EFA Project Space, launched in September 2008 as a program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary arts venue founded on the belief that art is directly connected to the individuals who produce it and the communities that arise because of it. By providing an arena for exploring these connections, we empower artists, curators, and other participants to forge new partnerships and encourage the expansion of ideas.
The program is based on Open Calls as well as invitational exhibitions and projects. It is a home for emerging, mid-career, as well as established curators and artists. We focus our attention on community engagement and public programming.
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts is a 501(c)(3) public charity, dedicated to providing artists across all disciplines with space, tools and a cooperative forum for the development of individual practice. We are a catalyst for cultural growth, stimulating new interactions between artists, art professionals, creative communities, and the public.
STAFF
Naomi Lev, Program Director and Chief Curator
naomi@efanyc.org
212.563.5855 ext 229
Agustina Markez, Gallery Manager
agustina@efanyc.org
212.563.5855 ext 244
Charlie Fischetti, Gallery and Outreach Coordinator
charlie@efanyc.org
212.563.5855 ext 244
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The Advisory Committee supports EFA Project Space by participating in the juried processes of the program’s Open Calls and the SHIFT Residency.
Jean Barberis, Co-founder Flux Factory
Chloë Bass, Artist, Alumni: Once More, with Feeling (2016)
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Artist, Alumni: CURRICULUM: spaces of learning and unlearning (2019)
Pablo Helguera, Artist, Alumni: Cultural Transference (2012)
Felicity Hogan, Director of NYFA Learning at New York Foundation for the Arts
Michelle Levy, Former Director of EFA Project Space
Marie Lorenz, Artist, Alumni: SeaWorthy: An Exhibition, Workshops & Excursions (2011)
Shervone Neckles, Artist, SHIFT residency 2015/16 Alumni
Sara Reisman, Chief Curator and Director of National Academician Affairs at National Academy of Design
James Allister, Artist, Alumni: Sprang
Radhika Subramaniam, Curator, Writer, Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design/The New School
Sally Szwed, Arts and Culture Director of DVDL
Chen Tamir, Curator
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This is Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland and gathering place for many Indigenous nations and beings. When the unceded earth breaths again, there will be Indigenous lives here, as there are now and have always been. It will still be Lenapehoking. We learn from the bedrock and commit to uplifting, honoring, and listening to those who are seen and unseen, present and future.
This Land Acknowledgement was collaboratively written by Christopher Green and Alan Michelson as part of the 2021 exhibition Speculations on the Infrared.
SUPPORT
EFA Project Space has received public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, as well as from generous individuals in our community.
In 2021-22, EFA Project Space's SHIFT: A Residency for Arts Workers is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), Teiger Foundation, Willem de Kooning Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
