Fundraising Tools for Artists Workshop
New York Foundation for the Arts
Thursday, November 11
12-1:30 p.m., GCC-CD

This presentation gives an overview of the Fundraising landscape according to what matters to you in your art career. It covers NYFA support tools for artists such as NYFA Source and NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship.  Fiscal Sponsorship is a critical way for individual artists, artists' collaborative projects, and emerging arts organizations in all disciplines to apply for funding usually available only to organizations with 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. The right fiscal sponsor will not only allow you to manage your project efficiently, but can actually help artists to raise more money and realize their artistic visions more fully.

The presentation also covers NYFA Source www.nyfa.org/source is the most extensive national online directory of awards, services, and programs for artists. Listings include over 4,200 arts organizations, 2900 award programs, 4,200 service programs, and 900 publications for individual artists across the country.

Information on other NYFA Programs without borders such as NYFA Learning Online is also provided.

The workshop is geared for visual, performing, literary artists and filmmakers and all other disciplines with an interest in raising funds for their projects or organizations.

Rory Golden and Nathan McKee are on campus from NYFA.

Bios: Workshop Leader Rory Golden brings strong experience in supporting artists and an active artist’s professional practice to his position of Program Officer, External Affairs at NFYA. As Executive Director at the Center for Book Arts (2000 - 2004) in New York, Rory established various new programs to support artists. These include a new exhibition series, a letterpress broadsides poetry reading series, a workspace artist-in-residence program for emerging artists, and a tuition-free class for emerging writers. He left the position in 2004 to pursue his own challenging creative projects. Before coming to NYFA Golden was part-time Studio Manager at the Atlanta Printmakers Studio.

Also a practicing artist, Rory has exhibited his artwork widely in both solo and group shows at venues such as Eyedrum and the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta, the Denver International Airport and both the San Francisco and New York Public Libraries. His work has been recognized with fellowships from Yaddo, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Blue Mountain Center and the National Academy of Fine Arts. Recent grants include an Idea Capital Grant, a Puffin Foundation Grant and a research grant from Duke University Libraries Special Collections. His work was recently featured in No Escape from Love, a solo exhibition at Avisca Fine Arts (Atlanta, GA).

NYFA Executive Assistant Nathan McKee is a composer/performer from the Pacific Northwest who received his BA in Music and Arts and Letters from Portland State University in Oregon. His work has been commissioned by fashion designers, video artists and not-for-profit organizations. Before joining the NYFA family he was the director of envoy enterprises, a contemporary art space in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.