Assemblywoman Woerner: $713K in Grant Awarded To 11 Area Arts Organizations

SARATOGA COUNTY — Eleven area organizations, representing a wide range of artists and forms of creative expression, have been awarded a total of $713,000 in NYSCA funding that can be used for a variety of operational and programming expenses, Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner (D-Round Lake) announced Dec. 14. 

The NYS Council on the Arts (NYSCA) 2024 Grant award recipients are Caffé Lena, the Children’s Museum at Saratoga, the Crandall Public Library, the Historical Society of Saratoga Springs, the Lake George Opera Festival Association, Inc., Salem Art Works, Inc., Salem Stages, Saratoga Arts, Inc., the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation, Skidmore College and the Corporation of Yaddo.

“Art opens our minds to new perspectives and helps us understand the world around us. As a member of the Assembly Arts, Parks and Tourism Committee, I relish my role in helping to support something so vital to our culture and society as the arts,” Woerner said in a statement. “Working to ensure the State continues to fund the Council on the Arts and by extension, supports arts organizations in my district, remains a high priority.”