A number of nonprofit organizations in Orleans and Genesee Counties were recently awarded grants for arts and cultural projects set to take place in 2016.
According to GO ART! – the Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council – Reach Grants benefit individual artists, nonprofit organizations and local government entities supporting arts and cultural programs and projects in Genesee and Orleans Counties.
Ripple Grants are available to individual artists residing in Genesee and Orleans Counties who wish to create new artistic and cultural projects within a community context and Spark Grants support new arts education projects in K-12 public school settings and are directed to cultural organizations or artists working in partnership with schools.
2016 Ripple Grant recipients include Bill McDonald of the Traveling Towpath Troubadours – a concert series along the Erie Canal. McDonald received a grant of $2,500.
2016 Reach Grant recipients include the Byron-Bergen Public Library with a grant for $2,167.30 for “Art and Music in the Community;” Gillam-Grant Community Center, $3,838.25 for “Art is EVERYWHERE;” Orleans County Cornell Cooperative Extension, $585 for the Orleans County 4-H Fair Flower Show; Orleans Renaissance Group, Inc., $3,619.73 for “An Evening with Irish Tenor, Ronan Tynan;” Tale for Three Counties Council, $2,094.73 for “A Tale for Three Counties;” and the Village of Albion, $2,509.73 for “Concerts on the Canal.”
Local artists and organizations are welcome to apply for future funding cycles. GO ART! says the 2017 grant cycle will begin in the summer of 2016 at select local libraries and the GO ART! building in Batavia.
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