Western New York arts groups were awarded $100,000 in new funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grants are among 260 awards totaling $7.5 million across New York and $27.7 million awarded to support 1,126 projects nationwide. The majority of funds come through the NEA’s Art Works program, while others came through its [...]
Six arts organizations in Erie County will receive a total of more than $100,000 in grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., announce. The funding will help support artist residencies, exhibitions, professional development and public outreach. Recipients include the Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, [...]
Buffalo, NY – More public art will soon be headed to Bailey Avenue thanks to a $2,000 grant from the Arts Service Initiative of Western New York awarded to the University District Community Development Association (UDCDA). The grant will help continue the work started in Fall of 2014 with a project called Bailey Fights Blight. The project, spearheaded by [...]
30 cultural organizations in 5 counties funded through program Arts Services Initiative of Western New York (ASI) announced the recipients of the 2015 "Give for Greatness" grants. Thirty grants providing general operating support in the amount of $1,000 each were awarded to cultural organizations across ASI's entire five-county service area thanks to several fundraising initiatives [...]
Give for Greatness, the local arts philanthropy founded by then-Artvoice publisher Jamie Moses in the wake of the 2011 cultural funding crisis, has named its latest round of grantees. The grants, administered by Arts Services Initiative, will be awarded in $1,000 allotments to these 30 organizations, chosen from 83 applicants… By Colin Dabkowski, Gusto Blog (The Buffalo News) [...]
Eight teams of business professionals will set aside their suits and ties in favor of guitars and microphones Saturday afternoon. It’s part of the region’s first Corporate Battle of the Bands, a fundraiser for Give for Greatness, a program of the Arts Services Initiative of Western New York (ASI). Tracey Drury, Reporter, Buffalo Business First [...]
Program features eight live bands in concert Inspired by events of its kind in other cities, the first "Battle of the Corporate Bands" in Buffalo will feature corporate sponsors and their competing bands of the most unlikely musicians - such as bankers, PR executives, accountants, lawyers, software engineers and others. The four-hour event will kick off at 2 p.m. [...]
A Buffalo nonprofit arts executive is taking a big leap with a new appointment at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. Jax Deluca has accepted a post as director of media arts at the NEA, beginning Jan. 11. It’s a significant jump from Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, which operates [...]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Most have seen scalpers in person, holding signs outside concerts or sports venues offering to sell tickets — most at a premium price. But fans of Paul McCartney found a different type of scalper when they tried to buy tickets late last month for his tour stop in Buffalo. Tickets from places [...]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) - Western New Yorkers who tried to get Paul McCartney tickets but could not now have a reason. Cyber scalpers used specialized software knows as "bots" to buy virtually every ticket. It happened so fast, Congress is now taking action. The tickets for the highly hyped show at First Niagara Center sold [...]
