SPACE on Ryder Farm to Receive $40,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

[Brewster, NY]—SPACE on Ryder Farm has been approved for a $40,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support SPACE’s 2023 artist residency programs. SPACE on Ryder Farm’s project is among 1,130 projects across the country, totaling more than $31 million, that were selected during this second round of Grants for Arts Projects fiscal year 2023 funding.

“The National Endowment for the Arts is pleased to support a wide range of projects, including SPACE on Ryder Farm,, demonstrating the many ways the arts enrich our lives and contribute to healthy and thriving communities,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “These organizations play an important role in advancing the creative vitality of our nation and helping to ensure that all people can benefit from arts, culture, and design.”

“We are so grateful to The National Endowment for the Arts for their support of SPACE’s 2023 artist residencies. As the pandemic’s ripple effects continue to challenge the working artist, SPACE’s residencies offer the antidote of time and space to do what they do best: create. By prioritizing artists and investing in their work, SPACE’s programming builds lasting fortitude in the national arts ecosystem.” says SPACE’s Grant Writer & Institutional Giving Consultant Hannah Myers. 

Through SPACE’s 2023 NEA award, the organization projects to serve approximately 50 theater artists and professionals across the Working Farm, Creative Residency, and Institutional Residencies in 2023. SPACE is dedicated to ensuring that at least 50% of residencies are awarded to BIPOC artists and other underrepresented voices.

For more information on other projects included in the NEA grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.

ABOUT SPACE ON RYDER FARM

SPACE on Ryder Farm is a nonprofit residency program and organic farm located on the ancestral land of the Wappinger people in modern day Putnam County, New York on the grounds of a 227-year-old family homestead. SPACE’s mission is to create an environment singular in its ability to invigorate artists and innovators and their work, and to contribute to the sustainability and resourceful preservation of one of the oldest organic family farms on the East Coast.

Through unique programs supporting playwrights, filmmakers, activists, working parent artists and more, SPACE has served over 1,550 residents since its founding in 2011, and has developed a national reputation as one of the most sought-after residency programs in the country. SPACE counts among its alumni Academy Award winners, Tony Award nominees and winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, Guggenheim fellows, Obie Award winners and MacArthur “Genius” Fellows. Past residents include theatre artists Clare Barron, Adam Bock, David Cale, Linda Cho, Lucas Hnath, Samuel D. Hunter, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Young Jean Lee, Martyna Majok, Dave Malloy, Adam Rapp, Sarah Ruhl, Mfoniso Udofia, and Anne Washburn; theatre companies Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Soho Rep, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; musicians Cesar Alvarez, Heather Christian, Grace McLean, Riley Mulherkar ,and Shaina Taub; filmmakers Janicza Bravo, Begonia Colomar, Nia Dacosta, Josh Mond, Chioke Nassor, and James C. Strouse; and visual artists Alta Buden, Kylie Manning, and Tiffanie Turner.  

Programs at SPACE on Ryder Farm are made possible with generous support from Anne Anastasi Charitable Foundation, Distracted Globe Foundation Marshall Frankel Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation,  Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, Lubin Family Foundation, Marjorie Weil & Marvin Edward Mitchell Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, Michael Palm Foundation, Morris-Olshansky Family Fund, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, The Shubert Foundation, Stanley Family Foundation, MK Reichert Sternlicht Foundation, Still Point Fund, Sustainable Arts Foundation, Tamarack Foundation, Tiger Baron Foundation, The Rafael & Diana Vinoly Foundation, Tamara R. White Charitable Fund and hundreds of individual donors. SPACE is a Playwrights Horizons Company in Residence. 

For more information, visit www.spaceonryderfarm.org.