Eve Moros Ortega

is the founder and leader of the Plywood Project. Eve is a lifelong arts lover, with over two decades of experience advocating for the value of creativity based on the power of culture to transform, educate, and improve lives.

New Yorkers For Culture & Arts

supports strengthening policy, increasing and securing sustainable public funding, advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion to help ensure a vibrant future for culture and arts throughout New York City.

Brooklyn Arts Council

solves Creative Equations because we envision a world innovated by art; we advocate for sustainable development strategies that include art, artists, and arts institutions to optimize social social innovations and solutions to inequity.

Resist Covid Take 6

is an artist-driven public awareness campaign, led by MacArthur Award-winning artist Carrie Mae Weems, to educate and enlighten Black, Brown, and Native American communities on the impact of this deadly virus on their lives.

Sophia Dawson

is a Brooklyn based visual artist who uses her platform and influence as an artist to expose the narratives and experiences of people who individually and collectively face injustice. Through her work she aims to humanize social justice issues and to prevent such experiences from being repeated in the future.

Groundswell

amplifies the voices of young people of color, and artists of color. Groundswell believes that art creates community and community creates change. We are committed to engaging diverse communities and young people in the arts to promote identity, creativity, and cultural literacy.

Manon Slome

is Co-Founder & Chief Curator of No Longer Empty, which curates site-responsive exhibitions, education & public programs in unconventional locations around NYC, and creates platforms for collaboration & dialogue around social, cultural and political issues.

Street Theory Gallery

is an award-winning creative agency that activates communities, spaces, and global brands through street-art, experiential marketing, cultural placemaking, branding and design.

The Human Impacts Institute

uses arts and culture to inspire environmental action for social good.

Plywood Protection Project

Launched by worthless studios, the Plywood Protection Project transforms abandoned plywood into public art by upcycling plywood from boarded businesses, and providing artists with studio space and technical assistance. worthless studios has a mission to provide space, materials, technical assistance and resources for aspiring artists of all backgrounds to realize their artistic visions.

Living Trust for the Arts

ensures a more sustainable future for artists and their creative legacies through innovation and technology. 

The Office Performing Arts + Film

is an independent curator and production company that works in ongoing partnerships with festivals, venues, and institutions to create cultural programming that is unique and mission specific.

Drim Films

is a production and branding agency that seeks to break walls and boundaries, understand process, and deliver the most authentic and exceptional vision for each unique project.

Lord Cultural Resources

is the world's largest cultural professional practice with the successful completion of more than 2,500 projects in over 57 countries on 6 continents. The firm has earned an international reputation for sector leadership, innovation, and excellence.

Artists Rights Society

is the preeminent copyright, licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States. Founded in 1987, ARS represents the intellectual property rights interests of over 122,000 visual artists and their estates from around the world.

The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership

is a not-for-profit local development corporation that serves as the primary champion for Downtown Brooklyn as a world-class business, cultural, educational, residential, and retail destination.

Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art + Storytelling

provides its culturally rich neighborhood with a space where children and their families grow and learn about Sugar Hill, and about the world at large, through intergenerational dialogue with artists, art and storytelling.