Organizations We Fund
The Decentralization program granted out $44,000 in Organizational
Programming Grants and $6,500 in Individual Artist Project Grants in 2004.
DEC enables emerging artists and organizations to grow professionally and to
enhance the cultural climate in the communities and neighborhoods where they
live and operate. Funding for the 2004 DEC program was provided by the New
York State Council on the Arts.
The following organizations received DEC funding in 2004:
- American Guild of Organists (Buffalo Chapter)
- The Amherst Symphony Orchestra Association
- Antecesores
- Blossom Garden Friends School
- Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
- Buffalo Contemporary Dance
- Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus
- Canisius College
- Central Park United Methodist Church
- Charles E. Burchfield Nature & Arts Center
- Cheektowaga Community Chorus
- Community Music School
- Earth’s Daughters: A Feminist Literary Periodical
- Folkloric Productions Dance Company
- Friends of Vienna
- Freudig Singers of Western New York
- Greater Buffalo Youth Ballet
- Impact Artists’ Gallery
- Langston Hughes Institute
- LK Painter Community Center
- Neglia Ballet Artists
- Parkside Community Association
- Pilgrim St. Luke’s United Church of Christ – This Little Light
- Polish Cultural Foundations
- Prime Time Arts - West Side Ministries
- The Springville Players
- Theatre for Change
- Town of Boston Arts Council
- Town of Brant
- Town of Collins Public Library
- Town of Elma
- Town of Marilla
- Town of North Collins Recreation Department
- University Heights Community Development Association
- Village of Blasdell
- Village of Sloan
- West Side Community Services
- Youth Orchestra Foundation of Greater Buffalo
- Amherst Symphony Orchestra Association
- Arts in Education Institute of WNY
- Buffalo Arts Studio
- Buffalo Inner City Ballet
- CEPA Gallery
- Community Music School of Buffalo
- Explore & More... a children's museum
- Hamburg Natural History Society
- Impact Artists Gallery
- Irish Classical Theatre Company
- Juneteenth Festival
- Musicians United for Superior education (MUSE)
- Neglia Ballet Artists
- New Phoenix Theatre on the Park
- Springville Players
- Squeaky Wheel - Buffalo Media Resources
- Young Audiences of WNY
Since 1997 KeyBank has partnered with the
Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County to encourage participation in local arts
and culture by means of the KeyARTS regrant program. In light of today’s
economic climate, the KeyARTS program gives smaller cultural organizations the
means to survive by identifying additional revenue on their own behalf. The
KeyARTS program was restructured in 2002 to help arts organizations become more
economically independent. The KeyARTS program granted out $7,200 to the
following arts organizations:
2004 Arts in Education Empire State Partnership Program
Awardees
The Arts in Education Partnership Program granted out $17,500 to local arts
in education providers. The program is funded by the Arts in Education -
Empire State Partnership Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.
It allows for the development and implementation of arts in education programs
in public and private schools within Erie and Niagara Counties.
The 2004 Arts in Education Partnership Program awardees are:
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Blasdell Elementary School
Blasdell Elementary School will hold a Radio Theatre residency. Working
with teaching artists Bart Dentino and Kevin Huber, 4th grade students will
write, produce and perform a Radio Theatre play. The play will be recorded,
and each class will receive a CD of the performance.
- Crossroads Story Center, Inc.
Crossroads Story Center will sponsor the Stories for Choice and Empowerment
program in the Hopevale Residential Treatment Center. The program uses
stories of choice and empowerment to reach at-risk youth.
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Folkloric Productions Dance Company
Folkloric Productions Dance Company will bring an Around the World with
Dance and Music program to the students at Enterprise Charter School.
The program will introduce grades 4 -6 to the music and dance of Brazil
utilizing the technique work of Katherine Dunham. The students will have a
series of lessons culminating with a performance.
- Global Concepts Charter School and Explore & More...a children's museum
The Arts and Education Empire State Partnership Program grant will support
a cultural enrichment program for students at Global Concepts Charter School.
The program will focus on the cultures of Yemen and Nigeria and consist of a
Culture Day at the school, a field trip to Explore and More, a day of
artist-led projects at school and two evening events with students and family.
The Iroquois Central School District's funding will
support the continuation of the Roycroft Educational Program - Masters,
Memories and Music. The program will teach East Aurora students about
local history and the Roycroft Movement. Students will visit the
Roycroft Campus and participate in hands-on activities dealing with
printmaking, pottery, weaving, book-making and illuminating. Roycroft
artisans will then visit the school to offer additional workshops.
Students will create their own project and keep a journal about their
experiences.
The Kavinoky Theatre will bring a theater program to
third grade students at BPS
#3. The students will develop and perform a play using puppets and musical
instruments during the 8-week program led by Kavinoky Theater staff. Music
students at the school will produce an original score. The students will
present their play to family and friends at the end of the program.
Locust Street
Neighborhood Art Classes will teach painting to the fourth grade students at
Futures Academy. During the 28-week program, the students will learn about
color, composition, drawing and visual awareness.
MUSE will bring
the Leap and Learn program to kindergarten and first grade students at BPS #89. Teaching artists from MUSE will
use movement and music to reinforce lessons the children are currently
learning as part of their curriculum.
The W.H. Stevenson Elementary School will support the Rainforest Project.
Artists from the McClure Artists Guild will teach students about the
rainforest. Students will create instruments to recreate the and sounds of the
rainforest. They will compose a song that will be performed at the end of the
residency. Students will also learn African drumming and create a mural scenes
of the rainforest.
The Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County is supported by the New York State
Council on the Arts, Erie County, Artvoice, East Hill Foundation, Goodyear Foundation,
Hahn Foundation, Hodgson Russ, LLP, HSBC, KeyBank, Knox Foundation, Lamar Advertising,
M & T Bank, Progressive Direct Marketing, The Buffalo News, The Buffalo Niagara
Partnership, The Summit Federal Credit Union, Rich Products, Time Warner, Univera,
Verizon,
WBFO
FM
88.7,
WIVBTV Channel 7, Zeron Foundation, artists, arts organizations, individuals,
special
events
and
membership
fees.
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