Allied Productions Inc.
Executive Officer
4 days ago
Manhattan, New York
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 8th 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 apartment.
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)