Providing grants, programs, and services to the artists and audiences of Tompkins County for 30 years

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12/1-3 Donate / 12/5-13 CAP-a-Palooza Art Sale Extraordinaire!

Learn all about our annual fundraiser! Donate to CAP Your art you are downsizing, inherited, no longer use... ...  Read more

Announcing Four CAP Grant Opportunties!

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Dec. to Jan: Live and Zoom Grant advice workshops!

Visit our grant page to REGISTER for an awesome live or Zoom grant advice workshop by Robin. (also recorded) ...  Read more

BIPOC Exhibit through 11/29

BIPOC exhibit curated by yen ospina, "Present Conversations III"...  Read more

11/30: ArtSpace Proposals Due

ArtSpace proposals due for Feb. 26 to Feb. 27 month long exhibits (image: Minnie Jardine) ...  Read more

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Arts Partnership Success Story

Ithaca City of Asylum & Pedro X. Molina

Ithaca City of Asylum presents Voices of Freedom on Dec. 4th, featuring Pedro X. Molina.

CAP's "GAP" grant support artistic programs open to the Tompkins County general public. The New York State Council on the Arts provides these funds statewide to makes exemplary arts programming available to geographically, ethnically, and racially diverse segments of the State's population.

Ithaca City of Asylum is a long time GAP grantee. They invite the community to attend Voices of Freedom, their annual event recognizing artists who continue to create despite persecution. This year they are celebrating the publication of a graphic novel by former ICOA artist-in-residence Pedro X. Molina. Hitos de la Democracia (Milestones of Latin American Democracy), is being published in December by the United Nations Development Programme. 

This U.N. program produces an annual report about...  Read more