POTSDAM — SLC Arts has  announced the recipients of the 2021 Decentralization Regrants.

SLC Arts offers three grant opportunities for artists, arts organizations, municipalities, and 501(c)3 non-profit organizations throughout St. Lawrence, Jefferson, and Lewis Counties.  

Each year, through the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Regrant Program, SLC Arts distributes over $60,000 in state funds throughout the North Country, for the purpose of arts programming.  

Projects of all artistic disciplines funded through this program include, but are not limited to: concerts, theatrical performances, art classes, public art exhibitions, and even the creation of new, community-based work.

2021 Individual Artist Grant recipients include:

• Amy Swartele of Potsdam — Project Title: Sandstoner Cylinder Murals. With design influenced by community feedback, the artist will create repeated, circular, elliptical mural paintings on 6 to 9 concrete cylinders in Sandstoner Park.  

• Sara Lynch of Potsdam — Project Title: More Art Around Town. The artist will solicit input from the public, with the goal of creating public art installations in and around the Potsdam area. The artist will use collected feedback to design and create up to 10 murals in unexpected, public spaces.  

2021 Community Arts Grant recipients from St. Lawrence County include:

• Town of Madrid — Project Title: Madrid Dam Music Series - Summer 2021 Season. Performance by one band - of a ten band series lineup - as well as support for virtual programming.

• Norwood Public Library — Project Title: Arts & Tails in the World. A series of six, hands-on, artist-led children’s art classes that each focus on a different culture and animal, and feature a 2D or 3D art project from that culture as a culminating experience.

• Morristown Gateway Museum — Project Title: 2021 Concerts. Two outdoor concerts, featuring musicians with strong artistic credentials.

• Colton Historical Society — Project Title: Sunday Rock Revue. Live, musical theater, combined with local history and education. Featuring songs from the previous nine seasons.

• Chippewa Bay Community Club — Project Title: CBCC Friday Evening Backyard Summer Concert Series. A series of four, outdoor concerts, highlighting local artists deserving of a hometown showcase.

• Massena Public Library — Project Title: #AsyncArts: Leading & Documenting Community Arts in the Time of COVID. A collection of multi-faceted art projects, providing opportunities to enjoy local art in safe, physically distanced ways.

• Community Performance Series, Potsdam — Project Title: Return to Summer Theatre. A revival of summer theatre, featuring a production of "Into the Woods." A series of live performances will be staged in July 2021 at SUNY Potsdam's Performing Arts Center.  

• Heuvelton Historical Association — Project Title: Pickens Hall Invitational - Where the Music Comes Home. A series of performances by well established North Country or North Country related groups.

• Greater Massena Chamber of Commerce — Project Title: 2021 Concerts in the Park. A series of seven, family friendly, Thursday evening, outdoor concerts.   

• “Murray Triumphs!” Film Project, Gouverneur — Project Title: “Murray Triumphs!” Film Production. A production of a comedic short film titled "Murray Triumphs!" Local filmmakers will collaborate on this project and use professional production equipment to create the film that will be screened publicly at the Gouverneur Community Center.

• The Yellow Barn Concert Series (FS: Chippewa Bay Community Club) in Hammond — Project Title: The Yellow Barn Concert Series. A series of seven musical performances that celebrate the power of music to elevate the human spirit, open our horizons and unite us in community.

• Sara E Lynch, Potsdam — Project Title: Clay with Me. A series of hands-on, multidisciplinary art lessons, in which children will take an idea from concept to three-dimensional sculpture and color, while learning science through the innate properties of clay.  

• The Arts Program of NNY, Madrid — Project Title: Local Community Theater - A Christmas Carol, The Musical.  A local, community theater production of A Christmas Carol.

For more information visit slcartscouncil.org/grants.

The St. Lawrence County Arts Council distributes grants for projects in St. Lawrence, Jefferson and Lewis Counties with funding from the State and Local Partner Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew M Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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