Where artists

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Fundraising and planning for your projects and your life.

Where artists

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Fundraising and planning for your projects and your life.

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The Field works with artists and arts workers of all disciplines, backgrounds, and career stages to help them reach their goals.

Our offerings

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Artist Profile & Analytics

Customize your free artist profile and enjoy powerful marketing and community engagement tools to share your creative projects with a wide audience.

Knowledge Base

Browse events, free resources, grants, and other funding and professional development opportunities crowdsourced by and for artists like you.

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Fiscal Sponsorship

Fund your artistic projects with tax-deductible crowdfunding campaigns, individual donations, and grants – and leave the paperwork to us.

Real People, Real Help

The Field staff is ready to help you thrive. From workshops to one-on-one consultations or a friendly phone call, we'll meet you where you are.

The Field envisions a world where artists are abundantly and holistically prosperous. We’re building a community that connects, empowers,
and elevates artists.

Explore our artists

zavé martohardjono

zavé martohardjono

zavé martohardjono is a queer, trans, Indonesian-American artist working in performance, dance, installation, video, and poetry.

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Andre Woolery

Andre Woolery

Black visual artist presenting altered realities that embrace imaginative and uplifting possibilities.

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Beverly Lopez

Beverly Lopez

Beverly Lopez is a Bronx native dancer, choreographer, and educator. As Artistic Director of REDi Dance …

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News and events from The Field

The Field Presents:
Social Alchemix & Gotham Dance Theater

A theatrical hybrid of game night, storytelling, libations, and live performance.

Proceeds benefit The Field

Fiscal Sponsorship for Social Justice Arts Practitioners’ Application Information Session

How to apply for one free year of fiscal sponsorship + special benefits. Attendance is not required to apply, but strongly encouraged!

Free for Members of The Field

Building a Home Base: The Basics of an Artist Website

Learn makes a good, sustainable website for artists to use as a home base in case their work is erased on other platforms.

Free for Members of The Field

The Corporate Transparency Act: What Artists Need to Know

A new law may require your small business to report information about ownership to the government.

Secret Ingredients for Preparing Contracts 2.0

Creating a foundation for succesful creative partnerships.

Free for Members of The Field

Building a Home Base: Websites for Artists

A how-to guide on creating a good, sustainable website to host your work.

Free for Members of The Field

Secrets of Self-Publishing

A step-by-step guide on independently publishing your work featuring award-winning writer Steve Harper.

Free for Members of The Field

NYSCA Toolbox 2024

Applying for NYSCA? Don’t miss this essential workshop on eligibility, tips on writing a competitive application, and the guidelines for applying through The Field.

Free for Members of The Field

Activate Equity 2022

Our annual gathering of artists, cultural workers, activists, and educators tackling the question, “How can we create a more equitable arts sector?”

Pay what you wish

Welcome our Interim Executive Director!

We are thrilled to announce that Jamaine T. Smith will be joining The Field as our Interim Executive Director.

Leadership Transition

After 16 years of leadership, Executive Director Jennifer Wright Cook will step down from her role at The Field in June 2022.

Build Your Own Benefits Package

For Artists and Creatives

$15 | Free for Members of The Field

Get Going with Grants

Tips + Tools for Grant Applications from Deputy Director Shawn René Graham

Free for Members of The Field

Live Producing in the Time of Covid

A Discussion with Ty Jones of the Classical Theatre of Harlem

Free

The Artist's Financial Plan

From Artist to Artist-Entrepreneur 

$25 | Free for Members of The Field

Home of Your Own

A Workshop on First-Time Homeownership

$15 | Free for Members of The Field

Artists at the Center

A Snapshot of The Field’s First Artist Council

Free

Investing in Your Future as an Artist

Working artists deserve a financially secure retirement, but how can they achieve it?

Private 1:1 Financial Consultation Sessions

FREE consultations for attendees of “Creating a Budget to Grow Your Artistic Practice” on June 15 and/or “Investing in Your Future as an Artist” on June 22.

Activate Equity 2023: Power and Representation

Our annual gathering of artists, cultural workers, activists, and educators tackling the question, “How can we create a more equitable arts sector?”

Pay what you wish

Leadership Skills for Artists

Leading a creative project may come easy for artists, but what about when you are conducting business or managing a team? Learn tips in this online workshop!

Free for Members of The Field

Fiscal Sponsorship for Social Justice Arts Practitioners’ Application Information Session

Learn about our subsidized fiscal sponsorship program, including eligibility information and tips on applying!

Writing Project Descriptions and Artist Statements

Transforming your creative vision into the written word.

Free for Members of The Field

Financial Well-Being for Artists (Part 2)

A creative’s guide to self-employment, budgeting, taxes, and more featuring noted financial consultant Amy Smith.

Free for Members of The Field

Fiscal Sponsorship for Social Justice Arts Practitioners - Summer Cohort

Our program offering subsidized fiscal sponsorship to artists and organizations whose creative work is centered in social justice.

You're in good hands.

Since 1986 The Field has helped 38,529 artists and emerging arts companies in NYC and beyond…
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Our team

Everything we do is strengthened by the broad and deep range of experiences, identities, perspectives, and skills of our team. Meet the artists and art-lovers that make up our dynamic staff, board, and Artist Council.

Our Staff

Our Board

The Artist Council

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