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M i d - M a n h a t t a n L i b r a r y

Presents

Using NYFA Source as a Resource

for Grant Applications

An Artist Career Development Lecture

Christa Blatchford and Brigid Flynn

Monday January 14, 2008

 6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor

Mid-Manhattan Library

The New York Public Library

40th Street and 5th Avenue

New York, NY 10016

212-340-0871

The Art Collection is pleased to host the seventh lecture in the series addressing the growing needs and concerns of independent creative workforce in New York City.

Do you wonder what grants are available to you as an artist?  How do you find out about them and tackle the application process? Christa Blatchford will provide instruction in the use of NYFA Source, and Brigid Flynn will cover the basics of what makes a good grant application. This session will include basic searches by discipline and advanced searches on a range of criteria, an overview of the range of programs and resources included in the NYFA Source database, and tips and tricks for getting the most out of your search. 

NYFA Source is the nation’s most extensive online directory of awards, services, and publications for artists of all disciplines featuring up to 9,000 programs. Users can access www.nyfasource.org free of charge for information ranging from cash grants and artist-in-residence programs, to marketing and opportunity listings. This resource covers the range of support available to U.S. artists on the local, state, national, and international level, and allows specific queries based on discipline, location, gender, ethnicity, career point, application deadline, and many other criteria.

Christa Blatchford is the Program Officer, Artist Learning at NYFA. Previously she worked with a range of non-profit visual arts organizations including Minetta Brook and Eyebeam. As a Project Manager at Minetta Brook, she worked on such programs as Watershed: The Hudson Valley Art Project and Robert Smithson’s The Floating Island. A practicing artist, she also teaches in the undergraduate Art Department of Hunter College.

Brigid Flynn has been the Institutional Giving Officer at NYFA since 2005.  She was a grantswriter for many years, working most recently at the Wexner Center for the Arts and Performing Arts Chicago. She has served as a “grants doctor” at NYFA’s Business of Art conferences. She holds a Masters in English from the Ohio State University, where she also taught writing.

Elevators access the 6th floor after 6p.m.