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Westchester County Executive George Latimer and the Westchester County Board of Legislators worked alongside ArtsWestchester to determine the recipients of matching funds from the grant program and “provide much-needed funding for arts and culture in Westchester County.”
The arts organizations raised a total of $526,158 in private funds through the Art$WChallenge program of 2018. As a whole, these grants and matching fund efforts amount to an influx of $726,158 for arts and culture in Westchester.
“The Art$WChallenge program administered by ArtsWestchester is a powerful example of a forward-thinking public/private partnership that pays dividends for the economy,” said County Executive George Latimer. “Since the inception of the Art$WChallenge in 2007, a total of $5,467,804 in private and public monies have been raised and invested in Westchester County’s cultural industry. This investment makes good sense when you consider that on an annual basis, arts and culture add $172.3 million in total economic activity to Westchester.”
The 45 arts organizations that were awarded matching grants are listed below, along with their respective amounts:
- Arc Stages, $5,000
- Axial Theatre, $4,600
- Ballet des Ameriques School and Company, $5,000
- Blue Door Art Center, $4,955
- Caramoor Center for Music & Arts, $5,000
- Clay Art Center, $5,000
- Clocktower Players, $2,410
- Copland House, $5,000
- Downtown Music at Grace, $5,000
- Emelin Theatre for Performing Arts, $5,000
- Friends of Music Concerts, $1,350
- Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden, $5,000
- Historic Hudson Valley, $5,000
- Hoff‐Barthelson Music School, $5,000
- Hudson Stage Company, $5,000
- Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, $5,000
- Hudson Valley Writers Center, $5,000
- India Center of Westchester, $5,000
- Jacob Burns Film Center, $5,000
- Jazz Forum Arts, $5,000
- Friends of John Jay Homestead, $5,000
- Katonah Museum of Art, $5,000
- Lagond Music School, $2,000
- Lyndhurst, A National Trust Historic Site, $5,000
- Mamaroneck Artists Guild, $4,915
- Music Conservatory of Westchester, $5,000
- Neuberger Museum, $5,000
- New Rochelle Council for the Arts, $5,000
- New Rochelle Opera, $5,000
- Pelham Art Center, $5,000
- Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, $1,913
- Picture House Regional Film Center, $5,000
- RiverArts, $2,012
- Schoolhouse Theater, $5,000
- Songcatchers, $5,000
- Steffi Nossen Dance Foundation, $5,000
- Taconic Opera, $5,000
- Tarrytown Music Hall, $5,000
- The Play Group Theater, $2,500
- The Rye Arts Center, $2,600
- The Symphony of Westchester, $870
- Westchester Philharmonic, $4,875
- Westchester Children's Museum, $5,000
- White Plains Performing Arts Center, $5,000
- Youth Theatre Interactions, $5,000
“Dance, music, theater and the visual arts are essential to our quality of life, so I’m pleased that the Administration, the Board of Legislators and ArtsWestchester are continuing this matching grant program,” said Chairman of the Board of Legislators Ben Boykin. “Through this partnership, we support deserving artists and organizations, improve access to the arts for residents across the County and help ArtsWestchester leverage County backing to obtain additional private funding. That’s a win for everybody. Congratulations to all the wonderful grant recipients this year.”
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