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| Poet Alan Davies in still from Henry
Hills' film Money (1975). |
THE SEGUE FOUNDATION has been serving the community as a multi-service
arts organization since 1977. As publisher of ROOF
BOOKS, SEGUE now has over 70 titles of contemporary poetry
and criticism in print. In the late 1970s/early 80s, SEGUE published
the poetry journal ROOF and distributed the critical journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E,
two of the early seminal publications of the `language' poetry movement.
Segue's INCISIONS PRISON ARTS PROJECT sponsors poetry classes
and workshops in various NY State correctional facilities, including
Sing Sing, Creedmoor, Rikers, and Bayview. Segue has also sponsored
numerous successful individual artists grants in dance, film and
performance arts. Some recent projects sponsored include FOUR
WALLS, a space for discussions emanating from and around the
work of visual artists, a trip by well-known a capella group SWEET
HONEY IN THE ROCK to the historic Beijing Women's Conference
in 1995, THE HOMEGROWN THEATRE, an avant-garde theatre space
located on Manhattan's upper-west side, and a new video by filmmaker
Henry Hills "Elvis Elsewhere" for the Kronos Quartet.
In 1987, SEGUE sponsored the renovation of an abandoned city-owned
property at 303 East 8th Street into 12 artist live/work coops and
a 1200 sq. ft. performance space, the only successfully completed
Manhattan artist housing project of the eighties. Our newly expanded
offices and archives, as well as film editing facilities, are housed
there. THE SEGUE PERFORMANCE SPACE is utilized as low-cost
dance and theatrical rehearsal space during daytime hours and in
the evenings we sponsor regularly-scheduled ongoing reading, film,
dance, and music series.
The Foundation is directly supported by grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, the
New York State Council on the Arts, the Speakers Bureau of Film/Video
Arts, Meet the Composer, Poets & Writers, The Andy Warhol Foundation,
Experimental Television, and Materials for the Arts, as well as
other project contributions from corporations, foundations, and
individuals. We are a NYS registered charity and Federally tax-exempt
under IRS 501(c)(3).
If you are interest in finding out more information about either
SEGUE or any of our SEGUE sponsored organizations, please contact
us directly at 212-353-0555. Segue also invites arts organizations
and individual artists interested in arts sponsorship to contact
us for more information on our arts sponsorship program.