About Fractured Atlas
Our Mission
Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. Our programs and services facilitate the creation of art by offering vital support to the artists who produce it. We help artists and arts organizations function more effectively as businesses by providing access to funding, healthcare, education, and more, all in a context that honors their individuality and independent spirit. By nurturing today's talented but underrepresented voices, we hope to foster a dynamic and diverse cultural landscape of tomorrow.
A Little History
Fractured Atlas was founded in 1998 by current Executive Director Adam Forest Huttler. For our first few years, we operated as a performing arts producer in downtown New York City. In that guise we worked with a hand-picked roster of exciting young theatre companies, choreographers, musicians, and performance artists.
The events of 9/11 threatened to close Fractured Atlas’ doors permanently, but with strong support from our Board and executive leadership Fractured Atlas reinvented itself as an arts service organization in 2002, with the goal of more effectively impacting a wider segment of the arts community.
Since then Fractured Atlas has launched a broad range of programs and services, including the Artists Affordable Healthcare Initiative, which grew into the multi-faceted range of health care options we offer today. Fractured Atlas’ fiscal sponsorship program has grown from 6 local groups to over 1,000 nationally, and in 2008 our membership topped 5,000 artists and arts organizations, with an expanded audience of 55,000 through the Open Arts Network. In recent years we have added liability insurance, professional development, and advocacy to our activities. As the only service organization to serve the needs of arts groups as well as individual artists in all disciplines, Fractured Atlas is a unique and vital resource. We value the role that the arts play in shaping our world, and we are constantly seeking new ways to facilitate their advancement.
To that end, Fractured Atlas has been an arts industry leader in the use of technology to address challenges facing the arts community, share information and resources, and empower arts organizations with practical tools for managing their operations. Nearly all of Fractured Atlas’ services are accessible online, from health care to fiscal sponsorship to professional development. Automation of mundane tasks (such as data entry) and integration of all our operations (including our member database and financial records) enables us to serve a vast membership with few staff members whose focus remains entirely on providing the kind of personalized feedback an automated system cannot provide. In 2003 we launched a for-profit subsidiary, Gemini SBS, which provides IT consulting and custom software development to non-profit organizations and government agencies.