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Dear NYFA Current subscriber,

Since the recession hit nearly a year ago, NYFA Current has been at the forefront of reporting on how artists have been impacted by the downturn. From our first "Art Market Recession Report" to our special "Money" issue and podcast on "Envisioning a 21st-Century WPA," NYFA Current remains committed to providing vital, up-to-date information as well as stories on artists who are using the recession to jump-start their own initiatives. In addition, NYFA Current has provided over $15,000 to artists who have contributed their writings to the magazine over the past year.

The economic crisis has impacted NYFA as well, and in order for us to continue publishing NYFA Current in 2010 we'll need your support. Launched in 2004 as a free online publication for artists, which focuses on the creative process rather than on art as a market-driven product, NYFA Current remains as relevant as ever. We're asking our readers who value independent, nonprofit media and intelligent cultural analysis to contribute what they can to ensure that Current continues to thrive.

We have some of our strongest issues coming up this fall: September is a themed issue on "Miami in the off season," offering an in-depth look at artists, arts workers, and collectors who flourish in Miami year-round, not only when the art fairs are in town. October provides a portrait of New York artists and how they're weathering the economic storm; we'll also profile The Laundromat Project, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that mounts public art projects in laundromats throughout New York City, and which offers an innovative social model for sustainability that's especially pertinent right now.

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Sincerely,
Suzan Sherman, NYFA Current Editor

Images: Phoebe Washburn, Tickle the Shitstem, mixed media (2008), Phoebe Washburn is a NYFA Fellow in Sculpture; Rossana Martínez, Glow, performance and site-specific installation (2006); Shinsuke Aso, Shinsuke Aso: Postcard (SAPC), presented by MINUS SPACE for the Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk (2008); Margarida Correia, Sims (2005); Robert Boyd, a still from Xanadu, a four-channel video installation (2007), Robert Boyd is a NYFA fellow in Interdisciplinary Work; "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi" spraypainted on a curbside couch.