In response to yesterday’s troubling news regarding the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra’s suspension of operations, the Cultural Resources Council has issued the following statement: The loss of the Syracuse Symphony is a huge one to all of us on many levels. It is a stab in the heart of the entire region. Everyone needs to care [...]
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Years ago, I won a local theater guild scholarship, which was an enormous help to my college acceptances. I also attended my first theater competition — and came home with nothing. Our work was found lacking, as was gently but expertly pointed out. I learned more from that experience — critical thinking, self-evaluation, good sportsmanship [...]
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Request for Proposal Open to all artists Final date for sketch submission: May 30, 2011 Through the Community Arts Grant, NYSCA Decentralization Grant Program managed through the Cultural Resources Council, Crouse Hospital has received funds to commission a mural in a public area within the hospital. The area is just outside passenger elevators on a patient care [...]
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The following is a letter sent out by Americans for the Arts: Dear Arts Advocate: On March 2, 2011, as the federal government raced to avoid a potential shutdown, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate passed a stop-gap funding measure for FY 2011 to keep the government operational for another two [...]
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Cultural Resources Council Announces $80,000 in Community Arts Grants The Cultural Resources Council has announced its Community Arts Grants for 2011. Fifty-nine not-for-profit organizations and eleven area artists will share $80,000 in awards for community-based cultural projects in Onondaga, Cortland and Oswego Counties. “In a difficult year, we worked hard to broaden our assistance,” said [...]
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As part of a new series highlighting works of public art in our CRC monthly newsletters (to sign up, click HERE) in our February newsletter, Syracuse’s first Public Artist in Residence, Brendan Rose, draws attention to a mystery sculpture and asks… Who Made This? “Hiding under an overhang, beneath one of Syracuse’s prototypical vacant modernist [...]
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