Artswestchester Inc

"education and community" include artswestchester's education and community services to children, senior citizens, and others in schools, daycare centers, mental health facilities, and other centers where the arts are a teaching, learning, and recovery strategy. To date, as a community-oriented organization, artswestchester participates in the white plains community resource (formerly known as the white plains housing authority housing task force), a bi-weekly meeting bringing together heads of community and service agencies and sharing valuable information that would benefit city residents.

"public information services" bring arts information to the public on a regular basis. Artswestchester serves as a county-wide marketer of the arts promoting more than 1,500 arts events annually through its various communication programs. Central to artswestchester's role is its work to build arts audiences and earned income for arts groups through the marketing and public information services it provides. The organization continues its outreach efforts to build arts audiences in westchester and beyond. A combination of print, web, mobile, radio and social media strategies are utilized throughout the year in order to drive arts-interested consumers to www.artswestchester.org. Through strategic partnerships with the westchester county business journal, today media and the examiner newspapers, artswestchester drives traffic to arts and culture articles featuring active hyperlinks linking readers directly to arts groups' websites. Artswestchester's weekly arts(e)newsletter are sent to more than 18,000 email subscribers to promote the events and exhibitions of artswestchester's 150+ affiliate arts groups. Artsnews provides editorial content on its website with articles published as blogs that are shared through social media throughout the year. Artswestchester actively promotes arts and cultural content and events on a variety of social media platforms including facebook, twitter, instagram, linkedin and you tube with a total of more than 35,000 followers. With annual visits/sessions of nearly 200,000, artswestchester's website continues to offer an online curated calendar of arts events as well as arts news and resources for individual residents, artists and arts organizations.

"the artswestchester building" was purchased in order to create a space for artists. During normal times the building provides an active, dynamic central location in which artists, emerging arts organizations and creative businesses have access to affordable offices, studios, exhibition space and rehearsal and performance venues. Artswestchester responded to tenant needs during the pandemic, some of which included downsizing into smaller spaces which resulted in diminished rental revenue. Artswestchester acquired the people's national bank building located at 31 mamaroneck avenue, white plains, in december 1998; had it listed on both the national and new york state registers of historic places in 2000, relocated its administrative offices there and renovated and restored its historic features in 2005 and continues annual infrastructure improvements.