TOFT produces video recordings of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theater productions, as well as dialogues between notable theater personalities.

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

The Division holds the world’s largest collection of archival materials from all styles of dance. We welcome dance classes of all types to use this material, at no cost to the school or student, through virtual or in-person visits.

Research funders and nonprofit organizations via Candid’s database. Select NYPL locations offer free access to the subscription version of this directory.

This resource includes multi-media content that connects foundational works such as scripts, performances, and scores with secondary materials including journal articles, monographs, and reference resources.

The teams from Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) and Artists At Work (AAW) collaborated to explore for portable benefits and other worker protection solutions tailored to the unique needs of artists and creative workers. This Snapshot is meant to inspire state and local government, philanthropy, researchers, and policymakers to further investigate the possibility of portable benefits for artists.

“Paying for Professionalism 2025: A Report on New York City Teaching Artist Compensation & Employment” provides a comprehensive overview of the financial and employment landscape for Teaching Artists in New York City. The report explores various aspects of Teaching Artist work, including compensation models, benefits, career sustainability, and challenges faced by these professionals.

IllumiNative was a Native woman-led racial and social justice organization dedicated to increasing the visibility of—and challenging the narrative about—Native peoples. NOTE: The organization sunset at the end of 2024, but the website remains with research, guides, podcasts, and other resources.

Beyond Barriers to Progression & Employment in Dance for Disabled People is a research study evidencing the barriers that disabled people experience when working in dance and one that aims to initiate wider discussions and actions across the dance sector to better support the progression and employment of disabled people. Findings are offered in a wide range of formats including long text, short text, audio, animated film, and BSL.

CRNY launched the Portrait of New York State Artists survey between February and May 2022 to build a comprehensive picture of the needs, circumstances, and experiences of artists across New York State. Explore the data through an interactive tool.

The Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform showcases the collaborative work of disabled, D/deaf, Mad, aging, e/Elder, and fat artists and scholars, including learning modules and artistic work.

Whiteness Project is conducting interviews with people from all walks of life and localities in which they are asked about their relationship to, and their understanding of, their own whiteness. Each video interview is paired with a statistic that provides a greater societal context and offers an opportunity for self-reflection by the audience on their own thoughts about race.