Upcoming Grants and NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship Calling musicians, puppeteers, and performers of all shapes and sizes! Sculptors, media makers and multi-disciplinary artists, mark your calendars! USArtists is funding performing artists traveling abroad, and in New York City, grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council and Lower Manhattan Cultural Center are helping artists work in their communities.…
“Art History has been one incomplete truth, which makes it a lie.” Helène Aylon is a visual artist, feminist and mother. Born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Aylon married a rabbi when she was eighteen and was widowed at thirty. Left with two young children, Aylon began studying and making art.…
NYFA talks to Alysia Lee, Founding Executive Director of Sister Cities Girlchoir Sister Cities Girlchoir (SCG) is a choral training academy that empowers girls to invest in themselves and their communities. Under the direction of Executive Director Alysia Lee, the program uses music as a tool for transformation. Before becoming its own nonprofit at the federal…
“The NYFA Fellowship is one of the few that supports studio based artists while not requiring a specific project, which is extremely generous and increasingly rare.” – Angelina Gualdoni Regina Rex is an artist-run gallery founded in 2010, at 1717 Troutman Street on the Bushwick / Ridgewood border. The space was created by artists to…
“More exciting to me is to seek out that middle ground where everyone is pushed beyond their usual comfort zone in making great attempts to flourish in unfamiliar spaces.” NYFA continues to mark the 30th anniversary of its Artists’ Fellowship Program with the release of The NYFA Collection: Vol. 2 (innova recordings) this Friday, November 13. To…
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