Service Organizations
Career Transitions for Dancers
Career Transition For Dancers is a not-for-profit organization that enables dancers to define their career possibilities and develop the skills necessary to excel in a variety of disciplines.
Asian American Women Artists Alliance
The Asian American Women Artists Alliance (AAWAA) was established in 1998 by four Asian women: Ellen Hsiao, Yan Kong, Terumi Kaneyasu, and Michelle Lui. The organization has enabled emerging women artists, especially those of Asian descent, to create art and present their works to the diverse communities around New York City. AAWAA is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization. Our membership is open to outside artists (including non-Asian artists, and men) who wish to join us or wish to be part of the decision making team.
Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)
BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange—arts and artists in progress - is a multi-arts non-profit organization in Park Slope, Brooklyn, founded in 1991 (as the Gowanus Arts Exchange). Our mission is to provide a nurturing, year-round performance, rehearsal and educational venue in Brooklyn that encourages artistic risk-taking and stimulates dialogue among diverse constituencies.
OurGoods.org
This is OurGoods, a peer to peer network for the exchange of goods and services between artists, designers, craftspeople, and anyone with a creative project.
Check back in 2009 for a dynamic site. You will be able to upload your projects and ask for help and materials from other people. For example, I will offer my studio space in Brooklyn in exchange for photo/video assistance in documenting my next project. You can post proposals for projects that require money, space, volunteers, participants, or materials and any interested person can donate or exchange the necessary goods/services.
New York City Arts Coalition
http://www.nycityartscoalition.org/
The New York City Arts Coalition is a membership network of arts professionals and arts supporters organized for education, advocacy and public policy development in the nonprofit arts field. Membership is open to all not-for-profit arts groups, arts professionals and individual supporters of the arts. The New York City Arts Coalition promotes a broad awareness of the arts in the life of the city. It encourages leaders and elected officials to protect the creative freedom of the arts community and to support adequate appropriations for the arts in the city, state and federal budgets.
NYFA
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) gives more support to artists and arts organizations in all disciplines than any other private organization in the country. For more than three decades, NYFA has nurtured the people and environment that make art happen by providing the time and resources for the creative mind and the artistic spirit to flourish. NYFA helps artists move from the moment of inspiration to the completed work of art.
NYSCA
The Council believes in supporting the following. Artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure, and The rights of all New Yorkers to access and experience the power of the arts and culture, and the vital contribution the arts make to the quality of life in New York communities. NYSCA strives to achieve its mission through its core grant-making activity and by convening field leaders, providing information and advisory support, and working with partners on special initiatives to achieve mutual goals.
Pentacle
For over 30 years, Pentacle has served the performing arts community as a leading resource and voice for emerging, minority, experimental, non-mainstream artists and companies. Pentacle offers a core of managerial and marketplace services, and administers model projects of national, regional and local scope. Booking: Our most widely used and currently needed service, Pentacle offers exposure for the artists in both the national and international marketplaces.
Rhizome.org
Rhizome.org is an online platform for the global new media art community. Our programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. We foster innovation and inclusiveness in everything we do.
Actor's Fund, The
The Actors Fund is a nonprofit, national human services organization that helps entertainment and performing arts professionals in theater, film, music, opera, television and dance through a broad spectrum of social, health, employment, and housing programs that address their essential and critical needs.