cultural tourism initiative (cti)
grant program
Grantees
2000 Project Narratives
Organization: Arts & Cultural Council for Oswego County
Tourism Partner: Oswego County Freedom Trail Commission
Other Partners: Oswego County Department of Promotion and Tourism
Counties Served: Oswego, Cayuga, Onondaga, Madison, Cortland, and Oneida
Award Amount: $12,000
Project: A three phase cultural tourism program to promote awareness of the local history of the Underground Railroad through a driving tour brochure, regrants to local cultural organizations for exhibitions and arts in education programs and the development of a website.
Organization: BRIC/Brooklyn Information and Culture
Tourism Partner: Brooklyn Tourism Council
Other Partners: Braggin’ About Brooklyn, Brooklyn Attitude, Tours of Hasidic Crown Heights
Counties Served: Kings
Award Amount: $25,000
Project: BRIC is undertaking a major marketing and publicity campaign to promote the Brooklyn Bus Tour Project, a series of five new tours that showcase Brooklyn’s unique ethnic and artist communities, history, recreational activities, cultural institutions, shopping and dining. Funding will be used specifically to design a logo, brochure and a trade show display booth to reach tour operators, tourists, businesses within the borough, civic groups, elected officials and the general public. Each tour will highlight an aspect of Brooklyn and its communities, including historical architecture, African-American and Hasidic neighborhoods, Brighton Beach, the Botanical Gardens and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Organization: Burchfield-Penney Art Center
Tourism Partners: Greater Buffalo Convention and Visitors Bureau, Upstate New York Travel Inc.
Other Partners: Buffalo Olmstead Parks Conservancy, Calumet Arts Café, Forest Lawn Cemetery, The Foundation for the Study of the Arts and Crafts Movement at Roycroft, Forever Elmwood, Friends of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Buffalo, The Graycliff Conservancy, The Industrial Heritage Committee, The Martin House Restoration Corporation, Preservation Coalition, Roycroft Antiques, Roycrofters-at-Large, Roycroft Campus Merchants Guild, The Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historical Site
Counties Served: Erie
Award Amount: $25,000
Project: The Burchfield-Penney Art Center will be developing and implementing a project which will highlight the region’s rich architectural heritage. This series of package tours focusing on Buffalo’s architecture will be aimed at attracting tourists from the northeastern United States and southwestern Ontario, Canada. The tours will last approximately 1.5 – 2 days, encouraging overnight stays in the area.
Organization: The Cayuga Museum
Tourism Partner: Cayuga County Office of Tourism
Other Partners: Harriet Tubman House, William H. Seward House Museum, Willard Memorial Chapel
Counties Served: Cayuga
Award Amount: $23,800
Project: This project unites a number of cultural and heritage sites within the city of Auburn, NY, including the Harriet Tubman House, the William H. Seward House Museum, the Willard Chapel and the Cayuga Museum/Case Research Lab. These historic sites, which have never worked together before, will engage in a large cross-marketing campaign to attract tourists from Buffalo, Philadelphia and New England to Auburn.
Organization: Children’s Art Carnival Tourism Partner: NYC & Company Convention and Visitors Bureau
Other Partners: Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, Harlem Foundation for Arts and Culture, Harlem Historical Society, Hamilton Heights Homeowners Association, Hamilton Heights-West Harlem Community Preservation Organization, Hamilton Landmark Galleries
Counties Served: New York
Award Amount: $10,000 (plus technical assistance)
Project: The Children’s Art Carnival will receive funding for Harlem, Our Home, a three day festival in June that will highlight the African-American experience in Harlem. The event will include visual arts exhibitions, jazz concerts, historical literary walking tours, house and garden tours and an arts and crafts merchant showcase. This community-based festival will increase awareness of the richness of Harlem culture and aims to attract tourists from all around the tri-state area.
Organization: City Lore
Tourism Partner: Bronx Tourism Council
Other Partners: The Point Community Development Corporation (CDC), Municipal Art Society
Counties Served: Bronx and New York
Award Amount: $25,000
Project: City Lore will be partnering with The Point CDC and the Bronx Tourism Council to create a cultural heritage tour of the South Bronx called Mambo to Salsa. This tour will highlight some of the past
and present musical contributions of Latinos in the South Bronx, with an emphasis on the post-war years. Bus and walking tours will take tourists through Hunts Point and its surrounding neighborhoods, exposing them to the rich cultural history of the area.
Organization: Columbia County Council on the Arts
Tourism Partner: Columbia County Department of Tourism, Columbia Hudson Partnership
Other Partners: Columbia County Live!, Columbia County Partners in Tourism, Historic Columbia Alliance
Counties Served: Columbia
Award Amount: $20,000
Project: Columbia County Council on the Arts will receive funding for their Weekends in the Country: Houses, History and the Arts in Columbia County tour. This will be a series of fall get-away weekends
that feature performances and special events that will be the result of collaborations between arts organizations and historical sites. This project will extend the tourism season in Columbia County by seven weeks.
Organization: Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
Tourism Partner: Sullivan County Visitors Association
Other Partners: Bed & Breakfast Association of Sullivan County, Kutsher’s Country Club, National Park Service, Short Line Bus Company, Sullivan County Arts and Cultural Coalition
Counties Served: Sullivan
Award Amount: $20,000
Project: The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance will be partnering with the Sullivan County Visitors Association on a tourism project entitled Cool Water, Hot Jazz. This project will combine the opening of trout fishing season and a jazz festival at a local theater to create a tourism package for events that have been marketed separately in the past. Activities will include jazz performances at various cultural and historical sites, lectures and walking tours of the area. The goal of this project is to connect the arts to the environment in Sullivan County.
Organization: Dutchess County Arts Council
Tourism Partner: Dutchess County Tourism Promotion Agency
Counties Served: Dutchess
Award Amount: $25,000
Project: The Dutchess County Arts Council will receive funding for the Dutchess County Crafts Trail, a tour that will allow tourists to travel scenic routes and discover the local arts and crafts community. The proposed time frame for the project is September through March, extending the fall tourist season through the winter. A significant portion of the funding will go towards marketing and promotion of the project.
Organization: Essex County Historical Society
Tourism Partner: Lake Placid/Essex County Visitors Bureau
Other Partners: Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks, Champlain Valley Heritage Network, Champlain Valley Visitors Center, John Brown Farm State Historic Site, The Depot Theater
Counties Served: Essex
Award Amount: $5,000 (plus technical assistance)
Project: A regional heritage tourism partnership, primarily in the Champlain Valley of the eastern Adirondacks, to bring a five-part lecture/discussion series illuminating the life and times of John Brown, the abolition movement and African-American heritage and freedom history. The series will mark the bicentennial of John Brown’s birth.
Organization: Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts
Tourism Partner: Japan Travel Bureau
Other Partners: Flushing Town Hall, Borough of Queens Office of Tourism, Louis Armstrong Archives at Queens College
Counties Served: Queens and New York
Award Amount: $25,000
Project: This project is a new partnership between Flushing Town Hall and the Japan Travel Bureau to expand Town Hall’s Queens Jazz Trail tours. These tours document the role that Queens has played as
home to a number of jazz legends by visiting Queens’ neighborhoods, clubs and museums. The tours will be marketed through the Japan Travel Bureau’s American Tours brochure and will be distributed through their offices worldwide. Funding will be used primarily for the publication of a brochure and a trail map.
Organization: George Eastman House
Tourism Partner: Greater Rochester Visitors Association
Other Partners: Genessee County Village and Museum, Susan B. Anthony House, National Women’s Hall of Fame
Counties Served: Monroe, Seneca, and Ontario
Award Amount: $25,000
Project: The George Eastman House will be partnering with the Rochester Convention and Visitors Bureau along with three other museums in Rochester, Mumford and Seneca Falls to implement Legacies and Landmarks: The Other New York, which will include themed tours which highlight the cultural heritage of the area. These organizations will promote the tours through a major collaborative marketing campaign that will increase tourism in three counties.
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