Artists and institutions from across the Fingerlakes were in Wednesday night to celebrate the $150,000 they’re receiving as part of Auburn Public Theater’s regrants program.
46 applicants from Cayuga, Ontario, Seneca, Wayne, and Yates Counties were awarded funding to support the arts in the Fingerlakes. Dominic Gambaiani is APT’s regrants coordinator. He told Finger Lakes News Radio that a panel worked hard to determine which applicants received funding this year.
“We had almost $200,000 worth of asks and only $150,000 to give out so our panel worked really hard to spread the money out to the best of their ability,” said Gambaiani. “Obviously, some were not funded this year but 46 out of 51 were able to be funded thanks to the due diligence of our panel.”
While the theater has offered regrants in the past, this year APT had more control of the process. Previously, the funding for the regrants came from the New York State Council on the Arts; however, State Senator Rachel May was able to secure funding directly from the legislature for this year’s regrants program.
“We were able to have more freedom with how we designed the grants and we were able to do general operating grants; we were not able to do that with NYSCA Gambaiani continued. “We also simplified two of the previous applications – the art ed and the community arts – and jointly made it a public arts grant.”
Gambaiani added that the theater will offer the regrants program next year. Like this year, funding for the regrants program comes from the state legislature.
Any artist or group seeking to apply can contact APT.
A list of awardees can be found below:
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