A New Look for Artful.ly

Fast on the heels of Fractured Atlas’s redesigned website launch, we’ve rolled out a new look for Artful.ly as well!
We think it’s pretty handsome, but don’t take our word for it. Check it out and let us know what you think.

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Upcoming Grant Deadline

Open Meadows Foundation is accepting proposals for funding to individuals and to nonprofit organizations.
Who they fund:
Open Meadows Foundation is a grant-making organization for projects that are led by [...]

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Next Stop: Sundance Film Festival

That’s right, this week Fractured Atlas is headed to Park City, Utah to present at and generally enjoy the Sundance Film Festival. If anyone is planning to be there, you can catch me hanging around the festival from Sunday, January 22 through Wednesday, January 25. I’ll also be stationed at our table at the Filmmaker’s [...]

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Regional Dispatch: Choosing Missoula

Editor’s Note: We are excited to share the first post in a new series called “Regional Dispatch.” Fractured Atlas’ membership spans all fifty States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and beyond, and each state, region, and locale has stories to tell about the arts community in which they live. We want our members to share [...]

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More Arts Groups Sign On to Oppose SOPA/PIPA

Last week I told you why Fractured Atlas is opposing SOPA and PIPA, a pair of bills in Congress that claim to protect the rights of artists but would be both ineffective at that goal and damaging to the technical fabric of the internet. We were the first major arts organization to take this stand, [...]

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New Look, New Logo, New Website

Fractured Atlas has gotten a face lift! Actually, it’s more like radical reconstructive surgery, and boy was it overdue…
If you’re reading this on our website (as opposed to in an email or feed reader), then you’ll already have noticed the new logo, color scheme, and web design. This is the first serious refresh since 1999, [...]

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Congratulations to Recently Approved Fiscally Sponsored Projects!

In December our board approved 111 projects from 26 states.  These projects applied for fiscal sponsorship in November.  Check them out!

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A Third Place and Creative Writing Space

Africans Vs African Americans: Healing the Sibling Rivalry

Aqui Estoy

ATM & RiverCubes

Ayazamana

Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project

Be A Remedy

Beata Moon

Berkshire Actors Theatre

Boobies Portrayed

Boockvor Productions

Brancy Arts

BRASS

Brooklyn Night [...]

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Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Legal and Business Bootcamp for Arts Professionals

Fractured Atlas is co-sponsoring this intensive program, a modified version of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Legal & Business Bootcamp for Arts Professionals.  This Bootcamp will cover the legal and business issues that affect individual artists of all arts disciplines and individuals within arts institutions.
When: Friday, February 24, 2012, 9 - 4:30pm
Where: Herrick, Feinstein LLP, [...]

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New York City Department of Cultural Affairs deadline

The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Fiscal 2013 Cultural Development Fund application is open, with a Monday, February 13th submission deadline.
Who they fund:
DCA will consider proposals in every cultural discipline and from every area of New York City for services that take place within the five boroughs and [...]

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The Wrong Way to Protect IP

For a few months now we’ve been tracking a couple of ostensibly artist-friendly bills in Congress that are designed to enhance the ability of copyright-holders to enforce their rights online by shutting down websites dedicated to piracy of intellectual property. Think MP3s, movies, and filesharing (and some more nefarious stuff, too, like Russian websites that [...]

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