Artist Grant Navigation

02/20/2026

Congratulations Rachel Consolazio () and the Apalachin Public Library on your Community Arts Grant via the Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes ()!
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With the support of this award, Consolazio will introduce community members to the traditional craft of ceramic hand building through workshops inspired by her own artistic practice. This project will allow her to increase the number of participants in her teaching artist workshops by introducing a new method of making with clay. Congratulations VINES () and Kari Varner () on your Arts in the Community Grant via the Earlville Opera House () FY2025!
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With the support of this award in the Summer and Fall VINES will host five nature focused art workshops led by Binghamton-based artist, Kari Varner. Community will engage in art making using plants as materials. Techniques include cyanotype, paper-making, watercolor with handmade pigments and film development with plants. This project encourages artistic exploration, skill building, and opens a dialogue about arts relationship to sustainability and agriculture.
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Consolazio first got involved with Artist Grant Navigation through our workshop series and utilized office hours for feedback and an editing on her grant (although she really didn’t need it and hit out of the park on the draft she shared)
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Many congratulations, to you both!

02/19/2026

Attention artists! ‼️ has is FY 2026 SCR Grants open for submissions! ⭐️Available to artists in Broome, Chenango and Otsego! ⭐️Submission deadline is coming up, I’ve added more one-on-one meeting slots so feel free to schedule one-on-ones for feedback or an editing eye! ⭐️

🎨: Kerry James Marshall

02/18/2026

Congratulations to photographer Kari Varner () on your NYSCA Support for Artists Grant FY2026!
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This award will support the use of living algae as a photographic medium to explore the cycle of growth and decay in New York States fresh water ways.
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Varner first engaged with Artist Grant Navigation in 2024 with the intent to work on community arts projects. She successful received an ACG to complete a workshop series with VINES,and used office hours again in 2025 to support her efforts inpursuing NYSCA Artist Support.
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Congratulations Kari!

02/18/2026

The arts are important to our communities and ways of life. This program and the type of work the artists I get to work with do doesn’t happen without grant support. ⭐️ We need our elected officials to advocate for arts funding knowing the long term benefits on us all. ⭐️ Reach out today while our state budget is still in the flexible negotiating progress.
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Thank you for compiling arts based research on our behalf.

12/03/2025

Congratulations to composer and librettist Ü Lee on your NYSCA Support for Artists Grant FY2026!
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This award will support the composition of a children’s opera about self empowerment based on Lee’s children’s own book ‘The Strong, the Fast, and the Tiny.’ Originally an East Asian folktale, Lee translated, adapted, illustrated, and published the story in 2025 with support from an SCR Grant.
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Lee engaged with Artist Grant Navigation beginning in 2024 with the intent to approach a multi year project culminating in applying for NYSCA Artist Support. She shaped a multistep project, utilized office hours for structure and feedback on her grant which she was recently awarded via fiscal sponsorship through the Tri-Cities Opera ()
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Congratulations Ü!

12/02/2025

One-on-ones are free, 30 minute, virtual meetings for artists living or working in Broome or Tioga ⭐️ these are flexible in how they can be used because the point is to support you in whatever way makes the most sense for you, but they work best with a specific project and or grant in mind ⭐️Ehem Tioga County Artists - - there’s a grant deadline approaching this month 👀

12/01/2025

Congratulations to painter Alice Mischke () on your NYSCA Support for Artists Grant FY2026!
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This award will support the creation of a new body of work comprised of abstract and impressionist landscape paintings. Through the proposed work, Mischke intends to share her response to the landscapes of her life and invite the viewers to feel the physicality of the paintings emotional language of color and space. This new body of work will debut at a solo exhibition at Tioga Arts Council ().
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Mischke engaged with Artist Grant Navigation beginning in 2025 with the intent to apply for NYSCA Artist Support. She worked diligently, and utilized office hours for structure and feedback on her grant which she was recently awarded via fiscal sponsorship through the The ARTS Council of the Southern Fingerlakes ()
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Congratulations Alice!

12/01/2025

Artists & Nonprofit Networking 2025 recap! What a blast! Thanks everyone who came this fall to participate, meet each other, and talk creative shop! Huge shoutout to and Arts and Culture Fund for making Artist Grant Navigation possible
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Notes for next time: Bingo should be more challenging, name tags should be stickier, anything else??
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NOTE: office hours are open ESSPECIALLY for my friends in Tioga County looking to submit for SCR! Schedule at the link in my bio
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11/30/2025

Here’s a little about Artist Grant Navigation and why it’s important to support Tioga Arts Council 💙

11/30/2025

Support Tioga Arts Council this giving season! They’re an incredible partner to Artist Grant Navigation and an amazing resource to artists in and around Tioga County 💙

💛🧡💙5 Days of Giving to Raise $5,000. I Reason #3 For Giving: Artist Grant Navigation 💛🧡💙
Several years ago, Anna Warfield Art approached TAC with a partnership proposal. Warfield identified a significant professional gap for artists. While there were grant opportunities to support creative work and community art projects, many artists do not have the knowledge needed to navigate the granting ecosystem—with its specific terminology, rules, and application requirements. Significant funds — some as much as $10,000 per artist — are available, but "left on the table" annually.
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Warfield proposed a program that she would craft and implement: Artist Grant Navigation. However, to build the program, she needed a project partner to help get it started. She asked TAC to serve as a fiscal sponsor to the Community Foundation of South Central New York (CFSCNY). CFSCNY was deeply impressed by the thoughtfulness of the proposal and its potential for impact. With this first award, Artist Grant Navigation — a free program to foster a healthier relationship to and understanding of the world of grants as an artist — launched in May 2024.
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💛🧡💙THE RESULTS TO DATE 💛🧡💙
Sometimes the role of TAC is to recognize and support an artist with a strong vision that advances its mission in the community. Working with Warfieldembodies TAC's role as an avenue of support to bring an idea to life. Since May 2024, Warfield and her Artist Grant Navigation program has supported artists grants that resulted in $80,350 in award funds to artists in Broome and Tioga Counties (so far!). Warfield has also provided many hours of direct support, networking opportunities, and more.
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Bravo and thank you, Anna Warfield!
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10/27/2025

Here’s some tips on how to make the most of your networking experience ⭐️ note! Our upcoming event is at capacity - please be in touch if you’d like to be added to our alternates list. Thank you for understanding ⭐️