(Featured image is "Trailblazer of the Arts" Spark Award winner Aitina Fareed-Cooke) In 2021, a year marked by turmoil and transformation, Arts Services Inc. (ASI) had a record-breaking nine Erie and Chautauqua County artists selected to receive $10,000 each in funding from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for their Round 3 [...]
Arts Services Inc has been proudly serving the Western New York arts industry for 10 years and thanks to all of you, we're ready to take on new and exciting work to continue giving back to our community. You helped us achieve our goal of raising over $10,000 which will go directly to growing our [...]
At the beginning of 2021, we set a goal for ourselves; raise a total of $10,000 in celebration of ASI's 10 year anniversary. Thanks to the outpouring of support in our community, we're so close to being able to start 2022 with a huge win under our belts.  We're only $34 away from the big [...]
Arts Services Inc is proud to be hosting a Community Social at Community Beer Works on Thursday, December 9th from 5-8PM. We're inviting all of our friends in the WNY arts community to come out to CBW's newly renovated taproom to celebrate 10 years of ASI. Â The best part? $1 from every "Good Neighbor [...]
Facilitated by Arts Services Inc, "Creating Leaders" is a new program by APEX Leader Growth's Anthony Billoni that will select one emerging professional in the Western New York arts sector and provide them with 6-8 individual leadership coaching lessons, valued at $2,000, at no cost to the individual.* This program is ideal for arts [...]
"When it comes to the American Dream, people have mixed opinions. To some people, it represents the promising land of opportunities, modernity, social mobility, better education, and guaranteed quality of life. Yet, to some others, it’s more like a pipe dream, wherein still existed racial injustice, discrimination, police brutality, labor exploration, and so on. [...]
Follow-Up Survey for Advocacy Specific Needs Is Available Here Featured photo by Alana Adetola Arts Photography, LLC Â Â Dear friends of ASI, Â Arts Services, Inc is in the midst of a strategic planning process and we ask that you help us expand our view of needs by completing a quick survey [...]
Arts Services Inc has partnered with the Bills and Sabres Foundations to participate in WNY's inaugural Give 716 campaign, taking place July 16, 2021. Â Why give to ASI? Â During the COVID-19 shutdown, the arts industry was one of the first industries to shut down and was the last industry to reopen. ASI provides [...]
In July of 2020, local artist Cassandra Ott was chosen to create a mural at 550 Seneca Street through a proposal competition administered through ASI. Building construction and COVID delayed plans to complete the mural as scheduled but Cassi's vision has recently been completed and her work now welcomes visitors into Larkinville. This was Cassi's second [...]
It's never easy to say goodbye to someone as genuine, hardworking, and caring as Jess Trainor. But the time has come and we wish her nothing but the very best as she moves on to her next great adventure in Missouri. Jess has been instrumental in running and growing the Arts Access program at ASI. [...]
