BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE — The ADK Quad-County Decentralization Grant Program of the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts this week announced the recipients of the 2021 grant awards, with funds made available by the New York State Council on the Arts.

ALCA’s program is regranting a total of $91,720 for 30 projects throughout the four counties ALCA, as the region’s decentralization grant program site, serves: Clinton, Essex, Franklin and Hamilton.

As in previous years, grants of up to $5,000 were available to eligible organizations and artists based in these four counties. Funding decisions were made by a panel of artists and arts advocates who volunteered their time. For each year’s grant cycle, governmental and quasi-governmental entities, tribal organizations and New York state-designated nonprofits are eligible to be direct applicants, as well as serve as fiscal sponsors. Arts groups that are not official nonprofits and individual artists/artist collectives can apply in collaboration with a fiscal sponsor. Applicants can apply to do up to three projects in the categories of Arts Education and/or Community Arts.

To learn more about the program, contact regional coordinator Fred Balzac at fred@adirondackarts.org or 518-588-7275.

The 2021 DEC grants are as follows:

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Arts education

¯ Adirondack Regional Theatre (fiscal sponsor), Tracy Rosenquest and Mason Barber (sponsored teaching artists): Young Artists Play Festival (Clinton)

¯ Lake Pleasant Public Library: “Quilting 101” (Hamilton)

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Community arts

¯ Adirondack Regional Theatre: “The Guys” (Clinton)

¯ Adirondack Regional Theatre (fiscal sponsor), Jason Greer and Vanessa Cicarelli (sponsored artists): “She”: completion and opening screenings (Clinton)

¯ Adirondack Wind Ensemble: William Walton’s “Facade” — AWE 2021 (Clinton)

¯ Appleby Foundation Inc.: Tahawus Center’s 2021 Season: Strengthening Community through Fine Arts and Dance (Essex)

¯ Au Sable Forks Free Library Association: All That Jazz Music and Story Time (Essex)

¯ Burpee Brook Creative Learning Inc.: Boquet Valley Trail Art Fest (Essex)

¯ Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System: Making Music with RiverJack Z (Clinton)

¯ East Branch Friends of the Arts: Grisha Goryachev, Flamenco Guitar Virtuoso (Project A) and Putting It Together Like the Pros: Youth Musical Theater in a Week (Project B) (Essex)

¯ Foothills ARTSociety: The Thrive Project (Franklin)

¯ Hill and Hollow Music Inc.: Hill and Hollow Music Performance Series (Clinton)

¯ Jay Entertainment & Music Society: JEMS Summer Concert Series 2021 (Essex)

¯ John Brown Lives, Inc.: Blues at Timbuctoo (Essex)

¯ Keene Valley Library: Art for Youth (Essex)

¯ Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society: “Lake Placid Steamboats, Fancy Hotels & the Gilded Age,” exhibition preparation and installation (Essex)

¯ Piano by Nature Inc.: Piano By Nature 2021 season (Essex)

¯ Plattsburgh Blues & Jazz Foundation Inc.: Plattsburgh Blues & Jazz Summer Series 2021 (Clinton)

¯ Saranac Lake ArtWorks, ArtMarkets (Franklin)

¯ Schroon Lake Public Library: Making Music with RiverJack Z (Essex)

¯ St. William’s on Long Point: Thursday Evenings on Raquette Lake (Hamilton)

¯ Ticonderoga Heritage Museum: Scribble Art (Essex)

¯ Town of Elizabethtown (fiscal sponsor), Randi Renate (sponsored artist): “blue is the atmospheric refraction I see you through” (Essex)

¯ Town of Inlet: Sunsets by the Lake Summer Concert Series (Hamilton)

¯ Town of Keene: Music from the Back Porch (Essex)

¯ Town of Long Lake: Bangbrolly in Concert (Hamilton)

¯ Tupper Arts: Teens Test Drive Art! (Franklin)

¯ Village of Malone-Malone Recreation Park: Art in the Park Summer 2021 (Franklin)

¯ Wead Library: Making Music with RiverJack Z (Franklin)