Arts Council for Wyoming County

Folk arts glow traditions supports our area's living cultural heritage through documentation and public programming of traditional arts. It operates collaboratively among the arts council of wyoming county, genesee valley council on the arts, and the genesee-orleans regional arts council. This regional program has been led since 1997 by founding director, karen canning. Although the "our farms, our families" grant project was a 2019 initiative, portions of the project were not executed until 2020 including the production of a new book that features the work of 10 artists who were commissioned to create new art that document the farming culture in wyoming county. The grant project will culminate in 2021. This grant was made possible through the finger lakes regional economic development council (redc). Securing multiple grants for the rural community we serve. Grants received from the new york state council on the arts (nysca), wyoming county gov., wyoming foundation / community for greater buffalo, mary conable foundation, conable family foundation, and more.