Company Profile
Caroga Arts Collective
Company Overview
Caroga Arts Collective presents over fifty performances and community events featuring world-class artists from various styles of arts and entertainment in the Southern Adirondacks throughout the year. A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, Caroga Arts presents the Caroga Lake Music Festival, Your Body is Your Strad, InterArts Symposium, Myhil Film Series, Artist Residencies, and other projects.
Caroga Arts seeks to bring together a community of artists to collaborate across fields and genres on interdisciplinary projects. Caroga Arts focuses on revitalizing local culture, business, and life by providing unique experiences through collaborative performances, community outreaches, exhibits, and adult/youth education.
Inspired by the serene, beautiful lakes and inviting community, artists are dedicated to presenting innovative art in this relaxed, naturally intimate backdrop of the Adirondacks.
Caroga Arts takes pride in offering a humble and intimate artistic experience to our community, but also presenting a diverse and challenging repertoire performed with precision.
While in residence, all artists are encouraged to interact and connect with the residents of our Caroga Lake community and extend our sincere appreciation for their generous contributions to Caroga Arts.
Learn more at CarogaArts.org
Company History
Kyle Barrett Price, Founder & Artistic Director of Caroga Arts Collective, spent his childhood summers in Caroga Lake where his grandmother resides on West Caroga Lake. Price and his family frequently walked to Sherman’s Amusement Park from his grandmother’s camp and took rides on the Carousel and Ferris Wheel growing up.
When Price was a rising senior at Cleveland Institute of Music, his dream of bringing his friends to play chamber music in Caroga Lake became a reality when he founded the Caroga Lake Music Festival in 2012. In its inaugural season, he invited seven string musician friends for a weeklong residency in Caroga Lake – all seven musicians stayed at Price’s grandmother’s home sleeping on sofas and double beds.
Thanks to the generosity of the Caroga Chapel, Price and the musicians rehearsed and performed their first full concert in August 2012.