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

through August - Greater Ithaca Art Trail Group Show

New season of Art Trail! Visit ArtTrail.com for artist portfolios, download the brochure (or request one mailed) and come to the this group exhibit OR see it virtually in 3D! ...  Read more

9/4: Gallery Night. Capoeira! Explorations of Resilience and Resistance

Join us! Exhibit up through September. ...  Read more

9/5, 9/17, 9/19: Three free literary workshops

Three more workshops! Registration Required. (Read more takes you to SpringWrites.org) ...  Read more

9/16 (zoom) Artist Talk. JOIN US!

Check out the Greater Ithaca Art Trail next Artist Talk on Zoom! (clicking takes you to ArtTrail.com) ...  Read more

9/24: Zoom Workshop: Mapping Your Artist Career

Join Kelly Olshan (former NYFA program officer) on Zoom for this great workshop. Register to get the link. ...  Read more

10/10 to 10/18: Art Trail Open Studio Weekends

SAVE THE DATES! Over 30 artists studios all over Tompkins will be open! ...  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

Read our Latest ArtsLetter (sent 7/24)

News, Opportunities, Events, a feature....  Read more

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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