Press release:
The Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council is pleased to announce the Decentralization Regrant recipients for 2013 in Genesee and Orleans Counties, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts. This year GO ART! received 26 applications to the Reach Grant Program requesting a total of $69,541. With $37,300 available, 24 of the applicants were awarded grants.
GO ART! Also awarded two Ripple Grants* ($2,500 each- listed below) to provide funding for the creation of new work by local individual artists who wish to involve the community in their creative process.
2013 brought a new grant opportunity to the community through GO ART! called the Arts Education Grant. This category awards funding to individual artists or cultural organizations that wish to work with students within a public school setting. Artists are awarded funds to enable them to set up a brief residency within the school in order to offer a new experience to the students that they would not typically have in the school setting. Three grants of $2,000 each were awarded in this category.
History of the Grant Program:
The Decentralization Regrant Program (known locally as Reach and Ripple) was first developed in 1977 by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) in response to a mandate by the New York State Legislature to encourage greater participation in the state’s cultural funding at the local level. Local decision-making is the basic principle of the Decentralization Regrant Program in supporting a wide range of community- based professional and avocational arts programs in diverse communities throughout the state, and in helping to support the work of individual artists. GO ART! is proud to administer the NYSCA Decentralization Regrant Program in Genesee and Orleans Counties.
The grant process begins in the summer with grant workshops held throughout Genesee and Orleans Counties. Individuals, non-profit organizations and local government agencies are encouraged to submit applications in the fall for community- minded artistic and cultural programs. These proposals are reviewed by a separate panel for each grant category, made up of artists, community leaders and educators from the two counties. The panel then submits funding recommendations to the GO ART! Board of Directors for approval. Through the Decentralization Regrant Program, GO ART!, NYSCA, and the New York State Legislature hope to expand, upgrade and increase arts and cultural programming in Genesee and Orleans counties. In order to publically recognize and congratulate the 2013 grant recipients, a Grant Awards Ceremony is scheduled for May 17, 2013.
For a complete list of winners, click here (PDF)
