Organizations

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  Art Start

  Art Start uses the creative process to nurture the voices, hearts, and minds of youth from historically marginalized communities. Through workshops, residencies, and industry collaborations, art becomes a catalyst for personal and professional growth, as well as a platform for meaningful dialogue about the future of our communities.

  Working at the intersection of the creative industries, education, and youth development, Art Start partners with public schools, post-secondary arts programs, youth organizations, alternative sentencing programs, and residences for those experiencing homelessness. For more than 30 years, Art Start has engaged thousands of young people with the support of dedicated artist educators and volunteers, earning national recognition for its impactful model.

  Over the past decade, the featured commercial photographers Zachary Maxwell Stertz, Heidi Gutman, Nick Collura, and Mary Ellen Matthews have contributed to the Art Start Portrait Project, collaborating with hundreds of young people.

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  PhotoWings

  PhotoWings believes that photography has the power to influence the world. As such, we invest in strategic collaborations and programs that help make photography better understood, created, utilized, seen and saved. We also have a rich archive with hundreds of hours of original interviews and partner presentations from both within and outside the photo world, as well as curricula, tool kits, resources and community activities. We believe that meaningful engagement with photography can foster deep thinking, communication and help people better understand and navigate the world. 
  
  PhotoWings has been a proud partner of the Eddie Adams Workshop since 2015, and of Catchlight and Photoville since 2017.
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  NYC Media & Entertainment

  The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment’s mission is to support and strengthen New York City’s creative economy and make it accessible to all. In 2019, the creative industries accounted for more than 500,000 local jobs and have an economic impact of $150 billion annually. MOME comprises five divisions: the Film Office, which coordinates on location production throughout the five boroughs; NYC Media, the city’s official broadcast network and production group; the Office of Nightlife, which supports the city’s nighttime economy; the Press Credentials Office, which issues press cards; and Programs and Initiatives to advance industry and workforce development across NYC’s creative sectors.
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  Photoville

  Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.

  In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.

  By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.

  Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.

  For more information about Photoville visit, www.photoville.com