Affordable Art in NYC: For Creators and Consumers

New York City has so much to offer, but at what cost?

Hear some ideas for how artists and art consumers can afford the city's cultural riches, with Time Out editor Rebecca Fontana and FABnyc's executive director Risa Shoup.

And check out WNYC's ongoing series "Making It," about the challenges and the opportunities New York City artists are facing right now.

Risa Shoup shared the names of some organization for artists and audiences struggling to make it in New York:

• Information about arts events, training, and grants at the borough arts councils in Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Northern Manhattan, Lower Manhattan and Staten Island
• FABnyc helps to sustain culture in the Lower East Side
• Theater management assistance from ART/NEW YORK
• NOCD-NY uses art to strengthen NYC communities
• Casita Maria advocates for social, cultural and educational programming to empower youth
• The Point uses cultural programming to foster youth development in the South Bronx
• The Laundromat Project helps to solve community issues with using the arts
• Free and low cost arts programming in Brooklyn from BRIC

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