Arts Mid-Hudson Will Award Grants to 54 Projects in Hudson Valley

Arts Mid-Hudson will present grant awards totalling more than $116,000 to artists and organizations in Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster Counties.

The grants are being made in three categories: Project Grants, Individual Artist Commission, and Artist in Residence/Public School Grants. They are made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

There are 43 Project Grants that will support arts and cultural activities of non-profit groups, organizations and artists in Dutchess, Orange and Ulster counties. These include professional and community-based arts activities that benefit the general public in the areas of theater, dance, music, film, video, literature, visual arts, historical and cultural activities, and the use of libraries and museums as venues for the arts.

Artist in Residence/Public School Grants support residencies in schools for artists and/or cultural organizations. These projects include visual arts, dance and theatre among others.

There are five Individual Artist Commission Grants this year. This program supports creation of new work by an individual artist, who uses the community as context for creating the work. This year's recipients are Gwen Laster, "Black Lives Matter Suite" and Zoraida Lopez, "The Right to Dream," both in Dutchess County; Ophra Wolf, "The Dress Project" in Orange County; and Jessica Poser, "The Memory Place," and Jennifer Zackin, "Re:Seed Saugerties," in Ulster County.

The awards will be presented at a reception at The Barn at Buttermilk Falls in Milton, NY, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Friday. If you wish to attend the reception, please call 845-454-3222.