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Wells College in the Buffalo suburb of Aurora is getting $20,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts to continue its Visiting Artists Program, which brings writers, artists, and performers to the area, the Democrat and Chronicle reports.
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Kathy Hochul announced more than $46 million in grant awards through the NYSCA, which will fund more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations and 500 individual artists to support New York's creative economy by building community, boosting tourism and local economies, and strengthening personal and collective health, per a press release.
Wells was awarded under the Support for Organizations category, which will allow the arts faculty and staff to bring multiple writers, artists, and performers into the Wells and surrounding communities.
The program is responsible for many interactive events and workshops, such as award-winning writers visiting campus, known as the Visiting Writers Series, exhibitions from world-renowned artists who feature their artwork in the college's String Room Gallery, an annual Book Arts Summer Institute that invites the public to learn the book arts from acclaimed book artists within the college's Book Arts Center, and the continuation of performing arts within the college's Theatre Department, which presents four to six free and open-to-the-public performances annually and drew more than 700 people to Phipps Auditorium with Read the Entire Article
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