Give for Greatness, the local arts philanthropy founded by then-Artvoice publisher Jamie Moses in the wake of the 2011 cultural funding crisis, has named its latest round of grantees. The grants, administered by Arts Services Initiative, will be awarded in $1,000 allotments to these 30 organizations, chosen from 83 applicants… By Colin Dabkowski, Gusto Blog (The Buffalo News) [...]
Holders of EBT cards eligible for free program As more than 20 Western New York theaters prepare for tonight’s annual Curtain Up! celebration, a Buffalo arts group is launching a program to provide free tickets to theater productions and other arts activities to poor residents. The Arts Access program, announced today by the Arts Services [...]
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, UB Center for the Arts, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Just Buffalo Literary Center and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center are among the nonprofit Buffalo arts organizations that have received funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. But Rep. Brian Higgins warned Monday that a House appropriations bill would [...]
The Arts Services Initiative announced Wednesday the completion of its 2013 decentralization grant program, which will distribute $98,700 to arts groups in Erie County. The grants are scheduled to be announced in a ceremony at 3 p.m. today in Suzuki Strings, 4 Webster St., North Tonawanda. The event includes performances from Tony-nominated actor Stephen McKinley [...]
Music and poetry filled the County Legislature chambers Monday as speakers urged lawmakers not to scale back funding for arts and cultural groups, libraries and youth programs next year. A county budget hearing that drew more than 50 speakers was dominated by members of local nonprofit organizations who asked lawmakers to keep the $5.5 million [...]
A New York State grant program for small arts organizations that has been in disarray for the past several years is getting back on track with help from a newly formed local arts agency. The New York State Council on the Arts' decentralization grant program, which hands out small grants to individual artists, educational groups [...]
Catherine Schweitzer will head a new Erie County Arts and Cultural Advisory Board that will help administer a new process for distributing county funds to arts and cultural organizations. County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz has named Schweitzer, who is executive director of the Baird Foundation, to serve as chairwoman of the new board. Ted Brinson, [...]
Theater, music, film and art are among the more than 500 events planned along Canalside and the Buffalo River For many years, the most popular events of Buffalo’s hyperactive summer culture have been held in certain expected places: It’s a given, for instance, that crowds will flock weekly to the grassy median at Elmwood Avenue [...]
Arts and cultural groups and organizations working to combat violence in the City of Buffalo will share $200,000 in grants under a spending plan approved Friday that contains only minor changes from what was proposed by Mayor Byron W. Brown. City lawmakers unanimously ratified a budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year that establishes a “cultural [...]
Earlier this evening, members of Buffalo's cultural community dominated an hour-long public hearing of Buffalo Common Council. The cultural funding advocates, responding to a city budget that includes no funding for the arts, echoed and in many cases built upon the eloquent arguments of last year's Erie County cultural funding crisis. By Colin Dabkowski, The [...]
