Flux Factory

What Flux Factory does

Flux Factory is a not-for-profit arts community space operating in Long Island City, Queens, since 2009, founded in 1994 as Flux Factory, Inc. and registered as a 501(c)(3). The organization runs an Artist-in-Residency program (3, 6, 9, or 12-month residencies, approximately 20 residency solo shows per year at $400-$700 stipends) supported by 16 private studios and shared facilities (wood shop, print shop, communal kitchen), plus free public exhibitions, group shows, workshops, and the Rhizome Project fellowship across two owned venues — Flux Factory at 39-31 29th Street and Flux IV at 56-21 2nd Street (opened 2025). Flux Factory has hosted 300+ Artists-in-Residence and 700+ exhibitions since 1994, and runs an international satellite program spanning Denmark, Hungary, Austria, Finland, France, Russia, and (launching in 2025) Armenia, plus the "A New Future" initiative and Indigenous Peoples' Exchange.

There is no proprietary technology product: the "platform" is two physical venues plus standard digital channels (mailing list, website, social media on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/YouTube/Flickr). Revenue is grant- and donation-driven: individual contributions (Friends of Flux, monthly sustaining), federal/state/city arts funding (NYC Department of Cultural Affairs with City Council/Councilmember Julie Won and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards; NYSCA with Governor and State Legislature; NEA), private foundation grants (Trust for Mutual Understanding, Joseph Robert Foundation, Hays Foundation, Hyde and Watson Foundation), in-kind support from Materials for the Arts, venue rentals of Flux IV (handled by Program Director Susan Katz), and annual fundraising events including the 2025 Art Auction and the 2024 30th-anniversary Benefit at The Suffolk. NYSCA-sponsored fellowships (2024-2025) generate additional programming via individual artist grants awarded to Walker Tufts, Itala Aguilera, Maureen Catbagan, Xyza Cruz Bacani, Tray Tsui, and Yo Vinyl Richie. Leadership comprises Executive Director Nat Roe, Curator & Exhibitions Director Meghana Karnik, and Program Director Susan Katz.

The go-to-market is community-led: free public programming, open-call residencies, mailing-list-driven audience development, and partnership-driven international satellite exchanges (ARoS Aarhus 2018-2022, Art Quarter Budapest 2021, Styrian AiR 2021-2022, Cleveland Institute of Art RAMP exchange, FCINY Shared Grounds 2025). The organization serves emerging artists, the Queens/NYC general public, international partner institutions, NYSCA-sponsored fellows, and venue rental clients, with no commercial pricing for exhibitions or programs.

Name

Flux Factory

Legal name

Flux Factory, Inc.

Website

https://fluxfactory.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Flux Factory is a not-for-profit arts community space in Long Island City, Queens, operating two owned venues and an Artist-in-Residency program that serves emerging artists, the NYC public, and international partners through free exhibitions, fellowships, and global satellite exchanges.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Arts Community / Artist Residency Space

NAICS

Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers (711510)

akta.pro primary industry

Arts & Crafts Workshops (Painting, Pottery, Ceramics, Sculpture) (THAJAKAA)

Keywords

• Artist residency programs
• Community arts space
• Public exhibitions
• International artist exchanges
• Nonprofit arts organization

Headquarters

HQ city

Long Island City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Tax-deductible donations from individuals (Friends of Flux and individual donors): One-time and recurring/sustaining monthly contributions from individuals. Flux Factory is a registered 501(c)(3) (per "fully tax-deductible support") so contributions are tax deductible; described as "an effective way to support Flux Factory programming."
2. Government and public arts funding: Grants and discretionary funding from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (in partnership with City Council and Councilmember Julie Won and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards), the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with Governor and State Legislature, and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
3. Private foundation grants: Project and operating grants from foundations including the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Joseph Robert Foundation, the Hays Foundation, and the Hyde and Watson Foundation, plus in-kind support from Materials for the Arts.
4. Venue / space rentals: Rental of Flux IV for external events, handled by the Program Director Susan Katz; Flux closes to the public during install periods and rentals.
5. Art auction and benefit events: Annual fundraising via the Art Auction (e.g., 2025 Art Auction featured over 50 artworks from the Flux community, both online silent auction and an in-person Gala) and benefit events such as the 2024 30th anniversary Benefit at The Suffolk.
6. Residency program stipends: Artists-in-Residence receive stipends between $400-$700 per residency solo show (1-2 weeks in the gallery), with approximately 20 residency solo shows annually.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Flux Factory is a not-for-profit arts community space that provides free studio and exhibition space, an Artist-in-Residency Program (3, 6, 9 or 12-month residencies with $400–$700 stipends per solo show), free public exhibitions and programming, workshops, fellowship sub-programs (Rhizome Project), and international artist satellite exchanges across two owned venues in Long Island City, Queens. It is funded through donations, government and foundation grants, venue rentals, and benefit events rather than commercial sales.

Product overview

Flux Factory is a not-for-profit arts community space offering a single integrated portfolio of programs anchored by two physical venues — the original Flux Factory (39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, home since 2009) and the newer Flux IV (56-21 2nd Street, in Hunter's Point). Around these venues it operates the Artist-in-Residency Program (the core offering, with 3–12 month residencies), Public Programs (group exhibitions, residency shows, Flux Saturdays), the Rhizome Project fellowship, Workshops, and Satellite Projects (international partnerships). Together these form one unified arts-and-residency platform that supports emerging artists across disciplines.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Flux IV: Flux Factory's fourth location and new project space at 56-21 2nd Street, Long Island City, NY, hosting free and public exhibitions, gatherings, and artist projects.

Products and services

• Flux Factory venue (39-31 29th Street) Flux Factory's home-base location in Long Island City, in operation since 2009. Hosts free public events in the ADA-accessible ground-floor gallery and provides 16 private studios for Artists-in-Residents along with common workspaces including a wood shop, print shop, and office.
• Flux IV project space (56-21 2nd Street) Flux Factory's fourth location, a ground-floor project space in Hunter's Point that hosts free and public exhibitions, gatherings, and artist projects. Programming comes through open calls, collaborations with the Flux collective, and community/institutional partnerships; also available for venue rentals.
• Artist-in-Residency Program Flux Factory's flagship residency program supporting emerging artists via open calls for 3, 6, 9, or 12-month residencies. Residents receive a private studio at 39-31 29th Street and produce a Residency Solo Show (approximately 20 annually) with a stipend of $400–$700 per show.
• The Rhizome Project A fellowship sub-program under Flux Factory's Public Programs, hosting Rhizome Fellows who produce artist talks, workshops, and performances at Flux IV.
• Satellite Projects (International Artist Exchanges) International programs produced at partner institutions featuring alumni of Flux's Artist-in-Residency program. Includes the A New Future international initiative, Flux Island (Governors Island), FluxatARoS (ARoS Aarhus), Styrian Artist-in-Residency Exchange, Art Quarter Budapest, and others.

Named customers9 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

24 partnerships are on record, tiered operational partner, flagship international collaborator, major, minor, flagship international partner and flagship domestic partner.

• Materials for the Artsoperational partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides in-kind material support to Flux Factory's artists-in-residence and exhibitions. Listed among major supporters.
• Finnish Cultural Institute in New York (FCINY)flagship international collaboratorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-presented the Shared Grounds exhibition (June 28 – August 10, 2025) at Hunter's Point South Park with Flux Factory. Curated by Elina Suoyrjö (FCINY) and Meghana Karnik (Flux). Co-organized the Shared Grounds x Chance Ecologies panel (Dec 16, 2025). Part of the pARTir initiative funded by EU – NextGenerationEU.
• Interval Projects & Studio GhoshmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchitect/design partner that produced the Flux IV rendering and co-designed Flux Factory's new owned project space at 56-21 2nd Street.
• Textile Arts CentermajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with Flux Factory for Itala Aguilera's 2025 NYSCA Fellowship, hosting her residency at 505 Carroll St, Brooklyn and the offsite performance (December 6, 2025) accompanying the Tierra Mojada (Wet Land) exhibition.
• Queens Landing Boathouse & Environmental Center (Hunter's Point South Conservancy)majorGTM or Marketing PartnerNeighborhood partner for the Shared Grounds (2025) outdoor exhibition at Hunter's Point South Park. The Conservancy runs environmental programming, nature walks and educational programming for the area.
• Secret Riso Club (Gonzalo Guerrero & Tara Ridgedell)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerArtist-run graphic design partner that designed the Shared Grounds visual identity, banner and zine (2025).
• CEPA Gallery & Coalesce Center for Biological ArtmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOriginally co-created the Pickles & Concrete exhibition with Kosmologym / Walker Tufts as part of the 2024 NYSCA Fellowship; subsequently toured to Living Things at TSA: Greenville and Wofford College.
• Residency UnlimitedminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-presented the panel discussion "International Artistic Exchanges – Predicaments and Bonds" on March 4, 2025 with Flux Factory.
• TransCultural ExchangeminorGTM or Marketing PartnerFlux Factory presented at the TransCultural Exchange Conference in Boston (March 6–9, 2025) on "Strategies for Global Exchange in times of Political, Economic, and Social Strife."
• Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerExchange partner for the RAMP program; the program produced a second-edition print publication "Rethinking Residencies Reader: Bringing Worlds Together."
• ARoS Museum (Aarhus, Denmark)flagship international partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-running annual partnership (FluxatARoS, 2018–2022) — over 30 Flux artists worked in the ARoS Public Atelier each year producing 20+ public events across Aarhus with local art spaces.
• Art Quarter Budapest (AQB)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHosted 9 Flux artists in October 2021 for a group residency at AQB (Hungary) culminating in work shown at the Open House festival.
• Styrian Artist-in-Residency Exchange (Austria)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAnnual exchange (2021–2022) bringing an Austrian artist to NYC for a Flux Factory residency with a reciprocal residency for a Flux alumni in Styria.
• Artistes en Résidence (France)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHosted 7 French artists at Flux Factory for one week during January 2016, culminating in the pop-up group show Spotlightness.
• Platform (Finland / Vaasa)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInvited 6 Flux Factory artists in 2019 to create a pop-up cruise ship installation during Night of the Arts in Vaasa as part of "Destination Joy."
• Trust for Governors Islandflagship domestic partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered from 2021–2024 to host Flux Island at Colonels Row House 404A, producing exhibitions and island-wide public events May–October each year.
• Socrates Sculpture ParkmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHosted the "Albatross" installation (2007) and "Socrates Takeover" (2019); panel discussion "Historias Entrecruzadas" held at Socrates Sculpture Park October 18, 2025.
• More ArtminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartner organization that has presented programming at Flux Factory including Building Stories exhibition and More Art Art Walks.
• Hungarian Cultural Center in New York / Szent József Stúdió KollégiumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-presented the Pavilion for the City of Budapest New York at the 2007 Sziget Festival in Budapest with a group of Hungarian artists and architecture students.
• CEC Arts LinkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInvited 7 Flux artists in September 2016 to the Art Prospect Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia for the Perpetual Piñata Parlour project.
• Spanien 19C (Aarhus, Denmark)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHosted 13 Flux artists in spring 2012 to create "The Infamous and Only Somewhat Ambassadorial Outpost of the Semi-Legitimate Nation of Flux" installation.
• EFA Project SpaceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-curated the "Arctic Book Club" exhibition (2009) based on Tété Michel Kpomassie's "An African in Greenland."
• Quebec Government Office in New York / Mara Live ArtsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a partner for the A New Future international initiative (2024-ongoing), connecting Russian and American participants for 1-month residencies around the US.
• Fujifilm USminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvided material support acknowledged in Xyza Cruz Bacani's "The Diaspora is Home" exhibition at Flux IV (2025 NYSCA Fellowship).

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• BRIC: Brooklyn-based non-profit presenting free exhibitions, performances, and residencies, supported by NYC DCA, NYSCA, and corporate/foundation funders — comparable multi-disciplinary free public programming and residency platform.
• SculptureCenter: A non-profit sculpture and contemporary-art space in Long Island City, Queens, presenting exhibitions and an artist-in-residency program — a direct peer in mission, geography, and residency-driven programming model.
• Socrates Sculpture Park: An outdoor sculpture park and residency space in Long Island City, Queens, directly comparable as a free, public-facing artist residency/exhibition venue in the same Hunters Point neighborhood. Flux Factory has a documented past collaboration with Socrates (Albatross installation, 2007; Socrates Takeover, 2019; 2025 panel).
• The Drawing Center: Soho-based non-profit presenting exhibitions and residencies for emerging and established artists, funded by NYSCA and NYC DCA — comparable NYC non-profit gallery + residency operator with similar public funding mix.
• Queens Museum: Queens-based non-profit museum running fellowship programs (including the Queens Museum–Jerome Foundation Fellowship held by Maureen Catbagan in 2024–25) and presenting international, community-engaged exhibitions — same borough, similar fellowship pipeline and audience.
• Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC): NYC non-profit that runs long-duration artist residencies (Workspace, Arts Center at Governors Island) and is funded by NYC DCA, NYSCA, and NEA — directly comparable as a publicly funded NYC residency + public-program operator.
• Triangle Arts Association: Non-profit residency and exhibition program historically based in Brooklyn that supported emerging and international artists through residencies and public programming — same residency/community-of-artists model as Flux Factory.
• NARS Foundation: Brooklyn-based non-profit residency and studio program for international and emerging artists, offering studios, exhibitions, and public programming funded by NYC and NYS arts grants — closely mirrors Flux Factory's residency-driven, internationally focused model.

Regional players

• Asian Cultural Council: NYC-headquartered non-profit funding international cultural exchange, with similar funder base to Flux Factory (Trust for Mutual Understanding-style foundations) — comparable as a residency/exchange funder, though not a venue operator itself.

Broad incumbents

• MASS MoCA: Larger non-profit contemporary art museum in North Adams, MA with residency programming and free/affordable exhibitions — relevant broader incumbent showing how residency-led non-profit art spaces scale into major regional institutions.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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