Help keep the arts alive in our community.
Make a general donation today.

Make a General Donation Now
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We care a lot about supporting artists. That means paying our teachers and performers fairly, opening our space to the community for events like our member art show, and creating programs like our artist residency to provide space and stipends to artists whose stories have often been underrepresented in the art world.

Like most non-profits, we can’t fund this work with programming alone. That’s why we rely on a combination of grant funding, memberships, and donations from people like you to keep the arts alive in CNY. Thank you!

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$100,000 in individual gifts were matched by an anonymous donor!

For the first time in over 30 years, we have launched a capital campaign for the art center. The RAISE THE ROOF campaign will allow us to address two top priorities: 1.  Make urgently needed renovations and repairs to the roof and windows; 2. Build an exciting new culinary arts program in response to community interest. Our goal for this once-in-a-generation campaign is to reach $500,000 by June 2023. We hope you will support the campaign with a donation— every dollar given up to $100,000 was matched by an anonymous donor! Your gift today keeps us on track to meet our goal.

Donate to RAISE THE ROOF

You can also donate through the Community Foundation.

We have established an Agency Fund with the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties as another way to give to support community arts through the RAISE THE ROOF campaign.

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Supporting Donor

Donations of any amount help us to fund our range of programming:

  • Any amount you can afford is enough to help cover essential operations like the cost of printing fliers, running our email services, keeping our lights on, and more.

  • $50 - Is enough to cover the cost of three months of web hosting or an order of fresh art supplies for our studio.

  • $100 - Is enough to cover two new lights for our gallery, or two buckets of paint to freshen up our exterior.

  • $500 - Is enough to cover the whole travel and food stipend for one artist in our Artist Residency Program.

  • $750 - Is enough to cover the ticketing shortfall of bringing a nationally touring concert act to our intimate venue for KAC Live!

Angel Donor

Large donations of $1,000+ help ensure that the KAC can continue for another 60 years!
Your generous gift helps us to plan for these big, essential projects:

  • A full-time, salaried staff member to expand our programming and our reach

  • Make an impact through the RAISE THE ROOF capital campaign so that we can replace the roof and windows, and provide the community with culinary arts opportunities

  • Replace aging equipment in the pottery studio so that we can offer the best ceramics classes and workshops to the community

  • Expanding our endowment to keep our essential arts programming funded and thriving for years to come!

Legacy Gifts

You don’t need to make a donation today to preserve our community institutions for the future. Please contact our executive director at director@kacny.org if you would like to set up a legacy gift to make your legacy one of generosity and service to the arts. We would love to work with you on fulfilling your passion for community arts through the Kirkland Art Center.