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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.
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
Ray Jordan Achan
Indo-Caribbean, Brooklyn based actor, director, writer and producer. Ray is the Founding Artistic Director of EXILED …
Sarah Khan
Maker/scholar, writes and creates content — prints, photography, films — about food, culture, women, and migrants.
Rochester Artist Collaborative
Arts organization committed to supporting individual Artists, specifically emerging historically excluded and…
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.
- Thursday, October 27 2022 ◦ 6:30 - 9:00 PM ET
- The Flamboyán Theater at The Clemente
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!
- Monday, December 19, 2022 ◦ 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
- Zoom
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.
- Tuesday, January 17 2023 ◦ 6:00 - 7:15 PM ET
- Zoom
Free for Members of The Field
Welcome our New Executive Director!
We are excited to announce that Christopher Bloodworth will be joining The Field as our Executive Director.
- Published Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
Fiscal Sponsorship for Artists & Art Collectives
Curious about Fiscal Sponsorship? This information session will give a clear and comprehensive overview of fiscal sponsorship and answer your questions.
- NEW DATE: Thursday, March 9 2023 ◦ 6:00 - 7:15 PM ET
- Zoom
Free for Members of The Field
Secret Ingredients for Preparing Contracts 2.0
Creating a foundation for succesful creative partnerships.
- Thursday, February 16, 2023 ◦ 6:00 - 7:15 PM ET
- Zoom
Free for Members of The Field
NYSCA Toolbox 2023
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.
- Thursday, May 4, 2023 ◦ 6:00 - 7:15 PM ET
- Zoom
Free for Members of The Field
Fiscal Sponsorship for
Social Justice Arts Practitioners - ROUND 2
Our program offering subsidized fiscal sponsorship to artists and organizations whose creative work is centered in social justice.
- Accepting Applications until May 31, 2023
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?”
- Tuesdays and Thursdays in May
- Zoom
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.
- Published Thursday, May 19, 2022
Leadership Transition
After 16 years of leadership, Executive Director Jennifer Wright Cook will step down from her role at The Field in June 2022.
- Published Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Build Your Own Benefits Package
For Artists and Creatives
- Thursday, March 3, 2022 ◦ 1:00 - 2:15 PM ET
- Zoom
$15 | Free for Members of The Field
Get Going with Grants
Tips + Tools for Grant Applications from Deputy Director Shawn René Graham
- Tuesday, December 7, 2021 ◦ 6:00 - 7:30 PM ET
- Zoom
Free for Members of The Field
Live Producing in the Time of Covid
A Discussion with Ty Jones of the Classical Theatre of Harlem
- Wednesday, October 27, 2021 ◦ 6 - 7 PM ET
- Zoom
Free
The Artist's Financial Plan
From Artist to Artist-Entrepreneur
- Tuesday, November 2, 2021 ◦ 3 - 5 PM ET
- Zoom
$25 | Free for Members of The Field
Home of Your Own
A Workshop on First-Time Homeownership
- Monday, November 8, 2021 ◦ 4 - 5 PM ET
- Zoom
$15 | Free for Members of The Field
Artists at the Center
A Snapshot of The Field’s First Artist Council
- Published Wednesday, June 30, 2021
- PDF, 6 pages
Free
Investing in Your Future as an Artist
Working artists deserve a financially secure retirement, but how can they achieve it?
- 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM EDT ◦ Tuesday, June 22, 2021
- Zoom Video Communications
Free
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.
- 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM EDT ◦ Friday, June 25, 2021
- Zoom Video Communications
Free
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?”
- Thursday, June 15, 2023 ◦ 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM ET
- Zoom
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!
- Thursday, June 29, 2023 ◦ 6:00 - 7:15 PM ET
- Zoom
Free for Members of The Field
You're in good hands.
Since 1986 The Field has helped 38,529 artists and emerging arts companies in NYC and beyond…
- Raise over $45,089,244.00
- Share 40,226 new works around the World
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.
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