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

 The Community Arts Partnership is thrilled to support artists like Annie Sheng through our Artist in Community Grant (AICG). The AICG grant is a program of New York State Council on the Arts "Statewide Community Regrants," and gives Tompkins County artists the opportunity to share their work in an immersive way with a local community of their choosing. It is through grants like this that CAP is able to keep Ithaca’s vibrant art scene alive.

Annie Sheng is a visual artist, martial artist, and speculative fiction writer. Her visual art includes acrylic painting, watercolor, and sumi ink on canvas or watercolor paper. She also works in ceramics and mixed media. Her work is speculative and narrative in nature and draws from her identity as a person of Asian heritage and her...  Read more