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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 been the pillars of Art and Culture institutions. Smith challenges these practices by dismantling these structures to usher in a new era of diversity and inclusion…

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 for the future of this incubator for people working at the intersection of art, design, and technology. It’s for those who have new ideas and are…

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 by providing practitioners financial support, tools, mentorship, project management, and visibility. Learn how their incubator of nascent ideas can actualize into projects or even evolve into…

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 more equitable funding for African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) arts groups in New York City has awarded $4.5 million in grants. The Mosaic…

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 and collaboration amongst faculty and students at Cooper Union.

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 billion in 2017 – can be traced directly or indirectly. More than 239,000 are employed in this sector as well, but when it comes to advocating…

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 by the center, and how they nurture established and emerging authors.

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 truth to power as she amplifies voices that are demanding dismantling racist system that have perpetuated inequities in the Arts.

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 initiative curated by their company Street Theory Gallery, aimed to activate the Downtown Brooklyn and Dumbo communities with three large-scale uplifting and impactful murals that inspire…

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 of women of color, particularly those of African and African American women, whose stories have long been overlooked and rendered invisible.