Recent Award Lists

So far, CAP has distributed $567,000 in 2025, 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.

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