Collaborative Arts Network New York (CANNY) is a group of fifteen nonprofit multidisciplinary arts organizations (all with annual operating budgets ranging from $1m to $4m) based in New York City that first aligned in 2020 during the early days of the pandemic in a collective emergency fundraising effort around shared principles of artistic independence and a desire for a sustainable, supported ecosystem of small nonprofits across the city. 

In FY24, CANNY members made a significant impact, supporting 16,429 artists, 75% of whom were emerging, 74% identifying as BIPOC, and 35% as LGBTQIA+. Through their collective efforts, they employed 128 full-time and 81 part-time cultural workers, helping to strengthen the arts infrastructure. Over the past year, CANNY members engaged over 500,000 in-person visitors and 446,000 virtual attendees, while their websites attracted an estimated 1.9 million annual visitors. On social media, CANNY members reached a broad audience of over 2 million followers. They also hosted 165 online events, webinars, and virtual programs, expanding access to arts and culture.

We believe that New York City deserves a strong, independent arts ecosystem, with a plurality of voices that can only exist when we work collectively to ensure that our peer institutions continue to thrive alongside our own. We each pursue different but sympathetic missions in the service of very specific, often hyper-local communities with international reach. Together, we are catalysts for textured and diverse art experiences, and we work to assure that this community of artists and art workers is the standard-bearer in the field of contemporary art and culture.

CANNY includes the following organizations in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens: Artists Space, Creative Time, The Drawing Center, Eyebeam, The Kitchen, The Laundromat Project, The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Performance Space New York, Printed Matter, Recess, SculptureCenter, Socrates Sculpture Park, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Swiss Institute, and White Columns.