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Urban Artist Initiative (UAI)
The Urban Artist Initiative/NYC (UAI/NYC) is a grants program for NYC artists of all disciplines who self-define as artists of color. In the past two grant cycles, the program has given over $200,000 to over 100 talented individual artists living in New York City.
UAI is spearheaded by a steering committee made up of representatives of 6 organizations: Asian American Arts Alliance, Association of Hispanic Arts, Bronx Council on the Arts, Harlem Arts Alliance, New York Foundation for the Arts and Queens Council on the Arts. If you need additional information, please contact Ted Berger.
October 29th Is the Next UAI/NYC Grants Deadline -
Third Grant Cycle for Support for NYC
Artists of Color
The New York Foundation for the Arts and the Urban Artist Initiative/ New York City (UAI/NYC), announce the third application cycle of the new grants program for NYC individual artists of color.
In the groundbreaking first two grant cycles of the UAI/NYC grant program, 140 artists have received a total of $225,000.
This year - with support provided by Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation - this initiative marks the third year of a cross-discipline grant program developed specially for NYC artists who self-identify their heritage as African, Latino, Asian, or Native American, embracing as well the diversity that exists within communities of color.
UAI/NYC, like so many others, has had to adjust to funding reductions because of the economy. This year 34 Fellowships of $1,500 each will be available to individual artists for their artistic and professional development, allocated in accordance with the City’s
demographics. Furthermore, grants in this cycle will be awarded only in the visual arts and media arts. Native American artists, however, may apply in the performing and literary arts as well.
UAI/NYC has been developed by a consortium including AMERINDA, INC., the Asian American Arts Alliance, the Harlem Arts Alliance, and the Latino Artists’ Initiative (sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts) working in partnership with the Queens Council on the Arts, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Bronx Council on the Arts – the project’s sponsoring organization.
The deadline for application submission is October 29, 2009. The online application is available at http://uai.cuerate.org or by going to the website of any of consortium members. Applications should be submitted online.
A series of application seminars has been scheduled throughout the city by the consortium members as well as the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Council for the Arts and Humanities of Staten Island, and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance to answer questions about eligibility and the application process. Artists interested in applying are encouraged to attend (See Schedule).
UAI/NYC is part of a national effort to strengthen the infrastructure and support for artists throughout the country; it is one of the Creative Communities programs of LINC (Leveraging Investments in Creativity), a national network of cities which serves as a laboratory for projects effecting local and national change in the lives of artists.
UAI/NYC is one of the major projects of the Creative Communities’ program specifically addressing artists’ of color.
Besides its generous support for this cycle from the funders listed above, UAI/NYC has been supported in previous years with funds provided by LINC via the Ford Foundation, the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, the Buddy Fund for Justice of the Rockefeller Philanthropic Advisors, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Booth Ferris Foundation.
UAI/NYC, a unique collaboration of seven arts intermediaries, creates a point of entry for artists from their specific communities, some of whom have not traditionally participated in grant and service programs for artists. Because the organizations are working as one entity, an even more powerful alliance is being shaped to include and recognize the contributions and talents of so many previously under-recognized artists.
It provides an important mechanism to begin to bring greater attention to the individual and collective needs of artists of color.
UAI/NYC 2009 Application Seminars
Tuesday, September 29th
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Asian American Arts Alliance and the
New York Foundation for the Arts
www.aaartsalliance.org;
www.nyfa.org
212-941-9208 (Asian American Arts Alliance);
212-366-6900 (NYFA)
20 Jay Street, Suite 740
Brooklyn NY 11201
Tuesday, October 6th
6:00 pm
Council for the Arts and Humanities on Staten Island
www.statenislandarts.org
718-518-6728
Location to be determined
Wednesday, October 7th
6:00 pm
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA)
www.nomaa.org
718-647-3377
178 Bennett Avenue
Washington Heights NY 10040
Thursday, October 8th
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bronx Council on the Arts
www.bronxarts.org
718-518-6728
Longwood Arts Center
149th & Grand Concourse
(Seminar – in the Gallery)
Bronx NY
Tuesday, October 13th
6:00 pm – 8 pm
Harlem Arts Alliance
www.harlemaa.org
347-735-4280
Dwyer Cultural Center
258 St. Nicholas Ave (@ 123rd St.)
Wednesday, October 14th
6:30pm – 7:30 pm
Queens Council on the Arts
www.queenscouncilarts.org
718-647-3377
Queens Borough Hall
120-55 Queens Blvd.
Kew Gardens -Queens NY
Thursday, October 15th
6:00 pm – 8 pm
Brooklyn Arts Council
718-625-0080
www.brooklynartscouncil.org
Location to be determined
Date, Time to be determined
AMERINDA, INC.
www.amerinda.org
212-598-0968
Location to be determined
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