Funds Available for New York State Media Arts Artists & Organizations

FUNDS FOR NEW YORK STATE MEDIA ARTISTS & ORGANIZATIONS

Opportunities, deadlines, resources...

Greene County, NY - September 23, 2011
free103point9 to administer The Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund.

Since 2009, free103point9 has facilitated a Distribution Grant for New York State media artists, made possible through regrant funds from The New York State Council on the Arts' Electronic Media and Film. Today, we are pleased to announce that free103point9 will administer a second state-wide program, making technical assistance funds available to New York State media arts organizations.

Guidelines, Deadlines, and Application Instructions: www.free103point9.org

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Next Deadlines: November 1, 2011; January 1, 2012

The Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund is designed to strengthen media arts organizations in all regions of New York State by providing funds with which media arts organizations can hire outside consultants to address capacity and technology needs in three specific areas:

Organizational Development
Professional Development
Conferences and Convening

NEW for 2012 and 2013!
The Fund’s current funding priorities include:

Projects that deepen and expand organizational online public presence and capacities.
New approaches to organizational management, through strategic utilization of web-based tools and platforms.

The maximum grant award is $4,000.

The Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund was previously administered by Experimental Television Center (Owego, NY), who ended their granting programs this past July 2011. Two other previous ETC programs, Presentation Funds and Finishing Funds, will now be managed by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.

DISTRIBUTION FUNDS FOR ARTISTS
Next Deadline: October 31, 2011

The Distribution Grant for New York State Artists provides support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. Grant awards assist artists in making recently completed works available to public audiences and may include, but are not limited to distribution and exhibition expenses such as: duplication of preview, screening, and exhibition copies; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works. The rental or purchase of equipment essential for exhibition/distribution by individual artists is also eligible. Artists may request funding support up to a maximum amount of $10,000.

Successful grantees are awarded the opportunity to work with a project mentor who will offer guidance as grantees execute their distribution and exhibition plans. This mentor will have expertise in the grantees' specific genre of media art.

Guidelines, Deadlines, and Application Instructions: www.free103point9.org

NYSCA Electronic Media and Film is excited to welcome free103point9 as the new EMF Regrant Administrator for Technical Assistance. This organization has been on the forefront of sound art and technology for many years, serving as an important catalyst for advancing media as an art form. EMF also wants to acknowledge ETC for their invaluable contribution to the field and outstanding service in managing this Regrant since 1998.

- Karen Helmerson
NYSCA Senior Program Officer, Electronic Media, Film and Visual Arts

The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is dedicated to preserving and expanding the rich and diverse cultural resources that are and will become the heritage of New York's citizens.

NYSCA's Electronic Media and Film funding is dedicated to furthering artistic growth and public engagement in old and new technology.

NYSCA has a long-standing commitment to creative exploration and exhibition in all aspects of the media arts – including a variety of activities that enable diverse constituents in the development, exhibition and appreciation of film, electronic media and sound as an art form.

www.nysca.org