Upcoming at NYFA



Beyond the Elevator Pitch: Talking About Your Work with Public Speaking Coach Jezra Kaye

You’ve met someone important in your field. Or you’re applying for a grant, a show, or another opportunity. How do you describe your work? Elevator pitches are great, but where do you go from there? Public speaking coach Jezra Kaye (recently featured in The New York Times) is here to help! This pay-what-you-wish workshop—which includes…

Apply Now: Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants

The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography and live in the United States, the District of Columbia, a Tribal Nation, or a U.S. Territory.…

Artists and the Challenge of Using Copyrighted Material: Fair Use to the Rescue

Collage, documentary film, art history scholarship, arts journalism, remix, Last Week Tonight—none of it could happen without fair use. Fair use, the right to employ copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances, is widely used throughout U.S. creative practice. But how do you decide when fair use is really fair, and how risky…