If you are working full time, or have previously worked full time, at a nonprofit or government agency, you'll want to keep reading because you could be closer to full student loan forgiveness than you think. The limited PSLF waiver expires on October 31st, which allows borrowers to get credit for payments that may not have [...]
2023 Erie County Budget Advocacy Workshop In response to the release of the proposed 2023 Erie County budget, ASI Executive Director Jen Swan-Kilpatrick, with guest speaker Erie County Legislator Joseph Lorigo, will present information on next steps for successful advocacy to the Erie County arts organizations that were recommended for funding by the County [...]
At ASI, advocacy for the arts and cultural sector is an important part of what we do in service of the area’s independent artists, 500+ not for profit cultural organizations, their thousands of employees, and the hundreds of thousands who invest in the cultural sector through their attendance, service, and donations. Each election [...]
Motion Capture and Game Space This workshop will focus on the accessible and innovative uses of motion capture for the creation of immersive experiences. Motion capture allows for anyone to animate a humanoid avatar with the simple movement of their body in real-time. This allows for performative and rapid development of animations for use in [...]
Facilitated by Arts Services Inc, "Creating Leaders" is a new program by APEX Leader Growth's Anthony Billoni that will select one emerging professional in the Western New York arts sector and provide them with 6-8 individual leadership coaching lessons, valued at $2,000, at no cost to the individual.* A personal assessment using DISC Work [...]
ASI is excited to host ART/NY this coming Monday, September 19 from 5-7:00 pm for an in-person info session at ASI's office in Buffalo. Representatives from ART/NY will be here in WNY to present information about their NYSCA-ART/NY Creative Opportunity Fund theatre grant. The Creative Opportunity Fund grant provides general operating support grants of $2,000-$5,000 to small professional [...]
Ready to be rewarded for your creativity? Applications are now open for 2023 Statewide Community Regrants to fund your community arts project idea. The Statewide Community Regrants (SCR) program program supports arts and cultural programming and the creation of new artworks in Erie, Niagara, and Chautauqua counties. It is administered yearly by ASI and funded by the New [...]
The 2022-2023 season of Arts Access is here and we went around the city to showcase some of our incredible partner organizations while chatting about all things Arts Access. Whether you're signing up for the first time or if you're renewing your pass, we're so excited to have you in our Arts Access family. [...]
4220 Bailey Avenue, Amherst NY Arts Services Inc. of Western New York (ASI), on behalf of Assemblymember Karen McMahon’s Office, invites artists in all appropriate mediums (2-dimensional and 3-dimensional) from throughout Western New York to submit proposals for an outdoor public art project located at Amherst Police Department Community Policing and Training Facility in [...]
ASI is excited to introduce our newest professional development series, "From the Ground Up," which will feature workshops and trainings for newcomers in a number of exciting topics. For our first two events, we're thrilled to have our board member, Attorney Mike de Freitas, at the helm to present two workshops about starting a [...]
