Flushing Town Hall in Queens.
Flushing Town Hall Now Accepting Applications from Queens Artists and Nonprofits for its 2023 NYSCA Regrant Program, ARTS GRANTS FOR QUEENS
— More info at: www.flushingtownhall.org/arts-
Flushing Town Hall has been tapped for a second year with the responsibility of administering over $100,000 in regrants funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for Queens-based artists and arts organizations holding public arts and culture programs in the borough throughout 2023.
Applications for this competitive opportunity are now open, with a submission deadline of December 16, 2022. Flushing Town Hall has released the grant guidelines and applications on its website and is providing information sessions and grant-writing workshops for prospective applicants throughout the fall.
Formerly known as NYSCA’s “Decentralization” program (DEC for short), the program has been rebranded as “Statewide Community Regrants” (SCR for short) and is intended to support artists and cultural nonprofits in every county across New York State. NYSCA was a pioneer of this model of arts regrants that has since been adopted by numerous other states and municipalities, including New York City.
The regrants administered by Flushing Town Hall will fund arts and culture projects created and presented in Queens, with the goal to enrich and enliven the community. While FTH is managing the application process and distribution of funds, recipients selected for funding will be decided by an external panel comprised of artists, cultural workers, arts administrators, community organizers and Queens community leaders.
2022 recipients awarded earlier this year included Art House Astoria, CPC NanShan Senior Center, Flamenco Latino, Inc., LaMicro Theater, New York Kathak Film Festival, New York Mandarin Playback Inc., Queens Jazz OverGround, The Rockaway Film Festival, Taiwanese American Arts Council, and Women in Comics Collective International, among others. The next round of funding recipients will be announced in the spring of 2023, after this cycle’s application process closes later this December.
Flushing Town Hall’s mission is to serve the global communities of Queens through programming that celebrates and uplifts the full range of cultural diversity in the borough. In addition to music, dance, visual arts, theatrical, and educational programming, Flushing Town Hall offers a wide range of artist services, including space grants for artists to develop new work, professional development workshops, networking conversations, and more. The NYSCA regranting program is a complement to these other offerings and enables Flushing Town Hall to fulfill its role as an arts council (FTH was founded in 1979 as Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, the organization’s legal name).
“We are honored to be entrusted again with this role by NYSCA,” says Flushing Town Hall Executive and Artistic Director Ellen Kodadek. “As an Arts Council since 1979, we pledge to uphold NYSCA’s high standards of integrity and community responsiveness in managing this program, and we encourage our borough’s wide range of talented artists and dedicated arts organizations to submit applications for funding.”
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Flushing Town Hall is a not for profit organization and receives major support in 2022 from the National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; New York State Assembly Member Ron Kim; The City of New York, Mayor Eric Adams; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Commissioner Laurie Cumbo; Queens Borough President Donovan Richards; The New York City Council, Speaker Adrienne E. Adams and New York City Council Members Sandra Ung, Tiffany Caban, Shekar Krishnan, Linda Lee, Vickie Paladino, Lynn Schulman, and Jessica Won; Howard Gilman Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, Guru Krupa Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation.
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