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 212-674-0199. Segue also invites arts organizations and individual artists interested in arts sponsorship to contact us for more information on our arts sponsorship program.