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CAP was founded in 1990 to act as an advocate for the arts, serve the public by providing services and resources for county artists and arts organizations, and encourage collaboration among arts, education, business, civic and government organizations.Learn more
Published: July 7, 2010
While CAP provides a number of services, possibly the most wide-ranging are their grant programs. Since 1992, the amount of grant funds CAP has awarded totals $1,082,840.0!
Here are our most recent grant recipients!
were distributed to 31 Tompkins County not-for-profit agencies for 36 projects that encompassed theatre performances, music concerts, children's programming, dance performances, poetry readings and visual art exhibitions. Grant awards ranged from $375 to $2,500, totaling $40,500.
Ballet Guild
Giselle" at State Theatre
www.ithacaballet.org
Center for Transformative Action
Sponsor for Vitamin L free President's Day Concert
www.vitaminL.org
Danby Community Council
Year round Danby Concert Series
Downtown Ithaca Alliance
"Art in the Heart" AND monthly Gallery Nights
www.downtownithaca.com
www.gallerynightithaca.com
Town of Dryden
Dryden Band and Chorus
www.dryden.ny.us
First Congregational Church
Sponsor Ithaca Shakespeare Company performances
www.ithacashakespeare.org
Groton Public Library
Children's arts programs
www.grotonpubliclibrary.org
Town of Groton
Photography Exhibit
Village of Groton Housing Authority
Art Show as part of Groton Old Home Days
Village of Groton
Groton Summer Concert Series
Ink Shop Printmaking Center
Year round gallery Exhibitions
www.ink-shop.org
Ithaca Community Choruses Classic Concert Seasons
Ithaca Community Choruses VOICES Multicultural Chorus concerts
Ithaca Com munity Choruses Gay Men's Choir Concert Series
www.ithacacommunitychoruses.org
Ithaca Community Orchestra
Concert Series
www.cayennaponchione.org/ICO
Ithaca Concert Band
Concert Series & Adopt-A-Band Concert
www.ithacaconcertband.org
Ithaca Festival
Support for artists stipends
www.ithacafestival.org
Ithaca Youth Bureau
Tin Can Fantasy Factory youth theatre
www.ithacayouthbureau.org
Lansing, Town
East Shore Festival of the Arts
Latino Civic Association
Latino Heritage Month Celebrations
www.latinocivicassociationtc.org
Multicultural Resource Center
Performances at Tutelo Native American Festival
www.multicultural-resource.org
Multicultural Resource Center
Sponsor of Theatre Ingognita performances
www.theatreincognita.org
Music's Recreation
Casual Classics concert series
www.musrec.org
Music's Recreation
Sponsor for Women's Work concerts
Newfield Public Library
Children's programming
www.flls.org/newfield
Running To Places
Theatrical Season of teen theatre
www.runningtoplaces.org
Southside Community Center
Ithaca Pan African Festival and music at Juneteenth
www.sscc-ithaca.org
Southworth Library
Children's arts programming
www.southworthlibrary.org
State of the Art Gallery Exhibit season
www.soag.org
Tompkins County Public Library
A year of visual art exhibitions
www.tcpl.org
Ulysses Philomathic Library
Children's arts programming
www.trumansburglibrary.org
Unitarian Church of Ithaca
Sponsor for Trumansburg Community Chorus
Unitarian Church of Ithaca
Sponsor for SOON Productions poetry readings
www.SOONProductions.org
were distributed to 6 artists who are creating new work and involving the general public in their art making process. A total of $7,500 was distributed.
Karen Brummund
Digital architectural public art installations
www.karenbrummund.com
Jason Livingston
Production of video based on 1970's local activist culture
www.jasontlivingston.com
Jim Self
"Dancing Green", a performance based project
Prantik Mazumder www.pbase.com/prantik/
Meredith Towsend, www.meredithtowsand.com & Luis Enrique Caicedo www.enriquecaicedo.tripod.com
Documentary of participants at Unity Studio at Southside Community Center
were distributed to Tompkins County schools and teaching artists for collaborative partnerships in the classroom. $8,700 was distributed.
BJ Martin, Cayuga Heights and Northeast pre-K students will work with teaching artist Lisa Tsetse in "D is for Dancing", a multidisciplinary literacy/creative movement initiative
www.lisatsetse.com
Dryden Elementary School 5th grade students will work with teaching artist Regina Carpenter on a project called "Animating Art: Bringing Masks to Life"
www.soaringstories.com
Dryden High School 9th to 12th grade students in ceramics classes will work with ceramic artists Eric Serritella, Momoko Takeshita Keane and Julie Crosby in a program called "The Art and Culture of Taiwan, China and Japan"www.ericserritella.com, www.momoko-clay.com www.juliecrosbypottery.com
McCormick Center students will work on a project entitled "Act it Out" with theatre artist Cynthia Henderson.
The 4th grade at Newfield Elementary School will work with the Hangar Theatre's teaching artist, Jesse Bush, on "The Biography Project" combining theatre, research and writing skills.
www.hangartheatre.org
3rd graders at Trumansburg Elementary School will work with teaching artist Nancy Kane in an "Irish Culture: Dance" project
