Organizations receiving Project Pool Grant program funds include:
· Ahira Hall Memorial Library: Aspired Arts to Inspire
· Ashville Free Library: Claying around at the library
· Audubon Community Nature Center: Enchanted Forest Costume Heads
· Dunkirk Public Library: Traveling Lantern Theater Company
· Falconer Public Library: All Together Now with Art and Music
· Kennedy Free Library: Art Classes

Individual Artists receiving funds include:
· Marygrace Anderson: NYS Art Teacher Association Great Camp Sagamore Summer Institute 2023
· Thomas Annear: New Framing Space in Studio
· Sara Atkins: Natik, Volume One
· Miles Hilton: Through the Roots
· Ashley Ordines: Minutiae

In addition to providing operating support for six of the county’s larger arts organizations, the UAA makes these annual grant awards for artistic projects. To apply, organizations must have nonprofit status; individuals must have been Chautauqua County residents for at least one year and can work in any artistic discipline.

For more information about the United Arts Appeal, including programs offered by member organizations, visit UnitedArtsAppeal.org.

United Arts Appeal award in 2022 to the Audubon Community Nature Center helped fund their 2022 Mud Arts Program.

The United Arts Appeal of Chautauqua County is accepting requests from Chautauqua County artists and organizations for its projects pool grants program.

Grants of up to $500 are available to arts programs and organizations as well as individual artists. Artistic disciplines can include but are not limited to crafts, dance, film, fiction, poetry, printmaking, sculpture, painting, video, play writing, performance, music composition and photography.

Awards to individual artists, who must have been a Chautauqua County resident for at least one year, are based on creative excellence and are to be used for artistic development.

Eligible organizations must have nonprofit status and may include libraries, municipalities, churches, and other community groups.

Recipients must be able to complete their projects during the grant year.

The deadline for submission is Saturday, April 15.

For more information and to apply, visit UnitedArtsAppeal.org.

Grants of up to $500 are available to arts programs and organizations as well as individual artists. Artistic disciplines can include but are not limited to crafts, dance, film, fiction, poetry, printmaking, sculpture, painting, video, play writing, performance, music composition and photography.

Awards to individual artists, who must have been a Chautauqua County resident for at least one year, are based on creative excellence and are to be used for artistic development.

Eligible organizations must have non-profit status and may include libraries, municipalities, churches, and other community groups.

Applications are submitted online and must be received by midnight on Friday, April 15, 2022.
Artists and community organizations interested in applying for funding through the UAA’s Projects Pool Grants Program can obtain application information and funding criteria online at the Grants page at UnitedArtsAppeal.org

On Saturday night, Oct. 2, WRFA welcomes Ken Hardley & Mandy Andrews for a special live broadcast performance.

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Ken Hardley and Mandy Andrews are a unique musical duo, to say the least. As a singer- songwriter, Hardley’s presence as an entertainer, storyteller, and musician will draw you in as few performers can. Long-time WRFA listeners know Ken for being the host and driving force of the popular Rolling Hills Radio and Woodsongs Coffeehouse Radio Hour programs that were broadcast on WRFA. As a classically trained cellist, Andrews brings an unusual, spellbinding atmosphere to Hardley’s music. She provides compelling counter- melodies, delicate textures, as well as beauty that skates and weaves. There’s no description that fully captures the ambiance this pair creates. You have to experience it to understand it.

The performance was broadcast live at 8 p.m. on 107.9 FM and also video streamed live on the WRFA Youtube Channel and Facebook page.

ABOUT AOF LIVE: Arts On Fire LIVE brings you the very best of Chautauqua County’s local artists via a live, in-studio performance! For five Saturdays in the Fall 2021, we’ll bring you a new live session featuring well-established acts, spanning styles and genres! There is no in-studio audience. Instead, listeners and viewers are encouraged to tune in to the performance live as it happens, or podcast/stream the show afterward. The program will not only be broadcast live, but also replayed the following week during our regular Arts on Fire time slot – Fridays at 5 p.m. on WRFA! The show is produced and broadcast by WRFA-LP 107.9 FM, Kranky Plate Productions, and the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts in Jamestown, NY. All Arts on Fire LIVE performances for 2021 are made possible in part by support from the United Arts Appeal of Chautauqua County Projects Pool Grants Program and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s American Rescue Plan Act Stabilization Grant.

In addition to funding for individual artists and smaller arts projects through its Projects Pool Grants Program, the United Arts Appeal provides operating support for eight of the larger arts organizations in Chautauqua County: the Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet, Community Music Project, 1891 Fredonia Opera House, Infinity Visual and Performing Arts, Jamestown Concert Association, Lucille Ball Little Theatre of Jamestown, Reg Lenna Civic Center, and the Western New York Chamber Orchestra. 

Contributions can be made by check to the United Arts Appeal, 715 Falconer Street, Jamestown, NY  14701.

For all the benefits available to contributors to the United Arts Appeal, see “Support UAA” at www.UnitedArtsAppeal.org.

Eligible organizations must have non-profit status and may include libraries, municipalities, churches and other community groups.  An artist who has been a Chautauqua County resident for at least one year and works in any artistic discipline may apply for a Projects Pool Fellowship. Funding priority will be given to those applicants who demonstrate that a fellowship would have significant career impact.

Grant applications are submitted on-line and must be received by midnight on Monday, April 15, 2013.

Artists and community organizations interested in applying for funding through the United Arts Appeal’s Projects Pool Grant Program can obtain application information and funding criteria on-line at the Grants page at www.unitedartsappeal.org.

For more information about the United Arts Appeal of Chautauqua County, with links to each of the member organizations’ websites, visit www.unitedartsappeal.org or call (716) 484-7329.

At their January meeting, United Arts Appeal of Chautauqua County board members (from left) Rick Davis, Elizabeth Bush, Shane Hawkins, Jeff Erickson, Lissa VanDewark and Sally Ulrich sent letters to local businesses and selected individuals, requesting their support for the arts in 2013.

JAMESTOWN – The United Arts Appeal of Chautauqua County is calling on the community to sustain a wealth of local arts organizations.

UAA board members recently sent letters to businesses and selected individuals throughout the county, asking for support in 2013 for their eight member organizations and the smaller groups and independent artists that receive UAA Projects Pool funding.

The Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet, Community Music Project, 1891 Fredonia Opera House, Infinity Visual & Performing Arts, Jamestown Concert Association, Lucille Ball Little Theatre of Jamestown, Reg Lenna Civic Center, and the Western New York Chamber Orchestra are the member organizations of the United Arts Appeal.

Any business or individual that would like to support the arts in Chautauqua County is invited to send their contribution to the United Arts Appeal, 715 Falconer Street, Jamestown, NY  14701.

Contributors to the United Arts Appeal are offered a range of benefits for their generosity, including recognition in printed programs and on the UAA’s website and free admissions to selected performances. Details are on the Support UAA page at UnitedArtsAppeal.org.

In addition to funding for individual artists and smaller arts projects through its Projects Pool grants program, the United Arts Appeal provides operating support for eight of the larger arts organizations in Chautauqua County: the Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet, Community Music Project, 1891 Fredonia Opera House, Infinity Visual and Performing Arts, Jamestown Concert Association, Lucille Ball Little Theatre of Jamestown, Reg Lenna Civic Center, and the Western New York Chamber Orchestra.

Contributions can be made by check to the United Arts Appeal, 715 Falconer Street, Jamestown, NY  14701.

For all the benefits available to contributors to the United Arts Appeal, see “Support UAA” at www.UnitedArtsAppeal.org. For the complete list of contributors, see “BRAVO!” at the website.