Our new address:

Arts in Orange
15 Main St
Pine Bush, NY  12566

Mailing address:

P.O. Box 1145
Pine Bush, NY 12566

Stop by and say hello if you are in the area -

We had many strong applications this year! Thank you for your patience as we wait the final decsions – and best of luck to all applicants.

NYSCA loses $384,000 from the remaining local assistance funds in the CURRENT budget.

The State Legislature passed a $2.8 billion mid year deficit reduction plan on Wednesday.

The Governor, however, says the gap is more than $3.2 billion, indicating that the Legislature fell far short of addressing the full deficit, while the Comptroller DiNapoli estimates the gap at $4 billion. And conventional wisdom says that in a few months the gap will be even bigger…perhaps $6 to $9 billion.

In addition, the Governor is threatening to delay payments to schools, hospitals and municipalities to ensure that the State does not run out of money. Remember this is all about the CURRENT 2009-2010 budget. The Governor will be presenting his budget for 2010-11 in about a month. So prepare for a very, very tough 2010-11 budget fight for the State Arts Council!

Please see their web site for more information about what’s happening with the state and the arts, and join them on their Arts Day in Albany, 2 February.

From their announcement:

In Fiscal Year 2011 (calendar year 2010), we will implement a series of changes to NYSCA’s annual application calendar in an effort to further improve our grantmaking process and better serve New York’s cultural community. As a result, a number of important deadlines, including the close of registration, will now shift to earlier points in the calendar year. Given these changes, it is tremendously important that you take careful note of NYSCA’s FY11 calendar, provided below. Please pay particular attention to NYSCA’s registration deadline (January 22, 2010) and first application deadline (February 17, 2010).

NYSCA CALENDAR – FISCAL YEAR 2011

• December 15, 2009 – FY11 Application Guidelines Available
• January 4, 2010 – Registration Opens
• January 22, 2010 – Registration Closes
• February 17, 2010 1st – Application Deadline
• February 17, 2010 – CDP Data Profile Completion Deadline (optional)
• April 12, 2010 – 2nd Application Deadline

Government loves their acronyms and terminology;  the grants are known as ACGs (Arts Community Grants) and funding comes from the DEC  – for Decentralization Program.  Decentralized as in Albany doesn’t make the decision on who receives a grant, but each county gets to form their own group of local citizens to determine who in their community should be awarded.

We’ve already posted our schedule of workshops to help you apply for the grants, (you can read the original post here).  BUT there are only two more opportunities to meet us, so please join us at either of these meetings and hear what we have to say -

Maybe you aren’t feeling very worthy, and surely not everyone gets grant money, even if you have a fantastic reason to.  But don’t be discouraged.  We want to meet you.  We want to help you.  And if this isn’t your year, let’s start a conversation so you WILL have a year soon.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 6pm; Arts in Orange Office, Playtogs Plaza, Middletown NY
Saturday, September 12, 2009 1:30pm; Baby Grand Books, 7 West Street, Warwick

CALL US 845.956.0005 EMAIL us or just show up!

Grant money, through funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, is available for all art disciplines in Orange County through the Arts Community Grants program administered by Arts in Orange.

Grant awards up to $5,000 are available to not-for-profit arts and cultural organizations, as well as individual artists applying through a not-for-profit conduit or sponsor.

These grants will help support arts and cultural projects in Orange County during 2010 and are available for artist fees. The arts and cultural projects must be open to the public and presented in the county from January 1 through December 31.

To discuss project ideas or guidelines, eligibility, procedures and the application process, call the Arts in Orange office, 845.956.0005 or e-mail Suzanne Schubert, at info@artsinorange.org for more information.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the New York State Cultural Data Project (New York State CDP), a powerful management tool for arts and cultural organizations. This unique system will, at no cost, allow arts managers and artistic leaders to understand and analyze their organization’s financial performance through easy-to-run reports. By participating in the New York State CDP, you will be part of a successful and growing project that will allow researchers and the arts community as a whole to better articulate and provide evidence for the sector’s assets and needs, as well as its contributions to the state and the country. By completing the online form annually, you will also be able to generate reports to be submitted to grantmakers with the click of a button.

After four years of planning, the CDP was first launched in Pennsylvania in 2004 and has grown to include Maryland, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York.

The CDP will provide nonprofit arts and cultural organizations with the best tools to easily track trends in performance and benchmark against others. Organizations can quickly and effortlessly produce reports that will help them make their case for support to funders, board members and policymakers. After entering historical financial and operational data into a standardized online form at the end of each fiscal year, organizations can rely on technology to reformat the data to match the needs of different funders. The report needed as one part of the grant application process to participating funders can be generated instantly, greatly reducing the time required to provide the same information to multiple funders.

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There will be a regional workshop in September showcasing this system, when we have more information of course we will post it.

NYSCA has been awarded $399,900 by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to administer American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds in New York State.

These funds are to be used exclusively for the preservation of specific positions that are threatened due to the economic downturn.

Given that the funds available are limited, NYSCA will target the funding to support cultural organizations with service and support-oriented positions-at-risk that serve a broad range of artists and cultural organizations. By preserving jobs that are service and support-oriented, NYSCA will touch the maximum number of artists and arts organizations possible.

The application and guidelines for NYSCA’s Economic Recovery program are now available at www.nysca.org.

Diane Loomis- Tuxedo Park Library; Ann Whipple- Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra; Pat Lewis- Newburgh Free Library; Mary Beth Anderson- Orange County Ballet Theatre; Suzanne Schubert Arts in Orange, Aquanetta Wright- Newburgh Jazz Series; Paul Ellis- Air Pirates Radio Theater

Date: Monday, April 6
Time: 10:30 am
Location: The Ritz Theater Lobby
111 Broadway, Newburgh

Arts in Orange (AiO) is pleased to announce the 2009 Arts Community Grants award recipients. Arts Community Grants fosters locally based arts activities, assists emerging arts organizations, supports the cultural expression of ethnic groups in Orange County, and provides cultural programs to underserved communities. These arts and cultural project awards, made available each year to not-for-profit arts and cultural organizations as well as individual artists through a not-for-profit conduit or sponsor, must be open to the public and presented in Orange County. The grants are made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program (DEC) of the New York State Council on the Arts.

Arts Community Grants 2009 Award Recipients Include: Eugene Bove’, Charles Graham & Associates, Creative Theatre Group, Inc., Elant, Inc., Paul Ellis, Ferry Godmother Productions, Inc., George Hayes, Goshen Chamber of Commerce, Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, Kofi and Sankofa, Newburgh Free Library, Orange County Ballet Theatre Group, The Palisades Parks Conservatory, ReadNex Poetry Squad, The Ritz Theater – Newburgh, Inc., Tuxedo Public Library, Wallkill River School.

For a complete listing and schedule of funded events, visit artsinorange.org.

AiO administers grants funded through NYSCA.

I hope you will consider contacting me or checking out on our website if you are interested in the details of the grants.

The website is: www.artsinorange.org

I also wanted to invite you to post your upcoming events on our calendar.

AiO have a website that I wanted to invite you to post your events that are Arts related on our calendar.

It is Free and is specifically for Orange County audience and artists.

It is not necessary to log in.

All you need to do is:

• click on “Calendar” on the left margin
• scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Add New Entry”
• either “Cut and Paste” from your existing PR info, or enter your information, including “Location:xxxx   Admission:xxxx   For more information:xxxx”
• make sure you adjust the date
• choose timed event if applicable
• save on the left bottom.

If you encounter a ”Scheduling Conflict” message, simply hit the “Save” option to over-ride.

Your posting will not show immediately.  Everything is placed in a pending file, to ensure all postings are arts related and not vulgar.

It should show in a day- so please check.

If you have any questions or concerns- please call me and I will be happy to walk you through it!

845.956.0005

We do offer other services as well, so check out the webpage while you are there.

Hope to hear from you and see your events soon!