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Delaware County Arts Grants Award Ceremony

April 20, 2023 @ 4:00 pm 7:00 pm

2023 Delaware County Arts Grants

Awards Reception

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Roxbury Arts Center

5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury, NY

 

The Roxbury Arts Group congratulates the 2023 Delaware County Arts Grants awardees. The Delaware County Arts Grant program, administered by the Roxbury Arts Group, provides funding to support arts projects and programs that will take place throughout Delaware County in 2023. An Awards Reception celebrating awardees will be held at the Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Road in Roxbury, on Thursday, April 20 at 4pm. Featured awardees will highlight their projects with performances, videos, displays, and interactive activities. Refreshments will be available. This is event is free and members of the community  are invited and encouraged to attend. To RSVP, please email community@roxburyartsgroup.org or call 607.326.7908. For more information about all of the grant funded events, visit roxburyartsgroup.org.

The Delaware County Arts Grants program is a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and is administered locally in Delaware County by the Roxbury Arts Group. Awards granted for 2023 total $80,000 and will help support 20 programs including of workshops, performances, concerts, school programs, installations, exhibitions, and artistic opportunities to create new work throughout Delaware County. “The Roxbury Arts Group is grateful to the artists, organizations, and education leaders for their continuing commitment to the arts to Delaware County,” says Samantha Nick, Grants & Community Coordinator of the Roxbury Arts Group. “We are also thankful for the opportunity to award more than double our usual amount this year, and look forward to seeing the impact these projects will have in our communities.”

About the New York State Council on the Arts
NYSCA preserves and advances the arts and culture that make New York State an exceptional place to live, work and visit. The Council upholds the right of all New Yorkers to experience the vital contributions the arts make to our communities, education, economic development, and quality of life. To support the ongoing recovery of the arts across New York State, NYSCA is awarding record funding in Fiscal Year 2023, providing support across the full breadth of the arts.

NYSCA further advances New York’s creative culture by convening leaders in the field and providing organizational and professional development opportunities and informational resources. Created by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960 and continued with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Council is an agency that is part of the Executive Branch. For more information on NYSCA, please visit http://www.arts.ny.gov, and follow NYSCA’s Facebook page, Twitter @NYSCArts and Instagram @NYSCouncilontheArts.

The 2023 Delaware County Arts Grants Awardees are:

The third annual Mountain Madness performance that fuses dance, live music, poetry and scenes from Shakespeare to share an immersive, inter-disciplinary walk through the Catskill Mountains at Kirkside Park in Roxbury, paired with local, farm-to-table concessions.

Creating an abstract short film using dance, sculpture and video, Zaybra will explore the interconnectedness of all things, particularly how an individual’s life has impact on generations past and future, displaying how each one of us plays a vital role in the ecosystem of the universe.

Delaware County Pride will offer a personal essay writing workshop for LGBTQIA+ folks on Tuesday evenings at Bushel from May 2nd to June 6th 2023, 6:30 to 8:30pm and a public reading showcasing participants’ stories will be held on Saturday June 10th, 4 to 7pm.

NEON CAVIAR will offer a free performances of dance and monologue excerpts from the play “Lemons” at the Ouleout Graveyard in Franklin, NY on Saturday, May 27th at 6pm.

Dr. Deborah L. Fox will offer a free interactive workshop series during the Winter and Spring of 2023 for participants to make their own train marker discover the popular board game Mexican Train Dominoes.

Microcosm is a new, original, immersive “micro-theatre” walk at the Mutual Aid Society in Stamford. Attendees will experience a guided, outdoor walk, encountering several unique pieces of performance art along the way that work together to build a small world and tell a common story.

The newly formed Fenimore Chamber Orchestra, based in Cooperstown, will give a Sunday afternoon 25 musician classical concert in Rexmere Park in Stamford on August 27, 2023.

The Hobart Festival of Women Writers, a project of the Hobart Community Foundation, will occur in the Book Village of the Catskills on June 17, 18, 19, 2023.

Marisa Caruso working with the Stamford Village Library will lead eight sessions where students between the ages of 7 and 16 will learn theater performance and production skills to present a series of original scenes for the public.

Arts Inn in Fleischmanns will host the 2nd Annual H & R Vaudeville Variety Show, an international, multidisciplinary Festival of the Arts on Memorial Weekend.

The Monthly Mulch, an illustrated monthly zine by Hannah Deen, explores how the climate crisis affects life in Delaware County.

Rachel Condry, a local Deep Listening practitioner, presents the documentary film Deep Listening followed by a Q&A with film maker, live streaming at Bushel Arts Collective and a series of workshops.

AMR Artists will host the celebrated Open Studios Tour and Annual Exhibition to connect established and emerging artists with area art lovers and Eastern Delaware County visitors.

In May 2023, the William B. Ogden Free Library will offer a 4-part multidisciplinary art project for seniors in collaboration with teaching artist, Caryn Davies and area historical societies to be held at the library, Tuesdays from 10-2.

The Walton Theatre Parlor Gallery presents Patchwork Landscape by GG Stankiwiewicz, paintings inspired by the local nature of Delaware County, on Saturday, October 7 through Sunday, November 5, 2023, opening reception and artist talk on Saturday, October 7, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm.

Anne Elizabeth Moore presents My Inevitable Murder, a spoof of true-crime podcasts that, through interviews and research, will share online audio stories monthly in 2023 about what constitutes a life, how communities are formed, and what brings diverse people together in moments of joy.

Kaat’s Cradle Theater Series will produce a series of four theater workshop performances in the carriage house theater space located at 76 Main Street in Stamford between May and October 2023.

Page to Stage Productions will host a theater festival consisting of 12 local writers and their short plays, performed by  18 local actors in a beautiful outdoor stage on the Michael Kudish Natural History Preserve.

Jeremiah Pottery will offers complimentary ceramic classes in 6-week cycles for hand-building and wheel-throwing for all ages in Walton and vicinity.

The Hancock Community Education Foundation will offer 3 Day Workshop on Digital Book Creation with Film and Animation for After School Students at Hancock School on March 22, 23 and 24th.

More information about these events can be found at roxburyartsgroup.org, under the Opportunities tab and the Delaware County Arts Grant page.

5025 Vega Mountain Road
Roxbury, NY 12474 United States
+1.607.326.7908