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2024 Emerging Leaders cohort pictured at the NYFA Office

Announcing: 2024 Emerging Leaders Program Cohort

Congratulations and welcome to the newest cohort of participants in NYFA’s intensive professional development program for arts administrators! New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)’s intensive professional development program for arts administrators returns! Last offered in 2020, we are pleased to announce the participants in the 2024 cohort of our Emerging Leaders Program, made possible…

Five colorfully dressed ensemble members from a performance called "TERRITORY: The Island Remembers" pose in shimmering costumes, wigs, and make up. A few give fierce looks to the camera lens standing and kneeling in front of a background of a collage featuring mountains, lush green hills, trees, and other vegetation.

NYFA Announces Inaugural Mertz Gilmore Foundation Dancer Award Recipients

Seven artists to receive $14,000 in unrestricted grants annually over the next 3 years to innovate, network, and build a resilient operational foundation. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), in partnership with The Mertz Gilmore Foundation (MGF), has announced Benjamin Akio Kimitch, Maria Bauman, Roderick George, Brandon Kazen-Maddox, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, zavé martohardjono, and…

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Introducing New On-Demand Courses from NYFA Learning

Build essential skills and gain insights from trusted arts industry experts in this learn-as-you-go platform for artists and cultural workers of all disciplines. NYFA has launched new on-demand learning platform NYFA Learning to help artists and cultural workers of all disciplines to grow and evolve in their creative careers in their own time. The platform…

A group of ordinary objects is precariously arranged over three pallets, suspended on the border of collapse. Throughout the exhibition, the objects, initially leaning against the gallery walls, are activated and moved to be part of the composition in fragile balance. On the walls, colorful outline drawings record the objects' displacement.

Apply Now: NYSCA Stabilization Program for Small Arts Organizations

NYFA and New York Council of Nonprofits (NYCON) program aims to help address operational issues that often stifle organizations’ long-term planning and sustainability. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and New York Council of Nonprofits (NYCON) have launched a new pilot NYSCA Stabilization Program for Small Arts Organizations that is designed to help participants…

A young man is dressed in pink in a garment of his own design that relates to a dress he wore in the previous image at Camp I Am ten years prior. Today he is a fashion design student.

Announcing the 2023 JGS Fellowship for Photography Recipients

The JGS Fellowship for Photography is a $7,000 cash grant open to New York State photography artists living and working outside of New York City. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced Maureen Beitler, Larry Gonzalez, Lindsay Morris, Rebecca Soderholm, and Amrita Stützle as the recipients of the 2023 JGS Fellowship for Photography,…