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Grant Opportunity Profile
| Grant Opportunity ID |
| ART01-FLK18-2018 |
| Agency |
| Council on the Arts |
| Grant Opportunity |
| NYSCA FY2018 Folk Arts Program Grants |
| Contact Name |
| Katie Steger |
| Contact Email |
| Katie.Steger@arts.ny.gov |
| Solicitation Profile |
The Folk Arts Program is devoted to sustaining New York State’s living cultural heritage of folk arts through supporting activities designed to safeguard and perpetuate traditions practiced within communities. It also supports programming that enables general audiences to experience the traditional arts. By definition, folk arts are traditional cultural expressions through which a group maintains and passes on its shared way of life. They are practiced within and among ethnic, regional, occupational, and religious communities as well as other kinds of groups with a common identity. Traditional folk arts express a group's sense of beauty, identity, and values. Folk arts are usually learned informally through performance, by example, or in oral traditions among families, friends, neighbors and co-workers rather than through formal education. The practice of folk arts by traditional artists stems from their birthright, community membership or direct participation in the life of a community. Never static, folk arts change as they are adapted to new circumstances while they maintain their traditional qualities. The best folk artists work within artistic conventions shaped and refined over time while creating innovations recognized by other community members.
Priorities
• Appropriate compensation to artists, folklorists and arts professionals.
• Field research to identify artists unrecorded or unrecognized outside of their immediate communities. Applicants are also encouraged to document presentations supported through NYSCA funds.
• Collaborative initiatives carried out on a regional or statewide basis among folk arts programs.
• Professional direction through folklorists, ethnomusicologists, or other appropriate staff consultants for program development, field research to document artists, interpretation and the production of presentations for general audiences.
• Development of projects in close consultation and collaboration with the communities and artists whose traditions are to be presented. Support is not available for programming involving artists who appropriate, interpret, or revive the traditions of other communities. Presentations grounded in the traditional modes of practicing folk art are encouraged. The Folk Arts Program does not support programming involving choreography, theatricalization, or stylization that substantially alters traditions.
• Interpretive practices that aid appreciation and understanding of a tradition’s meaning and contexts, especially for unfamiliar art forms. These may include program booklets or other publications, websites, lecture/demonstrations, spoken introductions to performances, and/or interpretive signage to aid appreciation and understanding of a tradition's meaning and contexts.
• Dance presentations should be accompanied by live traditional folk musicians, when possible.
The NYSCA grant program strives to make investments of public funds that serve all communities and people that comprise New York State’s citizens and visitors. NYSCA strongly supports, values and encourages the sustained and concerted efforts of non-profit art, culture and heritage organizations to be inclusive and have their workforce, artists and programmatic offerings reflect New York State’s diversity of people, geography and artistic interests.
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| Full Announcement Details |
| Announcement Link | Click here |
Applications Due (Date / Time)
March 23, 2017 / 04:00 PM ET |
Bidder's Conference(s)/Application Workshop(s)
None available
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| Anticipated Award Date | Friday, September 1, 2017 |
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| Letter of Intent | Not Required |
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| Eligible Applicants | Not-For-Profit, Governmental Entity, Tribal Organization |
| Target Population(s) | Organizations - Community Based Groups, Organizations - Government Entities, Organizations - Not-For Profits |
| Service Area(s) | Education Supports, Workforce Development, Government Supports |
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