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"Mayaakan sun is magic!" Medina says to Renella. These animated characters are hanging out in the fictional topical city of Mayaaka, in front of a rough-hewn building and a high-tech community center, as the sun shines, a rooster squawks, and locals watch them from a distance.

Announcing: NYSCA FY2024 Support for Artist and Support for Organization Awards

NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship is honored to support these 37 NYSCA grantees! New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to congratulate the 37 projects and organizations in NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship that received a FY2024 New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant from the Support for Artists and Support for Organizations programs! Support…

Detail of a collaged artwork by Johanna Goodman

Residencies, Grants, and Fellowships for Writers: Nailing the Application

Establishing a sustainable writing life starts with making a compelling case for yourself. Learn from writers who’ve earned competitive opportunities to focus on and expand their craft. Are you a writer seeking more support from your practice?  Read this article to get tips on what writing samples to submit, how to write your statement of…

A four-story white barn sits on a grassy hillside. Colorful text describes the vision for the site, with a residency space, a green house, fruit trees, a natural spring, and more.

Project Expense Budgeting 102

Here, we review a handful of budget adaptations that provide extra levels of information to help you communicate the “What” and “Why” of project costs to your reader.  We recently posted an introduction to budgeting for art projects, Project Expense Budgeting 101. In this post, we discussed a few different perspectives from which people will read your budgets, and how to present financial information…

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Announcing Dena Igusti as the Inaugural Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Playwright Award Recipient

Igusti recognized with $10,000 cash grant open to New York State playwrights who identify as LGBTQ+. The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced Dena Igusti as the inaugural recipient of its Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Playwright Award, a $10,000 cash grant awarded to one (1) New York State-based playwright who identifies as LGBTQ+. …