Arts Council to Award $28,000 in Grants
Community Arts Grants program will support 13 projects

Matthew Baier and Sue Barrasi receive Individual Artist Grants

Click HERE to see a list of grant recipients and descriptions of their funded projects. 

The Arts Council of Rockland (ACOR) will award thirteen Community Arts Grants (CAG) to eleven Rockland County organizations as part of the 2012 Decentralization Re-grant Program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). The recipients, local non-profit organizations offering cultural and artistic programs or sponsoring local individual artists, will be awarded a total of $23,000. In addition, ACOR will award two grants of $2,500 each to professional musician/composer, Matthew Baier and painter, Sue Barrasi, as part of the Individual Artist Grant program, also funded by NYSCA.

A panel of professional artists and community leaders recruited by the Arts Council reviewed the grant requests. Priority for funding was given to applicants offering high quality artistic programs that would reach artistically under-served populations within the County. Projects funded through the Individual Artist Grants program will actively engage the community in the creation of new works of art.

Grants will be given out an Awards Breakfast to be held on Thursday, March 8, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. at the Arts Council of Rockland’s Spring Valley office. Recipients of the 2012 grants will speak briefly about their funded projects. The Breakfast is free and open to the public to attend. Reservations can be made by calling (845-426-3660) or by E-Mail. 

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