HOW TO PARTICIPATE: ARTISTS

With Art Connects New York, I know my art is really making a difference. I particularly like being part of a large, enthusiastic community of all kinds of people who love art.

— Willy Richardson, Artist



Art Connects New York’s Vision

Art Connects New York (ACNY) believes that the visual arts have a unique ability to interpret the world, connect people, and inspire insight into ourselves and the world around us.  By using the transformative power of art, we affirm the human spirit and help make New York a more welcoming, expansive city.

ACNY connects curators with social service agencies and non-profit organizations to create inspiring, compelling exhibitions of New York City-based artists.  Permanently installed, these collections offer recipient agency’s clients, visitors and staff the opportunity for reflection, dialogue, and aesthetic enjoyment.

How ACNY Works With Artists

In asking artists to donate work, ACNY seeks to create a meaningful, positive experience for everyone involved. To that end, we

  • Engage curators to create exhibitions for permanent installation in social service agencies and not-for profit organizations.
  • Maintain a database of all artworks that are submitted by artists and available for donation.
  • Ask our curators to select artwork from the ACNY database and/or via personal connections to create a permanent exhibition at a recipient agency.
  • Facilitate installation of the work in selected agencies.
  • Train recipient agencies in the proper care of original artwork.
  • Coordinate the necessary paperwork so that ownership of the artwork is transferred directly from the artist to the recipient agency.
  • Encourage the recipient agency to celebrate their new acquisitions with the donating artists and encourage other interactive events related to the placement.
  • Publicize the generosity of donating artists.

Why Donate Your Work?

ACNY is giving you the opportunity to give back to your community through your work.  By donating to ACNY, you make a difference in people’s lives and connect with  people who will truly benefit from the transformative power of your work. 

Not only do you provide an invaluable service for your community, by donating your work you also increase your exposure and connect to ACNY’s large and growing community of artists, curators, collectors, art enthusiasts and new art viewers.

Here’s How You Can Participate

  • If you are interested in donating work to ACNY, please email us at artists@artconnectsnewyork.org, or call us at (646) 546 5334. We’d love to hear from you and are happy to hear your thoughts about the process and to answer any questions you may have.

If you’re already set to take the plunge, you can download and complete the Artist Form and send us jpegs of the work you would like to donate.  We will add your images to our database of our available artwork.  Please note: work you identify for donation will stay in your possession until it is placed in a recipient agency.

You can either email us the form and your images
Or
You can send it in the old fashioned way, with a cd of your images as jpegs and the form to:

Art Connects New York
Attention: Artist Database

New York, New York 10012

PLEASE DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL ARTWORK

When ACNY receives your package, we’ll let you know we have added them to our database. They will then be available for review by our curators as they develop specific installations.

If your work stays in our database for three years, we’ll contact you to see if you’d like to keep the work available to us.

On the other hand, if you sell a piece that ís in our database before we’ve placed it, let us know so we can remove it -- we hope in that case that you’ll offer us a replacement piece.

When Your Work is Selected for Placement:Our curator, or an ACNY representative, will contact you to let you know what has been selected, for which agency, and where it will be installed.

  • We will coordinate arrangements for framing (if needed), pick-up, and transportation.
  • We will prepare the paperwork for your signature – a formal Deed of Gift — to legally transfer ownership of the piece(s) from you to the recipient agency.

We will invite you to celebrate the placement of your artwork and to participate in other placement-related activities at the agency, such as panel discussions or art talks.

Art Connects New York is delighted that you are interested in sharing your work with New York City. Thank you for your generosity!!