Recent Award Lists

So far, CAP has distributed $567,000 in 2025, and over 7 million since 1993.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image Captions: Top and clockwise: Leanora Mims (with nametag) at CAP ArtSpace exhibit (SOS Grant); Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers (GAP Grant); Choreography by MeeAh Caughey and Kathy Lucas (GAP Grant); Musician Josh Oxford (SOS Grant); Civic Ensemble performance (GAP Grant); Mural with CUMEP and Ithaca Murals (Artist in Community Grant); intergenerational Dryden Band & Chorus (CAP Grant); Youth from GIAC Jumpers (Arts Education Grant); (middle) puppet by LillySilly Puppets - SOS Grants); young art admirer at State of the Art Gallery (GAP Grant); Elisa Keeler in a Zoom choral workshop (Artist in Community and SOS grants); clip art for CAP's Arts Education Grant; MeeAh Coughey butoh dancer (SOS grants).

“We are thrilled to have the resources to support and uplift the many cultural offerings in our communities. Art is made better in a community of flourishing art, and flourishing art makes a better community!”  Robin Schwartz, CAP Program and Grant Director.

 

2025 Statewide Community Regrants: $213,000

"SCR" grants include our "Grants for Arts Programs" for community events, Artist in Community grant for artists' creation of new work shared with communities in a significant way, and the Arts Education grant which brings teaching artists into schools and after-schoolprograms for residencies.

SCR, a program of New York State Council on the Arts makes exemplary arts programming available to geographically, ethnically, and racially diverse segments of the State's population, and supports the continued development of local cultural resources responsive to community cultural needs.

2025 Grants for Arts Programs recipients are:

Jess Brock with Village at Ithaca: Breaking Ground Dance Troupe Performances
Ry Ferro, with CUMEP: Film Project
Yvonne Fisher: Media Performance on Aging
Tom Hoebbel: Collaborative Documentary with BIPOC Youth
Lily Hollister: Latin Dance Events
Clare Jones with Hospice: Writing Workshops
Hugo Medina: Workshops for Public Art Mural
Keyturah (Candy) Moore: Poetry Workshops
Yen Ospina: Curation of BIPOC Exhibit
Jen Pearcy-Edwards: Film, Women in Local Community
Annie Sheng: Community Art Workshops
Harry Smith, Black Hands Universal: Creation of online platform for local talent
Jesse Wright: Village at Ithaca Mural Project
Courtney Young: Musical and Workshops

2025 Arts Education Grant recipients are:

nicole v. basta, with LACS: Creative Writing Workshops
Circus Culture, with Village at Ithaca: BIPOC Youth Circus
Lee Cotman, with BJM Elementary: Screenwriting Workshops
Jacqueline Greene, with GIAC: GIAC Jumpers Exploration
Paula Kilts, with Northeast and Fall Creek Elementary: Art and Social Studies
Kerr Messner: Trumansburg Community Action Theatre
Yen Ospina with GIAC: Zine Workshop
Terry Plater with LACS: Poetry and Painting
 

2025 Strategic Opportunity Stipends - $24,000

"SOS" offers funding for Tompkins County artists so that they can take advantage of career opportunities (anywhere in the world!)

Maryam Adib, visual artist: first time Art Fair in Brooklyn
Brian Arnold, photographer: residency in Croatia
Aishvarya Arora, writer: conference attendence
Christina Barry, musiican: promo for upcoming album
Via Carpenter, visual artist: mural at Buffalo Street Books
Esther Castillo, filmmaker: documentary production costs
Pyus Chan, visual artist: craft show admittance
Lee Cotman, writer: contest fees for screenwriting script
Aria Dawn, musician: costs for new album
Jayne Demakos, musician: new venture - performance
Monica Franciscus, visual artist: scuplture installation in Ithaca
Kathleen Friedrich, visual artist: exhibition costs
Isa Goico, visual artist: solo exhibition costs
Ross Haarstad, theatre: artist website costs
Tom Hoebbel, filmmaker: screening in San Diego & Tijuana
Anna Ialeggio, multimedia: Residency at PLAYA, art & science center
Sorayya Khan, writer, invited speak at LA conference
Margaret Kops Kuveke, visual artist, marketing portfolio for promotion
Jay Leeming, storyteller, Europen tour
Sarah Lopez, visual artist: spinning wheel
George Mann, musician: first time travel to perform in UK
Elisabeth Nonas, invited speaker in New Orleans conference
Sue Perlgut, filmmaker: archive work at invite of History Center
Julian Plum, visual artist: first time solo exhibit
Michael Sampson, visual artist: entry fee for Cortland festival
Annie Sheng, visual artist: Discover Asia workshop series
Marie Sirakos, playwright: stated reading of new play
Christi Sobel, visual artist: new store/gallery
Oliver Stern, visual artist: artist residency
Elizabeth Stuelke, filmmaker: location fees for filming
Steve Stull, musician: recital recording for promotion
Jesse Wright, visual artist: MFA program support

2025 Arts and Cultural Organizational Development Grants: $330,000

ACOD grants support organizations that enhance Tompkins County’s brand as an artistic and cultural destination. ACOD grants provide general operating support to local public museums and performing/visual arts organizations.

They are administered by the Community Arts Partnership with funds from the Tompkins County Tourism Program. The program has been a cornerstone of the Tompkins County Tourism Program for nearly two decades. 

Remarks Megan Barber, Executive Director of the Community Arts Partnership, “We are so grateful that the County is able to provide this critical funding. It truly is a testament to the centrality of the arts to our flourishing community. We are all so fortunate to have so many innovative and inspiring arts and culture organizations right here in our area.”

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra
Cherry Arts
Cinemapolis
Community School of Music and Arts
CTA/Ithaca Murals
Hangar Theatre
The History Center in Tompkins County
Ithaca Children's Garden
Kitchen Theatre Company
Opera Ithaca
Paleontological Research Institution
Running to Places Theatre Company
Sciencenter
State Theatre
Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts

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2024 Statewide Community Regrants: $200,000

"SCR" grants include our "Grants for Arts Programs" for community events, Artist in Community grant for artists' creation of new work shared with communities in a significant way, and the Arts Education grant which brings teaching artists into schools and after-schoolprograms for residencies.

SCR, a program of New York State Council on the Arts makes exemplary arts programming available to geographically, ethnically, and racially diverse segments of the State's population, and supports the continued development of local cultural resources responsive to community cultural needs.

2024 Grants for Arts Programs recipients are:

Affiliated Choruses of Ithaca: Many Community Chorus Concerts
Ageless Jazz Band: Free Rural Jazz Concerts
Babalu Productions (sponsor Southside Community Center): Interactive Performance Play
Black Hands Universal: Commons Music Series
Brooktondale Community Center: Music, Dance & Performances
Cayuga Vocal Ensemble: Spring Concerts
CUMEP: Winter Student Camp Performance
Danby Community Center: Danby Concert Series
Downtown Ithaca Alliance: Commons Pop Up Performances
Dryden Band & Chorus: Intergenerational Concerts 
Dryden Recreation: Dryden and Ellis Hollow Summer Concert Series
End Abortion Stigma (Sponsor Triphammer Arts): Reproductive Justice Film Festival
eyevee (Inlet Valley Arts Center): Gallery, Readings, Performances
Freeville Fiber Festival: Performers
Greater Ithaca Activities Center: Black History Month Talent Show
Greater Ithaca Activities Center: Performers for Senior Program
Groton Library: Arts and Music Series
Groton Village: Groton Art Show
Groton Village: Summer Concert Series
Ithaca Community Orchestra: Two Concerts
Ithaca City of Asylum (sponsor Triphammer Arts): Voices of Freedom readings
Ithaca Gallery Night (sponsor Triphammer Arts): Monthly Gallery Nights Openings
Ithaca Health Alliance: Community Mural
Ithaca House (sponsored by eyevee): Sonic Materials Event Series
Ithaca is Books Festival (sponsor Tompkins County Library Foundation)
Lansing Library: Summer of Adventure Performances
Lansing Recreation: Lansing Music in the Park
Latino Civic Association: Latino Heritage Month Celebration
Lifelong: Play it Again Theatre Troupe
Lilypad Puppets: Ithaca Puppet Festival & Puppet Slam Jamboree
Little Tree Orchards (sponsor Newfield Public Library): Harvest Punch Festival
Kathy Lucas Movement (sponsor Hospicare): Dance Performances
New Roots: Rootstock Performances
Newfield Library: Family Program Series
Art of Yen Ospina (sponsor Latino Civic Association): Annual Heritage Fiesta
Savage Club: Jazz Star Series & Poetry Meets Music Series
Southworth Library: Music for All Family Programming
State of the Art Gallery: Gallery Season and Events
Story House Ithaca (sponsor Triphammer Arts): Community Storytelling Events
Tea Leaves: Ithaca Reggae Festival
Theatre Incognita (sponsor Triphammer Arts): Macbeth and Glass Menagerie Performances
Triphammer Arts: Outdoor Music and Dance Events
Ulysses Library: Summer Reading Adventures
Upstate Guitar Concerts (sponsor Lilypad Puppets) Two Guitars Concert
Village at Ithaca: Step Truth to Power Events, Film Showings
Walking on Water Productions: Winter Takes Theatre event

2024 Artist in Community Grant recipients are:

Shira Evergreen: Documentary about Firebrand Books with community showings
Vie Cycle: The Wedding Cycle, Immersive and interactive community building theatre events
Lily Gershon: Arctic animal parade puppet workshops and performances
Kaleb Hunkele: New work with risograph workshops, talks, community focus
Lushima Lumumba-Kosongo: Panel with artists of color
Molly Lunn: Runway show, with Village at Ithaca teens and young adults
Amanda Maestro-Scherer: New music documenting elder legacies at Longview with performances
Ira McKinley: Film project about the exodus of African Americans to central and western NY with interviews
Candy Moore: New work with poetry workshops
Keir Neuringer: Original music for Theatre Incognita with community talk backs
Yen Ospina: New work with curation of BIPOC group art exhibit
Terry Plater: Painting workshops and presentations around family photographs
Yamilka Portorreal: Ethnographic project with interviews and portraits of elders
Cai Quirk: "Queer Temple" portrait sessions and exhibits
Taylor Rae Tate: "The Nature of Things" interview and sculpture series on medical trauma
Courtney Young: New musical with workshop and talkback

2024 Arts Education Grant recipients are:

2024 Strategic Opportunity Stipends - First Round: $24,000

"SOS" offers funding for Tompkins County artists so that they can take advantage of career opportunities (anywhere in the world!)

Maryam Adib, visual artist: screen printer
Mara Alper, visual artist: exhibit at Gallery@South Hill
Ben Altman, visual artist: solo exhibit in Syracuse
Mara Baldwin, visual artist: tutorial workshop
Heather Bartlett, writer: travel to present at AWP Conference
nicole v. basta: writer: writing workshop series
Cyepress Brathwaite, multi discipline: website creation
Jess Brock, choreographer: dance workshop in Ghana
Sam Buggeln, theatre artist: travel to Kosovo theatre event
MeeAe Caughey, butoh dancer: dance video creation
Aidan Chambliss, visual artist: participation in art shows
Lee Cotman, writer: publishing of first poetry collection
Rachel Dickinson, writer: book research travel 
Ana Florencia, musician: recording new album
Matthew Glaysher, ceramist: Watershed Ceramic Arts residency
Sarah Hennies: exhibit support at Neighbors Gallery
Thomas Hoebbel, filmmaker: documentary film about immigration
Kaleb Hunkele, visual artist: zine design and production
McKenzie Jones, musician: album for Strange Heavy 
Sorayya Khan, writer: travel to Indonesia for book research
Sarah Lopez, visual artist: solo art exhibits
Ira Mckinley, filmmaker: Film production
Elbonee (SingTrece) McLaurin, musician: equipment for live shows
yen ospina, visual artist: Creation of work & curation of BIPOC exhibits
Sue Perlgut, filmmaker: archiving body of work with History Center
Yamilka Portorreal, visual artist: purchase of camera equipment
Cai Quirk, visual artist: tent for Queer Temple installations
Danielle Russo, performance: travel to Austria conference
Steve Ryu, musician: EP release
E. Stuelke, filmmaker: film production
Taylor Rae Tate, ceramist: purchase of pottery wheel
Amber Ward, choreographer: dance workshop in Ghana
Carl Whittaker, visual artist: travel to Tasmania events
Julia Wright, visual artist: solo exhibit Gallery at South Hill
Lisa Ann Wright, musician: EP for "Annie Ol' Thyme"
Christina Zadita, musician: video and photoshoot travel

2024 Strategic Opportunity Stipends - Second Round 1: $26,000

Holly Adams, performer: direct, write, produce podcast
Maryam Adib, visual: juried exhibit National Afro American museum
Bree Barton, author: travel to receive National Book award is Vegas
G-Quan Booker, performer: curating inaugural Ithaca Hip-Hop Festival
Aidan Chambliss, visual artist: website selling site upgrade
Jon Frankel, author: travel to Vietnam for research
Lily Gershon, puppeteer: costume support for festivals
Wendy Gherity, visual artist: purchase of equipment
Margalo Guo, visual artist: travel to FL for invited mural
Dallas Hallam and R.J. Lavine, theate: short film expenses
Jada Haynes, writer and visual artist: BIPOC window at Handwork Coop
Thomas Hoebbel, filmmaker: composer for feature length film
Rose Howard, visual artist: costuming costs for events
Travis Johns, musician: premier of work in Bangkok
Deborah Justice, musician: recording new music
Margaret Kops Kuveke, muralist: purchase of equipment
Dee Lightfull, performer, producer: event production
Samual B. Lupowitz, musician: album post production
Erika Medina, visual artist: studio equipment
Leanora E. Mims, fabric artist: speaking engagement and materials
Ehwah Moo, muralist: an Ithaca mural
Nicole-Bethany, theatre: business branding
Terry Plater, visual artist, restoration of photos for book
Alexas Janae Ramirez, weaver: show in San Antonio
Carley Robinson, theatre: new headshots
Ivan Rubenstein-Gillis, musician: album costs
Danielle Russo, performance: dance piece public presentation
Norm Scott, visual artist: solo show at Cherry Gallery
Annie Sheng, multi-media, teen workshop at Lansing Library
Vivinne Williams, visual artist: research trip to Italy

 

2024 Arts and Cultural Organizational Development Grants: $345,000

ACOD grants support organizations that enhance Tompkins County’s brand as an artistic and cultural destination. ACOD grants provide general operating support to local public museums and performing/visual arts organizations.

They are administered by the Community Arts Partnership with funds from the Tompkins County Tourism Program. The program has been a cornerstone of the Tompkins County Tourism Program for nearly two decades. 

Remarks Megan Barber, Executive Director of the Community Arts Partnership, “We are so grateful that the County is able to provide this critical funding. It truly is a testament to the centrality of the arts to our flourishing community. We are all so fortunate to have so many innovative and inspiring arts and culture organizations right here in our area.”

2023 Grants for Arts Programs recipients are:

Affiliated Choruses - VOICES: Sing for Peace concert
Ageless  Jazz Band: Concerts in Brooktondale, Danby and Newfield
Black Hands Universal: music performances and events
Brooktondale Community Center: A year of music, dance and performances
Cayuga Vocal Ensemble: "Alzheimer Stories" concert
Circus Culture: Circus Summer Tour
Community Unity Music Education Program (CUMEP):  four Winter/Spring performances
Danby Community Council: Danby concert series
Downtown Ithaca Alliance: Gallery Night events
Dryden Intergenerational Band and Chorus: concert season
Dryden (Town) Recreation Dept: summer concert season
Friends of Stewart Park: Watermusic - waterfront performances
Greater Ithaca Activities Center: Black History month talent show
Greater Ithaca Activities Center: Festival of Nations performances
Greater Ithaca Activities Center: senior event programming
Groton Public Library: arts and cultural series
Groton Village: Groton annual art exhibit
Groton Village: outdoor concert series
Guitars Upstate (Sponsor: Triphammer Arts) concert series
Ithaca Ballet: "Giselle"
Invisible Lives: (Sponsor: Triphammer Arts) spoken word and dance performances
Ithaca City of Asylum (Sponsor: Center For Transformative Action) Voices of Freedom Event
Ithaca Community Chorus: fall concert
Ithaca Community Orchestra: concert season
Ithaca Concert Band: free concert season
Ithaca Festival: Live visual art at the festival
Ithaca Underground: Naked Noise and core programming concerts
Ithaca Murals: (Sponsor: Center for Transformative Action), ReAwakening Underground Railroad mural
Lansing Library: summer and after school art programs
Lansing Parks and Rec: summer Music in the Park
Latino Civic Association: Latino Heritage Month Celebration events
Lily Pad Puppet Theatre: Ithaca Puppet Slam series
Lily Pad Puppet Theatre: Puppet Runway show
New Roots Charter School: Rootstock concert
Newfield Public Library: Stories Unite Us family programs
Savage Club: Lansing Performing Arts Center Jazz Stars concerts
Southside Community Center: Toni Morrison/Audre Lorde Birthday Performance Party, A Blues for Nina, & Dollar Dance
Southworth Library: Music & Movement / Puppet Play events
State of the Art Gallery: exhibit season
Story House Ithaca (Sponsor: Center for Transformative Action) Community Storytelling Events
Tea Leaves: Live art demos at Reggae Festival
Transpose, Queer Singers Alliance: "Roots and Branches" annual concert
Triphammer Arts: Outdoor dance and music performances
Theatre Incognita (Sponsor: Triphammer Arts): Macbeth performance
Ulysses Library: Arts programming
Village at Ithaca: "Our Seats at the Table," exhibit
Walking on Water Productions: Theatre performances

2023 Artist in Community Grant recipients are:

Holly Adams: New peformance for Kids Discover the Trail and all ICSD 5th and 6th graders
Shymeek Adams: Musical series around local BIPOC artists
Ben Altman: Land stewardship with arts initiatives
West Fox: Creation of “Reclaim the Dance Floor DJ Project
Carolyn Goelzer: performances of "A Year of Magical Thinking"
Clare Jones: Poetry workshops
Beth Miles: Theatre ArtistTheater production Heading into Night
Nia Nunn: Interdiscplinary artist poems and CUMEP workshops and performances
Sue Perlgut: Women Activist Arts Project
Cai Quirk: Re-story-ation Portrait Project and exhibit
Cyepress Brathwaite: New work at Etsy Street Market
India Sada: For reading & workshop of play, “Say Solarium”
Marietta Synodis: One women theatre show
Terrance Vann: New work and exhibit

2023 Arts Education Grant recipients are:

nicole v. basta: Creative Wriiting with IHS 10th graders
Regi Carpenter and George Jr. Republic: True Then, True Now Storytelling
Circus Culture: The Circus, with Village at Ithaca
Greater Ithaca Activities Center: GIAC Jumpers Cultural Exchange Program
Nicole-Bethany Onwuka: ReLIT Theatre program at BJM and CHE Elementary Schools
Ann Reichlin: Two programs at Caroline Elementary School: May Way for Play/Wilderness Case Study, and First Grade Puppet Workshops
Yayra Ami Tamakloe and Belle Sherman Elementary, Pan African Library Project
Shekinah Williams: BIPOC Circus for Teens

 

2023 County Funded $24,850

In addition to the contribution to the Statewide Community Regrant program above, a portion of funds from Tompkins County went to the following organizations:

Cherry Arts: dance performances and "Lavender Hill Exhibit"
Civic Ensemble: "Fertile Grounds," community based play
Civic Ensemble: Youth Forum Theatre Troupe
Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers: annual concerts
Hangar Theatre: FutureNow Wedge Series on the Commons
History Center: Community Healing Mosaic
Opera Ithaca: Festival of events
Running to Places Theatre: Annual musicals and Broadway Kids GIAC collaboration
Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts: Cayuga Arts Collective Draw-a-Thon
Wharton Museum: Silent Films under the Stars

 

2023 Specific Opportunity Stipend: $24,000

Brian Arnold, photographer: for travel to Serbia to run a workshop
nicole v. basta, poet, event producer: for publishing of a poetry manuscript, and for Two of Cups multi-performer event
Marty and Kina Cain: Garden Door Press publishes poetry book
Josh Dolan, musician: CD release for the 86ers
Johnny Dowd, musician: album release
Anne Gossen, writer: towards publishing of a historical book
Hardy Griffin, writer: travel to Greece for their book launch event
India Sada, multi-discipline: film festival submissions
Kris Haines-Sharp, writer: for editing servies for her book
Rose Howard, multi-discipline: Puppet Runway creation
Raed Howland-Bolton, musician: upcoming studio album
Clare Jones, writer and visual artist: Brooklyn Book Festival
Leanora Mims, visual artist: Leading a workshop and exhibit at Emory University
Suzanne Onodera, Art Residency at Blue Mountain Center
yen ospina, visual artist: upcoming exhibit
Jason Payton, musician, solo album
Sue Perlgut, video artist: upcoming exhibit of latest filmed project
Mickie Quinn, event producer and visual artist: Puppet Runway submission
Cai Quirk, visual artist: upcoming art exhibiit
Mercedes Redmon, visual artist: BIPOC Handwork Coop window display.
Jennifer Savran Kelly, writer: book tour
Norm Scott, visual artist: sculpture for Beyond Art event
Jim Self, dance and theatre: video dance creation/performance
Mary Shelley, visual artist: prep for upcoming exhibit at Arkel Museum
SingTrece, musician: press kit for new album
Jacklyn Smith, writer: book publication
Christine Stockwell, writer: mentorship
Jackie Swift, writer: Writers Digest workshoip
Marietta Synodis, writer: one woman play
Jessica Warner, visual artist: Vermont Studio Center Residency
Gary Weisman, moving sculpture installation
Linda Wingerter, puppeteer: Underexposed Film Festival
Melissa Zarem, visual artist: Vermont Studio Center Residency