The East End Arts Council Grants Application Workshop

Riverhead, NY (October 19, 2007)—The East End Arts Council is offering a free workshop for artists, teaching artists and educators on October 30th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM at the EEAC gallery at 133 E. Main Street in Riverhead. The workshop will help attendees better understand the grant process for both the Local Capacity Building (LCB) Grant, a matching arts-in-education grant program, and the Strategic Opportunity Stipend (SOS), a grant for individual artists.

The LCB is sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and administered by the East End Arts Council.  Grants will match up to $3,000 to schools and/or teaching artists who can successfully integrate arts into the core curriculum of pre-k and k-12 public and private schools in Nassau and Suffolk. The deadline for this year’s grant is November 30, 2007.

The SOS is sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and is also administered on Long Island by the East End Arts Council.  This grant is offered in the amount of $100-$600, three times a year, to individual artists of all disciplines who have a career-enhancing opportunities.  The deadline for the next round of the SOS is February 5, 2008.

For more information on the workshop or the grants, please call Laura Helms at the East End Arts Council at 631-727-0900, or email support@eastendarts.org. You can also reach Ray Saltini, the LCB Coordinator, at 631-610-8993 or rsaltini@cleargs.com.

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MEDIA CONTACTS:
Laura Helms,
631-727-0900