Kathleen Chalfant to Host Brooklyn Salon to Benefit New York Foundation for the Arts

Kathleen and Henry Chalfant are hosting an intimate salon event on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 in their Brooklyn Heights residence to benefit the New York Foundation for the Arts. Performance and video artist Kalup Linzy and multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk are co-hosting the event. Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served.

The evening will feature short performances by NYFA affiliated artists who have all received NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships in the past: musicIan Anthony Coleman, writer and playwright Jessica Hagedorn, writer James Hannaham, and playwright and performer Sibyl Kempson.

Acclaimed actress and philanthropist Kathleen Chalfant, is a past NYFA Board member, and current member of NYFA's Leadership Council. Kathleen and her husband Henry Chalfant, noted photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker, are thrilled to be able to support an organization they deeply care about.

"From its beginning NYFA has been the way that many artists have been able to feel validated early in their careers," says Kathleen Chalfant. As an artist herself, she knows that, "We all suffer from self-doubt and NYFA has been one of the strongest vaccines in the battle against it. NYFA is absolutely vital to the artistic life of New York and increasingly of the world beyond."

Tickets are $250 and are fully tax deductible. The address will be provided upon purchase. Tickets are limited. All funds raised through this event will support NYFA's programs for artists nationally and internationally, including grants, professional development, fiscal sponsorship, and online resources.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) was founded in 1971 to empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives. Each year we award $650,000 in cash grants to individual artists in all artistic disciplines. Our fiscal sponsorship program is one of the oldest and most reputable in the country and helps artists and organizations raise and manage an average of $4 million annually. Our Learning programs provide thousands of artists with professional development training and support, and our website, NYFA.org, received over 1.2 million visitors last year and has information about more than 12,000 opportunities and resources available to artists in all disciplines.

An acclaimed stage and screen actress, Kathleen Chalfant has received an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence in 1996, a 2004 Lortel Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, and the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the League of Professional Women. She is also the recipient of the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards for her body of work and holds an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from The Cooper Union.

Her appearances on Broadway include Angels in America, for which Chalfant received Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Racing Demon, and Dance With Me. Off-Broadway she performed in Rose (Drama Desk Nomination), the much-acclaimed Wit (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Connecticut Critics Circle, and Obie Awards), A Walk in the Woods (Drama Desk nomination), Talking Heads (Obie Award), Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination), Far Away, Twelve Dreams, Henry V (Callaway Award). Outside of New York, she performed in London and Los Angeles in Wit and Red Dog Howls (Ovation Awards in LA).

Her select television appearances include a recurring part on "Doubt", "The Affair", "Madame Secretary", "Law and Order", "The Strain," "The Americans", "House of Cards," "Rescue Me," "The Book of Daniel", and "The Guardian".