For Immediate Release:
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS LAUNCHES UNPRECEDENTED ONLINE RESOURCE FOR
ARTISTS ON NOVEMBER 18, 2002
NYFA SOURCE DEBUTS AS RESULT OF PARTNERSHIP WITH THE URBAN INSTITUTE
http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_source.asp?id=47&fid=1 (web links to NYFA Source
are encouraged)
NEW YORK, NY - On November 18, 2002, the New York Foundation for the Arts
(NYFA) will give artists, arts organizations, and the general public free
online access to the all-new NYFA Source, the nation's most extensive
databank of grants, residencies, publications, and sources of information
and assistance for artists of all disciplines.
NYFA Source identifies more than 2,700 awards programs, 2,100 services and
800 publications for artists in the dance, music, folk/traditional, theater,
performance art, visual, design, media and literary arts - from the Conrad
Cantzen Shoe Fund of The Actors Fund of America (granting a new pair of
shoes to unemployed actors going on auditions) to the MacArthur Fellowship
Program (multi-year awards reaching $500,000).
An easy-to-use search engine will allow users to narrow queries by
discipline, location, gender, age group, application deadline, and more.
Searches can be as general - cash grants for dancers (239 opportunities
yielded) - or specific - female ballet choreographer who must reside in
Minnesota (1 opportunity yielded) - as desired. In addition to the web
site, artists may receive personal assistance by calling 1-800-232-2789
(1-5:00 p.m., EST, Mon-Fri) or e-mail their requests to [log in to unmask] or
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"Like professionals in other fields, artists need up-to-date, useful
information to conduct their business and make the most of their talents,"
said Theodore S. Berger, Executive Director of NYFA. "Until now, there has
never been one central location for artists to access all of the potential
grants and resources available to them."
COLLABORATION WITH URBAN INSTITUTE
NYFA Source was created in collaboration with the Washington, D.C.-based
Urban Institute during 2001-2002 as part of UI's study, Investing in
Creativity. The Institute recognized that, while artists are an important
creative force in American life, there was no comprehensive picture of how
they are supported. A key element in determining this picture was to create
a database documenting all of the current support mechanisms available to
artists. The Urban Institute worked with NYFA to create that database,
building on NYFA's success with its Visual Artist Information Hotline, a
popular information service used by more than 38,000 visual artists each
year. The Hotline was
expanded into a larger database to include all disciplines, enabling
funders and researchers to acquire information about patterns and trends in
artists' support.
NYFA queried more than 2,600 arts organizations nationwide in creating the
database. As part of NYFA Source's ongoing development, the Urban Institute
will produce analytical reports about the patterns of support represented in
the database. Regular updating of information in the database by NYFA will
enable the field to monitor trends over time.
"NYFA Source puts artists in touch with the resources they need to advance
their work," said Maria-Rosario Jackson, Principal Investigator for the
Urban Institute's Investing in Creativity study. "As important, it will
enable us to see gaps in available aid, and allow us to track trends over
time. This will give funders, researchers and others who care about
artistic creativity and productivity an important new tool to improve
programs, services and policies."
The database can be accessed through NYFA's web site at www.nyfa.org.
NYFA INTERACTIVE
NYFA Source is just one facet of NYFA Interactive, designed to interact with
and serve the needs of four distinct audiences: artists, art organizations,
donors, and an audience not previously addressed on NYFA's former web site -
the art-curious public. At www.nyfa.org, visitors will be able to find
cultural news, events, and valuable resources for contemporary arts. NYFA
seeks to involve and educate members of the public who are interested in
learning more about contemporary art, specific disciplines, or artists.
NYFA is also creating an online gallery that will feature works by more than
3,000 NYFA grantees. These include Laurie Anderson (performance art), Spike
Lee (film), Billy Collins (poetry), David Henry Hwang (playwriting), Andres
Serrano (photography), Shirin Neshat (media arts), Barbara Kruger
(painting), Alan Jay Kernis (music composition), Terry McMillan (fiction),
and many others. Beta testing has included artists and arts organizations
throughout the country.
Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Arts Management and Technology was
responsible for developing the programming and database that power both NYFA
Source and the entire web site. The site's architecture and user interface
were designed by Owen Electric Pictures.
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (NYFA)
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) provides more support to artists and
arts organizations in all disciplines than any other private organization in
the country: nearly $11 million annually. NYFA's fellowships of $7,000 go to
as many as 160 New York State artists from a field of 16 disciplines,
covering the visual, performing, and literary arts. Small and mid-sized arts
organizations, which artists so often depend on, are also supported by NYFA.
Since its founding in 1971, NYFA has worked in partnership with many private
and public funding sources to create groundbreaking programs that serve
particular needs in the arts community, taking a leadership role in field
studies and advocacy, as well as funding.
NYFA's annual budget of nearly $12 million comes from individual, corporate,
foundation, and public sources, as well as NYFA's fiscal sponsorship
services for artists and emerging organizations.
For complete information about NYFA and its ongoing programs, activities and
services, please see www.nyfa.org or call 212-366-6900.
THE URBAN INSTITUTE
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization created in
1968 to sharpen thinking about America's problems and efforts to solve them;
improve government decisions and their implementation; and increase citizens
' awareness about important public choices. The Institute's research agenda
includes national, state, and local issues that reflect, respond to, and at
times anticipate society's changing needs.
The work of the nonpartisan Urban Institute is organized into nine
substantive policy centers: Education, Health, Labor and Social Policy/y is
part of the Urban Institute's Culture, Creativity and Communities Program, a
cross-policy center initiative to research the roles of arts, culture and
creative expression in communities. For more information about the Urban
Institute and its ongoing programs, visit www.urban.org or call Susan Brown
at 202-261-5702.
NYFA SOURCE FUNDERS
The design and launch of NYFA Interactive has been made possible by a
generous grant from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
Ongoing support of NYFA information services have been provided by Albert A.
List Foundation, Basil H. Alkazzi, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Independence Community Foundation,
Joan Mitchell Foundation, Judith Rothschild Foundation, Lily Auchincloss
Foundation, The Liman Foundation, Virginia Manheimer, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art
Foundation, Pew Fellowships for the Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation,
Richard A. Florsheim Art Fund, and Robert and Helen Gould Foundation.
INVESTING IN CREATIVITY FUNDERS
Allen Foundation for the Arts, Boston Foundation, Brown Foundation, Morris
and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Chicago Community Trust, Cleveland
Foundation, Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, Nathan
Cummings Foundation, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation, Durfee Foundation, Flintridge Foundation, Ford Foundation, J.P.
Getty Trust, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, Greenwall Foundation,
George Gund Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Houston
Endowment, James Irvine Foundation, Jaech Family Fund, Joyce Foundation, LEF
Foundation, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation, John P. Murphy
Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Community Trust, Ohio
Arts Council, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts,
Prince Charitable Trusts, Rockefeller Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for
the Visual Arts, and anonymous donors.
For NYFA Interactive, contact:
Michael Shepley Lisa Pue
Shepley Public Relations NYFA
212-786-9064 212-366-6900 x249
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For The Urban Institute, contact:
Susan Brown, Director of Public Affairs
The Urban Institute
202-261-5702
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Best,
Rossana Martinez
Visual Resources Curator
Pratt Institute Library, Third Floor
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
[t] 718.636.3716
[f] 718.399.4401
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[w] http://lib.pratt.edu/public/information/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nina Stephenson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Foundation Directory Online
> Claire and all,
> I include a link for "Funding and Careers" on my subject web pages. I've
> never helped faculty in their search for grants. Our university has a good
> Office of Research Services with database links for that purpose. See:
> http://ors.unm.edu/
> Here's one of my "funding and careers" links (for photography):
> http://elibrary.unm.edu/subjects/photog.html#careers
> Nina
>
> --On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:39 AM -0600 Claire Eike
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Do any of you have experience using the Foundation Directory Online <
> > http://fconline.fdncenter.org > ? If so, how useful have you found it
to
> > be for faculty seeking information about individual grant opportunities
> > (as opposed to grants to the institution for faculty projects)?
> >
> > Does your library play a part in helping faculty find individual grants?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Claire
> >
> >
> > ======================================
> >
> > Claire Eike
> > Director, The John M. Flaxman Library
> > The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
> > 37 South Wabash Avenue
> > Chicago, Illinois 60603-3103
> > 312-629-9379 voice
> > 312-899-1465 fax
> > [log in to unmask]
> > http://www.artic.edu/saic/library
> >
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> Nina Stephenson
> University of New Mexico
> Fine Arts Library
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