Episodes

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.

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 amplify the power of entrepreneurship in the economic, criminal, and social justice arena. His work focuses on helping those who have been discarded reclaim their lives…

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 around black and brown masculinities, while interrogating its notions of achievement, collective identity, and experience of failure.

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 the intersections between art, culture, and civic engagement as a method of raising critical consciousness. The main objective of his work is to catalyze interaction between…