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Five colorfully dressed ensemble members from a performance called "TERRITORY: The Island Remembers" pose in shimmering costumes, wigs, and make up. A few give fierce looks to the camera lens standing and kneeling in front of a background of a collage featuring mountains, lush green hills, trees, and other vegetation.

NYFA Announces Inaugural Mertz Gilmore Foundation Dancer Award Recipients

Seven artists to receive $14,000 in unrestricted grants annually over the next 3 years to innovate, network, and build a resilient operational foundation. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), in partnership with The Mertz Gilmore Foundation (MGF), has announced Benjamin Akio Kimitch, Maria Bauman, Roderick George, Brandon Kazen-Maddox, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, zavé martohardjono, and…

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Introducing New On-Demand Courses from NYFA Learning

Build essential skills and gain insights from trusted arts industry experts in this learn-as-you-go platform for artists and cultural workers of all disciplines. NYFA has launched new on-demand learning platform NYFA Learning to help artists and cultural workers of all disciplines to grow and evolve in their creative careers in their own time. The platform…

A group of ordinary objects is precariously arranged over three pallets, suspended on the border of collapse. Throughout the exhibition, the objects, initially leaning against the gallery walls, are activated and moved to be part of the composition in fragile balance. On the walls, colorful outline drawings record the objects' displacement.

Apply Now: NYSCA Stabilization Program for Small Arts Organizations

NYFA and New York Council of Nonprofits (NYCON) program aims to help address operational issues that often stifle organizations’ long-term planning and sustainability. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and New York Council of Nonprofits (NYCON) have launched a new pilot NYSCA Stabilization Program for Small Arts Organizations that is designed to help participants…

A young man is dressed in pink in a garment of his own design that relates to a dress he wore in the previous image at Camp I Am ten years prior. Today he is a fashion design student.

Announcing the 2023 JGS Fellowship for Photography Recipients

The JGS Fellowship for Photography is a $7,000 cash grant open to New York State photography artists living and working outside of New York City. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced Maureen Beitler, Larry Gonzalez, Lindsay Morris, Rebecca Soderholm, and Amrita Stützle as the recipients of the 2023 JGS Fellowship for Photography,…

Photo litho print of large eyes gazing directly ahead at the viewer. There are laser-cut words on the eyes and eyebrows which are Persian repeated words and the area of the cut text makes up a parallelogram and the overall color scheme is different shades of gray.

Introducing 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows, Finalists, and Panelists

$696,000 awarded to 88 New York State artists working in Craft/Sculpture, Digital/Electronic Arts, Nonfiction Literature, Poetry, and Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the recipients and finalists of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program, which it has administered for the past 38 years with leadership support from the New York State Council…