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City Arts CommissionThe availability of arts, music, culture and entertainment are important forces in the economy and vitality of a city. It is the City Arts Commission’s responsibility to evaluate applications by arts and cultural groups for arts grant funding and to make recommendations for City financial support. In 2009 the City Arts Commission and the Albany Local Development Corporation awarded a total of $350,000 in grants to arts, entertainment and cultural organizations. Contact Information
Corporation Counsel
City Hall, Room 106
24 Eagle Street
Albany, NY 12207
Phone: (518) 434-5050 Criteria for Arts Grants- Each grant recipient must be a not-for-profit organization.
- each grant recipient is obligated to donate a service to the City of Albany.
- Each grant recipient will further be required to perform a service for one of the Albany City Schools. This service can be a performance, an informal talk, a lecture, demonstration or exhibit. There will be considerable flexibility as to the form the service may take.
- A year-end narrative progress report is also obligatory. It is due in our office on or before January 26, 2009. Each recipient must detail all activity from January 1, 2009 through December 19, 2009. This stipulation in the Arts Grant Agreement is a prerequisite for future funding.
2009 City Arts Grants Recipients
Organization
Albany Center Galleries |
Amount Received
$ 21,000 |
Albany Civic Theater |
7,000 |
Albany County Historical Association |
1,000 |
Albany Institute of History and Art |
53,000 |
Albany Pro Musica |
5,000 |
Albany Symphony Orchestra |
39,000 |
ArtPartners/Tsehaya & Company, Inc. |
2,800 |
Boys and Girls Club of Albany |
1,000 |
Capitol Chamber Artists |
8,000 |
Capital Repertory Theatre |
60,000 |
Classic Theater Guild, Inc. |
500 |
Confetti Stage Inc. |
500 |
Destroyer Escort Historical Museum |
1,000 |
Electronic Body Arts (eba) |
7,000 |
Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company |
1,500 |
Empire State Youth Orchestra |
1,000 |
Festival Celebration, Inc. |
500 |
Friends of Albany City Carillon |
700 |
Historic Cherry Hill (HCH) |
1,000 |
Hudson Valley Writers Guild |
500 |
Irish American Heritage Museum |
1,000 |
Lark Street Area District Management Association, Inc. |
500 |
The Mendelssohn Club |
500 |
Monday Musical Club of Albany |
250 |
Music Mobile |
8,000 |
Not Just Mime (Ko-Motion) |
1,000 |
Palace Performing Arts Center/Palace Theatre |
55,500 |
Park Playhouse |
55,000 |
Park Playhouse II |
1,500 |
Print Club of Albany |
500 |
Steamer No. 10 Theatre, Inc. |
5,000 |
Theater Voices |
1,000 |
The College of Saint Rose/Massry Center for the Arts |
1,500 |
Upstate Artists Guild |
1,500 |
WAMC Northeast Public Radio |
5,000 |
Whiskers Capital Cats |
250 |
TOTAL |
$ 350,000 | Law: City of Albany General Code Chapter 42 Part 27 Article XXXVIII Sections 42-302 to 42-305
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