About Creatives Rebuild NY
Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) is a three-year, $125 million initiative that will provide guaranteed income and employment opportunities for up to 2,700 artists throughout New York State. These two components will work to alleviate unemployment of artists, continue the creative work of artists in partnership with their communities and arts and cultural organizations, and enable artists to continue working and living in New York State under less financial strain.
CRNY’s guaranteed income program will provide monthly, no-strings-attached payments to up to 2,400 artists with financial need.
CRNY’s employment program will fund employment for 300 artists in partnerships with dozens of community based organizations across New York State for two years. Participating artists will receive a salary commensurate with New York State median income data, plus benefits, with dedicated time to focus on their practice. Participating organizations will receive overhead funds to support artists’ employment.
These programs and funding will be dedicated solely to artists whose primary residence is in New York State.
- Application Opens: February 14, 2022
- Application Closes: March 25, 2022
THIS INFORMATION SESSION WILL BE RECORDED AND MADE AVAILABLE ON THE ROUNDTABLE’S WEBSITE AND YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
PRESENTERS
Sarah Calderon is the Executive Director of Creatives Rebuild New York. Previously, Sarah was the Managing Director of ArtPlace America from 2015 to 2020. In this role, Sarah led strategy, finance and operations, management, and grantmaking strategies for higher education. Previously, she was the Executive Director of Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education (Bronx, NY) from 2008 to 2015. During her tenure at Casita, she oversaw the opening of a new, 90,000-square-foot facility for the Center’s arts and education programming and developed partnerships with organizations ranging from Lincoln Center to the NYC Housing Authority. Before joining Casita, she founded and ran Stickball Printmedia Arts in East Harlem, a printmaking and digital arts organization for youth. Prior to that, Sarah was with the NYC Department of Education creating the Annual Arts in Schools Report—a data collection, analysis, and reporting effort for arts education in NYC’s public schools. She also consulted at MPR Associates, managing education research and evaluation projects from design through publication. She has worked as a teaching artist in Chicago, Oakland, and New York City. Sarah holds a BFA in printmaking and a BA in psychology from the University of Michigan; and an M.Ed. in arts education from Harvard University.
Maura Cuffie is a facilitator, strategist, and designer. Currently, she serves as the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Guaranteed Income program at Creatives Rebuild New York. Previously she was the Senior Program Officer for ArtPlace America from 2018 to 2021. During that time she conceived and executed the Local Control, Local Field(s) initiative, a novel approach to participatory and trust-based philanthropy. This initiative placed over $12.5M directly under the control of practitioners across the country. She has held a variety of positions in arts, culture, and organizational change. As a co-founder of the collective, the Free Breakfast Program, she participated as a Create Change Fellow with the Laundromat Project in 2015 and in the inaugural cohort for leaders of color in EmcArts’ Arts Leaders as Cultural Innovators Fellowship in 2016.
Christopher Mulé (Ma-LAY) is a cultural activist, network engineer, and public sector folklorist and ethnomusicologist. Currently, he is the Co-Director of Strategic Initiatives, Artist Employment Program for Creatives Rebuild New York. Previously, he served as the director of folk arts at Brooklyn Arts Council between 2014 and 2020, and as a project director for NY Living Traditions, an initiative of the Folk Arts Program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) in partnership with City Lore. He specializes in grant writing, community engagement, media, public programming, and non-profit management. Chris earned his M.A. in Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. In 2015, he received the Archie Green Fellowship from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress for his collaboration with Domestic Workers United, an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York, that organizes for fair labor standards.
ACCESSIBILITY
The NYC Arts in Education Roundtable is committed to providing opportunities for everyone to participate in our programming. All sessions will include access to closed captioning in the main room via Zoom’s Live Transcript feature. Please let us know how we can meet your access needs or reach out if you have any questions by contacting Roundtable Programming and Membership Manager Kinsey Keck at kkeck@nycaieroundtable.org.
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