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2008 DEC Grant Awardees

The Decentralization program granted out $55,000 in Organizational Programming Grants and $6,500 in 2008. DEC enables emerging organizations to grow professionally and to enhance the cultural climate in the communities and neighborhoods where they live and operate. Funding for the 2008 DEC program was provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.

The following organizations received DEC funding in 2008:

• Amherst Symphony Orchestra Association - To support the third and fourth regularly scheduled concerts of the 2007-2008 Season
• Ballet Artists of WNY Inc. - To present the production of Romeo & Juliet
• Blossom Garden Friends School - Fabricating wire sculpture workshop, interactive storytelling session and to support the 2008 Holiday Concert
• Buffalo Contemporary Dance - To present the 2008 performances Nov. 10 – 18
• Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau Foundation - To support the Marti Gras Jam performance
• Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus - To support artist fees for YOM HaShOAH Day Concert
• Cheektowaga Community Chorus, Inc. - To present a Masterwokes performance in February 2008 and to support a weeklong Seventh Annual Music Camp
• Community Music School of Buffalo - To support the 20th year of the Community Music School Neighborhood Concerts
• Earth's Daughters: A Feminist Arts Periodical - To publish two issues of Earth Daughters for 2008
• East Buffalo Sculpture Center - To support the Gruppen Werks exhibitions
• Folkloric Production Dance Co. - To support Niagara River Ethnic Dance Fest and Folkloric Samba Fest
• Freudig Singers of Western New York - To support the March 2008 "Peace Bridge" Concert, the April 2008 "Gilbert & Sullivan" concert series and for the kick-off to it's 25th Anniversary Season with "Something Old" Concert
• Impact Artists' Gallery, Inc. - To support the 2008 Exhibition Season
• Juneteenth Festival Inc. - To support local artists to perform at the Juneteenth Festival
• Parkside Community Association - To support the Summer Arts Program
• People Inc. - To support the "Kids on the Block" performance
• Pilgrim - St. Luke's United Church of Christ - To support the artist fees for the artist workshops
• Playhouse of American Classics - To support artist fees for the 2008 theatre season
• Read & Seed Literacy Programs, Inc. - To support the "Don't Stop The Arts" media arts training program and the 2008 Annual Drama Jam Poetry Recital
• Subversive Theater Collective, Inc. - To support a two-play series "Waiting for Lefty" and "Nickel and Dimed"
• Summer Theatre Arts Group Experience - To support the Summer Musical Production
• The Village of Sloan Arts & Cultural Council - To support the 2008 Summer Concert Series and Guided Tours Exploring Western New York
• Town of Boston Arts Council - To support the 18th Annual Summer Concert Series
• Town of Brant - To support the Summer Concert Series
• Town of Collins Public Library - To present Music in the Library…A concert Series and "It's a surprise" Children Arts Workshops
• Town of Elma - To support the 2008 Concerts on the Green Series
• Town of North Collins - For summer concerts, quilting classes, art workshops, community choir
• Triveni Inc. - To support the 2008 performance series
• Village of Blasdell - 2008 Summer Concert Series and 2008 Freedom Fest
• Village of Hamburg - To present the 2008 Summer Concert Series for Hamburg
• West Side Community Services/MCC&DC - To support dance and instrumental music instruction
• Youth Orchestra Foundation of Buffalo, Inc. - To support the artist fees for the artistic director

2008 KEY Grant Awardees

Since 1997 KeyBank has partnered with the Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County to encourage participation in local arts and culture by means of the KeyArts regrant program. In an enhanced effort to help arts groups develop new sources of revenues or increase an existing base of earned income, KeyBank has retooled the program guidelines beginning in 2001 to focus on sales and marketing opportunities. This new approach reflects KeyBank’s continued commitment to promote live interaction with the arts while encouraging economic rewards for arts and cultural organizations.

The KeyARTS program granted out $1,875 to the following arts organizations:

• Arts Council for Chautauqua County, Inc. - To launch and promote the 1st annual artist studio tour
• Colored Musicians Club - To support the implementation of a marketing and promotion strategy
• East Buffalo Sculpture Center Inc. - To develop a brochure to aid in branding and promotion
• Explore & More… a children's museum - To market the 2008 Preschool Fun Program
• Impact Artists' Gallery, Inc. - To develop a new website that addresses the gallery and the gallery gift shop
• New Phoenix Theatre on the Park - To create and develop joint collateral material serving both New Phoenix and Folkloric
• McClew Interpretive Center, Inc. - To promote The McClew Interpretive Center to area schools, summer programs, and social organizations through the development and distribution of collateral material
• Playhouse of American Classics (PAC) - To expand the database, strengthen programs to increase subscription sales, operate annual appeal, and send out performance reminders

The Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, Erie County, Artvoice, East Hill Foundation, Goodyear Foundation, Hahn Foundation, Hodgson Russ, LLP, HSBC, KeyBank, Knox Foundation, Lamar Advertising, M & T Bank, Progressive Direct Marketing, The Buffalo News, The Buffalo Niagara Partnership, The Summit Federal Credit Union, Rich Products, Time Warner, Univera, Verizon, WBFO FM 88.7, WIVBTV Channel 7, Zeron Foundation, artists, arts organizations, individuals, special events and membership fees.