Category: Music
- Allied Productions Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
- Allied Productions was founded in 1981 as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit arts organization to support and foster individuals, groups and organizations active in all areas of the arts. It is a multipurpose entity run by artists for artists that presents, produces and sponsors. Since its incorporation it has provided services and support to individuals, groups and organizations actively involved in the production of visual, performing and media arts. Allied has a proven track record for effective management. Allied's contacts and resource lists are a vital reference for locating funding sources, materials and production space. In New York City, as a pivotal site, our projects intersect with three programs: Improvement of quality of life in disadvantaged neighborhoods, enhancing of public space and community life, and the fostering of an environment conducive to the artistic and creative process.
- American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
- The American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba builds cultural bridges between the United States and Cuba and provides opportunities to promote and foster the exchange of ideas and information through art. Aimed to enrich and expand creative expressions, the group creates and sponsors exchange programs by offering residencies, internships, educational exchanges and cultural festivals in contemporary fine art, photography, film, video and the performing arts.
- American Music Center All Counties
- The purpose of the American Music Center is to build a national community for new American music. The center accomplishes this by providing field-wide advocacy, promotion, and support for new music and the artists who create it. Among its many core programs and services, AMC offers an information service that responds to more than 35,000 inquiries annually, an online library and listening room for new music (www.newmusicjukebox.org), access to a 65,000-piece library of original scores and recordings, a Web magazine for new American music (www.newmusicbox.com), professional development workshops, a monthly listing of new music opportunities, networking groups for new music professionals, grants to artists and organizations, and other projects initiated in response to specific needs of the field. Currently, 34% of AMC's membership resides in New York State, while thousands of non-member New Yorkers benefit from the Center's services and attend performances facilitated by AMC programs.
- American Symphony Orchestra League All Counties
- The mission of the American Symphony Orchestra League is to provide leadership and service to American orchestras while communicating to the American public the value and importance of orchestras and the music they perform. Founded in 1942, the league serves more than 900 member symphony, chamber, youth, and university orchestras of all sizes, and supports a network of thousands of musicians, conductors, managers, board members, volunteers, staff members and business partners. Within New York State, the league currently provides service to 64 orchestras, 63 business members, 15 libraries, 11 non-profit organizations, 3 placement centers and 314 individual members.
- AMERINDA (American Indian Artists) All Counties
- American Indian Artists (AMERINDA) works to empower Native Americans, break down barriers, and foster intercultural understanding and appreciation of Native culture. Through a variety of arts programs, productions, and services to artists, AMERINDA supports Native artists who embody the traditional practices and values that define Native culture. AMERINDA also promotes the indigenous perspective in the arts to a wide audience through the creation of new works in contemporary art forms-visual, literary, performing, and media arts.
- Arts Council for Chautauqua County Chautauqua County
- Recognizing that a community which encourages, supports and fosters the arts empowers its citizens to think, work and live creatively, the Arts Council for Chautauqua County works to provide an environment in which the arts thrive. In support of its mission, the council's first goal is to facilitate the integration of art in the community and promote art/artists and arts organizations with four foci: support for art/artists/art community; integration of arts as education; improvement and preservation of the physical environment; connection to economic and community development. The second goal of the organization is to continue to explore and model what it means to be a cultural institution in a changing environment that has a preference for cooperation rather than competition, and "servant leadership," as the ambition for its role.
- Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks Essex, Franklin Counties
- The mission of the Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks is to promote, encourage, develop and sustain cultural activities in the region; to facilitate the sharing of information; to provide technical assistance to emerging and established cultural organizations and artists; to assist the artist and the public in obtaining the resources and publicity necessary for a healthy cultural community; and to deliver cultural programs to fulfill our mission (but not compete with existing programs) in order to make the arts more central to the lives of the widest possible group of people.
- Arts For Art New York (Manhattan) County
- Arts for Art is an inter-cultural, artist-initiated and artist-run organization. Its purpose is to build awareness and understanding of avant jazz and related expressive movements, which share an aesthetic based on a disciplined disregard for traditional boundaries. Our principal activities are the presentation of cutting edge music, multi-discipline performances, the exhibition of visual arts installations, and the organization of community based, arts education programs. Arts for Art is the only group that is devoted to the presentation of experimental American music from an Afro-American perspective and traditions. Avant jazz is a direct outgrowth of jazz, historically a uniquely African-American music. At the same time avant jazz has gone worldwide and gained audiences and artists from all cultures. Our programming is multi-racial which reflects this development of avant jazz into a multi-cultural music.
- Asian American Arts Alliance New York (Manhattan) County
- Founded in 1983, Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) is a nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to engaging the greater public in the support, recognition and appreciation of Asian American arts by ensuring that Asian American artists and arts organizations thrive.
- Association of Hispanic Arts All Counties
- Founded in 1975, the Association of Hispanic Arts' basic mission is to foster an appreciation and recognition of the contributions of the Latino arts to U.S. society, as well as to support Latino artists, through programs that: develop audiences and create new opportunities for the broadest possible exposure to Latino-created art forms and cultural expressions; help empower Latino arts organizations and individual artists to grow, develop and succeed in their respective disciplines. AHA's program areas include Audience Development, Information & On-line Services, and Technical Assistance.
