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Integrating the Arts into New York State's 2025 Policy Agenda

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*If you have trouble accessing the replay of the event, please contact Stephanie at sarevalo@nycfuture.org. To view the replay of this forum, you can use the link in the same email you used to access the forum virtually, or request a new link be sent above.

In recent years, New York State's growing arts and culture sector and booming artist population have sparked renewed economic and cultural vitality in nearly every corner of the state. But pressing challenges remain, as expenses grow much faster than revenues and incomes, major equity gaps persist, and public investment remains too low and fragmented to meet urgent needs and realize new opportunities. This forum explored the growing power of the arts as a catalyst for thriving communities statewide and examined ways that officials can more fully integrate the arts into the state's policy agenda.

Speakers included:​

  • Assembly Member Brian Cunningham
  • Assembly Member Ron Kim, Chair, Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
  • Assembly Member Jonathan Rivera, Chair, Subcommittee on Regional Tourism Development
  • Sarah Calderón, Executive Director, Creatives Rebuild New York
  • Alma Carrillo, Executive Director, Buffalo Arts Studio
  • Nicole Fenichel-Hewitt, Executive Director, The Art Effect
  • Stephanie A. Johnson-Cunningham, Executive Director, Museum Hue
  • Philip Morris, CEO, Proctors Collaborative
  • Justin T. Relf, Performing Arts Educator

This event was made possible through generous support from Creatives Rebuild New York. We are also grateful for general support from The Clark Foundation, the Altman Foundation, and ongoing support from a number of other philanthropic funders.

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