CNY arts organizations to receive National Endowment for the Arts funding

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded funding to arts organizations in Onondaga, Oneida, and St. Lawrence counties.

The NEA awarded a total of more than $712,000 to arts nonprofits across New York, the office of U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D–N.Y.) announced on Wednesday.

In Onondaga County, CNY Arts, Inc. will use a grant of $35,000; and the Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation and Light Work Visual Studios will each use $10,000 awards, according to the news release.

In addition, the NEA awarded Sculpture Space, Inc. in Utica a $15,000 grant, and Traditional Arts in Upstate New York in St. Lawrence County a grant worth $20,000.

Organizations will use the funding to support residencies for artists, exhibitions, professional development, and public engagement and outreach.

“It is extremely gratifying to receive an NEA Challenge America grant for programming in Syracuse’s urban neighborhoods, among the poorest in the country,” Larry Luttinger, executive director of CNY Jazz Arts Foundation, said in Gillibrand’s news release. “Jazz in the City provides a mobile platform that brings much cultural and economic benefit to neighborhood residents, group homes, small business, minority vendors, talented youth at risk, and social-service organizations.”

Established in 1965, the NEA says it uses partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector to support arts learning and extends its work to “promote equal access to the arts in every community across America.”

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