The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts (ALCA) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Quad-County Decentralization Grant Awards. The recipients represent artists and cultural organizations in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and Hamilton Counties. The Arts Center awarded a total of $91,000 to the four counties served: $21,835 to Clinton, $32,980 to Essex, $16,955 to Franklin, and $19,230 to Hamilton.

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.

2017 Grants will be awarded to 34 community arts projects and 5 teaching artist projects as follows:

Community Arts

• Adirondack Film Society for Sleepless in Lake Placid
• Adirondack Regional Theatre Young Director’s Series for “Alice in Wonderland, Jr.”
• Adirondack Wind Ensemble for the 2017 Program, Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale
• Adirondack Youth Orchestra Association Spring and Fall Concerts
• Appleby Foundation: Rebecca Kelly Ballet’s OnStage Summer Dance Performance Program
• Champlain Valley Voices: Musica delle Donne
• City of Plattsburgh for Adk. Dance Co.: The Nightingale’s Song & An Evening of the Arts
• CVW Long Lake Public Library Café Livre, Coffeehouse Series
• East Branch Friends of the Arts Ovidiu Marinescu & Mark Livshits in Concert & Kim and Reggie Harris Gospel & Blues Concert
• Elizabethtown Social Center: On the Center Lawn
• Essex Community Concert Series 2017
• Essex Theatre Company for the Year of the Birds
• Fulton Chain of Lakes Performing Arts Council, Inc.: An Evening With the Symphony
• Jay Entertainment & Music Society Mountain to Mountain Children’s Theatre Workshops
• John Brown Lives! The Blues at Timbuctoo
• Long Lake Calvary United Methodist Church for Long Lake Friends of Music Concert Series
• Piano by Nature Concert Series 2017
• Plattsburgh Public Library Read and Grow Garden Mural Project
• St. Williams on Long Point: Thursday Evenings on the Lake
• Saranac Lake Rotary Foundation for Hobofest
• Substance Abuse Prevention Team for Naj Wikoff’s Lake Placid Volunteer Ambulance Service Mural
• Ticonderoga Festival Guild Arts for Concerts in the Park and Arts Trek for children
• Ticonderoga Heritage Museum: Art Between Two Waters
• Ticonderoga Historical Society: Liberated Ladies: The Songs of Women’s Suffrage
• Town of Indian Lake Library: Tall & Short Tunes: Family literacy through story and song
• Town of Inlet: Sunset by the Lake Summer Concert Series
• Town of Lake Pleasant Library 2017 Summer Entertainment Series
• Town of Long Lake: The Oldies Show
• Town of Wells conduit for Pam Brioles: Music Works
• Village of Malone: Art in the Park 2017, Creating with our Head, Hands, & Heart
• Village of Saranac Lake: Music on the Green Concert Series
• Wild Center iForest: An Immersive Music Experience

Arts Education Projects

• Alisa Endsley: Northway to Broadway with Willsboro Central School
• Amy Guglielmo: Diversity through the Arts with Cumberland Head Elementary School
• Amy Guglielmo: Master Artists around the World with Morrisonville Elementary School
• Amy Guglielmo: S.T.E.A.M. Upcycled Wearable Art Project with Beekmantown Central School
• Sandra Young: Keepers of History with Brushton/Moira Central School

The 2017 Decentralization Grant Award recipients will be honored at an Award Ceremony on May 7 at 2 PM at Heaven Hill Farm in Lake Placid where they will have the opportunity to present their projects in an informal setting. Reservations are required.

Decentralization Grant Coordinator Kathleen Recchia shares some insight into the event, “This is our third, four-county DEC Awards Ceremony and the second time we are taking it outside the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts. We’re so excited to be hosting the event in Lake Placid which has inspired the creative spirit for generations through its natural beauty and the competitive nature of its setting. 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,” Recchia said.

For more information call 518-708-3606 or check the ALCA website at: www.adirondackarts.org. A copy of the DEC Award Brochure is also available online.