NYFA Community Website is a resource site and community conversation organized for all attendees of NYFA's Fall 2008 Business of Art Conference- Taking It to the Streets.
New resources, comments and events will be regularly posted for the week before and two weeks after the conference.
To share information about you, post comments or ask questions to the group email me at cblatchford@nyfa.org.

For You:

Some New York City Resources
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Provides Resource with links including insurance, sites, permits. Previously provided Grant Program for Art in Public Spaces.

MTA Arts for Transit
Public Art Program administered by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit

NYC Dept. of Parks & Recreation
Temporary Public Outdoor Art Proposal Guidelines

New York City Sculpture
A resource on New York City public sculpture.

Percent for the Art
The homepage for NYC’s Percent for the Art Program run by the Department of Cultural Affairs. This includes the image registry form which is what makes you eligible for selection for programs.

Public Art Fund
The Public Art Fund is New York's leading presenter of artists' projects, new commissions, and exhibitions in public spaces. It has a few programs related with public art; Public Art Fund Talks which offer an ongoing series of discussions and presentations by some of today’s most influential artists, critics and curators; In the Public Realm an opportunity for artists living or working in New York State to create a temporary work in a public space.

Some related reading from NYFA's Business of Art Articles, we think are interesting and related.

Propsal Writing for Funding Projects by Yedda Morrison
Artist in the Community by Bill Rauch

A RFQ that was recently posted on NYFA's Classifieds under Opportunities and Services for Artists.

Other Sites withe great suggestions and ideas on public art:
Eve Mosher's new blog called d.i.y Public Art.
GYST, a California based company which provides an excellent software for artists to get organized, also has compiled a series of articles on public art in the blog segment of their website.

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