The Statewide Community Re-Grants Program supports artists and arts organizations that are seeking to creatively engage their communities through projects in the arts in Columbia, Greene, and Schoharie Counties.
Donor Name: CREATE Council on the Arts
State: New York
County: Columbia County (NY), Greene County (NY), Schoharie County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/15/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Information
Grants of up to $5,000 are awarded annually in three project areas: Community Projects, Individual Artist Commissions, and Arts Education projects provided through SCR program of NYSCA.
Grant Period
January – December 2024.
Types of Grants
Community Arts Project
Awarding grants of $2,500 and $5,000. These grants provide support for arts and cultural projects to community-based organizations, groups, collectives or artists. This opportunity is for both artists and organizations to contribute to the cultural enrichment of the communities and neighborhoods in which they reside and operate.
Community Project Grants are available to:
- Nonprofit Organizations legally registered in Columbia, Greene or Schoharie County
- Individuals or Collectives in partnership with a nonprofit through Fiscal Sponsorship or Community Partnership.
- Fiscal Sponsorship: If the applicant works with a Fiscal Sponsor, that organization must issue you a 1099.
- Community Partnership: If working with a Community Partner you will be issued a 1099 from CREATE.
Arts Education
In-School, After School, and Community-Based Learning for All Ages
Awarding grants of $1,500 and $3,000. The applicant of record for this program must be an individual teaching artist, collective, or a nonprofit organization in Greene, Columbia, and Schoharie Counties. Funds support arts education projects for closed groups of learners.
All AE projects must be carried out in partnership with a public school or in partnership with an existing closed group of learners such as a club, residents of a senior living facility, individuals receiving social services, or a camp.
In all AE projects, emphasis is placed on the depth and quality of the creative process through which participants learn through or about the arts. Projects must focus on the exploration of art and the artistic process.
Arts education grants are available for:
- Pre-K-12 Public School Programs
- Individual or Collective Teaching Artists in partnership with a public school in the county they reside in. For out-of-county teaching artists, they must be fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit in the same county as the public school the program will serve.
- Nonprofit Organizations legally registered in the same county as the public school they are partnering with for this program.
- Community-Based Learning Programs
- Individual or Collective Teaching Artists in partnership with a nonprofit through Fiscal Sponsorship or Community Partnership. Projects must take place in the same county as the fiscal sponsor or community partner.
- Fiscal Sponsorship: If the applicant works with a Fiscal Sponsor, that sponsor organization must issue you a 1099.
- Community Partnership: If working with a Community Partner you will be issued a 1099 from CREATE.
- Nonprofit Organizations legally registered in Columbia, Greene or Schoharie County
- Individual or Collective Teaching Artists in partnership with a nonprofit through Fiscal Sponsorship or Community Partnership. Projects must take place in the same county as the fiscal sponsor or community partner.
Individual Artists
Individual Artists Grants may be offered in the amount of $2,500. This opportunity represents a “live & work” investment in local artists residing in Columbia, Greene, or Schoharie County. It is designed to increase support for local artist-initiated activity and to highlight the role of artists as important members of the community. Individual Artist projects must include a form of community engagement, to be determined by the artist. The purpose is to impact a segment of the community, and it could take the form of a public program or engagement with community members during the creation of the artist’s work.
Artists are not expected to do both a public program and engagement with a segment of the community during the creative process. Rather, they can select the type of engagement that is appropriate for their project. Engagement through a public program may take the form of an exhibition, performance, reading, screening, workshop, or artist talk that is open to the general public.
Alternatively, artists can include community involvement in the development and creative process of the artists’ project. This can be in the form of feedback, response, interaction and/or social practice by or with community members. Some examples of this type of interaction are interviews with a segment of the community, creation of parallel work by a community group, or stories and anecdotes collected from a community group that relate to the concept or content of the project.
Artists may apply directly in this category. There isn’t a Community Partner or Fiscal Sponsor requirement in the Individual Artist category.
Individual artist grants are available to:
- Artists in all disciplines (includes visual, performing, and multimedia).
- Artists who have not been awarded an Individual Artist grant in the past 3 years.
- Artists interested in creating new work that engages with the community in some way, either through the artist’s creative process or a public presentation of work.
For more information, visit CREATE Council on the Arts.
