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  • A listing of library materials and websites helping you search for funding, jobs, and residencies. Hard copies of this guide are available at the Art Collection on the 3rd floor, and the books and the periodicals are on 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th floors of Mid-Manhattan Library.
  • Founded in 1981 in Lower Manhattan, Art in General is a nonprofit organization that assists artists with the production and presentation of new work. Starting in the fall of 2005, Art in General will focus on commissioning challenging new work that may not otherwise be publicly realized. Art in General also maintains an Artist Residency Program designed to give national and international artists the opportunity to present and create new work.
  • Artists Space was founded in 1972 as a non-profit institution supporting unaffiliated contemporary artists working in the visual arts, including the media of video, performance, architecture and design.
  • Artists Space was founded in 1972 to support contemporary artists working in the visual arts, including video, electronic media, performance, architecture and design. See the Submisssions link under Exhibitions.
  • Our mission is to bring the tools of the mass media within reach. Since the early '80s, Artists' Television Access has provided equipment, education, and a screening venue for independent film and video to artists and the community in San Francisco's Mission District.
  • We exhibit and promote the media and digital arts of Boston, New England and the world to audiences in the New England region and beyond helping to promote a sense of media and digital literacy locally and regionally. We carry out six major programs the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the Artists Residency in Technology Companies of Massachusetts (ARTCOM) program, VideoSpace, the HyperArtSpace Online Gallery, the Apropos New Media Database and Faces of Tomorrow.
  • Founded in January 1999, Creative Capital supports work with the potential for significant artistic and cultural impact, and is committed to diversity in all its forms.
  • ETC was founded in 1971, an outgrowth of a media access program established by Ralph Hocking at Binghamton University in 1969. Today, the Center continues to provide support and services to the media arts community.
  • Frameline is an organization whose "mission is to support, develop, and promote lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer visibility through media arts. Through a variety of programs and activities,Frameline provides access to films and videos dealing with a wide variety of issues related to sexuality and gender. Eachyear Frameline presents the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival,the world's oldest and largest event of its kind."
  • Since 1990, nearly 100 films and videos have been completed with assistance from the Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund. The leading distributor of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media to the educational market and beyond.
  • From its central SOHO location and through its Internet presence Harvestworks provides accessible and coordinated digital media production, education, information and content distribution services to a diverse creative community.
  • Artists' Fellowships are awarded in 16 different disciplines over a two year period. The Film category accepts work that has been initially shot with a film camera. Filmed material that has been transferred to videocassette or computer for editing and processing is acceptable.The Video category accepts work in video or any work in which video or video techniques are pivotal, if not exclusive.
  • It gives independent filmmakers the chance to show their work directly to the public and gives New York audiences the opportunity to see outstanding new films...
  • Founded in 1995 by filmmakers Jamie Hook and Deborah Girdwood, NWFF is a Seattle-based non-profit organization dedicated to becoming the nation's leading center for film artists.
  • The Fund supports media activism and grassroots organizing by funding the pre-production and distribution of social issue film and video projects and the production and distribution of radio projects, made by local, state, national or international organizations and individual media producers.
  • The Program for Media Artists encompasses a range of activities designed to provide financial, promotional and professional assistance to media makers and to encourage the production, distribution and exhibition of independent media in all forms.
  • ITVS brings to local, national and international audiences high-quality, content-rich programs created by a diverse body of independent producers. ITVS programs take creative risks, explore complex issues, and express points of view seldom seen on commercial or public television.
  • The Kitchen is a non-profit, interdisciplinary organization that provides innovative artists working in the media, literary, and performing arts exhibition and performance opportunities to create and present new work.
  • Contemporary dance.
  • In accordance with its mission, TWN serves as a fiscal sponsor of independent film and electronic media productions, as well as artistic, educational and cultural projects emphasizing people of color and their concerns.
  • White Columns consists of an ongoing program of culturally diverse exhibitions and services for visual artists. It was founded in 1970 to present and uphold the most challenging and creative visual arts by under-supported artists.