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8/14: Ithaca Artist Market! Audience registration with chance to win 50 raffle prizes from the artists!

Sign up and be entered into an AMAZING RAFFLE. 34th annual Ithaca Artist Market, a juried show and sale of local fine and functional art! (Image: IG @earth_tongue_studio)...  Read more

Exhibit: "Solace Among Trees"

through July 31st at the CAP Artspace...  Read more

Read our Latest ArtsLetter (sent 7/24)

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7/25: Workshop - ECHO: Creative Writing with nicole v basta

One of many free literary workshops through September. Registration Required. ...  Read more

Arts & Clean Energy Grant Awardees

Cornell Cooperative Extension's Smart Energy Choices "Arts & Clean Energy Awareness Grant" to four Tompkins County artists. ...  Read more

8/7: Greater Ithaca Art Trail Group Show - Gallery Night!

New season of Art Trail! Check out ArtTrail.com, download the brochure (or request one mailed) and come to the opening of this group exhibit! ...  Read more

8/17, 8/21 (live), 9/16 (zoom) Artist Talks!

Check out ArtTrail.com for Greater Ithaca Art Trail events and upcoming Artist Talks! ...  Read more

Announcing 2026 CAP grantees

See our Recent Awards page for 125 (!) local artists and organizations. ...  Read more

Arts Partnership Success Story

Marina Gershon's "The Escape Room"!

Totally Awesome Grantee Spotlight: Marina Gershon creates "The Escape Room."

An interdisciplinary artist, Marina Gershon (pictured) is known for her collaborative puppetry, storytelling, and immersive performance work. She lives in Freeville with fellow artists in the Dacha Project collective.

Marina received a 2026 CAP Strategic Opportunity Stipend (SOS) to develop The Escape Room, an imaginative classroom arts-education project she conceived that was launched at Freeville Elementary School this past June. 

Working alongside her fellow artist-pirates Lily Gershon, Isaac Sharp, Marietta Synodis, and Annette Spearman, a first grade classroom was transformed into an immersive world of pirates, puzzles, and discovery that blended creative problem-solving, advanced thinking skills, and teamwork

So what specifically happens inside The Escape Room?

Marina says: A mischievous troll stole my pirate treasure chest and locked it away, so I enlisted an...  Read more