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- EIN 30-0195212
- 518.463.2222
- 68 Grand Street Albany NY 12202 USA
- http://grandarts.org
- grandstreetarts
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Causes: Community Recreational Centers, Sports
Mission: The mission of Grand Street Community Arts is to create unity through the arts in an inner-city neighborhood with racial and economic diversity. GSCA aims to cultivate dialogue between the overlapping constituencies of the Mansion Neighborhood, greater South End, and Downtown Albany. The Mansion Neighborhood is a distinctly heterogeneous neighborhood with tenants and homeowners of all social classes - old Italian families, a long established African-American community, an established counter-cultural community, and a burgeoning Puerto Rican and Karen (Burmese) population. GSCA strives to create a place where these diverse constituencies can come together as people, as neighbors, to find commonality through arts and culture.
Results: Grand Street Community Arts is a neighborhood-based organization. GSCA is restoring the former St. Anthony's Church for use as a flexible performance, exhibition, and educational space. Since December 2012, we have reduced our programming to focus on building renovation. We offer our two key programs off-site: Youth Organics (YO!), a seasonal garden project for teens now in its tenth year; Youth Film eXperience (YouthFX), a film program for teens starting its seventh year. We have a community radio group forming an LPFM station to go on air in 2015. Past activities to be restored when our building is open include after-school and summer programs for young people, art exhibitions, concerts and community theater. GSCA has spearheaded a variety of vacant lot renewal projects throughout Albany, and has been host for community meetings and events.
Target demographics: promote unity through the arts
Geographic areas served: Albany
Programs: our YouthFX summer film/video academy, our YouthOrganics! summer gardening programming, community theater productions and art exhibitions.