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CAP was founded in 1990 to act as an advocate for the arts, serve the public by providing services and resources for county artists and arts organizations, and encourage collaboration among arts, education, business, civic and government organizations.Learn more
Published: December 12, 2011
While CAP provides a number of services, possibly the most wide-ranging are their grant programs. Since 1992, the amount of grant funds CAP has administered totals $2,450,000!
Here are our most recent grant recipients! CAP Distributed $226,128 through five
grant programs for 2012.
Funded through NYSCA, GAP grants for not-for-profit organizations make funds available throughout the County to libraries, arts organizations, towns, villages, community centers and the like for professional arts and cultural projects. Funded projects must be open to and promoted to the general public and take place in calendar year 2012.
Boricua Afro Americano Festival Artistic Programming
Cinemopolis Local Favorites film screenings
Danby Community Council Danby Concert Series
Downtown Ithaca Alliance "Art in the Heart" AND monthly Gallery Nights
Town of Dryden Dryden Band and Chorus
Greater Ithaca Activities Center Urban Art Unity Mural
Town of Groton 4th annual "Verne Morton Photography Show"
Village of Groton Housing Authority Art Show as part of Groton Old Home Days
Village of Groton Groton Summer Concert Series
Ink Shop Printmaking Center Gallery Exhibitions
Ithaca Ballet Performances
Ithaca Community Choruses Concert Series
Ithaca Community Orchestra Concert Series
Ithaca Concert Band Concert Series
Ithaca Gay Men's Choir Concert Series
Ithaca Festival Artistic Programming
Ithaca Motion Picture Project Ithaca Fantastic Film Festival
Ithaca Youth Bureau Tin Can Fantasy Factory youth theatre
Lansing Community Library Children's Programming
Multicultural Resource Center Performances at First People's Festival
Newfield Public Library Children's programming
Out Loud Chorus Chorus Concert
Running To Places Theatrical Season of teen theatre
Southside Community Center Jazz Performances at Juneteenth
Southworth Library Children's programming
Tompkins County Public Library A year of visual art exhibitions
Trumansburg Community Chorus Concert Series
Ulysses Philomathic Library Children's Programming
VOICES Multicultural Chorus Concert Series
Women's Work Concert
Funded through NYSCA, Artist in Community Grants are awarded to Tompkins County artists. The grant supports the creation of new work of artists whose interaction with communities is an integral part of their art-making.
Sally Lamb McCune, of Ithaca, composer and musician, to compose a piece for the Ithaca Community Orchestra, to be premiered in May, with an audience artist presentation. http://faculty.ithaca.edu/slambmccune/
Becky Lane, of Ithaca, filmmaker, to create a new short film and hold screenings of her work with a talkback session.www.nicegirlfilms.com
Seph Murtagh, of Ithaca, writer, to create new narrative nonfiction focusing on the lives of formerly encarcerated men. http://faculty.ithaca.edu/jmurtagh
Funded through local donations to CAP, the CAP Fellowship has five $1,000 awards for local artists. This year all five recipients are visual artists. The decisions of the panel is based mostly on the artists' work sample.
Leslie Brack, painter, www.lesliebrack.com
Steve Carver. painter, www.stevecarver-art.com
Jeremy Holmes, sculptor and installation artist, www.holmesart.com
Glen Sanders, photographer, www.gmsanders.net
Railey Jane Savage, collage artist, www.raileyjanesavage.com
Funded through NYSCA, The Arts in Education Grants are designed to assist schools in developing and implementing visual and performing arts residencies that are integrated into the core curriculum. Grants are available for teacher/teaching artist partnerships in multi-day school residencies for 2012.
DeWitt Middle School 8th graders and teaching artist Gwen Bullock will work on digital photography in which students use photography to expand their learning in their non-art classes.
Newfield Elementary 1st graders and teaching artist Richard Stearns for "Living Literature", in which students work with the artist to bring folk tales to life through music, theatre and dance.
Newfield Elementary 4th graders and the Hangar Theatre collaborate on a "Biography Project", in which the students write and then use theatre and musical techniques to dramatize their subject material.
Namaste Montessori School 1st through 3rd graders work with artist Bonnie Gale to explore the science of the willow tree, the local history of willow basket making and the creation of student willow art.
TST BOCES Exceptional Ed, Turning Point and Bridges students work with musician Jan Nigro will experience song writing focusing on school philosophy's, and performing with musician Jan Nigro in a program titled "Courageous Songwriting".
TST BOCES and Lehman Alternative Community School will work with teaching artist Lisa Tsetse on "Keesha's House: Literacy and Movement Theatre Initiative".
