Resources

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.

http://www.nycitycenter.org

New York City Center provides special services to the many companies that perform here annually including Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and American Ballet Theatre. City Center presents, co-presents, and commercially rents the Mainstage theater, and is the long-time home for Manhattan Theatre Club, with its full season of plays and "Spring Boards" series in City Center's Stage I and Stage II theaters.

http://www.nyfa.org

NYFA's mission is to empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives. NYFA is the largest provider of grants, services, and information to artists working in all disciplines in the United States.

http://www.nycdancespaces.org

This NYC Dance Spaces website is a free information source of available rehearsal and performance spaces in New York City for dancers, dance companies and choreographers. We do not book the space for you; that's up to you! We reach out as broadly as we can to find spaces suitable for dance. Our database covers spaces in the five boroughs. Rehearsal spaces range from small (up to 600 square feet) to large (over 1,200 square feet). Performance spaces have audience capacities up to 2700.

http://www.nyfa.org

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.

http://www.nysca.org

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.

www.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.

www.pentacle.org/

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.

http://performa-arts.org/performa.html

PERFORMA is a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world.

http://www.pa-f.net/

PAF (=PerformingArtsForum) is a place for the professional and not-yet professional practitioners and activists in the field of performing arts, visual art, new media and internet, theory and cultural production, who seek to research and determine their own conditions of work. PAF is for people who can motorize their own artistic production and knowledge production not only responding to the opportunities given by the institutional market.