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

Event - January 2025

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

On February 25th, the Center for an Urban Future will hold a policy forum focused on New York State's growing arts and culture sector and booming artist population. This forum will explore the growing power of the arts as a catalyst for thriving communities statewide and examine ways that officials can more fully integrate the arts into the state's policy agenda.

Tags: arts economic growth

"Integrating the Arts into New York State's 2025 Policy Agenda"
A Center for an Urban Future Policy Symposium

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 
11:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. 
@ Hilton Albany
40 Lodge St, Albany, NY

To attend in-person, RSVP via this link.
To watch the livestream, RSVP via this link. 

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 will explore the growing power of the arts as a catalyst for thriving communities statewide and examine ways that officials can more fully integrate the arts into the state's policy agenda.

Confirmed speakers include:

  • State Senator Jose M. Serrano, Chair, Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks & Recreation
  • Assemblymember Ron Kim, Chair, Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
  • Assemblymember Jonathan Rivera, Chair, Subcommittee on Regional Tourism Development
  • Sarah Calderón, Executive Director, Creatives Rebuild New York
  • 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

Details
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 
11:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. (doors open at 11:30; program begins at 11:50)
@ Hilton Albany
40 Lodge St, Albany, NY

To attend in-person, please RSVP via this link. 

To watch the livestream, please RSVP via this link. 

We are committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in our programs. For questions or requests regarding access and accommodation, please contact Stephanie Arevalo at [email protected] at least 72 hours in advance of the program.

This event is 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.