LARAC Announces 2025 Community Arts Grant Recipients

LARAC Announces 2025 Community Arts Grant Recipients
 
The Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC) announces the recipients of its Community Arts Grant program for 2025. Local artists and organizations will receive $100,000 for arts programming taking place throughout Warren and Washington Counties in 2025. This grant opportunity is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by LARAC. The Community Arts Grant is a re-grant program that provides financial assistance for community-based arts activities.
 
The goal of the Statewide Community Regrant (SCR) program is to provide quality arts programming to all of Warren and Washington Counties; assist emerging arts organizations; support the artistic expression of Warren and Washington County’s diversity; and make arts programming accessible to under-served audiences.
 
For 2025, seven Individual Artists will receive $3,000 each to produce new work, three of them being Tamra Jacobi of Warren County for her project “The Lake George Alphabet Project,” Dawn VanDerwarker of Washington County for her project “The History of Skene Manor - Volume 1,” and Adina Daar of Washington County for her project “From Milkweed to Silkweed.”
 
Five Art Education applicants were awarded a total of $18,071 for in-school and community-based programming in 2025. The North Creek Railway Depo Preservation Association of North Creek in Warren County will be expanding their impactful children’s program “People and Trains That Could,” David Globerson of Warren County will be teaching students how to paint their very own pet portraits in his project “Portraits of Companionship: A Community Pet Art Workshop and Exhibit,” and Charles R Wood Theater of Warren County will be teaching young students the intricacies of theater during their program “Theater for Tots.
 
“As a proud supporter of the Lower Adirondack Regional Council since 1977, we are so proud of LARAC’s vital work across the region,” said Erika Mallin, Executive Director of the New York State Council on the Arts. “And, to this year’s grantees: your creativity and innovation fuels all of us—from building community, to strengthening our economy, to making New York the global epicenter of arts and culture.  Congratulations to you all on this achievement.”
 
For 2025, forty two Organizations and Artists applied for SCR funding, out of which twenty eight will receive funding.
 
Warren County Organizational Grantees:
Adirondack Ballet Theater
Glens Falls Independent Living Center
Grace Memorial Chapel
Hillview Free Library
Queensbury Senior Citizens
Rockwell Falls Public Library
Warren-Hamilton Counties Action Committee for Economic Opportunity
Wiawaka Holiday House
World Awareness Children’s Museum
Muse
 
Washington County Organizational Grantees:
Cambridge Historical Society and Museum
Greenwich Free Library
Hudson River Shakespeare Company
Little Theater on the Farm
Town of Salem
Village of Fort Edward Canal Street Marketplace
Village of Granville
Whitehall Skene Manor Preservation
 
Individual Artists Grantees:
Adina Daar
Ariana Komkova
Dawn VanDerwarker
Kate Hartley
Kimerer LaMothe
Lauren Comito
Tamra Jacobi
 
Arts Education Grantees:
Bolton Free Library Opp
Charles R Wood Theater
David Globerson
North Creek Railway Depo Preservation Society
Queensbury Senior Citizens
 
Congratulations to ALL 2025 Grant Recipients!
 
 
 
The Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council is one of many arts agencies throughout New York State that offers the Statewide Community Regrant (SCR) program as it is referred to statewide, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Grant related workshops are held annually in the fall, free of charge. Applications are due in early winter. Those wishing to apply for these grants or wanting more information about any of the funded programs should contact LARAC’s Community Outreach & Grant Director, Alyssa O’Neill, at (518) 798-1144, ext. 4 or outreach@larac.org. Details can also be found at www.LARAC.org/grants.
 
About the New York State Council on the Arts
The mission of the New York State Council on the Arts is to foster and advance the full breadth of New York State’s arts, culture, and creativity for all. To support the ongoing recovery of the arts across New York State, the Council on the Arts will award $162 million in FY2025, serving organizations and artists across all 10 state regions. The Council on the Arts further advances New York's creative culture by convening leaders in the field and providing organizational and professional development opportunities and informational resources. Created by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960 and continued with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Council is an agency that is part of the Executive Branch. For more information on NYSCA, please visit arts.ny.gov, and follow NYSCA's Facebook page, on X @NYSCArts and Instagram @NYSCouncilontheArts.