The Keep NYS Creating Project Grant
The Keep NYS Creating Project Grant supported artists in select New York State counties who had applied for NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships in 2018, 2019, and/or 2020.
About the Award
The Keep NYS Creating Project Grant was established to help artists in Western New York, Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, Central New York, North Country, Mohawk Valley, Capital District, Mid-Hudson, and Long Island continue their creative projects that were interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic
The program was open to artists who previously applied to the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program in 2018, 2019, and/or 2020 who work in the categories of Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, Choreography, Craft/Sculpture, Digital/Electronic Arts, Fiction, Folk/Traditional Arts, Interdisciplinary Work, Music/Sound, Nonfiction Literature, Painting, Photography, Playwriting/Screenwriting, Poetry, Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, and/or Video/Film.
The Keep NYS Creating Project Grant is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and with additional support from the Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award.
Julie Ann Bero-Emerson, Finger Lakes
Tiffany Bradley, Mid-Hudson
Anita Brown, Mid-Hudson
Adrian D. Carr, North Country
Veena Chandra, Capital District
Natasha Chuk, Capital District
Robert M. Doyle, Finger Lakes
Boryana Dimitrova Dragoeva, Central New York
Walter Early, North Country
Seth Faergolzia, Western New York
Matthew Friday, Mid-Hudson
Jeremiah Jamel Gaines, Mid-Hudson
Frederic Glover, North Country
Phil Hastings, Western New York
Annie Hayes, Southern Tier
Christine N Heller, Mohawk Valley
Kenneth J Jackson, Long Island
Maria Kozak, Mohawk Valley
Colin Lyons, Souther Tier
Timothy Manley, Long Island
Patricia Maurides, Long Island
Lacey McKinney, Central New York
Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Mid-Hudson
Onel Naar, Long Island
Byron Nilsson, Mohawk Valley
Suzanne Onodera, Southern Tier
Elisa Pritzker, Mid-Hudson
Jacob Rakovan, Finger Lakes
Aidan Ryan, Western New York
Jamie Leigh Sampson, Western New York
Marianne Schultz, Capital District
Rachel Shelton, Western New York
Madeline Silber, Mohawk Valley
Rebecca Soderholm, North Country
Jeffrey Alan Starr, Capital District
Becca Van K, Mid-Hudson
Kathryn Walat, Capital District
Anna Warfield, Southern Tier
Matthew E. Wilson, Long Island
Hannah Wnorowski, Central New York
Rebecca Ruige Xu, Central New York
Annemarie Zwack, Finger Lakes