Individual Artists

For Individual Artists


Strategic Opportunity Stipends

Deadline for Round I : September 12, 2011 | Granting for opportunities from November, 2011 – October, 2012 *
Deadline for Round II: April 5, 2012 | Granting for opportunities from June 2012 – October, 2012

Please note that applications should now be submitted electronically through email. Applicants should submit one pdf with all requested documents included.

SOS Application and guidelines
Final Report Form (Round 2 FY2011)
Arts Center and NYFA Logos

Strategic Opportunity Stipends (SOS) are designed to help individual artists of all disciplines take advantage of unique opportunities that will significantly benefit their work or career development. Literary, media, visual, music and performing artists may request support ranging from $200 to $1,500 for specific, forthcoming opportunities that are distinct from work in progress.

For instructions on how to prepare your application PDF, please see NYFA’s website.

For an online seminar on the SOS grant and application, please see NYFA’s video.

For more information, write to lauren@artscenteronline.org



One-on-one Artist Consulting Clinic

Tuesday, August 16th| 5:00 – 7:30 PM | $20 | Register with Lauren Hittinger, Lauren@artscenteronline.org 518-273-0552 ex 229

In a program offered by NYFA, one-on-one, 20-minute consultations by skilled and trained artist consultants, Mara Lefebvre and Denise Sait-Onge, provide information and insight regarding the best practices for your artistic professional career and the importance of excellent presentation of materials when applying for shows, grants, residencies, and when approaching galleries.

Does your WEBSITE pop and your PORTFOLIO speak to the reader? How can you give your BIO an edge and your RESIDENCY applications leverage?

Your session will be tailored to your needs! Prior to your meeting, we ask that you define one or two specific areas with which you need guidance. Sessions are not designed to critique the content of artwork, but rather to give feedback on the work’s professional presentation.

Counsulting Program Flyer

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NYFA MARK

THE 2010 DEADLINE HAS PASSED Visit www.nyfa.org/mark for more information.

MARK is designed to address the concerns of artists living outside of New York City while providing them with a new network statewide. Participating artists can expect MARK to spark goals and help to define concrete steps while providing individual and group feedback on how to better present yourself.


The MARK Program includes:

  • Focus on strategies for expanding your visibility as an artist.
  • Curriculum emphasizes goal setting and includes using the internet effectively, strengthening grant or project applications, improving writing and speaking about your work and identifying exhibition opportunities.
  • Between seminars, artists will be assigned projects related to their specific goals.
  • Individual feedback given to all participants.

Program Fee:

  • $100 per person
  • There is no fee to apply. If accepted in to the program there is a one-time fee of $100 per artist participating.