Service: Workshops
- ABACA/Arts Benefit All Coalition Alternative
- ABACA (Arts Benefit All Coalition Alternative) was created in 1992 to enhance student academic achievement, broaden student cultural horizons and build self esteem through experiences of success in visual and performing arts learning and training.
- Adirondack Architectural Heritage Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Warren Counties
- The mission of Adirondack Architectural Heritage is to further greater public understanding, appreciation and stewardship of the architecture, historic sites and communities of New York State's Adirondack Park through education, technical assistance, advocacy and partnerships.
- Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
- A.R.T./New York is the service organization for the nation's largest, most culturally diverse and most artistically influential theatre community: Off Broadway. We were founded in 1972 by 49 Off Off Broadway companies to serve and promote this important new industry and we have upheld this mission by identifying and responding to the immediate and long-term issues affecting our membership. Services include cash grants, low-interest loans, low-cost office and rehearsal space, and technical assistance to theatres in all five boroughs. In recent years we have given particular emphasis to improving the cultural life and economic conditions of the City’s low-and moderate-income neighborhoods. A.R.T./New York’s membership is growing rapidly -- we now have a total membership of 425 not-for-profit theatres.
- 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.
- Architectural League of New York Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
- The mission of the Architectural League is to promote understanding of the values of the art of architecture and its critical contributions to public life. The league develops and presents annual programs of lectures, exhibitions and design studies that illustrate the state of the art and the possibilities of its application to current issues. The League does so to raise the standard of architectural discourse, enrich the work of designers and give content to public discussions of major issues concerning our designed environment.
- Art Resources for Teachers and Students Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) Counties
- Art Resources for Teachers and Students (ARTS) is committed to fostering cross-cultural understanding, dialogue and appreciation among the residents of the Lower East Side and throughout New York City. We do this through a wide range of in-school, after-school and research programs, as well as through our multi-culturally oriented books and audio materials. By providing direct services to the community, we not only promote, explore and sustain the traditional and contemporary cultures and art forms of both China and Latin America, but we also provide an opportunity for individual development, shared sense of community affiliation and ownership, and a great sense of ethnic pride. ARTS's work has a broad application in contemporary urban settings and could easily be replicated to support unique qualities of various neighborhoods and ethnic groups elsewhere.
- Arts & Business Council of New York - a division of Americans for the Arts All Counties
- The Arts & Business Council stimulates partnerships between business and the arts that strengthen the arts and business environments in the communities they serve. We accomplish this mission with programs that promote voluntarism, build arts management capacity, gather and disseminate relevant information, and advocate for closer ties between business and the arts.
