Recent Award Lists

CAP has distributed $588,844 in 2026, and over 8.5 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.

2026 Statewide Community Regrants: $208,844

"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.

Grants for Arts Programs (GAP) Grants: 
Affiliated Choruses of Ithaca: four community choruses: concerts 
Ageless Jazz Band: free rural jazz concerts
Brooktondale Community Center: Brooktondale Porchfest Festival
Buffalo Street Books: year-round literary events and workshops
Buffalo Street Books: Ithaca is Books Festival
Coddington Road Community Center: youth mural project
Community Unity Music Education (CUMEP): summer performances
Cypher Circle: spoken word and poetry events
Danby Community & Park: community concert series
Dryden Area Intergenerational Band & Chorus: concerts
Dryden Center for Community: fall storytelling festival
Fall Creek Brass Band (sponsor Triphammer Arts): new musical
Freeway Art Band (sponsor Triphammer Arts): women's rock music festival
Greater Ithaca Activities Center: Soul Festival
Greater Ithaca Activities Center: Black History Month talent showcase
Greater Ithaca Activities Center: senior program performances 
Groton Public Library: summer entertainment series
Hospicare: Moving Stories of Grief dance performances
Ithaca a Cappella: concert
Ithaca Book & Zine Fair
Ithaca Community Orchestra: spring and fall concerts
Ithaca Concert Band: year-round concert series
Ithaca Gallery Night: monthly First Friday events
Lansing Community Library: summer and fall arts programs
Latino Civic Association: Latinx Heritage Month Celebrations
Latino Civic Association: Spanish family storytimes 
Latino Civic Ossocation: Orozco Gallery
Lifelong: Senior Theatre Troupe
Lilypad Puppet Theater: performances
Memory-Motion-Moment (sponsor Triphammer Arts) dance performances
New Roots Charter School: Rootstock Youth Festival
Newfield Public Library: family program series
Primary Performance Group: June Dance, new choreography performances
Queer Yiddish Camp: Yiddish Folklife Cultural Series
Savage Club of Ithaca: Jazz and Poetry Series
Savage Club of Ithaca: (sponsored) memory care unit performances
Southworth Library: family arts programs
State of the Art Gallery: annual exhibit season
Theatre Incognita (sponsor Walking on Water Productions): theatre performances 
Town of Danby: for Danby Food & Drink concert series
Town of Lansing: Myers Park summer concert series
Triphammer Arts: music and dance performance series
Ulysses Philomathic Library: summer performance series
Vie Cycle: Old Greeny Fringe Festival
Village at Ithaca: Breaking Ground Steppers performances
Village of Freeville: Farmers Market performances 
Village of Groton: summer concert series
Village of Groton (sponsor): annual Groton Art Show
Walking on Water Productions: Daughters - a new musical
Walking on Water Productions (sponsor): Lilies the Musical
We Declare (sponsor Triphammer Arts): storytelling events
Winter Village Music (sponsor Triphammer Arts): concerts

Artist in Community Grants: 
Maryam Adib: creation of new work for CAP ArtSpace exhibit
GQuan Booker: community hiphop project
Crystal Calabrese: analog photography with rural land stewards
Tim Cassano: Capoeira music and movement workshops
Amanda David: cultural conscious clay immersion project
Lily Gershon: puppet workshops for community parades
Lily Hollister: family fiesta dance events
Clare Jones: Hospicare partnership - poetry retreat
Margaret Kops Kuveke: mural creation with homeschooled students
Yen Ospina: curation of BIPOC exhibit at CAP ArtSpace
Michael Rhynes: "100 Year Project" podcast and events
Annie Sheng: community member based painting project 

Art Education Grants: 
nicole v basta: Lehman Alternatives School creative writing workshops. 
Regi Carpenter: George Jr. Republic storytelling workshops
Circus Culture with Village at Ithaca: The Village Circus
Lee Cotman: Beverly J. Martin Elementary screenwriting workshops
MACRE with New Roots Charter School: filmmaking student project
Jen Pearcy-Edwards: Cayuga Heights Elementary storytelling
Little Apple Jazz Assoc. with Southside Community Center: student jazz clinics
Amy Puryear: Trumansburg Elementary SingSong music in pre-K

2026 Strategic Opportunity Stipends - $50,000

"SOS" offers funding for Tompkins County with a consistent recent record of producing art can apply for a very specific and strategic opportunity that will take their career to the next level. 

Funding for SOS comes from both a local private foundation, and the Tompkins Today and Tomorrow Fund & Maralyn W. Fleming Fund of the Community Foundation of Tompkins County.   

Holly Adams: editor and festival entry fees for podcast
Christina Alario: travel for woodworking workshop
Rocio Anica: debut album costs
Tim Ball: promotional video for celtic band
Tem Basilius: support for CAP ArtSpace exhibit
nicole v basta: hosting writing retreat in Big Sur, CA
Marika Briggs: travel for woodturning workshop
Jess Brock: business materials, headshots
Sam Buggeln: travel to Fence Network meeting in Austria
Luis Charris: video camera purchase
Amy Cohen: travel to CirkusExpo in Stockholm
Desoni Cooper: documentary production
Lee Cotman: screenwriting contest fees
Amanda David: pottery wheel 
Rachel Dickinson: artist residency in Iceland
Teagan Faran: music video costs
Sylvia Fronek: travel to Philly Fringe Festival
Marina Gershon: creation of art escape room
Lindsey Glover: solo exhibit at Ulysses Library
Robert Grant: support of CAP ArtSpace exhibit
Margalo Guo: mural mentorship in Texas
Sarah Hennies: support for Neighbors Gallery
Michael Hotchkiss: Vertical Shorts Festival
Rose Howard: creation of chap book
Shawn Bridget Hull: art installation at Ithaca Airport
Julianne Hunter: Professional Papermaking Certificate
Clare Jones: travel to poetry and science symposium in Washington
McKenzie Jones: recording/performance of Ancestors Project
Mia Jumbo: creation of art for Old Greeny Fringe Festival
Margaret Kops Kuveke: mural support equipment
Fran Markover: working with Black Lawrence Press
SingTrece McLaurin: performance & cultural exchange tour in Ghana
Kenneth McLaurin: performance & cultural exchange tour in Ghana
Laura Holmes Mielenhausen: creation of music EP
Susan Mondzak-Murphy: CD recording
Benjamin Mumford-Zisk: voice lesson
Dr. Nia Nunn: editing/recording poetry performances and workshops
Imogen Osborne: Virginia Center for Creative Arts residency
Yen Ospina: support of Orozco Gallery 
Bethany Parisi: furniture making workshop
Jen Pearcy-Edwards: Canadian Collaboration with Bounce Performance Works
Sarah Plotkin: new musical concert reading
Amy Puryear: business branding
Leeny Sack: MACRE performative art installation
Nick Scollard: printer purchase for zines
Jim Self: Jamestown Dance Festival performance and lecture
Courtney Socher: "Daughers" musical performance
Hannah Soren: northeast tour: cellist new works
Christine Stockwell: CAP ArtSpace photography exhibit 
Rachel Terwilliger: printing of comic volume 1
Paulina Velázquez Solis: installation collaboration in Switzerland
Jesse Wright: Vermont College of Fine Arts installation
Lisa Wright-Mathews: Annie Ol' Thyme album recording 
D.A. Xiolin Spires: Travel to Philcon Convention promote debut book
 

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