Experience a wide range of virtual art activities by supporting our Creative Engagement and UMEZ Arts Engagement grantees and their events this month.

Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. New York City artists and art organizations, check out these upcoming opportunities and funding! Art Opportunities Lower East Side Printshop’s Keyholder Residency Program The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Residencies are free and one…

“The most significant impact from this residency was offering a safe and nourishing space to create, plan and be an artist. […] This residency on Governors Island proves to be an example of the need for professional artist workspace to develop and sustain our practices in a safe, tech-friendly, resourced and well-kept environment. From this…

NYC cultural nonprofits: complete the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs COVID-19 survey by Monday, March 1! Make your voice heard and help capture the impact this crisis has had on our city’s cultural sector. Building on Cultural Affairs’ survey and report from last year, this new survey will follow up on key findings; examine how…

Experience a wide range of virtual art activities by supporting our Creative Engagement, UMEZ Arts Engagement and Creative Learning grantees and their events this month. Harlem Needle Arts Up South On view through July 31, 2021 Col. Charles Young Triangle Park, 153rd Street, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. along the metal gate/fence. Presenting, Up…

Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Under the city’s new Open Culture Program, artists & cultural organizations will be able to apply for permits to perform, rehearse, & teach outdoors this spring and summer! Arts and cultural institutions, as well as entertainment venues, will have the opportunity to secure a permit for single day, ticketed performances at…

Jenny Polak, “Offshore”, 2020 at Socrates Sculpture Park, image courtesy of the artist. LMCC alumni Daniel Bejar (Process Space 2014, Workspace 2011-2012, Swing Space 2009) and Jenny Polak (Process Space 2017, Workspace 2005-2006) are featured in Part II of Socrates Sculpture Park’s MONUMENTS NOW exhibition, Call and Response. In the group exhibition, projects take various archetypal monumental forms – such as the arch or the column – and dedicate them…

Leah Raintree, Arts Center Residency 2019-2020. Photo by Ian Douglas. Application Deadline: February 28, 2021 at 11:59 PM EST Throughout the pandemic, LMCC has continued to serve, support, and connect artists. More than ever, we believe that the creativity of artists and cultural organizations does not subside in the current moment and we are committed…

The 22 talented artists participating in LMCC’s 2021 Governor’s Island Residency Initiative were recently featured in Tribeca Citizen and Hyperallergic! LMCC is excited to welcome Abigail Donahue, Alexa Hoyer, Andres Santiago Pina, Anthony Huffman, Betsy Kenyon, Dena Igusti, Hsuan Yu Pan, Hyewon Park, Isaac Roller, Janelle Lawrence, Josef Pinlac, Katy McCarthy, KC Trommer, Kelly Marshall, Kosuke Kawahara, Madeleine Fia Matsson, Mingna Li, Nozomi Rose, Rhonda Weppler, Ryan D. Matthews, Selwyn V. Garraway and Yin Ming Wong to the…

The Latest Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship grant recipients have been announced! Congratulations to LMCC Alumni Ying Liu and Ephrat Asherie on receiving the 2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship! Each award is $50,000 over two years ($25,000 per year) in direct support to artists to create new work, advance artistic goals, and/or promote professional development. Ying…