Recipients of the 2009 NYC Cultural Innovation Fund
Many of the 18 winners in 2009, selected from more than 500 diverse projects, focused on innovative survival strategies for the arts during a time of severe economic decline. Strong themes among the winning entries were: fresh business models, imaginative prototypes for public/private partnerships, entrepreneurial approaches to capital generation, artist peer loan programs, and new spins on marketing, especially to rapidly growing Latino communities.
Recipients:
Alliance for Downtown New York, Inc., for a creative arts district prototype that supports permanent artists’ workspaces and commercial growth
Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, to develop sustainable business models that enable Off Off-Broadway theaters to survive and thrive
Asia Society, for a series of debates in which artists, scientists, business leaders and scholars use ancient forms of dialogue to address contemporary challenges
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, to inaugurate a creative laboratory and residency linking the visual, media and performing arts
The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, to redesign and repurpose the North Shore waterfront as a creative sector incubator
Creative Capital, to harvest successful business and NGO capital-generation models for the benefit of artists
HERE Arts Center, for an interactive video, blog, and podcast series examining the real-life survival challenges of New York City performing artists
Institute for Urban Design, to launch Urban Design Week, an open-air festival celebrating the year’s innovations in architecture and urban design
The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc., to use creative arts residencies to support projects combining theater and dance
New York City Ballet, for a convergence of architecture and dance through commissioning new ballets for a set designed by architect Santiago Calatrava
The New School, for a design and public policy partnership to research, promote, and amplify community-based solutions for sustainability
Polytechnic Institute of NYU, for community access to Betaville, an online platform showing proposed urban design and public art projects in 3D on real streets
Pregones Theater, to expand Zip Tickets, the VIP discount ticket service for South Bronx, Washington Heights, and East Harlem zip codes
Project Enterprise, in partnership with ArtHome, to help artist entrepreneurs build assets and equity through an artist peer loan program
Queens Council on the Arts, to design an interactive cell phone cultural map to transform the #7 train into an art express
Ringside Inc. (STREB), to spark new dance forms by incorporating extreme action techniques such as high wire feats and skydiving
Teatro Círculo, to grow Latino audiences by training micro-entrepreneurs, from empanada vendors to beauty shop owners, to become sales agents for cultural events
Recipients of the 2008 NYC Cultural Innovation Fund
3-Legged Dog, Inc., a creative incubator and high-tech digital production lab for theater
Alarm Will Sound, for Performance Beyond the Notes, a series of new multimedia chamber ensemble concerts
Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc., for BX1: Indie Arts, premieres of genre-mixing new artists
Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, to partner with CEOs for Cities to build the Bronx creative sector
Chez Bushwick, Inc., for a new alliance of small businesses, arts organizations, and real estate developers
Creative Time, Inc., to support artists’ work that inspires dialogue and social change
Downtown Community Television Center, Inc., for DCTV DOC HOUSE, a digital documentary cinema
Fractured Atlas Productions, Inc., to create new artist/resident partnerships for equitable and sustainable community development
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, to offer, for the first time, discount day-of-event tickets
Misnomer, Inc., for new technology to link dance companies with their audiences
New York Foundation for the Arts, for an online real estate directory of space for visual artists
New York Historical Society, for “Nueva York,” an exhibition on the city’s Spanish-speaking legacy, from 1624 to 2009
New York University Tisch School of the Arts, for a groundbreaking center for digital game research and design
Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy, Inc. (Park Avenue Armory), for extremely large-scale visual and mixed media art projects
Performa, Inc., for a biennial arts festival and think tank about New York City’s cultural future
Times Square District Management Association (Times Square Alliance), to engage Broadway in creating art and free performances in Times Square
Recipients of the 2007 New York City Cultural Innovation Fund
The Architectural League of New York; Urban Omnibus
Bang on a Can
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (Foundation for Dance Promotion)
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Brooklyn Academy of Music with the Asia Society
Carnegie Hall
The Civilians
Cunningham Dance Foundation
The Field (Performance Zone)
Friends of the High Line with Creative Time and the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation
Harlem Stage (Aaron Davis Hall)
Museum of Chinese in America
Museum of the Moving Image
New York City Center
Rhizome (Rhizome Communications) at the New Museum
World Science Festival (Science Festival Foundation)
