Saratoga Arts is awarding $97,800 in grants to 29 organizations and individual artists who are coordinating community arts events in 2017. The grants are part of Saratoga Arts’ Community Arts Grants program and all recipient organizations and artists are located in Fulton, Montgomery, and Saratoga counties.
With funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, Saratoga Arts has awarded $1,243,800 to local organizations and artists since 1991. All awards go to organizations and artists who are organizing community-enhancing and life-enriching arts programs. This year, some recipients include the annual storytelling series coordinated by the Friends of Schoharie Crossing on a portion of the Old “Clinton’s Ditch” Erie Canal, “Not Just for Kids Storytelling,” and Clifton Park’s Not So Common Player’s diner theater production of The Women in My Life.
The grant awardees coordinate free or low-cost public arts events that reach around 37,000 people, including audience members and around 800 members of the local performance and arts community.
An awards ceremony celebrating all the recipients will be held on April 6, 2017 at Saratoga Arts from 6-7 p.m. The public is invited to attend and asked to RSVP at www.saratoga-arts.org.
2017 Recipients of the Saratoga Arts Community Arts Grants
Fulton and Montgomery Counties:
$2,500 – Wanda Burch
Fultonville NY
Home Voices: The American Civil War Experience Through Words and Music
$3,000 – Linda Biggers
Broadalbin NY
Pillars of Character Mosaic Quilt
$5,000 – Amsterdam Waterfront Foundation
Amsterdam NY
2017 Riverlink Series
$4,900 – Colonial Little Theater
Johnstown NY
2017 Theater Series
$3,950 – Friends of Schoharie Crossing
Fort Hunter NY
Not Just for Kids Storytelling Series
$4,500 – Glen Conservancy
Fultonville NY
Glen Conservancy Community Concert Series
$4,525 – Gloversville BID
Gloversville NY
Chamber Music at the Chamber
$3,041 – Kanatsiohareke, Inc.
Fonda NY
Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community Artist Workshop Series
$5,000 – Lexington Foundation
Johnstown NY
Fulton-Montgomery County Art Show and Statewide Summer Show
$4,334 – Mohawk Valley Chorus
Amsterdam NY
A Ceremony of Carols, Pops Concert, Faure’s Requiem
$2,900 – Music on Mainstreet
Canajoharie NY
Music on Mainstreet Summer Concert Series 2017
$4,900 – Sacandaga Valley Arts Network
Northville NY
Sacandaga Live: A Celebration of Music in 2017
$1,850 – Village of St. Johnsville
St. Johnsville NY
Concerts in the Park
Saratoga County:
$5,000 – Arts District on Beekman Street
Saratoga Springs NY
5th Annual Beekman Street Art Fair
$3,140 – Clifton Park-Halfmoon Library
Clifton Park NY
Roaring 20s Lawn Party and Poetry Workshop & Jazz Age Poetry Slam
$5,000 – Corinth Theatre Guild
Corinth NY
Summer Theatre Workshop 2017
$5,000 – Creative Place International
Saratoga Springs NY
American Soup and The Golden Phoenix
$1,090 – Dorothy Nolan Home School Association
Saratoga Springs NY
Fables and Folktales in Colonial Times
$2,150 – Jill Fishon-Kovachick
Schuylerville NY
Atmospheric Effects – Ceramic Firings with Jill Fishon-Kovachick at Saratoga Springs High School
$3,500 – Friends of Saratoga Battlefield
Stillwater NY
Exploring Diverse and Timeless Connections to the Battles of Saratoga through Arts, Living History, Music, and Cultural Education
$3,500 – Friends of Saratoga Library
Saratoga Springs NY
DON’T WAIT to UnMake a Bully Film residency with Mr. Mike
$3,000 – Not So Common Players
Clifton Park NY
The Women in My Life
$2,500 – Patricia Nugent
Hadley NY
Before They Were Our Mothers: Stories About Women Born Before Rosie the Riveter
$2,500 – Saratoga Arts Fest
Saratoga Springs NY
Arts Fest Friday, “Art in Motion, LIVE”
$1,895 – Saratoga Choral Festival
Saratoga Springs NY
Saratoga Choral Festival at the National Museum of Dance
$5,000 – Saratoga Shakespeare
Saratoga Springs NY
A Midsummer Nights Dream
$2,325 – Schuylerville Public Library
Schuylerville NY
Arts Under the Stars and Saturday Storytellers
$1,800 – Kendra Schieber
Corinth NY
Signs By Hand-Corinth Celebrates 200 Years
$1,090 – Dorothy Nolan Home School Association
Saratoga Springs NY
Fables and Folktales in Colonial Times
