$62 million in grant funding has been announced to support and promote arts and culture throughout New York State.
Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday that the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) has awarded 2,000 grants to 1,497 nonprofits and 509 individual artists across the Empire State. This brings NYSCA’s grant-making to $84 million for the 2025 fiscal year.
“As the unparalleled leader of arts and culture, New York’s creativity and innovation inspires the world,” Governor Hochul said. “Our continued investment in our dynamic creative sector will further boost tourism, strengthen our local economies and continue New York’s success as a rich and vibrant place to live, work and visit.”
A list of area awardees and how much they’ve received can be found below:
Support for Organization Awards:
Cayuga
- Auburn Public Theater: $49,500
- Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre: $49,500
- Merry Go Round Playhouse: $40,000
- Seward House Museum: $49,500
- Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center: $49,500
Ontario
- The Dove Block Project: $15,000
- Ontario County Historical Society: $25,000
- Fort Hill Performing Arts Center: $10,000
- Geneva Concerts Inc: $20,000
- Geneva Historical Society: $40,000
- Geneva Music Festival Inc: $40,000
- Smith Center for the Arts, Inc.: $25,000
Steuben
- Corning Museum of Glas: $49,500
- Corning-Painted Post Historical Society: $40,000
- Corning-Painted Post Civic Music Association: $25,000
- The Rockwell Museum: $40,000
- One Seventy One Cedar, Inc.: $25,000
- The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes: $40,000
Tompkins
- Center for the Arts at Ithaca: $40,000
- Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County: $49,500
- Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts: $25,000
- Opera Ithaca: $40,000
- Opus Ithaca School of Music: $40,000
- Historic Ithaca Inc: $49,500
- Cayuga Chamber Orchestra: $25,000
- Center for Transformative Action: $25,000
- Center for Transformative Action: $20,000
- Civic Ensemble: $49,500
- Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Inc: $49,500
- Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers Inc: $25,000
- Kitchen Theatre Company, Inc. $40,000
- Running to Places Theatre Company: $40,000
- Sciencenter Discovery Museum: $40,000
Support for Artist Awards:
Steuben
- The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Southern Tier Akilah Briggs-Melvin: African Step Dance and Wellness $10,000
- The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Southern Tier Anna Warfield: Antigravity: Fast Colors Make a Slow Eye $10,000
- The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Southern Tier Mia Hause: Turning Tides $10,000
- The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Southern Tier SatyaVani Pippalla Akula: New Soil, Old Roots: Oral Histories of Indian Identity Upstate New York $10,000
Tompkins
- Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Southern Tier Eleanor Henderson: The Galaxy: A Novel $10,000
- The Cherry Arts, Inc. Southern Tier Mara Neimanis: Entrapment (or The Embrace) $10,000
Targeted Opportunites Awards:
Steuben
- The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Southern Tier Folk and traditional arts apprenticeships: Peter B. Jones, Cami Jones, and Brennen
Johns $10,000
Tompkins
- The Cherry Arts, Inc. Southern Tier Rehearsal space for performing arts $20,000
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