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 [...]
We are excited to announce our 2021 DEC grant recipients! This year, we have awarded $122,500 in New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Decentralization (DEC) grants to individual artists and arts organizations in Erie and Niagara counties for the production of 46 arts projects in 2021. The projects span nearly every artistic discipline, [...]
We are very excited to announce the 2020 recipients of New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Decentralization (DEC) Grants! This year, we will award $122,500 to artists and arts organizations for the production of 41 art projects in Erie and Niagara Counties. The projects span nearly every discipline of art, including concerts, theater [...]
(Photo by Tiffany Rohrback of the "Art Moves Me" program at the Burchfield Penney, a DEC Funded program) Congratulations to this years' DEC grantees! The DEC Grant is funded by the New York State Council on the Arts and given out locally by Arts Services Initiative of WNY. Forty-eight organizations and artists in Erie and Niagara [...]
These grants are intended to support arts and cultural programming and the creation of artworks in Erie and Niagara Counties. Administered by Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, Inc. (ASI) and funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). New this year: We now accept applications through a new, online grants [...]
New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program source of funds Arts Services Initiative of Western New York (ASI), in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Decentralization (DEC) grant programs. Fifty-five organizations and artists in Erie and Niagara Counties will [...]
Buffalo, NY – More public art will soon be headed to Bailey Avenue thanks to a $2,000 grant from the Arts Service Initiative of Western New York awarded to the University District Community Development Association (UDCDA). The grant will help continue the work started in Fall of 2014 with a project called Bailey Fights Blight. The project, spearheaded by [...]
20 percent more funding available, no CDP requirement for 2016 Arts Services Initiative of Western New York has announced the application process for New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization regrants in Erie and Niagara counties, with a 20 percent increase in overall funding available and no cultural data project requirement. All new applicants [...]
Make a piece at Artpark's Free Family Saturdays this weekend Niagara County artist Karen Sirgey will be implementing her community art installation at Artpark this August. She will explore the theme of "Contribution" by inviting the public to participate in the creation of her large-scale sculpture. This Saturday, July 25, Sirgey welcomes the community to [...]
