2021 Grant Recipients
This year SLC Arts administered over $61,000 in arts funding through the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Decentralization Program in St. Lawrence, Jefferson, and Lewis counties. Applicants applied for funding opportunities in three categories:
Individual Artist Grant, Arts Education Grant, and the Community Arts Grant.
Congratulations to the following 2021 grant recipients:
Individual Artist Grant
AMY SWARTELE
Project Title: Sandstoner Cylinder Murals. With design influenced by community feedback, the artist will create repeated, circular, elliptical mural paintings on 6 – 9 concrete cylinders in Sandstoner Park.
SARA LYNCH
Arts Education Grant
LYME COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
HEARTS FOR YOUTH
Community Arts Grant
BRANTINGHAM ARTS COUNCIL
YOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATER OF CLAYTON
TOWN OF MADRID
NORWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY
THOUSAND ISLANDS ART CENTER
TOWN OF LEWIS LIBRARY
CLAYTON OPERA HOUSE
MORRISTOWN GATEWAY MUSEUM
COLTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HAY MEMORIAL LIBRARY
CHIPPEWA BAY COMMUNITY CLUB
MASSENA PUBLIC LIBRARY
COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE SERIES
HEUVELTON HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
SACKETS HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY
GREATER MASSENA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Project Title: 2021 Concerts in the Park. A series of seven, family friendly, Thursday evening, outdoor concerts.
"MURRAY TRIUMPHS!" FILM PROJECT
Project Title: “Murray Triumphs!” Film Production. A production of a comedic short film titled “Murray Triumphs!” Local filmmakers will collaborate on this project and use professional production equipment to create the film that will be screened publicly at the Gouverneur Community Center.
THE YELLOW BARN CONCERT SERIES (FS: CHIPPEWA BAY COMMUNITY CLUB)
Project Title: The Yellow Barn Concert Series. A series of seven musical performances that celebrate the power of music to elevate the human spirit, open our horizons and unite us in community.
SARA E LYNCH
Project Title: Clay with Me. A series of hands-on, multidisciplinary art lessons, in which children will take an idea from concept to three-dimensional sculpture and color, while learning science through the innate properties of clay.
THE ARTS PROGRAM OF NNY
Project Title: Local Community Theater – A Christmas Carol, The Musical. A local, community theater production of A Christmas Carol.
Phone: 315.265.6860
Mailing Address:
PO Box 252 | Potsdam, NY 13676
Physical Address:
Village of Potsdam Civic Center
2 Park Street | Potsdam NY 13676