Business Description
Founded in 1986 by and for artists and audiences, Saratoga Arts' mission is to cultivate, nourish and sustain the arts in all its forms, and to ensure that the arts are accessible for all.
Saratoga Arts is a non-profit arts service organization dedicated to developing and promoting a thriving year-round cultural environment in Saratoga-area communities. Since 1997, Saratoga Arts has operated The Arts Center at the corner of Broadway and Spring Street in Saratoga Springs, where it welcome viewers to exciting art exhibits, stimulates students of all ages and skill levels in a wide variety of art classes and workshops, presents performances of all genres and hosts programs by other arts organization, and funds many programs that bring the arts to every corner of Saratoga.
Saratoga Arts also presents First Night Saratoga, a family-friendly community-wide arts festival that on December 31, 2010 brought 15,000-20,000 people to downtown Saratoga Springs. In 2010, the organization was awarded five pieces of World Trade Center steel from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; regional artists John Van Alstine and Noah Savett are transforming the material into a large scale sculpture called Tempered By Memory, and upon its completion, Saratoga Arts will donate the work to the City of Saratoga Springs for permanent display in front of the Saratoga Springs City Center.
Directed by a professional staff and a volunteer Board of Directors, with support from many community volunteers, Saratoga Arts enriches the lives of those who live, work in, and visit the Saratoga region and has established itself as a vital force for the arts in upstate New York.
- Saratoga Arts has nearly 1,000 members of all ages and interests.
- The Arts Center, at 320 Broadway in historic downtown Saratoga Springs, is the home for arts education for all ages; an art gallery; a gift shop, a resource room overlooking Congress Park with art-related information; and a performance space for film, music, theater, and much more.
- Over 1,000 people visit our art gallery monthly.
- Over 950 people per year attend our classes.
- Audiences totaling over 20,000 attend programs sponsored by the Arts Council, throughout the county.
- Saratoga Arts has awarded over $750,000 in grant funds to support community arts & cultural programming, and artist residencies in schools throughout Saratoga County.
Address & Contact
- Street:
- 320 Broadway
- Postcode:
- 12866
- City:
- Saratoga Springs
- State:
- New York
- Zip:
- 12866
- Phone:
- 518 584-4132
- Website:
- www.saratoga-arts.org
- Category:
- Local Business
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