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Community Arts Grants

The Community Grant Program assists the funding of small-scale community arts projects, under $10,000.

2025 $1,000 grants to each of the following:

Geneva Rising Arts Foundation (GRAF), Inc. for a mural in downtown Geneva. The project is a collaboration with a Hobart William Smith (HWS ) student artist and intern, an indigenous artist, an HWS faculty member, GRAF members, and the Finger Lakes Works Youth Employment Program.

Paints and Rec for a mural painting project on the Kershaw Park bathhouse, similar to the highly successful fire department mural project the arts council funded in 2024.

Friends of the Bristol Valley Playhouse Foundation Inc. for a production of "The Cayuga Canal Girls,” a story of love, loss, and friendship set in Seneca Falls, NY.

Cobblestone Arts Center for a new series celebrating cultural diversity through performances, featuring local artists rooted in global traditions- Chinese pipa, Middle Eastern Belly Dance, African Movement and Native American Song and Storytelling.

2025 $500 grants to the following:

Chamberfest Canandaigua, which has a strong program of offering free classical performances for children and seniors. The lower amount recognizes that this would be the fourth grant for this organization since the program began in 2020.

The Dove Block Project for Fifth Sundays Open Mic program, a series of four literary arts happenings with space on the microphone for songs, music, short stories and poems. 

2024 Grants

$1000 towards artists compensation for Geneva Light Opera

$1000 artists compensation and workshops for Dove Block Project, Geneva

$1000 for youth camp Main St mural painting for Canandaigua City Parks & Recreation

$1000 for exhibit support for Country Lawyer Gallery, Phelps

 

2023 Grants

$1000 for Chamber Fest Canandaigua at Cobblestone

$1000 for Bristol Valley Theatre

$1000 for Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs

$1000 for Geneva Concerts at Smith Opera House

We appreciate the generosity of our sponsors

Link to NSEG/RGE website
Link to Farash Foundation website
Link to New York Council of Nonprofits website
Link to Framing by Frank website
Link to yoga and art therapy website
Link to Schuppenhauer Law Firm website
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Contact us at:  OCAC — 55 N. Main St. Canandaigua, NY 14424 — ocartsny@gmail.com

at the Ontario County Historical Society

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Ontario County Arts Council is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization

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