• NEWS STORIES
  
• WORDS AND STORIES FROM THE ARTS COMMUNITY
  
• HELP FOR THOSE IMPACTED/HOW TO HELP
  
• INVITATIONS TO RESPOND
  
• EVENTS
  
• IMPACT OF THE ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
• MEMORIALS AND REBUILDING

NEWS STORIES SEPTEMBER 11, 2002 _Michael Richards, 1963-2001 _New York Arts Recovery Fund Distributes over $4.6 Million to New York City-based Artists and Arts Organizations Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur091002.html September 10, 2002 A YEAR HAS PASSED: Day of Remembrance: SEPTEMBER 11, 2002 IN NEW YORK CITY Day of Remembrance: NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, and WASHINGTON Day of Remembrance: FROM BOSTON, MA TO LOS ANGELES, CA Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur090302.html September 3, 2002 Imagine New York Presents Nearly 19,000 Visions and Ideas - Collected from the Public for the Place Now Known as Ground Zero Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur073002.html#news1 July 30, 2002 Many in the NYC Arts Community Still Struggling Eight Months After 911 Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur051402.html#news1 May 14, 2002 Six Months After September 11, 2001, Artists Make Art in the Aftermath of Disaster -- Illuminating the Night, Expressing Diverse Visions, Reflecting and Narrating the Hopes and Fears of Individuals and Communities Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur031902.html#news1 March 19, 2002 From Exit Art in New York City to the Santa Fe Art Institute, Artists and Arts Organizations Create and Foster Art About September 11 Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur012902.html#news1 January 29, 2002 WORLD VIEWS OPEN STUDIO - LMCC and the New Museum Present New Work from the Artists Whose Studios Were in the WTC on Sept 11, 2001 Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur120401.html#news1 December 4, 2001 More than 700 Artists Lived or Worked Below Canal Street but Extent of Damage Still Unclear; Fallout from the Attack Will Permeate the Lives of NYC Artists for Years to Come Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur102301.html#news3 October 23, 2001 "Many Artists in LMCC World Views Program Lost all Their Work; But Group Pulls Together to Mourn Those Who Died and to Dialogue about the Future" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur100201.html#news1 October 2, 2001 "Michael Richards, 1963 - 2001" Arts Wire Current-- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur092501.html#else September 25, 2001 "Reports of Arts Community Losses Accumulate as Artists and Arts Administrators Cope with the Aftermath of Disaster; Stories of Survival and of Helping Hands Bring Light in the Darkness; In Union Square, Shrines Express a Collective Grief" Arts Wire Current-- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur092501.html#news1 September 25, 2001 "In the Wake of the Terrorist Attack, Artists and Arts Organizations Rally to Help Those in Need; Jamaican Sculptor Michael Richards Missing; LMCC Offices Obliterated" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur091801.html#news3 September 18, 2001 WORDS AND STORIES FROM THE ARTS COMMUNITY Alan Lynes: THE GEOMETRY OF FORGETTING CANNOT BE JUSTIFIED Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur091002.html September 10, 2002 "I had to go to Battery Park City this morning to bear witness and gain strength. Being there convinced me again that the power of the human spirit far outweighs the sadness" - Alan Lynes, ArtistCares Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur031902.html#news2 March 19, 2002 "CANDLES AND FLAGS by Barbara Ann Levy" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur012902.html#news2 January 29, 2002 "Dust was filling the air and the horror seeped like the foul smell slowly into consciousness...." - Pat Oleszko Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur111301.html#else2 November 13, 2001 "I felt I was living in a Magritte painting, the most surrealistic of all worlds. Nothing seemed real-and New York was silent with the dead sound of the thousands who were missing" -- Judith Hoffberg Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur110601.html#around November 6, 2001 "The Artist Network's OUR GRIEF IS NOT A CRY FOR WAR" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur102301.html#around October 23, 2001 "Photographer Loni Efron's Images Record her September 11 Escape" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur100801.html#else October 8, 2001 "Artist Wendy Cook Helps Rescue 17 Pets from WTC Disaster Area" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur100201.html#else October 2, 2001 "From Ted Berger, Executive Director, New York Foundation for the Arts" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur091801.html#news1 September 18, 2001 "From the New York City Arts Coalition" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur091801.html#news2 September 18, 2001 "'We too can use very simple things - tape, pencils, crayons, a song, movement, and yes even matt knives, to help the healing process - to bring light into this terrible time of darkness.'" - Naj Wykoff Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur091801.html#else September 18, 2001 "WOLFGANG STAEHLE - 2001, Postmasters, NYC: a work intended to offer viewers 'the antidote of a reflective slowdown of beautiful images' now reflects the destruction of September 11" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur091801.html#events September 18, 2001 "'As the streets south of MediaChannel's Times Square offices are full of dust and debris, with silence broken by sirens, we present a special edition focused on the media's response to yesterday's attacks on New York and Washington, D.C.'" - MEDIACHANNEL Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur091801.html#around September 18, 2001 HELP/HOW TO HELP New York Arts Recovery Fund Distributes over $4.6 Million to New York City-based Artists and Arts Organizations Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur091002.html September 10, 2002 In a Gesture of Solidarity with New York City, the City of Paris Awards Six Month Residencies to Three NY Artists Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur051402.html#else July 9, 2002 Mellon Foundation Announces Third Round of Grants to Assist NYC Cultural and Performing Arts Organizations Affected by 911 Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur051402.html#fund May 14, 2002 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Gives Grants Totaling $375,000 to Artists Impacted by Sept 11 Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur051402.html#news3 May 14, 2002 DISASTER ASSISTANCE UPDATES The New York Arts Recovery Fund Raises $4.15 million Bush Signs Bill to Provide Additional $320 M for SBA Disaster Relief Loans FEMA Extends Disaster Unemployment Assistance Deadline Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur012902.html#news3 January 29, 2002 ARTISTCARES WORKSHOPS Prepare Artists to Work with the Community in Creative Healing Workshops Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur012902.html#confs January 29, 2002 A Collaborative Partnership of New York's Arts Service Organizations on Behalf of Artists and Arts Organizations NEW YORK ARTS RECOVERY FUND Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur1211701.html#news1 December 11, 2001 Mellon Foundation Special Fund Will Assist New York City Cultural and Performing Arts Organizations Impacted by 911 Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur112701.html#news4 November 27, 2001 Artists and Arts Organizations Pitch in to Commemorate Losses and Raise Funds for Victims October 23, 2001 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Establishes Emergency Grant Program to Deal with the Crises October 23, 2001 NEA Chairman's Special Grant to Aid in NYC Arts Relief October 23, 2001 "Help for Artists and Organizations Impacted by WTC Attack" "FORD Foundation Commits $10 Million for Disaster Relief" Including for Nonprofits" "CERF Provides Disaster Relief to Craftspeople" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur092501.html#fund September 25, 2001 "Santa Fe Art Institute Offers Free Residencies to Artists Whose Spaces Have Been Compromised by the Terrorism" http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur092501.html#calls September 25, 2001 "From NYC DCA: How to Help Afflicted NYC Arts Organizations" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur091801.html#fund September 18, 2001 INVITATIONS TO RESPOND THE JAR PROJECT - Contribute Artwork to a 911 Memorial - Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, New York City Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur091302.html#calls July 30, 2002 IMAGINE NEW YORK Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur030502.html#else March 3, 2002 WTC - Living in the Shadows A 25 year Collective Retrospective Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur120401.html#calls December 4, 2001 "HERE IS NEW YORK Invites Photographs Connected to the Destruction of the World Trade Center; Proceeds Will go to Children who are Victims of the Catastrophe" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur100801.html#calls" October 8, 2001 "DIALOGUE Invites the Arts Community to Voice Their Thoughts" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur100201.html#calls October 2, 2001 "Call for Artists to Work with the Families of WTC Destruction Victims" Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur091801.html#calls September 18, 2001 "Artwork expressing freedom, WHY ART ABOUT THE ATTACK ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER & PENTAGON" "Works by artists, poets, creative writers, photographers, and digital artists -- on the themes of Democracy, Terrorism, U. S. Elections, and Multicultural Understanding, THE DEMOCRACY CHRONICLE" "Poetry, benefit chapbook '911 Poetry' about the recent World Trade Center/Pentagon tragedy, CIRCLE MAGAZINE" "Postcards from anyone who wants to say something, write something, draw, paint, make or photograph something about what happened on September 11/2001 in New York, POSTCARDS TO NEW YORK, MACY GALLERY, TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NY" Leeway Foundation Harmony Grants Support Philadelphia Women Artists' Projects which Promote Tolerance Arts Wire Current Calls -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/morecall.html EVENTS The Bronx Museum of the Arts Presents HIP HOP HOPE -- an Evening Celebrating the Spirit of Urban Communities that Survived the Pre- and Post-Sept 11 Environment _Abu Jafar - WHITE LETTER 2002 - Trafalgar Square, London Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur091002.html September 10, 2002 A YEAR HAS PASSED: _LMCC: EVENING STARS MUSIC & DANCE FESTIVAL _POETRY AFTER 9/11, AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW YORK POETS at The New Amsterdam Library _Broadway Goes Dark on September 11, 2002 < _IN MY OWN SKIN Portrays the Intersection of American and Arabic Culture in New York City _YAHRZEIT: SEPTEMBER 11TH OBSERVED at the Museum of Jewish Heritage http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur090302.html September 3, 2002 Day of Remembrance: SEPTEMBER 11, 2002 IN NEW YORK CITY _Ceremony at the site of the World Trade Center Honors the Dead; Fireworks and Sails in New York Harbor _REFLECTIONS, The Studio Museum of Harlem _SEPTEMBER 11: ARTISTS RESPOND, American Craft Museum _MUSICIANS FOR HARMONY: CONCERT TO COMMEMORATE SEPTEMBER 11, Merkin Concert Hall _110 STORIES: NEW YORK WRITES AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, Melville Gallery, South Street Seaport Museum _THE UNITY CANVAS, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center _MICROVIEWS ARTISTS' DOCUMENTS OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center and the MAS Urban Center Galleries _BRAVE NEW WORLD, the Town Hall _Baruch College: IN MEMORY: THE ART OF AFTERWARD _AFTERIMAGE, Dixon Place http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur090302.html September 3, 2002 Day of Remembrance: NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, and WASHINGTON _FOREVER CHANGED - PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE JERSEY JOURNAL, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ _Tatana Kellner: REQUIEM FOR SEPTEMBER 11th, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY _WHERE THERE IS SORROW, THERE IS HOLY GROUND, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead NY _WRITING GROUND ZERO, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ _FLIGHT 93 REMEMBERED, the State Museum of Pennsylvania Remembers the Events of September 11, 2001 _NBC's CONCERT FOR AMERICA, Kennedy Center http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur090302.html September 3, 2002 Day of Remembrance: FROM BOSTON, MA TO LOS ANGELES, CA Arts Wire Current -- _The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston, MA _9/11 Gallery, Levantine Center, Los Angeles, CA _COMMUNITY ARTISTS UNITE: SEPTEMBER 11TH--REFLECTIVE IMAGES, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia _MUSIC HEALS: A MEMORIAM TO SEPTEMBER 11, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida _WHEN SUDDEN TERROR TEARS APART, Trinity Lutheran Church, Detroit MI _Edward T. Linenthal, The Milwaukee Public Museum _Mark Polishook and Lisa Hutton: REVISITING SEPTEMBER 11, Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle, WA _9/11 MANHATTAN/MANHATTAN, Creative Arts Center, Manhattan, CA _Carol Flax: MEMORIA/MEMOIRE, ASU, Tempe, AZ _The Santa Fe Art Institute Opens 9/11 REFUGE with the Work of New York Artists, Santa Fe, NM _FLAGGING SPIRITS, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX _PUGET SOUND MUSEUMS REMEMBER _FUNERAL FOR A FALLEN HERO, A Dance Tribute to the Victims o of September 11, Japan America Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA _INTERNATIONAL PEACE PROJECT, Virginia Discovery Museum, Charlottesville, VA http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur090302.html September 3, 2002 AAM/IMLS - CELEBRATE AMERICA'S FREEDOMS: A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE Museums Work with Communities to Plan Day of Remembrance on September 11, 2002 http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur073002.html#news2 July 30, 2002 YAHRZEIT: SEPTEMBER 11 OBSERVED - The Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City GROUND ZERO - Museum of New Art, Detroit Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur073002.html#events July 30, 2002 Marshall Weber and M.T. Karthik: ...EVEN THE BIRDS WERE ON FIRE.... Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur070202.html#else July 2, 2002 CONSIDERED RESPONSE HOW CAN THE ARTS RESPOND TO TERROR AND WAR? Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, Washington, DC Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur061102.html#confs June 11, 2002 From Exit Art in New York City to the Santa Fe Art Institute, Artists and Arts Organizations Create and Foster Art About September 11 Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur012902.html#news1 January 29, 2002 Rochester Contemporary/VSW: VOICES FROM THE ARAB WORLD Oberon Theatre Ensemble Presents I, UNSEEN by Marika Mashburn - Jan Hus Playhouse, NYC COMMENTING AMERICA by Ray Sullivan -- Miami Contemporary Dance Company Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur012902.html#events January 29, 2002 WORLD VIEWS OPEN STUDIO - LMCC and the New Museum Present New Work from the Artists Whose Studios Were in the WTC on Sept 11, 2001 Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur120401.html#news1 December 4, 2001 New York Arts Community Galvanizes in Support of the New York Arts Recovery Fund ARTS ON THE HIGH WIRE Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur121101.html#news3 December 11, 2001 Four Washington, DC Area Art Schools Collaborate in an Exhibition of Student Work in Response to the September 11 Attack -- George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur120401.html#events December 4, 2001 AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH REFLECTING ON CHANGES IN THE ARTWORLD Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur112701.html#confs November 27, 2001 NYFA Panel Discussion: THE ARTIST IN TIME OF CRISIS Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur110601.html#confs November 6, 2001 AIVF Website Documents 9-11 Responses by NYC Media Organizations Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur110601.html#calls November 6, 2001 TWIN TOWERS REMEMBERED - Camilo Jos Vergara's photographs, National Building Museum, Washington, DC Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur112001.html#events November 20, 2001 Statewide Arts Conference: REBUILDING AND RECOVERY: THE ARTS AT GROUND ZERO Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur051402.html#news4 May 14, 2002 IMPACT OF THE ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION NOT IN OUR NAME Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur073002.html#else July 30, 2002 "As Americans Gather to End Terrorist Attacks, Freedom of Expression is a Vitally Important Liberty: Bipartisan Coalition Urges Protection of America's Constitutionally Guaranteed Freedoms" Arts Wire Current-- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur092501.html#news2 September 25, 2001 "THE LANDS WITHIN ME - EXPRESSIONS BY CANADIAN ARTISTS OF ARAB ORIGIN Will Open at Canadian Museum of Civilization as Scheduled" Arts Wire Current-- " http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur100801.html#news2 October 8, 2001 "....there is no more appropriate time than a time of national crisis, than a time when we are entering a very complicated and dangerous war to hear diverse opinions...." Wendy Kaminer, PBS ONLINE NEWSHOUR Arts Wire Current-- " http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur100801.html#news2 October 23, 2001 Boston Symphony Orchestra Cancels Performances of Adams/Goodman DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER Choruses http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur112701.html#news3 November 27, 2001 Nat Hentoff, Barbara Kingsolver, and Michael Moore, to Discuss 911: CIVIL LIBERTIES IN A TIME OF CRISIS at BOOKEXPO - NYC Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur031902.html#else March 19, 2002 MEMORIALS AND REBUILDING Imagine New York Presents Nearly 19,000 Visions and Ideas - Collected from the Public for the Place Now Known as Ground Zero Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur073002.html#news1 July 30, 2002 Jersey City Calls for Design Proposals for WORLD TRADE CENTER MEMORIAL Artists, Designers, Landscape Architects, and Architects Invited to Propose TEMPORARY MEMORIALS throughout NYC Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur070202.html#calls July 2, 2002 Mary Miss: MOVING PERIMETER - Proposal Still Seeks to Transform the Perimeter of Ground Zero into Continuous Sky-blue Fencing Interspersed with Seating, Sound, Trees, and Flowers Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur070202.html#news3 July 2, 2002 Six Months After September 11, 2001, Artists Make Art in the Aftermath of Disaster -- Illuminating the Night, Expressing Diverse Visions, Reflecting and Narrating the Hopes and Fears of Individuals and Communities Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur031902.html#news1 March 19, 2002 TOWERS OF LIGHT Arts Wire Current -- http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur112701.html#else November 27, 2001