The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts (ALCA) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Quad-County Decentralization Grant Awards. The recipients represent artists and cultural organizations in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and Hamilton Counties.

Decentralization is a regrant program intended to help promote the arts throughout New York State. Decentralization Grants are made possible through the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

2016 Grants will be awarded to 35 community arts projects and 5 teaching artist projects as follows:

Community Arts

• 30 City: The Children’s Mural Project
• Adirondack Regional Theatre Young Director’s Series for Shrek
• Adirondack Regional Theatre for Peter Regnier’s Bravo Zulu
• Adirondack Youth Orchestra Association Spring and Fall Concerts
• Adirondack Wind Ensemble
• Appleby Foundation: Rebecca Kelly Ballet’s OnStage Dance Program
• Appleby Foundation: Tahawus Center Cultural Programming Summer Series
• CEF Library System for Stan Ransom: Developing Imagination through Storytelling
• Champlain Valley Voices: Voices of Spring
• Chateaugay Revitalization Committee for Megan Nemier-Green and the Chateaugay Theatre Camp
• Chazy Music Theatre for Bye, Bye, Birdie
• City of Plattsburgh for Adk. Dance Co.: A Midsummer Night’s Dream & an Evening of Arts
• Elizabethtown Social Center: Summer Performing Arts Series
• Essex Community Concert Series 2016
• Essex Theatre Company for Next to Normal
• Fulton Chain of Lakes Performing Arts Council, Inc.: An Evening With the Symphony
• Jay Entertainment & Music Society for Tara Mulvey and Mountain to Mountain Children’s Theatre Workshops
• Jay Entertainment & Music Society for Norte Maar and Au Sable River Valley Studio Tour
• Long Lake Calvary United Methodist Church for Long Lake Friends of Music Series
• CVW Long Lake Public Library: Journey with John Muir: Exploring the Wilderness of Our Lives
• Piano by Nature Concert Series 2016
• Saranac Lake Rotary Foundation for Helen Demong and the Northern Lights Choir Adirondack Folk Opera: Spring Concert
• Williams on Long Point: Thursday Evenings on the Lake
• Saranac Lake Rotary Foundation for Hobofest
• Ticonderoga Festival Guild Arts, Arts Trek Heritage Festival
• Ticonderoga Festival Guild Players
• Ticonderoga Heritage Museum: That’s Art
• Town of Indian Lake for Cabin Fever Players Mary Poppins
• Town of Inlet: Sunset by the Lake Concert Series
• Town of Keene: Music from the Back Porch
• Town of Long Lake: Hey Jude
• Town of Long Lake: The Joey Thomas Big Band
• Village of Malone: Art in the Park, Building Confidence through Art
• Village of Saranac Lake: Music on the Green
• Whallonsburg Grange: A Celebration of the Power of Music

Arts Education Projects

• Amy Guglielmo: Diversity through the Arts: Saranac Elementary School
• Amy Guglielmo: Modern Art Masters at Rouses Point Elementary School
• Bucky Seiden: A Vital Bridge in a Student’s Educational Journey: Ceramic Mosaic Mural with No. Clinton Central School District
• Elizabeth Lee: Patterns in Nature Photography at Westport Central School
• Saranac Lake Rotary Foundation for Glenn McClure: Adirondack Abolition: Musical Composition & History with Saranac Lake Central School District

The 2016 Decentralization Grant Award recipients will be honored at an Award Ceremony on April 30 at the Adirondack Carousel where they will have the opportunity to present their projects in an informal setting.

Decentralization Grant Coordinator Kathleen Recchia shares some insight into the event, “This is our second, four-county DEC Awards Ceremony and the first time we are taking it outside the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts. We’re so excited to be hosting the event at the Adirondack Carousel which is itself a remarkable demonstration of Adirondack artists at work. It’s great to be able to share that with artists from all over the North Country and give them all a chance to present their own projects and discuss opportunities for partnership.”

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