Service: Performances
- Adirondack Center for Writing Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, St. Lawrence, Warren Counties
- The Adirondack Center for Writing (ACW) is a resource and educational organization providing support to writers and enhancing literary activity and communication in the Adirondacks. ACW benefits both emerging and established writers as well as develops literary audiences by encouraging partnerships among exisiting regional organizations to promote diverse programs.
- Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
- A.R.T./New York is the service organization for the nation's largest, most culturally diverse and most artistically influential theatre community: Off Broadway. We were founded in 1972 by 49 Off Off Broadway companies to serve and promote this important new industry and we have upheld this mission by identifying and responding to the immediate and long-term issues affecting our membership. Services include cash grants, low-interest loans, low-cost office and rehearsal space, and technical assistance to theatres in all five boroughs. In recent years we have given particular emphasis to improving the cultural life and economic conditions of the City’s low-and moderate-income neighborhoods. A.R.T./New York’s membership is growing rapidly -- we now have a total membership of 425 not-for-profit theatres.
- Allied Productions Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
- Allied Productions was founded in 1981 as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit arts organization to support and foster individuals, groups and organizations active in all areas of the arts. It is a multipurpose entity run by artists for artists that presents, produces and sponsors. Since its incorporation it has provided services and support to individuals, groups and organizations actively involved in the production of visual, performing and media arts. Allied has a proven track record for effective management. Allied's contacts and resource lists are a vital reference for locating funding sources, materials and production space. In New York City, as a pivotal site, our projects intersect with three programs: Improvement of quality of life in disadvantaged neighborhoods, enhancing of public space and community life, and the fostering of an environment conducive to the artistic and creative process.
- American Symphony Orchestra League All Counties
- The mission of the American Symphony Orchestra League is to provide leadership and service to American orchestras while communicating to the American public the value and importance of orchestras and the music they perform. Founded in 1942, the league serves more than 900 member symphony, chamber, youth, and university orchestras of all sizes, and supports a network of thousands of musicians, conductors, managers, board members, volunteers, staff members and business partners. Within New York State, the league currently provides service to 64 orchestras, 63 business members, 15 libraries, 11 non-profit organizations, 3 placement centers and 314 individual members.
- AMERINDA (American Indian Artists) All Counties
- American Indian Artists (AMERINDA) works to empower Native Americans, break down barriers, and foster intercultural understanding and appreciation of Native culture. Through a variety of arts programs, productions, and services to artists, AMERINDA supports Native artists who embody the traditional practices and values that define Native culture. AMERINDA also promotes the indigenous perspective in the arts to a wide audience through the creation of new works in contemporary art forms-visual, literary, performing, and media arts.
- Art Resources for Teachers and Students Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
- Art Resources for Teachers and Students (ARTS) is committed to fostering cross-cultural understanding, dialogue and appreciation among the residents of the Lower East Side and throughout New York City. We do this through a wide range of in-school, after-school and research programs, as well as through our multi-culturally oriented books and audio materials. By providing direct services to the community, we not only promote, explore and sustain the traditional and contemporary cultures and art forms of both China and Latin America, but we also provide an opportunity for individual development, shared sense of community affiliation and ownership, and a great sense of ethnic pride. ARTS's work has a broad application in contemporary urban settings and could easily be replicated to support unique qualities of various neighborhoods and ethnic groups elsewhere.
- Arts & Culture for Oswego County Oswego County
- Arts and Culture for Oswego County (ACOC) is a non-profit, multi-arts service organization which exists to advocate for the arts; to provide services designed to enhance the professional development of individual artists and the programming of cultural organizations; and to develop awareness and appreciation of the arts and culture among county residents.
- Arts Center of the Capital Region Albany, Columbia, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, Washington Counties
- Providing a variety of grants to local arts organizations spread across 11 counties, the Arts Center of the Capital Region not only funds a variety of cultural events and activities, but also organizes its own in-house programs at its center in Troy.
- Arts Council for Chautauqua County Chautauqua County
- Recognizing that a community which encourages, supports and fosters the arts empowers its citizens to think, work and live creatively, the Arts Council for Chautauqua County works to provide an environment in which the arts thrive. In support of its mission, the council's first goal is to facilitate the integration of art in the community and promote art/artists and arts organizations with four foci: support for art/artists/art community; integration of arts as education; improvement and preservation of the physical environment; connection to economic and community development. The second goal of the organization is to continue to explore and model what it means to be a cultural institution in a changing environment that has a preference for cooperation rather than competition, and "servant leadership," as the ambition for its role.
- Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks Essex, Franklin Counties
- The mission of the Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks is to promote, encourage, develop and sustain cultural activities in the region; to facilitate the sharing of information; to provide technical assistance to emerging and established cultural organizations and artists; to assist the artist and the public in obtaining the resources and publicity necessary for a healthy cultural community; and to deliver cultural programs to fulfill our mission (but not compete with existing programs) in order to make the arts more central to the lives of the widest possible group of people.
