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Press Release
April 28, 2015
For Immediate Release

Arts Mid-Hudson to Award Over $97,000 to 50 Projects

Throughout Dutchess, Orange and Ulster Counties

Contact: Linda Marston-Reid: 845-454-3222: info@artsmidhudson.org

Event: Date and Time:

2015 DEC Grant Award Reception Thursday, May 7th, 2015 from 4:00-6:00
pm

Location:
The Barn at Buttermilk Falls, 220 North Rd. Milton, NY 12547

Details:
Arts Mid-Hudson (formerly the Dutchess County Arts Council) will present grant awards
totaling over $97,000 to artists and organizations throughout Dutchess, Orange and Ulster
Counties. The grant awards will be made in three categories - Project Grants, Individual
Artist Commission, and Artist in Residence/Public School Grants at an open awards
reception held at The Barn at Buttermilk Falls.These awards are made possible with funds
from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the
Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and
administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

39 Community-based Project Grantswill receive funding in 2015, serving an estimated

audience of over 50,000 people. Project Grants support the arts and cultural activities of nonprofit groups, organizations and artists in Dutchess, Orange and Ulster Counties. Recipients can
be found from Rhinebeck to Beacon, Poughkeepsie to Wassaic, Warwick to Newburgh,
Shandaken to Kingston and many more. These include professional and community based arts
activities benefiting the general public in theater, dance, music, film, video, literature, visual
arts, historical and cultural activities, and the use of libraries and museums as venues for the
arts. Project grant programs are designed to serve all ages and ethnically diverse populations
from all geographic areas of all three counties.

Arts Mid-Hudson is excited to be able to include fourIndividual Artist Commission

Grantsin the 2015 Awards. This grant program supports the creation of new work by an
individual artist, which involves the community as context for creating the work. This year's
recipients include Nestor Madalengoitia, "100 Portraits of Poughkeepsie's Middle-Main" and
Karen Michel, "Stories To Go" in Dutchess County, Judy Thomas, "MATRIX" in Orange County
and Keiko Sono, "Disappearing Pond Project" in Ulster County.
Artist in Residence/Public School Grantssupport in-school residencies by artists and/or
cultural organizations, and focus on sequential, skill based knowledge. Seven projects were

approved for funding to take place during 2015. Projects include visual arts, dance and theatre
among others.

A full list of recipients for each category can be found at the bottom of the release.
Please RSVP prior to Friday, May 1st by calling: 845.454.3222

The mission of Arts Mid-Hudson is to provide vision and leadership to support thriving and
diverse arts in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Through our art partners, a diverse offering of arts and
cultural programs, many free, attract a range of age groups, and are produced across a broad
geographic area.

For more information on Arts Mid-Hudson:www.artsmidhudson.org,

visit AMH on Facebook or Tumblr, or call 845-454-3222.
2015 Project Grant Recipients
DUTCHESS COUNTY
Anderson Center for Autism - Expressive Outcomes Theater -Staatsburg/Rhinebeck
ArtCentro/Mid-Hudson Heritage Center - Art Centro Ceramics Workshop Series Poughkeepsie
ArtCentro/Mid-Hudson Heritage Center - Community Clay Day & Night Poughkeepsie
BeaconArts- Beacon 3D 2015 - Beacon
BeaconArts- Beacon Independent Film Festival - Beacon
City of Beacon - The African Drum Experience - Beacon
Grupo Folklorico de Poughkeepsie - La Guelaguetza 2015- Beacon
Hudson River Housing, Inc. - Day of the Dead Celebration 2014 - Poughkeepsie
Mid-Hudson Catskill Rural and Migrant Ministry - Breaking the Wall Poughkeepsie
Mid-Hudson Catskill Rural and Migrant Ministry - Yogis of Color - Poughkeepsie
Mount Gulian Society - James F. Brown Day: A Celebration of Freedom - Beacon
Northeast Community Council, Inc.- Art in the Market 2015 - Millerton
REAL SKILLS Network-African American Heritage - Poughkeepsie
Somos La Llave del Futuro, Inc.-Latino artists in La Voz Magazine
Tangent Theater- NEWvember new Plays Festival -Tivoli
The Wassaic Project - Art Scouts - Wassaic
Village of Red Hook - Sculpture Expo 2015 - Tivoli
Village of Tivoli - 15th Annual Tivoli Street Painting Festival- Tivoli
ORANGE COUNTY
Albert Wisner Public Library- Conversations with Anne: Growing Up in HidingWarwick
Creative Theatre Group, Inc.- Creative Theatre Mainstage Productions- Monroe
Friends of the Newburgh Free Library-Habitat for Artists- Newburgh
Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra Corp- Enriching Lives Through Music Newburgh
Greenwood Lake Public Library- Color Your World- Greenwood Lake
Newburgh Free Library- Looking Back: The Sounds of Newburgh- Newburgh
Pine Bush Area Library- Artist Salons & Clay Day Workshops- Pine Bush
Robert Skinner/Orange County Land Trust- Preserves for the People- Warwick
William Bull and Sarah Wells House Association- Art/History Trail- Campbell Hall
ULSTER COUNTY
Catskill Heritage Alliance- Shandaken Art Studio Tour- Shandaken, Boiceville &
West Shokan

Ellenville Public Library & Museum- Cultivating Community Through the ArtsEllenville
Friends of Historic Kingston- Jervis McEntee: Kingston's Hudson River School ArtistKingston
Gardiner Library- Mask-Making Workhops for Kids- Gardiner
Kingston Library- Kingston Teen Art Lab at Kingston Library- Kingston
Pine Hill Community Center- Community Shape Note Singing Schools- Pine Hill &
Phoenicia
Ritenuto Foundation, Inc.- 12th Annual Wall Street Jazz Festival-Kingston
Rosendale Theatre Collective, Inc.-Youth Puppet and Performing Arts Immersion
Week- Rosendale
Saugerties Hudson River Partnerships, Inc.- Saugerties Artists Studio TourSaugerties
The Ashokan Foundation, Inc.- 2015 Ashokan Summer Hoot- Olivebridge
Ulster Ballet Company- Festival of Dance- Kingston/Saugerties
Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Inc.- A Memorial Day Tribute to Our Troops and
Veterans- Woodstock/Stone Ridge
2015 Arts Education Projects
Bryan & Susan Shaftan Perrin - Watercolor & Watershed Part 2 - Ecosystems & Habitat
- G. W. Elementary School
Mercedes Cecilia - MultiCultural Book Family Tradition, Stories & Art - Woodstock
Primary School
Paul Ellis - The Living Newspaper - Chester Academy
Regla Llanos - M*POWER - Music in Our Lives - Poughkeepsie High School
Shawn Dell Joyce - Following in the Footsteps of Jane Colden: America's First Female
Botanists East Coldenham Elementary
Starling Productions Inc., - Writing Your PTECH Life - Hudson Valley Pathways
Academy (P-TECH) at Ulster BOCES
The Wassaic Project - Wassaic X Webutuck - Webutuck High School
2015 Individual Artist Tier Grant Recipients
Judy Thomas - "MATRIX" - Visual Arts - Newburgh
Karen Michel - "Stories To Go" - Media (film/video/radio) - Dutchess County
Keiko Sono- "Disappearing Pond Project" - Media (film/video/radio) - Bearsville/
Woodstock
Nestor Madalengoitia - "100 Portraits of Poughkeepsie's Middle-Main " - Visual Arts Poughkeepsie