AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from Franklin Furnace

Allied Productions, Inc. is a nonprofit arts organization based in the Lower East Side of New York City, dedicated to supporting and presenting experimental, underrepresented, and community-rooted artistic projects. Founded in 1981, Allied fosters creative expression through a wide range of disciplines including visual arts, performance, media, and public installations. The organization is

known for its collaborative spirit and commitment to social justice, often working with marginalized artists and activist groups. Allied also stewards community spaces like Le Petit Versailles, a garden and cultural hub that serves as a venue for exhibitions, performances, and public gatherings, bridging art with grassroots activism and urban environmentalism.

PAST PROJECTS

ABC No Rio at 45 at Emily Harvey Foundation NYC

AIDS Memorial

MIAD

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

Archives

Book Fairs

Touring Projects

Hours: 5 or 6-hour days • 5 days per week

Salary: $3500 monthly

Location: E 8 th Street Storefront next door to an award winning community garden.

Responsibilities would include :

Programming

Financial Management

Archival materials oversight

Fiscal Sponsorship Management

Development [members; partnerships; board; and ideas]

Required Skills

- Basic Bookkeeping (competence with Quickbooks Online)

- Grant Management (familiar with NYSCA, DCLA, and other public funding resources)

- Google Workspace (Advance level)

- Competence in word processing and spreadsheets; Filemaker Pro (mid-level), Adobe Photoshop; In Design, and Premier Rush

- Inventory Oversight (archive of art & ephemera along with sale items).

- hiring staff (as needed)

NOTE: You will be working with a delegation of current staff and volunteers and an active board to assist with bookkeeping; grant Writing; archiving; promotional consultants and development coordinating assistants

What the previous Organizational Manager had to say about their expectations

“Facilitation of innovative and unexpected public expression that combines all areas of the arts and social practice”

Challenges and difficulties

Not fitting into traditional categories of programming or funding slots.

Maintaining progressive values while acknowledging the constraints and necessities of commerce, creative marketing strategies, understanding political compromises without sacrificing ethical standards.

Outstanding issues needing to be solved

Determining goals of the archival program

Le Petit Versailles operating independently without the use of neighboring apartments.

Consideration—transitioning from a defacto foundation paradigm where our projects and creative activities constitute the primary in house programming (i.e AIDS Memorial Project; MIAD project; ABC No Rio 45-years and others)