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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+. …

The 14ft steel cylinder with a cut plastic bottle outer skin and a dome made from grommeted 3-ply masks, rotates on a circular track ring, atop a wood orange porticoed base

Apply Now: 2024 Emerging Leaders Program

This year-long program provides leadership training for manager-level career arts administrators in the New York City area and is provided free of charge to selected participants. Through the support of The Willem de Kooning Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce the seventh session of the “NYFA’s Emerging Leaders Program,”…