Greenwood Lake Theatre- Summer 2017
• Monroe Free Library: Music in Central Valley - Monroe
• Newburgh Community Land Bank, Inc.: Newburgh Urban Farming Fair
• Newburgh Free Library: ArtSMART Story Quilts
• The Pine Bush Area Library: Artists Salons
• Warwick Historical Society” Warwick’s Story
• YMCA of Middletown: Percussion Class