Fractured Atlas was founded in 1998 by current Executive Director Adam Forest Huttler. For our first few years, we operated as a performing arts producer in downtown New York City. In that guise we worked with a hand-picked roster of exciting young theatre companies, choreographers, musicians, and performance artists.

The events of 9/11 threatened to close Fractured Atlas's doors permanently, but with strong support from our Board and executive leadership Fractured Atlas reinvented itself as an arts service organization in 2002, with the goal of more effectively impacting a wider segment of the arts community.

Since then Fractured Atlas has launched a broad range of programs and services. Fractured Atlas's fiscal sponsorship program has grown from 6 local groups to over 2,300 nationally, and in 2011 our membership topped 16,000 artists and arts organizations, with an expanded audience of 140,000 through the Open Arts Network. In recent years we have added a wide range of insurance programs, professional development, and advocacy to our activities. As the only service organization to serve the needs of arts groups as well as individual artists in all disciplines, Fractured Atlas is a unique and vital resource. We value the role that the arts play in shaping our world, and we are constantly seeking new ways to facilitate their advancement.

To that end, Fractured Atlas has been an arts industry leader in the use of technology to address challenges facing the arts community, share information and resources, and empower arts organizations with practical tools for managing their operations. Nearly all of Fractured Atlas's services are accessible online. Automation of mundane tasks (such as data entry) and integration of all our operations (including our member database and financial records) enables us to serve a vast membership with few staff members whose focus remains entirely on providing the kind of personalized feedback an automated system cannot provide. In 2003 we launched a for-profit subsidiary, Gemini SBS, which provides IT consulting and custom software development to non-profit organizations and government agencies.