Artist News | Fiscal Sponsorship
Explore the Breadth of the Human Experience with these Fiscally Sponsored Projects.
Head outside between February’s sporadic snowfalls and wavering temperatures to explore the fragility, beauty, and boundaries of our humanity with these NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship artists.
Events
Nadja Verena Marcin opens the 2018 New Ear Festival at Fridman Gallery (287 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013) tonight, February 2, at 8:00 PM with the world-premiere of OPHELIA. OPHELIA is an an intricate, architectural live performance that marries sculpture, sound, and text to symbolize our human subjective experience. It questions the role human play in the destruction of the biosphere. Entry into the inaugural night of the Festival is free.
Carolyn Jones’s award-winning documentary film Defining Hope knits together cinematic narratives of patients with life-threatening illnesses reminding us end of life choices are an integral part of the human experience. The film hits the silver screen at Regal Union Square Stadium 14 (850 Broadway, New York, NY 10003) next Tuesday, February 6 at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $16.45 and can be purchased here.
In The News
Congratulations to Nathaniel Kahn for his new film, The Price of Everything, an Official Selection at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. HBO Documentary Films bought The Price of Everything, which examines the world of contemporary art, in advance of its Sundance debut. You can read more about it here, via Hyperallergic. Kahn’s film, Telescope, was fiscally sponsored by NYFA.
Storm King’s spring show, Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, opens in May and includes work by Mary Mattingly, a 2011 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Sculpture and creator of sponsored project, Swale, a public floating food forest. Indicators will show, through a variety of works and artistic media, how art can command attention for difficult subjects and spur creative thought, solutions, and ideas in ways that elude other means of communicating and understanding.
Learn more about NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship by clicking here. NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship’s next quarterly no-fee application deadline is March 30. In order to help artists meet grant deadlines, including those for NYSCA FY2019 grants, NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship provides artists with Out-of-Cycle application reviews. Questions? You can view our FAQ page here. Sign up for our free bi-weekly newsletter, NYFA News, for the latest updates and news about Sponsored Projects and Emerging Organizations.
Image: Nadja Verena Marcin, OPHELIA, 2017. C-print, 70 x 50 in., Photography by Marque DeWinter
