cultural tourism initiative (cti)
grant program

Grantees

2002 Project Narratives

A total of $210,000 was awarded for the year 2002, to the following grantees:

• The Adirondack Film Society (Essex County and the Greater Adirondack Region) in collaboration with the Adirondack Film Commission and the Lake Placid Film Forum was granted $13,500 to promote the area as an ideal region for the film and video industry to work in. Along with a year round marketing campaign, the Film Society will also present, through the Lake Placid Film Forum, a newly established film festival in June 2002. Packages will be created involving the film festival and the Adirondack Film Commission will embark on a comprehensive marketing plan to attract the industry while providing a full range of support services. www.lakeplacidfilmforum.com
• The Albany Institute of History & Art (Albany County) was granted $20,000 to mark the 350th anniversary of Albany’s founding as Dutch colony. “A Dutch Treat in Albany” will be an aggressive marketing and publicity campaign for the city that will include five Dutch-themed exhibitions at the Institute. www.albanyinstitute.org
• Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County (Buffalo and Erie Counties) was awarded $15,000 to develop a training model to enhance tourism readiness in the Buffalo Niagara region’s African American communities. “Heritage Swings,” a series of three consumer tourism packages will be developed after the training sessions are complete, to showcase Buffalo’s African American culture and heritage. www.artscouncilbuffalo.org
• The Burchfield-Penney Art Center (Erie County) was awarded $20,000 to develop a new large scale tourism project entitled “Art on Wheels: Artists Recycle, Reuse and Reinvent in 2003.” From May until October 2003, in conjunction with the World Cycling Championship, artists will create sculptures using recycled materials in a wheel theme to be displayed in public areas; Arts Cars, artistically enhanced automobiles will be displayed throughout the area; and educational programming will be introduced on creative ways to recycle. The Art Cars will be auctioned off online at the end of the season.  www.burchfield-penney.org
• The Catskill Mountain Crafts Collective (Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Schoharie and Ulster Counties) was awarded $20,000 to expand their previously funded project “Catskill Color and Crafts.”  Utilizing the momentum of the crafts trail inaugurated in October 2001, this year a series of eight getaway packages will be introduced as “Artisan Paths” weekends. CMCC will capitalize on the growing interest of visitors wanting to travel by car, with eight self-drive packages and four motor coach tours. www.catskillregiontoday.com
• Council on the Humanities & Arts for Staten Island (Richmond County) was awarded $10,000 to showcase Staten Island as a tourist destination. This project will establish family weekend tour packages that showcase the cultural heritage resources of Staten Island. With new hotels opening on the island, visitors will experience affordable accommodations, tours and discounts throughout the island while only being a short ferry ride from other New York City attractions. www.statenislandarts.org
• Fort Ticonderoga (Essex County) was awarded $15,000 to promote and market the educational reenactment and activities surrounding “The Northern Campaign- 3 Valleys to Freedom Relive America’s Victories of 1777” This is the 225th anniversary of the Burgoyne Campaign as part of the American Revolution. These events will span nine counties throughout the Champlain, Mohawk and Hudson Valleys. www.thenortherncampaign.org
• The Hyde Collection (Warren, Washington and Saratoga Counties) was awarded $20,000 for “Summertime Blues” a new 3 month-long program for June 2002 that will create a new cultural element consisting of the Adirondack Theatre Festival, a visual art exhibition through the Lower Adirondack Arts Council, the Glens Falls Blues Festival, a photography exhibit at the Chapman House Museum, an international children’s art exhibition, and performances by the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra. The centerpiece of this program is the Hyde Collection’s “Visualizing the Blues: Images of South America 1862- 1999”  www.glensfallssummertime.org
• The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (Monroe and Erie Counties) was awarded $20,000 to partner with three other leading museums in Western New York in order to implement a collaborative marketing plan. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), George Eastman House (Rochester) and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House Complex (Buffalo) will work together to market two blockbuster exhibitions: “A Taste of Paris in Upstate New York” and “Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse” which in turn will market the Buffalo and Rochester regions. www.mag.rochester.edu
• Museum Association of New York was awarded $40,000 in along with 19 institutions from 19 counties to partner with the New York State Division of Tourism to develop, implement and evaluate a pilot art museum passport program to continue a statewide visual arts branding effort. This program hopes to serve as a model for collaborative efforts between the museum community and the Tourism Promotion Agency and Convention & Visitors Bureau’s throughout the state. www.manyonline.org/ or www.iloveny.com
• The Rochester Contemporary Inc. (Monroe County and Finger Lakes Region) was awarded $10,000 to launch and promote “Reel in Rochester” which will center around the High Falls Film Festival in October 2002 and the development of regional packages for the Greater Rochester tourist. This endeavor will also showcase the attractive qualities this region has for film production companies.  www.reelinrochester.com/

The following organizations received $2,000 in technical assistance in hopes of aiding those areas that are in need of further cultural tourism training.

• Bronx Council on the Arts (Bronx County) in partnership with the Bronx Tourism Council and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation would like to implement art-themed hop-on/hop-off guided trolley tours of the South Bronx. www.bronxarts.org
• Heritage Theatre Group (Upper Manhattan) in partnership with the Harlem Arts Alliance would like to create a presence on the internet including a cultural web map and arts weekends throughout the Fall and Spring. These promotional activities would showcase over 50 cultural and historical organizations.
• Seneca-Iroquois National Museum (Cattaraugus County) would like to establish the first ever collaboration between the Seneca Nation and the City of Salamanca through aggressive advertising methods to increase the day-tipper tourism potential. www.senecamuseum.org/

This is a program of the Arts & Business Council Inc.® funded by the New York State Council on the Arts.