New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) awards $63M to arts and culture nonprofits

Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced more than 2,400 grants totaling over $63 million to support nonprofit arts and culture organizations and individual artists through the New York State Council on the Arts. With more than $17 million previously awarded as multi-year grants, this funding round brings NYSCA’s Fiscal Year 2026 grantmaking totals to $80.9 million.

NYSCA Support for Organizations grants were awarded to to North Country organizations:

Akwesasne Library & Museum Cultural Center Inc.

Adirondack Center for Writing

Adirondack Film Society, Inc.

Adirondack Folk School Inc.

Adirondack Historical Association (Adirondack Experience – Museum on            Blue Mountain Lake)

Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts

Appleby Foundation Inc (Tahawus Center)

Appleby Foundation Inc.

Elizabethtown Social Center

Essex County Historical Society

Foothills Art Society, Inc.

Fort Ticonderoga Association

Frederic Remington Art Museum

Historic Saranac Lake

Indian Lake Theater, Inc.

Lake Placid Sinfonietta, Inc. 

Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society

North Country Childrens Museum, Inc.

Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks (Great Camp Sagamore)

Saranac Lake ArtWorks

Seagle Music Colony, Inc.

Society for Strings Inc (Meadowmount School of Music)

Songs at Mirror Lake Inc.

St Lawrence County Arts Council

The Depot Theatre, Inc.

The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (The Wild Center)

The Orchestra Association of Northern New York Inc.

Ticonderoga Arts Inc.

Tupper Arts Inc.

Upper Jay Art Center

NYSCA Support for Artist Awards:

Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts:  Aimee Baker: First Aid to the Injured:        On Brothers and Other Wounds

Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts:  Hannah Eakin: The Witch of 

     Esperance

Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts:  Jacqueline Strack: Blood Harmony

Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts:  Sarah Norris: “Nacho Ate Spiderman,”      a new play by Michelle Kholos Brooks

Lake Placid Association of Music Drama and Art (Arts Center Lake Placid): 

     Kailey Maher: Still Becoming

Pendragon, Inc.: Fernanda Douglas-Harris: Today We Celebrate Earth Day

Saranac Lake Free Library: Erin Dorney: Use Your Fingers: Scrabble Poems 

     by Erin Dorney

St Lawrence County Arts Council: Elizabeth Paige: Reimagining Icons-      

     Contemporary Feminine Allegories

St Lawrence County Arts Council:  James Bourey: Poetry of Place: An 

     Exploration of the Northern NY/Canada Borderland Counties Through    

     Persona Poems

St Lawrence County Arts Council:  Rebecca Donnelly: The First and Last 

     Dance of Miss Scarlett Letter

Traditional Arts In Upstate New York Inc. (TAUNY): Gretchen Koehler: The 

     Fiddler’s Point of View

NYSCA Targeted Opportunities Awards:

Pendragon, Inc.

The Strand Center for the Arts

Traditional Arts In Upstate New York Inc. (TAUNY)

We Are Instrumental Inc.

NYSCA Regrants and Services Awards:

Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts

St Lawrence County Arts Council

The full announcement including the complete list of grants awarded may be found HERE.

Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC) presents

LARAC’s Holiday Shop

Thru Wednesday, December 24

The holidays are here and LARAC’s Holiday Shop is the perfect place to shop handcrafted gifts for all!

The LARAC Lapham Gallery has been transformed into a holiday shopping destination with handmade gifts from over 50 regional artists and makers.

LARAC Lapham Gallery, 7 Lapham Place, Glens Falls

Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC) presents

LARAC’s Holiday Shop

Thru Wednesday, December 24

The holidays are here and LARAC’s Holiday Shop is the perfect place to shop handcrafted gifts for all!

The LARAC Lapham Gallery has been transformed into a holiday shopping destination with handmade gifts from over 50 regional artists and makers.

LARAC Lapham Gallery, 7 Lapham Place, Glens Falls

The View Arts Center presents during Adirondack Christmas on Main Street

Holiday Ornament Painting

Friday, November 28 and Saturday, November 29, 10 am – 3 pm

Bring the family to View and choose from a huge selection of beautiful ceramic ornaments to paint, made by our independent potters and staff.  Kids from 1 to 100 welcome!  Ornaments cost $5 each or 3 for $10.  Sit down and take a break from the shopping and festivities, enjoy a cup of hot cocoa and paint an ornament…or three! 

But that’s not all we have to offer!  Be sure to check out the Quilts Unlimited Exhibition, View’s Independent Potter’s Pottery Sale and our gift shop for some great gift ideas. 

Don’t miss this great kick off to the holiday season! 

More info HERE.

View Arts Center, 3273 State Route 28, Old Forge

Lower Adirondack Regional Center for History presents

Annual Festival of Trees: “Holiday Memories”

Wednesday, November 19 – Wednesday, December 31

Public reception Sunday, December 7, 1 – 3 pm

The Hancock House offers four floors of holiday decor—delightful trees, trains and display, all created by fellow townspeople, businesses and organizations in a loving tribute to holiday traditions that showcase the very best of the season.

See more details HERE.

Hancock House, 6 Moses Circle, Ticonderoga