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Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky - Hosts of Art Movez
Season 1, 2, 3 & 4 Out Now!

Episodes

Coby Kennedy | Public Sculpture & Social Impact Art

Multidisciplinary artist Coby Kennedy discusses public sculpture, installations, and socially engaged art. He reflects on justice-driven work inspired by Kalief Browder, global travel, and the use of unconventional materials...

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Tony Gerber | Documentary Film, Democracy & Media

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Tony Gerber joins Art Movez to discuss storytelling, artificial intelligence in film, and the economic realities of the media industry. Gerber explores his latest project, War...

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Denise Rosario Adusei | Children’s Museums & Early Literacy

Bronx Children’s Museum Executive Director Denise Rosario Adusei discusses early literacy, cultural representation, and the role of arts education in childhood development. She shares her vision for expanding access...

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Dr. Indira Etwaroo | Arts Leadership & Cultural Equity

Harlem Stage CEO and Artistic Director Dr. Indira Etwaroo discusses arts leadership, cultural equity, and the infrastructure needed to sustain institutions serving communities of color. She reflects on authenticity,...

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Chrissy Iles | Museums, Curation & Contemporary Art

Whitney Museum curator Chrissy Iles explores contemporary art, post-COVID curation, and the evolving role of museums. She discusses diversity in curatorial practice and how artists are redefining realism, authenticity,...

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Kendall Henry | Public Art & Civic Space

Kendall Henry, Assistant Commissioner of Public Art at NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs, examines how public art shapes civic identity. The conversation explores monuments, memorials, digital innovation, and the...

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Sean Decatur | Museums, Inclusion & Cultural History

Dr. Sean Decatur, President of the American Museum of Natural History, discusses inclusive museum leadership, repatriation of artifacts, and engaging Indigenous communities. He also reflects on the cultural significance...

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Sara Reisman | Curatorial Practice & the Future of Institutions

Curator Sara Reisman joins Art Movez to discuss accessible curatorial language, diversity in collections, and the future relevance of cultural institutions. The episode also explores artificial intelligence in art...

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DREAM Project | Inclusive Arts & Movement Therapy

Leaders from the DREAM Project explore an innovative program combining dance and physical therapy to support students of all abilities. This episode highlights inclusion, empathy, and the power of...

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Stephanie Dinkins | Artificial Intelligence & Black Identity

Artist and technologist Stephanie Dinkins examines artificial intelligence through the lens of Black identity and oral history. She discusses ethical AI, storytelling through technology, and why communities must actively...

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Baseera Khan | Identity, Faith & Contemporary Art

Contemporary artist Baseera Khan explores identity, gender, faith, and resistance through multidisciplinary art practices. Drawing from personal history, Khan discusses art as nonverbal communication and a tool for challenging...

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Thomas Moore | Cultural Philanthropy & Museums

Thomas E. Moore III, Executive Director of American Friends of the Louvre, discusses museum fundraising, cultural philanthropy, and expanding access to global institutions. He also shares his passion for...

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Jordan Carlos | Comedy, Culture & Creative Risk

Comedian and writer Jordan Carlos blends humor with sharp cultural critique. He reflects on cancel culture, creative risk, and navigating today’s entertainment industry while staying grounded in authenticity and...

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K.B. Miller and Teressa Tunney listen to Spark Hunter

Take a journey with Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky as we explore the urgent questions of humanity, love, and the perils and promise of artificial intelligence...

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Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian from Land Art Generator

Who says energy generation can’t be beautiful? Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams, and Eli Kuslansky talk with Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian about how The Land Art Generator Initiative...

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Eddie Torres Grantmaker in the Arts

Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams, Eli Kuslansky and guest co-host Dr. Durell Cooper talks with Edwin Torres, the President and CEO of Grantmakers in the Arts, a national association...

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David Kirkland Man with a Mission

Dr. David Kirkland brings the heat to Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams, Eli Kuslansky, and guest host Dr. Durell Cooper. As a leading national scholar and advocate, Kirkland shares...

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Art for Everyone with Russell Granet

Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams, Eli Kuslansky, and guest co-host Dr. Durell Cooper talk with Russell Granet, president & CEO of New 42, the cultural nonprofit behind New 42...

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Maxwell Anderson Souls Grown Deep, Like the Rivers

Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky talk with Maxwell L. Anderson, president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting...

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Reparations the Play with James Sheldon

Playwright James Sheldon talks with Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams, Eli Kuslansky, and guest co-host Dr. Durrell Cooper about his play “Reparations”. James is the first white playwright to...

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Taneshia Nash Laird leads The Greater Roxbury Arts and Culture Center

The Greater Roxbury Arts & Culture Center’s newly appointed president and CEO, Taneshia Nash Laird speaks with Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky. Laird served as the...

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Gina Duncan on BAM

Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky speak with Brooklyn Academy’s first African American female president, Gina Duncan, about the prospects for the oldest performing arts center in...

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Karen Brooks Hopkins BAM and then it Hit Me!

Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky talk with Karen Brooks Hopkins, president emerita of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where she worked for thirty-six years, including sixteen...

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Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Laurie Cumbo invests in Art

With an annual budget of almost $200 million, New York City has the largest cultural budget in the USA. Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams, Eli Kuslansky, and guest host...

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Nikki Giovanni a Cultural Icon

Architect of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and one of the world’s most regarded African American poets, Nikki Giovanni speaks with Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams, Eli...

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Lynn Nottage 2-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright

Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky speak with the iconic Lynn Nottage, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright for Ruined in 2009 and Sweat in 2017, making...

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Hip Hop’s 50th with artist Sherwin Banfield

Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky celebrate the 50th Anniversary of hip-hop with artist Sherwin Banfield with his A Cypher in Queens celebration of hip-hop culture and...

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Dr. Durell Cooper on Hip Hop and More

Art Movez co-hosts Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky welcome guest co-host Dr. Durell Cooper, creator and host of the web series Flow and Frequency podcast. Dr. Cooper, a hip-hop...

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Welcome Wes Jackson to BRIC

Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky co-host of Art Movez talk with Wes Jackson the President of BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn about his passion, inspiration and strategy as he takes...

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What is Art Movez with Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky

Tune into Art Movez with Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky co-creators of Art Movez to hear their “Point of Views” on why they created this platform.

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Nigel Smith: Shifting Leadership Paradigms on Stage and behind the Scenes

Tune into Art Movez with Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky as they talk with Artistic Director Nigel Smith who is shifting leadership paradigms through changing hierarchal structures that have...

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Salome Asega: New Inc nurtures New Ideas

Tune into Art Movez with Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky with NEW INC new leader Salome Asega. Who talks about how she landed at New Inc. and her vision...

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Kemi Sijuwade-Ukadike: At the Intersection of Art, Technology and Social Justice

Tune into Art Movez with Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky as they discuss the program and services of Eyebeam with Kemi Sidjuwade-Ukadike. Eyebeam is a powerhouse for artists’ ideas...

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Mosaic Fund with Salem Tsegaye: Foundations Responding to the Moment

Tune into Art Movez with Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky as they talk with Salem Tsegaye of New York Community Trust about the first-of-its-kind collaborative that aims to provide...

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Harrison Tyler: Reinventing the Future at Cooper Union’s Digital Fabrication Lab

Tune into Art Movez with Toni Williams and Eli Kulsanksy as we talk with Harrison Tyler as he opens Cooper Union’s new Digital Fabrication Lab, that augments experimentation, innovation...

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Lucy Sexton: Bringing power to advocacy for the Arts

The creative sector accounts for 13 percent of the city’s total economic output. In total, one out of every eight dollars of economic activity in the city – $110...

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Traci Lester: Rediscovering the Center for Fiction

Tune into Art Movez with Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky as they talk with Traci Lester executive director of the Center for Fiction about the programs and services offered...

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Melody Capote: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in the arts

Tune into Art Movez with Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky as they speak candidly with Melody Capote who interrogates the charity based philanthropic funding of the Arts. Melody speaks...

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Murals for the Movement: Igniting Social Change with Paint

Tune into Art Movez with Toni Williams, and Artists Cey Adams, Victor “Marka” Quinonez and Liza Quinonez as they talk about the Murals for the Movement a public art...

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Okwui Okpokwasili-Multi-disciplinary artist: Inside the mind of a MacArthur-winning performer and artist

Tune into Art Movez with Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky as they talk with Okwui Okpokwasili as she discusses multidisciplinary performance pieces that draw viewers into the interior lives...

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Tommy Safian: No One and Nothing is Discarded

Tune into Art Movez with Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky as they talk to Tommy Safian of Opportunity Justice. Tommy talks Opportunity Justice an organization he launched to help...

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Shaun Leonardo: Exploring the relationships between masculinity, sports, and race

Tune into Art Movez with Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky for their riveting discussion with Shaun Leonardo about his practice that negotiates societal expectations of manhood, and its definitions...

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Rasu Jilani-Social Sculptor and Entrepreneur

Art at its core is a form of self-expression which informs and defines life and culture. Rasu Jilani is an independent curator, cultural producer, and social sculptor, who investigates...

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Weeksville Now and the Future

Dr. Raymond Codrington-new Leadership at Weeksville Toni Williams and Eli Kuslanksy of Art Movez speak with Dr. Raymond Codrington, a cultural anthropologist with roots in the Hip Hop movement...

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Joe MacDonald-Parametric Design

Joe MacDonald is a Canadian-born American architect, researcher, and professor. He is most known for his work on The Bone Wall, The Water Planet and Johnson & Johnson's Olympic Games Pavilion. He founded Urban A&O,...

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Lisa Gold-Gives Voice to Asian Americans

Lisa Gold, Executive Director of the Asian American Artist Alliance, aka A4 as she breaks down the animosity toward the Asian American community in a time where discrimination and...

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Kemi IIesanmi Explores the Intersection of Art and Social Justice.

Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky of Art Movez engage in a thoughtful and compelling conversation on how art inspires, and changes community with Kemi IIesanmi. Listen to the Executive...

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Artist Martha Redbone sings about Social Justice

Music speaks to people in ways that last generations, and seeps into our hearts and minds. Listen to the extraordinarily talented, and prolific singer/songwriter Martha Redbone as she speaks...

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Donna Walker-Kuhne leads in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access.

Listen to this episode featuring Donna Walker-Kuhne of Walker Communications as she discusses with Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky the intersection of Art & Culture with Diversity Equity Inclusion...

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Frances Bronet-Pratt Institute

Listen to this episode of Art Movez with Toni Williams, Eli Kuslansky and Frances Bronet, 12th president of Pratt Institute, and first woman to take the helm of this...

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Regina Myer- The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership

With new innovations and expanding platforms for the arts and culture, Downtown Brooklyn continues to evolve into a nexus, and mosaic of cultural and ethnic diversity. Regina Myer, President...

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Myths Artists believe with Eli Kuslansky

Do you believe in the overnight sensation, or that you’ll need to starve to be an artist or that you’ll need to work in isolation? That success is for...

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Playwright Cesi Davidson Articulates

Art that Heals  Deals with the tough topics of domestic violence, cyber – bullying and other forms of trauma in her book Articulation, a series of one act plays....

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651-Doing Art to Death in the Diaspora

Hosts Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky inquire into the magic that is part of the legacy of 651 ARTS. Brooklyn continues to be the Borough of First with African...

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America’s First Children’s Museum

Brooklyn Children’s Museum is the first museum of it’s kind in the United States. Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, president and chief executive officer of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, in her candid...

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Re-imaging the Brooklyn Arts Council

For more than 50 years, the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) has been providing a range of services to artists and arts organizations. In Re-imaging the Council for the future,...

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Toni Williams ignites Creative Conversations

Toni talks about her work as the Creator and Host of the successful Brooklyn Savvy a television show that deals with all things Brooklyn and beyond, and Co-Creator of...

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Jamaica to BRIC, Kristina Newman Scott

Jamaican – born Kristina Newman – Scott is transforming the Brooklyn arts scene as President of BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn . Kristina shares with Art Movez_ her vision for...

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Ellen Salpeter, First President of Wesbeth

Listen to the amazing Ellen Salpeter The former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. As the current first president and chief executive officer of Wesbeth Artist Housing,...

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Brett Littman on the Future of Art

The newly minted Director of the Noguchi Museum, talks about his multi – disciplinary interests, the future of depiction, his tenure as the curator of the Frieze Sculpture Garden,...

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Cey Adams talks about Life and Art

Cey Adams visual artist, graphic designer, and author, talks about his artwork, his unique voice, his passion to pay it forward, and how a group of friends from the...

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The Intersection of Art & Slavery

Take a walk through slavery in this compelling and riveting play of the same name, performed at the Billie Holiday Theater, written by Hollis King, and performed by him...

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Creating Equity and Inclusion in the Arts

Dr. Tobie Stein breaks down the data on diversity in the performing arts and provides appalling

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Eli Kuslansky, artist, innovator and visionary

Toni Williams interviews her Art Movez_ co-host, Eli Kuslansky, about the life and times of this extraordinary Brooklyn-born new media entrepreneur and artist, as he talks about the intersection...

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