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Creating Unity and Connection Through the Arts

Grand Street Community Arts. Creating Unity and Connection Through the Arts. Mission. To create unity and connection, especially through the arts, in an inner-city neighborhood with racial and economic diversity.

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Creating Unity and Connection Through the Arts

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  1. Grand Street Community Arts Creating Unity and Connection Through the Arts

  2. Mission To create unity and connection, especially through the arts, in an inner-city neighborhood with racial and economic diversity. The arts center creates a supportive community and focuses on its youth. The center presents a broad spectrum of arts programs and performances that encourage art as a natural tool of expression available to everyone. By restoring historic St. Anthony’s church as its home, the arts center creates and nurtures a link with the unique living history of the local community.

  3. Focus on Youth Youth Programs Youth Arts Youth Film eXperience (Youth FX) Youth Organics

  4. Youth Arts Offers daily activities and art classes for inner-city youth ages 4-12

  5. Youth Film eXperience (Youth FX) A film program that introduces youth ages 14-18 to digital filmmaking as a tool of expression while they learn how to script, produce, and edit their own films.

  6. Youth Organics Engages teens through trainings in sustainable agriculture, cooking, nutrition, and community gardening.

  7. Community Programs BoardedUP Vacant Lot Project

  8. BoardedUP • BoardedUP is a street level, outdoor exhibition of new works by local area artists. • Utilizing the boarded-up windows of our arts center, artists are invited to paint and donate the board to Grand Street Community Arts. • All artwork is sold at our annual BoardedUP Exhibition and Silent Auction

  9. Vacant Lot Project • The Vacant Lot Project is essentially an “Adopt a Lot” initiative that seeks to transform abandoned urban property in the South End of Albany. • Individuals and groups develop project proposals and Grand Street Community Arts helps implement the plans.

  10. Events at Grand Street Community Arts • The Grand Street Community Arts Center is a beautiful space where some amazing events have taken place! • Discard Avant Garb • Refugee Voices • Hurricane Season • VestuaryOperatics • BoardedUP Auction • 1st Friday of Albany • And more!

  11. My Role at GSCA • AmeriCorps* VISTA! • Development & Volunteer Coordinator • Marketing outreach • Volunteer recruitment and coordination • Strategic planning and building capacity of the organization by connecting community resources • Fundraising and grant-writing • Building an online wiki for GSCA staff and volunteers to use and stay organized • Developing a donor base

  12. Questions? • Jennifer Simek • jennifersimek@grandarts.org • (518) 463-2222

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