While the following may not be relevant to artists seeking resources for dire financial need, it is always a good idea to be familiar with your local art service organizations.
STATE AND MUNICIPAL AGENCIES
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA)
Part of DCLA’s mission is to ensure adequate public funding for non-profit cultural organizations, both large and small, throughout the five boroughs.
Mailing Address:
31 Chambers Street
New York, New York 10007
Telephone: 212-513-9300
Email: can be found at http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/contact/contact.shtml
Website: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/home/home.shtml
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
The New York State Council on the Arts is dedicated to preserving and expanding the rich and diverse cultural resources that are and will become the heritage of New York's citizens. The Council believes in supporting the following.
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA)
Mailing Address
175 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014-4604
Telephone: (212) 627-4455
TDD: 1-800-895-9838
Contact list: http://www.nysca.org/public/contact/staff_list.htm
Website: http://www.nysca.org/public/home.cfm
BOROUGH ARTS COUNCILS
Brooklyn Council on the Arts
Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) strives to enrich the quality of life throughout Brooklyn by fostering, encouraging and promoting the arts through service and support to artists and arts organizations.
Mailing Address:
Brooklyn Arts Council
55 Washington Street, Suite 218
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Telephone: 718-625-0080
Email: bac@brooklynartscouncil.org
Website: http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/
Bronx Arts Council
BCA serves a multicultural constituency in excess of 1.2 million residents. BCA provides an array of services to 5,000 artists and more than 250 arts and community-based organizations.
Mailing Address:
1738 Home Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461
Telephone: 718-931-9500
Email: info@bronxarts.org
Website: http://www.bronxarts.org
Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island
The mission of the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island is to develop, foster and promote the arts, cultural and humanities activities on Staten Island.
Mailing Address:
1000 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10301-1114
Telephone: 718-447-3329
Email: info@statenislandarts.org
Website: http://www.statenislandarts.org
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Concentrates on downtown Manhattan arts with a mission to enhancing the arts through progressive cultural planning, innovative space programs, funding and training opportunities for artists and art groups as well as promoting arts downtown.
Mailing Address:
125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10038
Telephone: 212-219-9401
Email: info@lmcc.net
Website: http://www.lmcc.net
Queens Council on the Arts
The mission of the Queens Council on the Arts is to foster and develop the arts in Queens County and to support arts organizations and individual artists in presenting their cultural diversity for the benefit of the community.
Mailing Address:
One Forest Park (at Oak Ridge)
Woodhaven, NY 11421
Telephone: 347 505 3010
Email: qca@queenscouncilarts.org
Website: http://queenscouncilarts.org/index.php
NON-PROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
New York Foundation for the Arts
The New York Foundation for the Arts serves individual artists, promotes their freedom to develop and create and provides the public with opportunities to experience and understand their work. NYFA accomplishes this by offering information and financial assistance to artists and organizations that directly serve artists, by supporting arts programming in the community, and by building collaborative relationships with others who advocate for the arts in New York State and throughout the country.
Mailing Address:
20 Jay Street, 7th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Telephone: 212-366-6900
Email: nyfainfo@nyfa.org
Website: http://www.nyfa.org
A.R.T. / New York
The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York is the service and advocacy organization for the nation's largest, most artistically influential, and most culturally diverse theatre community: Off Broadway
Mailing Address:
520 Eighth Ave., Suite 319
New York, NY 10018
Telephone: 212-244-6667
Email: question@art-newyork.org
Website: http://www.art-newyork.org
Asian American Arts Alliance
Asian American Arts Alliance is dedicated to strengthening Asian American arts & cultural groups in NYC through funding, visibility initiatives, and access to new resources.
Mailing Address:
20 Jay Street, 7th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Telephone: 212-941-9208
Email: A4@aaartsalliance.org
Website: http://www.aaartsalliance.org
Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA)
The Association of Hispanic Arts, Inc. (AHA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Latino arts, artists and art organizations as an integral part of the cultural life of the nation. It facilitates projects and programs designed to foster the appreciation, growth and well being of the Latino cultural community.
Mailing Address:
1702 Lexington Ave
Ground Floor
New York, NY 10029
Telephone: 212-876-1242
Email: informacion@latinoarts.org
Website: http://www.latinoarts.org
Fractured Atlas
Fractured Atlas provides services, resources, and support to liberate a nation of artists. From healthcare to publicity to collaborative production grants, it supplies critical tools for independent artists and arts organizations so they can focus on their creative responsibilities. By nurturing today's vital but underrepresented voices, it hopes to play a role in fostering a dynamic and diverse cultural landscape of tomorrow.
Mailing Address:
248 W. 35th Street
Suite 1202
New York, NY 10001
Telephone: 212-277-8020
Email: helpdesk@fracturedatlas.org
Website: http://www.fracturedatlas.org
National Association of Latino Artists
BCA serves a multicultural constituency in excess of 1.2 million residents. BCA provides an array of services to 5,000 artists and more than 250 arts and community-based organizations.
Mailing Address:
1208 Buena Vista
San Antonio, TX 78207
Telephone: 210-432-3982
Email: info@nalac.org
Website: http://www.nalac.org
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance
The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) is a non-profit arts service organization launched in 2007 under the incubation of the Hispanic Federation and with the financial support of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone. NoMAA’s mission is to cultivate, support and promote the works of artists and arts organizations in Northern Manhattan. Since 2007 NoMAA has been serving and promoting the works of artists in these communities as well as developing partnerships with business and other organizations to increase the visibility of this area of Manhattan.
Mailing Address:
The Cornerstone Center
178 Bennett Ave., 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10040
Telephone: 212-568-4396
Website: http://www.nomaanyc.org
The Field
The Field is a non-profit arts service organization offering programs and support systems that help independent performing artists create new artwork, manage their careers and develop long-range strategies for sustaining a life in the arts. As the only organization in New York that provides comprehensive programming for artists on a completely non-curated basis, The Field creates a climate where risk-taking and originality are championed, and where the broadest range of voices can be heard. Each year The Field serves over 1,000 artists in the disciplines of dance, theater, music, text and performance art.
Mailing Address:
161 Sixth Ave., 14th Floor
New York, NY 10013
Tel 212-691-6969
E-mail: info@thefield.org
Web: http://www.thefield.org
NEIGHBORHOOD-BASED ORGANIZATIONS
Alliance of Queens Artists
The mission of the Alliance of Queens Artists (AQA) is the promotion, appreciation and creation of the visual arts and skilled crafts. Art is part of everyone's life. It is the chronicle of civilization and the history of our heritage.
Mailing Address:
99-10 Metropolitan Avenue
Forest Hills, NY 11375
Telephone: 718-520-9842
Email: rhmenzel@arts4u.org
Website: http://www.arts4u.org/
College Art Association (CAA)
Membership organization that supports all practitioners and interpreters of visual art and culture, including artists and scholars. CAA is committed to the highest professional and ethical standards of scholarship, creativity, connoissership, criticism, and teaching.
Mailing Address
College Art Association
275 Seventh Avenue
18th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Telephone: 212-691-1051
Fax: 212-627-2381
Email: nyoffice@collegeart.org
Website: http://www.collegeart.org
Harlem Arts Alliance
The Harlem Arts Alliance is created to preserve, promote, sponsor and present the rich cultural programs that reflect the vast contributions of multi-ethnic and multi-cultural artists creating in the visual, performing and interpretive arts, literary, media, performance, and interdisciplinary arts.
Mailing Address:
253 West 138th Street
New York, NY 10030
Telephone: 212-926-0226
Email: info@harlemaa.org
Website: http://www.harlemaa.org
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning’s mission is to provide arts education and cultural programs to the Southeastern Queens community.
Mailing Address:
161-04 Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica, NY 11432
Telephone: 718-658-7400
Email: general@jcal.org
Website: http://www.jcal.org
LIC Artists
LIC Artists mission is to increase the visibility of professional visual artists working in the Long Island City area, expand the range of opportunities available for area artists, develop a sense of community and camaraderie among area artists, and create and promote public art events and projects for the cultural enrichment of the Queens community.
Mailing Address:
35-35 28th Street
Long Island City, NY 11106
Telephone: 917-843-3836
Email: info@licartists.org
Website: http://www.licartists.org
The Point
The mission is to encourage the arts, local enterprise, responsible ecology, and self-investment in the Hunts Point community.
Mailing Address:
940 Garrison Avenue
Bronx, NY 10474
Telephone: 718-542-4139
Email: thepointcdc@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.thepoint.org