Over the past 20 years, the theaters, art galleries and dance companies of Western New York have huddled together under any number of cultural umbrellas.

Now, they may be seeing the region’s most powerful and broadly based cultural organization to date, the new Arts Services Initiative.

By Colin Dabkowski, News Arts Critic, The Buffalo News, Published:August 22, 2011, 3:18 PM

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