Happy National Arts and Humanities Month! Established more than 30 years ago by Americans for the Arts (AFTA) in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts, National Arts and Humanities Month is a coast-to-coast collective celebration and recognition of the importance of culture in America. According to AFTA, the goals [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Arts Services Initiative of Western New York has named Sugar City the winner of the 2019 Spark Award for Arts Organization of the Year. The arts collaborative was honored at the sixth annual Spark Awards on Wednesday, May 22 at Hotel Henry. “Winning the award was a big surprise for us,” said Curtis A. Guy, [...]
Artists can utilize Arts Services Initiative to be your fiscal sponsor to apply for 2020 NYS Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funding! The guidelines are posted here. Please note: In order to apply for NYSCA funding using ASI as your fiscal sponsor, there are several important steps to follow within a strict timeline. If you are interested in applying for [...]
