ASI's Arts Access program aims to break the barriers of inaccessibility to the region's arts and culture sector, which are often money, transportation, and knowledge of events. We partner with local theaters, galleries, and other arts and culture organizations to offer free or reduced-cost opportunities to low-income Western New York residents and their families. ASI envisions [...]
We are so excited to announce that Arts Services Initiative of Western New York (ASI) will be the benefitting organization for Calhoon Pub's fifth annual Fall Fest on Saturday, September 7. The festival will feature booze, bites, raffles, and a live music performance by Workingman’s Dead, Buffalo’s favorite Grateful Dead tribute band. All funds from [...]
View the PowerPoint from these sessions here: DEC Grant Info Session Powerpoint Join ASI Grants and Programming Director Natalie Brown next week for one of four free information sessions benefitting new and returning DEC Grant applicants. At workshops in Niagara Falls, Springville, Buffalo, and North Tonawanda, Natalie will offer grant-writing tips and best practices [...]
Arts Services Initiative of Western New York (ASI), a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization located in Buffalo, NY, is seeking a full-time individual to manage our grant-giving programs and relationships within the arts and cultural field, and to play a key role in programmatic, event, and administrative activities. ASI is the local arts council that provides tools [...]
It is with mixed feelings that we must announce the departure of Grants and Programming Director Natalie Brown. While we're sad to see her leave, our team is so proud to congratulate her on her new role as the program coordinator of Carnegie Art Center. Natalie joined ASI as an associate in April of 2016. [...]
In 2017, after the initial launch our Financial Services program offering low-cost bookkeeping and financial services to local nonprofit organizations, CEPA Gallery reached out to ASI and became our first fiscal client. Several years and reports later, we caught up with Lawrence Brose, the executive director of CEPA, to learn more about the gallery's mission [...]
ASI is excited to welcome Alana Kelley as our new Arts Access Program Coordinator. Our Arts Access program, which is in its sixth year of operation, seeks to make the arts accessible to everyone by partnering with local organizations to provide low-income members of the Western New York community with free and affordable arts and [...]
We're very excited to announce that Dorothea Braemer, Timothy Frerichs, and the Buffalo Center for Arts & Technology will receive Global Warming Art Project grants to fund three projects produced in response to the rising dangers of global warming and climate change. Our Global Warming Art Project grant program, which is in its second year [...]
Applications for New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Decentralization (DEC) grants for Erie and Niagara Counties are now open. This year’s funding categories include Community Arts, Arts Education, and Individual Artist grants, and are intended for smaller cultural organizations, non-cultural organizations with arts programming or events, arts and cultural coalitions and networks, and [...]
After eight years of serving as founding president of ASI’s Board of Directors, Randy Kramer is passing the torch to Vice President Broderick Cason. The transition marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for ASI as it evolves from budding nonprofit to established organization with both a regional and state-wide reach. “I couldn’t be [...]
