NYFA Needs You
At NYFA we are always amazed and proud of the achievements of our affiliated artists, but 2015 has truly been a banner year. To cite just a few examples:
- Todd Haynes’ film Carol, with a screenplay by Phyllis Nagy, has won 4 New York Film Critics Awards and has been nominated for 5 Golden Globes (Haynes – Fellow in Film ’89; Nagy – Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting ’89)
- Joan Jonas was selected to represent the United States in the Venice Biennale (Fellow in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work ’90)
- Lisa Kron won two Tony Awards for her book and lyrics for Fun Home (Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting ’94)
- Gregory Pardlo, Jr. won the Pultizer Prize for Poetry (Fellow in Poetry ’05)
- Suzan-Lori Parks received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize (Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting ’90)
- Basil Twist, puppetry artist and director, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (Fellow in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work ’03)
- Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life was nominated for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award (Fellow in Fiction ’02 & ’08)
All of these artists, and thousands of others, have benefited from the financial support, training, information, encouragement, and other services NYFA provides on a regular basis.
Now NYFA needs your support. Our goal is to raise $25,000 by the end of the calendar year and we hope you will help us meet that goal. Between now and December 31, 2015, if you donate $100 you will receive a NYFA 30th Anniversary commemorative tote bag and if you donate $150 and up you will receive the tote as well as the NYFA Collection Volume II CD.
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Your gift is tax deductible and, more importantly, will help artists in all disciplines, at all stages in their careers make the work that moves us all. Donate Here!
Image: from top L to R Suzan-Lori Parks, Basil Twist, Gregory Pardlo, Lisa Kron, Joan Jonas, Hanya Yanagihara, Phyllis Nagy, Todd Haynes; NYFA tote and NYFA Collection Volume II CD, photo credit: Madeline Scholl and Grace Kang