CAP Featured in This Week's Ithaca Times

March 17th, 2011

The March 16, 2011 issue of The Ithaca Times features a cover story on CAP and its history:

Community Arts Partnership celebrates 20 years of helping local artists

It's not easy being an artist. Whether you're a painter, sculptor, playwright, filmmaker or musician, it can be difficult to make a living practicing your craft. And if you're running an arts organization, it can be challenging to survive, much less thrive, in today's economy.

Luckily, the Community Arts Partnership (CAP) has been there to help since its foundation in 1990. Through a variety of programs and services, CAP offers resources, advocacy and funds for the county's artists and arts organizations.

"In the traditional sense, CAP is an arts council," said Brett Bossard, who came aboard as executive director three and half years ago. "What that means depends on the region, but here it means we're a service organization specifically for artists and arts organizations. We try to find funding for grant opportunities for artists and provide support for coming up with marketing or business plans and developing collaborations with other arts organizations.

"It's sort of being the connective tissue in the community," he continued. "We make sure that we're informed on what all the arts groups in town are doing, so we can see where there's overlap, where they can help each other and where there might be a gap that needs to be filled."

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