As a Black-led organization based in highly-gentrified downtown Brooklyn, 651 ARTS is a significant placeholder for the cultural aesthetic of the African Diaspora and provides professional and creative opportunities for artists of African descent.

Art21’s vivid video portraits provide explorations of the lives and aesthetic practices of the artists of our time. The distribution of its fantastic catalog to arts educators and public media platforms serves to inspire a more creative world.

In its new and more significant exhibition gallery for artists in now gentrified Tribeca and Chinatown communities of Manhattan, Artists Space puts artists at the center of its work through a commitment to contextualization, decolonization, and active interrogation of its institutional role.

BOMB Magazine is the long-running arts publication for artists of all disciplines. It is committed to oral history and equity through artist-generated content and an editorial eye that provides critical context.

BRIC serves as a multidisciplinary stoop for the borough of Brooklyn. 40 years strong, BRIC brings together community media, performing arts programs, contemporary art exhibitions, and artistic programming that explores issues of difference and community under one roof.

Reflecting the dynamic communities of its New York City borough, The Bronx Museum of the Arts is at the crossroads where artists, residents, national and international visitors meet and connect through its permanent collection, special exhibitions, and education programs.

As a thoughtful and independent critical platform providing insight into the aesthetic process, Cabinet Magazine is full of curiosities which fire one’s imagination and creativity. After many years as a print publication, Cabinet recently shifted to an online platform.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Creative Capital funds artists working in all creative disciplines and catalyzes connections to help them realize their visions through sustainable practices.

Creative Time connects New Yorkers with artists and their public artworks to stoke dialogues that transcend geographic, racial, and socioeconomic barriers and differences.

At the leading edge of performance-based curation for 45 years, Danspace Project works in deep partnership with artists around themes that represent this moment and peer into the field’s future.

Providing a learning community and resources for its U.S. based philanthropic membership, Grantmakers in the Arts is an association of arts and culture funders of all shapes, sizes and practices. It places racial equity at the center of their work.

By making performances easily accessible to all audiences, Harlem Stage offers a vital artistic home for Black artists in a storied neighborhood which has made an indelible mark on American culture.

More Art works intimately with commissioned artists to make their work fully accessible to the public in surprising and beautiful installations and experiences that engage social issues and concepts.

Growing out of the New York City Cultural Agenda Fund (2014-2018), the New York Community Trust’s Mosaic Network and Fund is a funders collaborative designed for collective learning and the allocation of resources to address the crisis of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) leadership in New York City’s arts and cultural sector.

New York Live Arts commissions, produces, and presents innovative movement-based arts within its two rehearsal studios and large performance space in Chelsea, on the westside of Manhattan. They are known for their conceptual rigor, formal experimentation, and active engagement with the social, political, and cultural currents of our times. 

At the forward edge of the radical imagination, PARTICIPANT INC’s alternative art space in the Lower East Side of Manhattan embodies its profound attention and intentional practice by presenting and archiving ambitious exhibitions, screenings, and performances, and within contexts that recognize the social, political, and cultural value of creative experimentation.

Based in the East Village, a neighborhood that has rapidly changed and gentrified, Performance Space New York, formerly PS122, explores questions of relational practice and power. Through performance and discourse, they create an open environment for artists and audiences to build community and counter the often-exclusionary nature of urban development.

Situated on the historic grounds of the TK World’s Fair in New York’s most diverse borough, the Queens Museum activates its assets for the wide and diverse interests of its Latino, Asian and African neighbors.

With its artist-centric mission and new artist-led board, SculptureCenter transforms emerging ideas into innovation, dialogue, and independent thought. Founded by artists in 1928, its programming and exhibitions highlight contemporary art’s specific potential to engage the aesthetic, social, and political facets of the imagination.

Open 365 days a year in a city park which it maintains, artist-founded Socrates Sculpture Park magically revitalizes urban space through its public art installations and commitment to equity and inclusion for neighbors in its diverse Queens community.

A fierce advocate for Queens, The Chocolate Factory Theater commits its assets to both their Long Island City neighborhood and their community of interdisciplinary artists, choreographers, and dancers. 

One of the few alternative arts spaces left in the Chelsea gallery scene, The Kitchen is a wildly experimental performance space pushing forward discussions on contemporary issues through interdisciplinary art, film, performance, music, and events.

As a Black-led organization that centralizes People of Color, The Laundromat Project’s community-centric practice trains and organizes artists to work within and for their community.

As a culturally and politically attuned online magazine, Triple Canopy hosts extended conversations trained on the cultural and political uses of emerging technologies and alerted to the widening disparities framing our relationships to the digital world.

Since the fight against AIDS isn’t over, Visual AIDS utilizes its programs and registry of intersectional art to continually address this global epidemic through thought-provoking programs, inclusive dialogues, and support for HIV+ living artists.