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NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS FOLK ARTS PROGRAM
The Folk Arts Program at the New York State Council on the Arts, founded
in 1985, is devoted to perpetuating New York States living cultural
heritage of folk arts and maintaining the extraordinary cultural and
stylistic diversity of New Yorks traditional arts. It provides funding
for over 70 nonprofit organizations each year. Its primary mission is to
support traditions practiced within communities. The Program also
supports programming that enables general audiences to experience
traditional arts from New York State as well as from cultures elsewhere
in the world. Funding is provided through various funding categories,
each with its own eligibility and evaluative criteria, including the
following categories open to new applicants:
- Presentation
This category includes a wide variety of activities, including concerts,
festivals, lecture/demonstrations, residencies, slide talks, and
traditional storytelling programs. Support in this category can cover
documentation costs as well as programming, interpretation, and
consultant expenses.
- Folk Arts Apprenticeships
Funding is available to enable an individual with demonstrated ability
in a folk art to study as an apprentice with a master of a traditional
folk art within the masters own community. This category is exempt from
the limitation of three funding requests per applicant.
- Exhibition
Support is provided for exhibitions that present the work of living folk
artists, explore issues in the folk arts, or interpret the traditional
culture of a community through its folk arts.
- Services to the Field
This category includes professional development workshops for the
documentation and presentation of folk arts, promotional materials and
services for folk artists and conferences, and publications that
contribute to the public understanding of a folk art.
In addition to providing funding for folk arts activities to applicants
in nonprofit organizations, the Folk Arts Program also undertakes
special initiatives, workshops, and conferences. Each year it organizes
the New York State Arts Roundtable with the Cultural Resources Council
of Syracuse and Onondaga County. At the Roundtable, participants discuss
their current work in small group discussions and participate in panels
about current issues in the field. The Program also collaborates with
the New York Folklore Society (NYFS), which administers a statewide
Mentoring and Professional Development Program for Folklife and the
Traditional Arts.
The annual deadline to register to apply to NYSCA is March 1.
Registration and application occurs on line, at www.nysca.org. For
further information, please contact:
Robert Baron
Director, Folk Arts Program
New York State Council on the Arts
175 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014
212/741-7755
800/510-0021 (toll-free from within NY State)
rbaron@nysca.org
New and continuing applicants are strongly encourages to contact the
Folk Arts Program Staff prior to submitting an application.
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