New York, 212-742-8880
The purpose of ACT UP Oral History Project is to present comprehensive, complex, human, collective, and individual portraits of the people who have made up ACT UP/New York. These men and women of all races and classes transformed entrenched cultural ideas about homosexuality, sexuality, illness, health care, civil rights, art, ...
New York, 212-678-8411
The mission of The African Diaspora Film Festival, Inc is to expand the traditional views and perceptions of what the Black experience is by showcasing films depicting the richness and diversity of the global Black experience from Peru to Zimbabwe, from New Zealand to Jamaica. The African Diaspora Film Festival, Inc. seeks to advance ...
New York, 212-352-1720
Founded in 1990, AFF’s mission is to promote knowledge and understanding of African culture through the moving image; increase the distribution of African media in the United States to reach broad, diverse audiences; enhance opportunities and visibility for African media artists, and facilitate dialogue between African filmmakers and their international ...
New York, 212-529-8815
WE ARE DEDICATED TOWARDS ENCOURAGING AND FOSTERING THE INTEREST OF ALL SEGMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY IN VISUAL, PERFORMING, AND MEDIA ARTS, BROADENING AND ENRICHING THE GENERAL PUBLIC THROUGH PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS OF VISUAL, PERFORMING, CINEMA, AND MEDIA ARTS. It is a multipurpose entity run by artists for artists that presents, produces ...
New York
Brooklyn
American Documentary, Inc. (AmDoc) is a New York City-based non-profit media organization dedicated to creating, identifying and presenting contemporary stories that express opinions and perspectives rarely featured in mainstream media outlets. Since 1988, AmDoc has produced the award-winning P.O.V. ('point-of-view') series for PBS, presenting over 230 of the most compelling ...
Roxbury
Andes Sprouts Society engages the Catskill Region’s cultural heritage of the working landscape and cultivates collaboration between the local farmers and naturalists and the global new media community. About Andes Sprouts Society: Andes Sprouts Society (ASsociety) is a non-profit hybrid art and farming organization that supports artists, technologists and farmers engaged ...
New York, 212-505-5181
The mission of Anthology Film Archives is to preserve, exhibit and promote independent, avant-garde and artist film and video.
New York, 212-431-5270
apexart is a 501(c)(3) non-profit contemporary visual arts organization located in Lower Manhattan. Through our exhibitions, international residency, publication initiatives, and programs and events, we are committed to cultural and intellectual diversity and aim to stimulate public dialogue about contemporary art. Our exhibitions and programs are intended to promote consideration ...
Binghamton
New York
Art in General is a nonprofit organization that assists artists with the production and presentation of new work. It changes in response to the needs of artists and informs and engages the public about their work.
Rochester
New York, 212-226-3970
Artists Space supports, presents, and contextualizes artistic experimentation, production, and dialogue in contemporary cultural practice.
Jamestown
Spring Valley
New York, 646-230-6368
Arts Engine, Inc. supports, produces, and distributes independent media of consequence and promotes the use of independent media by advocates, educators and the general public. By fostering the production and use of independent film, video and new media, Arts Engine connects media makers and active audiences in order to ...
Kingston
The Arts Society of Kingston is dedicated to providing opportunities to bring diverse forms of art before the public by sponsoring exhibitions, performances and other arts-related events. ASK exists for the benefit of artists, art-lovers and the general community in Kingston and the greater Mid-Hudson Valley region. It seeks to ...
New York
New York, 212-989-1422
Asian CineVision is a nonprofit media arts organization dedicated to promoting and preserving Asian and Asian American media expressions by: Helping to develop and support both emerging and experienced Asian American film and video makers and other media artists working in a range of genres and styles; and helping to ...
New York
Brooklyn, 718-857-3376
AIR creates opportunities for and represents the interests of audio producers across various media. AIR fosters the development of the producer community in the service of the open exchange of ideas.
New York
IMAGINE: You enter into a large cinema and settle into your seat. After a few minutes, the lights dim and the screen goes black. It is dark and everyone is silent, waiting for the film to begin. Then there is thunder; the speakers roar. The screen remains black, yet your ...
Brooklyn, 718-855-7882
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn presents quality visual, performing and media arts programs reflective of Brooklyn’s diverse communities, and provides resources and platforms to support the creative process.
Bemus Point, 716-386-7000
The Bemus Bay Pops is dedicated to providing free family entertainment by world-class musicians on the Chautauqua Lake Floating Stage. The mission of the Bemus Bay Pops is to bring arts to the people. The Pops provides arts and culture to the community through free multicultrual concerts for ...
Buffalo, 716-560-1968
Big Orbit Gallery is an artist run arts center dedicated to transcultural, multidisciplinary explorations of contemporary art issues, with its primary focus being the promotion of the art and artists of western New York. Through programming that ranges from painting to performance art, architectural installations to live sound sculpture, Big ...
New York, 505-577-2250
To encourage cooperation among and advancement of poets, performers, writers, producers, publishers and other engaged in artistic activities; to develop and produce works by emerging poets and performers for performance on stage, television, film and other media; to conduct tours and hold exhibitions; to promote the study, improvement and advancement ...
Treadwell, 607-829-5055
To seek out, study, and collect the work of early and contemporary writers, storytellers, and artists, and to publish, disseminate, and present that work through publications and educational and public programs for the larger community.
Bronx
Brooklyn, 718-636-4100
Mission: To be the globally acknowledged preeminent, progressive performing and cinema arts center of the 21st century. Organizational Vision: BAM has articulated its primary values as follows. Artistic Integrity: BAM supports innovative, high quality, rigorous art that tests new ground. Professional Integrity: As a world-class cultural center, BAM balances creativity ...
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) strives to enrich the quality of life throughout Brooklyn by fostering, encouraging and promoting the arts through service and support to artists and arts organizations.
Founded in 1966, BAC is the umbrella for Brooklyn’s range of cultural groups and individual artists working in the visual, performing, media ...
Brooklyn
Brooklyn, 718-388-4306
Brooklyn International Film Festival is dedicated to discovering, exposing, and promoting independent filmmakers and to expanding the rich and diverse cultural resources that are and will become the heritage of Brooklyn citizens. BiFF believes in supporting the artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure and the rights ...
Buffalo, (716) 833-4450
Buffalo Arts Studio (BAS) is a not-for-profit arts organization whose mission is to provide affordable studio space and regular public exposure for regional, national, and international artists through exhibitions, and to enrich the community with art classes, mural programs, and public art. Exhibitions, public art projects, and classes help the ...
Buffalo
Buffalo International Film Festival encourages the creation, appreciation and exhibition of all forms of moving media (film, video, web-based) throughout the world. It endeavors to relate international activities to the current and historic accomplishments of individuals, organizations, and cultural groups in the Western New York community to the rest of ...
Buffalo, 716-878-3549
The Burchfield-Penney Art Center is a museum dedicated to the art and vision of Charles E. Burchfield and distinguished artists of Buffalo-Niagara and Western New York State. Through its affiliation with Buffalo State College, the museum encourages learning and celebrates our richly creative and diverse community.
New York, 212-505-6050
Solar One (CEC Stuyvesant Cove, Inc.), has dedicated itself to inspiring New Yorkers to become environmentally responsible urban residents and develop a sense of stewardship for New York City, for themselves and for their own individual neighborhoods. It embraces this mission through environmental science education, access to sustainable arts performances, ...
Buffalo, 716-856-2717
Founded in 1974 by and for artists, CEPA Gallery is a comprehensive not-for-profit art center dedicated to promoting the photo-related and electronic arts. With programs in visual art exhibitions, public art projects, artist residencies, and education, CEPA strives to foster the creation and presentation of new work, educate the region ...
New York, 212-683-7343
To offer a fiscal sponsorship grant program to individual artists, collaborative artists' projects and emerging arts organizations of all disciplines.
New York, 212-594-6464
To provide support and adminstrative structure to independent, emerging artists for the production of new ideas in theater, music, film, and visual art, helping to launch their careers while creating something of value for the community.
Rome
North Tonawanda, 716.694.4400
The purpose of the Carnegie Art Center, directed by the Tonawandas’ Council on the Arts, is to sponsor, promote and encourage the development of the fine arts. Through the presentation of exhibitions, classes, performances and professional development opportunities, it provides educational and cultural enrichment to the Western New York ...
Kingston
Annandale-on-Hudson
The Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture at Bard College (CCS Bard) is an exhibition, education, and research center dedicated to the study of art and curatorial practices from the 1960s to the present day. In addition to the CCS Galleries and the Hessel Museum of ...
New York, 212-294-8312
The Center for Jewish History is the campus to five partner organizations - American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. One of the most comprehensive collections for the documentation and exploration of the modern Jewish experience in the ...
New York
East Chatham, 518-392-5108
The Chatham Film Club, an all-volunteer organization, brings fine, contemporary art, foreign and independent film to the community through regular screenings, events, and other interactive programming. Columbia County is a rural, sparsely populated community and similar film is available at distances of 50-70 miles roundtrip.
New York
New York
Poughkeepsie, 845-485-4480
Children's Media Project's (CMP) programs encourage people to engage creatively in using the media to express themselves, to critically view and understand the media, to use the media as a tool for education, and offer employment and growth opportunities for youth, emerging artists, and professionals. Our mission is to create ...
Huntington
New York, 212-254-5474
Cinema Tropical is a non-profit media arts organization dedicated to the distribution, programming and promotion of Latin American cinema in the United States.
Staten Island, 917-574-8392
The mission of Collaborative Projects is to gather, promote and disseminate art and information about artists to as broad an audience as possible. This is accomplished by maintaining an eclectic archive of art, electronic media and documents, and through the distribution of artwork. Colab also produces exhibitions, screenings and performances ...
New York, 646-245-0066
The Mission of Collective: Unconscious is to foster an inclusive, creative community in Lower Manhattan that serves as an incubator and launching pad for emerging artists in New York City. Founded in 1995 by a group of multi-disciplined artists, Collective: Unconscious was conceived both to perform unique experimental theater and ...
Syracuse, 315-442-2364
The Community Folk Art Center, Inc. is a vibrant cultural and artistic hub committed to the promotion and development of artists of the African Diaspora. The mission of the center is to exalt cultural and artistic pluralism by collecting, exhibiting, teaching and interpreting the visual & performing arts. ...
Glens Falls, 518-792-6508
The Mission of Crandall Public Library is to provide resources, services and programs necessary to meet the informational, educational, cultural, and entertainment needs of the public to enhance individual and community life. Crandall Public Library intends to provide the community with free access to the world of ideas, information in ...
New York, 212-206-6674
Creative Time presents the most innovative art in the public realm. From our base in New York, we work with artists who ignite the imagination and explore ideas that shape society. We initiate a dynamic conversation among artists, sites, and audiences, in projects that enliven public spaces with free and ...
Syracuse
Narrowsburg
New York, 212-727-0764
Dance Films Association, Inc. aims to build recognition for dance on camera as an art form, ease the marketing and financial burdens of dance film makers through post production grants, showcases, fiscal sponsorship, and project feedback. DFA disseminates information about exemplary dance films and videos through its bi-monthly journal. By ...
New York, 212-691-6500
Dance Theater Workshop was founded on the following principle: to identify, present, and support independent contemporary artists and companies to advance dance and live performance in New York and worldwide.
New York, 212-473-8933
Deep Dish TV aspires to build and maintain a statewide and national network of people and organizations committed to using television as an outlet for creative grassroots, community and independent video that addresses issues and perspectives inadequately represented by corporate media. Our goal is to strengthen and increase the visibility ...
Narrowsburg, 845-252-7576
DVAA leads collaborations that advance the arts in Sullivan County and the Upper Delaware River Valley; encourages and supports cultural programs relevant to all citizens; and provides services to individual artists, arts organizations and the area's arts industry.
New York, 212-719-4393
As the sole venue in New York City and one of few internationally dedicated to the presentation of multi-channel sound installation, Diapason provides a space where composers and sound artists can realize their work for an interested public. By providing an optimum listening environment, two high quality multi-channel sound systems, ...
New York, 6462242235
The Digital Performance Institute (DPI) is a laboratory assisting artists in developing new dialogues between technology and performance. DPI’s programs are specifically designed to facilitate artist-driven investigation of technology’s role in multi-disciplinary performance work without the limitations associated with production.
New York, 212-966-4510
DCTV believes that expanding public access to the electronic media arts invigorates our nation's democracy. Founded in 1972 by Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno, DCTV has fostered a diverse and inclusive media arts community for over 36 years. DCTV pursues its educational mission by introducing members of the community to ...
New York City, 860-832-2766
Drunkenboat.com is an international online journal for the arts that publishes more traditional forms of representation, such as poetry, prose, and photography, alongside works of art endemic to the medium of the web, such as hypertext, audio, video, and interactive web art. Drunkenboat.com is also dedicated to principles of the ...
Brooklyn, 718-694-0831
DAC's mission is to engage a broad spectrum of society in the sensory and intellectual stimuli of emerging visual culture by providing visual artists and curators with the singular opportunity for both on and off-site experimentation, innovation, presentation and advancement.
Sunnyside, 718 784-4066
EarSay is an artist driven non-profit arts organization dedicated to uncovering and portraying stories of the uncelebrated. Our projects bridge the divide between documentary and expressive forms in books, exhibitions, on stage, in sound & electronic media. We are committed to fostering understanding and dialogue across cultures, generations, gender, and ...
East Meadow, 516-794-2570
The East Meadow Public Library is dedicated to providing the services and resources which will enrich and enlighten all segments of the community.
New York, 212-465-9366
The Educational Video Center (EVC) is a nonprofit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary video as a tool for social change and as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of young people. Founded in 1984, EVC is a nationally acclaimed leader in the fields ...
Syracuse, 315-474-6064
The mission of the Everson Museum of Art is to preserve, exhibit, interpret, and enhance its collections of historical and contemporary American visual arts and its international ceramic collection. The Museum seeks to inspire, educate and enrich all people, and integrate art into their lives through direct encounters with its ...
New York, 212-966-7745
Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit ...
New York, 212-431-6430
Experimental Intermedia Foundation has been a presenter and service organization since 1968. Its purpose is to serve as a development resource for artists, providing a supportive environment for the creation and presentation of innovative, technically sophisticated music and intermedia artwork. EIF is currently pursuing two primary objectives: 1) To produce a ...
Newark Valley, 607-687-4341
* to support the creation of work using new electronic media technologies by consulting on the development of new programs and organizations * to encourage an informed appreciation of media art by supporting the exhibition of film and electronic works by artists and by arts and cultural organizations * ...
New York, 212-937-6580
Founded in 1996, Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with the larger culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges ...
New York, 646-549-1349
To increase the development and showcase of Irish film, cinematic culture and emerging music throughout the year with a four day film festival and the Craic Music Series which is open to all New Yorkers. Also to facilitate dialogue and mutual support between Irish and Irish American filmmakers/musicians and the ...
New York, 212-514-3737
The Film and Video Center (FVC) of the National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to presenting and disseminating information about the media works of Native Americans throughout the Western hemisphere. Its Native Networks Website: www.nativenetworks.si.edu -Provides a representation of current work in the field of indigenous media, including ...
New York, 212-267-5665
The New American Cinema Group/ The Film-Makers' Cooperative (FMC) was founded in 1961 as a 501(c)(3)not-for-profit organization for the purpose of distributing independent, non-commercial, avant-garde films and videos. It is the first organization of its kind devoted entirely to the artists' exploration of the moving image. Since its founding, FMC ...
Ithaca, 607 274 3431
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) embraces and interrogates sustainability across all of its forms: economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, and aesthetic. The festival is in the spirit of UNESCO’s initiative on sustainable development. This initiative has redefined and expanded environmental issues to explore the international interconnections between ...
Long Island City, 646-319-4413
Flux Factory, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) arts and education not-for-profit organization created in 1994 and incorporated in 1998. Our mission is to support, promote, and produce innovative art through collaborative exchange. As a fully artist-run organization and artistic collective, Flux Factory is unique in both Queens and the greater ...
Long Island City
The mission of Forward Motion Theater is to create original works that explore the combination of movement and technology. FMT fosters collaboration and experimentation between artists in diverse mediums by curating events, providing technology support, and media services.
New York, 212-277-8020
Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. Our programs and services facilitate the creation of art by offering vital support to the artists who produce it. We help artists and arts organizations function more effectively as businesses by providing access to ...
Brooklyn, 718-398-7255
Franklin Furnace's mission is to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, their ephemeral nature or politically unpopular content. Franklin Furnace is dedicated to serving artists by providing both physical and virtual venues for the presentation ...
New York, 212-864-3375
The mission of the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, Inc. is to develop African-American and other professional artists in the fields of Writing, Acting and Production by offering professional training through writing workshops in Prose Fiction, Poetry, Screenwriting, Playwriting, Journalism, and workshops in Acting, Documentary Production, Television Production and Film ...
New York
New York, 212-529-5300
The Funding Exchange is a national membership organization of publicly supported, regionally-based community foundations. We are a unique partnership of activists and donors dedicated to building a permanent institutional and financial base for progressive social change by fundraising for local, national and international grantmaking programs. We believe that the great ...
New York, 212-668-1100
The New York Documentary Center was founded in 1997 to provide the public with programs exploring documentary filmmaking, past, present, and future with the express purpose of broadening the audience base for the documentary genre. The goals of the Center are: To gather documentary filmmakers, industry professionals, educators, students and ...
Acra, 518-622-2598
free103point9 is a non-profit arts organization, based in Greene County, NY focused on cultivating the genre Transmission Arts. This genre encompasses a diversity of practices and media working with the idea of transmission or the physical properties of the electromagnetic spectrum (the airwaves). Transmission art is generally a participatory live-art ...
