The Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC) has announced the recipients of its Community Arts Grant program for 2024.
Local artists and organizations will receive $100,000 for arts programming taking place throughout Warren and Washington Counties in 2024.
This grant opportunity is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by LARAC. The Community Arts Grant is a re-grant program that provides financial assistance for community-based arts activities.
The goal of the Statewide Community Regrant (SCR) program is to provide quality arts programming to all of Warren and Washington Counties; assist emerging arts organizations; support the artistic expression of Warren and Washington County’s diversity; and make arts programming accessible to under-served audiences.
For 2024, six Individual Artists will receive $2,500 to produce new work, three of them being Serena Kovalosky of Washington County for her project “Moving Mountains: The Mustard Seed Project,” Jenny Hutchinson of Warren County for her project “Collaborative Public Mural: The Community Gardens,” and Daniel Costello of Washington County for his project “The Old Man in the ICU.”
Seven Art Education applicants were awarded a total of $20,425 for in-school and community-based programming in 2024. The North Creek Railway Depo Preservation Association of North Creek in Warren County will be continuing with their impactful children’s program “People and Trains That Could,” Tracy Nzambi of Warren County will be working with students from Queensbury High School through her program “Reflections,” and Amorak Youth of Washington County will be helping students develop their musical talents through their program “Amorak Youth Music Program.”
“Congratulations to all the recipients of this year’s Community Arts Grant program,” said Mara Manus, executive director of NYSCA. “As an essential part of our arts and cultural sector, we wish these Warren and Washington county artists and organizations the greatest success as they deliver the critical benefits of the arts to our residents and visitors. Where the arts thrive, New York soars!”
For 2024, forty Organizations and Artists applied for SCR funding, out of which thirty-one will receive funding. They are:
Warren County Organizational Grantees:
Adirondack Ballet Theater
All Abilities Productions of Upstate New York
Friends of Johnsburg Parks, INC.
Glens Falls Community Theatre
North Country Arts Center
Our Town Theatre Group
Queensbury Senior Citizens
The Union Chapel Association of Sabbath Day Point NY
Wiawaka Holiday House
World Awareness Children’s Museum
Washington County Organizational Grantees:
Agricultural Stewardship Association
Greenwich Free Library
Hudson River Shakespeare Company
Little Theater on the Farm
Senior Center of Kingsbury and Fort Edward Area
Town of Salem
Village of Fort Edward Canal Street Marketplace
Village of Granville
Whitehall Skene Manor Presentation, INC.
Individual Artists Grantees:
Daniel Costello
Frieda Toth
Gregg Figura
Jenny Hutchinson
Jonathan Newell
Rachel Nardin
Arts Education Grantees:
Amorak Youth
Bolton Free Library
Johnsburg Youth Committee
North Creek Railway Depo Preservation Society
Queensbury Senior Citizens
Tracy Nzambi
Warren-Hamilton Counties Action Committee for Economic Opportunity