Community Arts Grants

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

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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.

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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.