Upcoming at NYFA



NYFA and IBM Host Cultural Entrepreneurship Symposium

Event brought art, business, academic, and government leaders together to explore the critical intersection of arts and business. The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) partnered with IBM to host Inform: A Symposium on Cultural Entrepreneurship, on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at IBM Client Center in Manhattan. The invite-only symposium explored the critical intersection…

Conversations | The Study Center for Group Work

This NYFA Arts Business Incubator member cultivates behaviors that allow groups to work together. The Study Center for Group Work is both an online resource and an in-person network of people who meet to refine their collaborative methods with one another. Part of NYFA’s Arts Business Incubator’s second cohort, the business facilitates group work through…

Conversations | Meet ABI Business Caribbean Film Academy

Part of NYFA Arts Business Incubator’s first cohort, CaFA is increasing the visibility of Caribbean films and filmmakers in NYC and beyond. Established in 2012, Caribbean Film Academy (CaFA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and support of Caribbean filmmaking and filmmakers in the region and the Diaspora. CaFA’s work is focused on…

Q&A with Dr. Patrick Ebewo Jr.

We talk to the Mandela Rhodes Scholar about arts entrepreneurship in South Africa. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) had the pleasure of introducing Dr. Patrick Ebewo Jr., Mandela Rhodes Scholar and Coordinator of the Arts (Business) Incubator at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), to its Arts Business Incubator program last month.  Dr. Ebewo…

Meet ABI Business You and the Flying Squid

NYFA Arts Business Incubator (ABI) cohort member produces multicultural and customizable storybook apps that let children personalize the hero of their story. You and the Flying Squid is a family business that’s rooted in innovation. Co-founder Iván Cortázar teamed with his mother Sol Frías to create a series of children’s books inspired by his son and…