M i d - M a n h a t t a n L i b r a r y
Presents
Fiscal Sponsorship for Individuals in the Arts
An Artist Career Development Lecture
Christa Blatchford and Rachel Sandweiss
Monday April 28, 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
What is Fiscal Sponsorship and what does it mean for an artist?
This seminar will define Fiscal Sponsorship and provide information on how it can be utilized by artists to secure additional funding opportunities. Individual artists face genuine obstacles when seeking the funding necessary to continue and complete their work. Often they are hindered by the legal status of the project, as most foundations or corporate funders restrict grants to tax-exempt organizations. Fiscal Sponsorship offered by NYFA and other organizations nationally, is an effective method for providing artists access to more funding opportunities.
The New York Foundation for the Arts’ (NYFA) mission is to empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives and provides the public with opportunities to experience and understand their work. NYFA accomplishes this by offering financial assistance and information to artists and organizations that directly serve artists, by supporting arts programming in the community, and by building collaborative relationships with others who advocate for the arts in New York State and throughout the country.
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.
Rachel Sandweiss is the Program Assistant, Fiscal Sponsorship at NYFA. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Vassar College. She interned at NYFA while working on her Masters in Visual Arts Administration (with a focus on non-profit organizations) at New York University. She came back one year later, to work at the Fiscal Sponsorship department.
Elevators access the 6th floor after 6p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.
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