Acknowledgements

HueArts NYC project partners, Museum Hue, The Laundromat Project, and Hester Street, offer deep gratitude to our boards for their wholehearted support and to our hardworking and visionary teams for making this project a reality in the midst of a pandemic and many other duties.

Funding Partners

We are grateful for the early and definitive support from the following: Deborah Cullen-Morales, Emil Kang, Kibra Yohannes at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Rocio Aranda-Alvarado and Lane Harwell at the Ford Foundation; Commissioner Gonzalo Casals, Angela Kingham, Ryan Max, and Anthony Meyers at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. They embodied trust and abundance by investing meaningful support and then stepping out of the way to let the work happen.

In addition, the project is made possible by the wisdom, dedication, and support of the following contributors: 

Advisory Committee

Amy Andrieux – Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
Mahen Bonetti – African Film Festival, Inc. 
Andrew Clarke – Braata Productions 
Diane Fraher – American Indian Artists Inc.
Lisa Gold – Asian American Arts Alliance
Libertad O. Guerra – The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, Inc. 
Lorna Harris – Visionary GPS
Jerron Herman – independent artist 
Jordyn Jay – Black Trans Femmes in the Arts 
Swati Khurana – independent artist 
Sade Lythcott – National Black Theatre 
Kyoung Park – Kyoung’s Pacific Beat
Charles Rice-Gonzalez – Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

Interview Participants

Gina Acebo – Akonadi Foundation
Catherine Almonte
Caron Atlas – Art & Democracy Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts-NY
Elizabeth Bennett – Staten Island Arts
Bronwyn Bevan – The Wallace Foundation
Viviana Bianchi – Bronx Council on the Arts
Vanessa Camarena-Arredondo – Akonadi Foundation
Joanna Castro
Patricia Cruz – Harlem Stage
Ana Fiore – Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Amy Gedal Douglass – The Wallace Foundation
Bryan E. Glover – Bronx Council on the Arts
Desirée Gordon – Brooklyn Arts Council
Hitomi Iwasaki – Queens Museum
Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer – Queens Council on the Arts
Karen Mack – LA Commons
Masoom Moitra – El Puente
Christopher Mule
Kyoung Park – Kyoung’s Pacific Beat
Sheldon Raymore – American Indian Community House
Eduardo Robles – Promise Zone Arts, LA City Dept. of Cultural Affairs
Abigail Savitch-Lew
Sally Tallant – Queens Museum
Edwin Torres – Grantmakers in the Arts
Lisa Yancey – Yancey Consulting
Lauren Argentina Zelaya – Brooklyn Museum

Community Conversation Participants

Rohan Bhargava – Rovaco Dance Company
Ana Chireno – El Museo del Barrio
Raymond Codrington – Weeksville Heritage Center
Catherine Cudjoe – National Ghana Parade Council
Bobby Digi – Canvas Institute
Carlos Gutiérrez – Cinema Tropical
Madjeen Isaac – Haiti Cultural Exchange
Ladi’Sasha Jones – The Laundromat Project
Ron Kavanaugh – Literary Freedom Project
Shanta Lawson – The Studio Museum in Harlem
Sydnie Liggett – A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
Arnaldo J. López – Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
Muriel Miguel – Spiderwoman Theater
Hatuey Ramos-Fermin – The Laundromat Project
Erica Rawles – The Laundromat Project
Catherine Soliz-Rey – Garifuna Heritage Center for The Arts and Culture
Beth Stryker – ArteEast
Jafreen Uddin – Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Ayesha Williams – The Laundromat Project
Cievel Xicohtencatl – The Laundromat Project

*and Advisory Committee members

Survey Participants 

3RD ETHOS Gallery
African Film Festival
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
Archival Alchemy®
ArteEast
Arthistorianone
Asian American Arts Alliance
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Collective
Brooklyn Public Art
Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, The
Canvas Institute
Cinema Tropical
Clemente Soto Valez Cultural & Educational Center Inc, The
Cool Culture
El Museo del Barrio
EMERGENYC
Garifuna Heritage Center for The Arts and Culture
Haiti Cultural Exchange
Harlem Cultural Archives
Hi-ARTS
Kinetic Light
Kyoung’s Pacific Beat
Laundromat Project, The
Literary Freedom Project
Mind-Builders Creative Art Center
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
National Black Theatre
National Ghana Parade Council
New York Chinese Cultural Center
Oye Group
Pairings
Ping Chong & Company
Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
RedMoon Arts Inc
Rovaco Dance Company
Spanish Theatre Repertory Co., Ltd.
Spiderwoman Theater
Studio Museum in Harlem, The
Weeksville Heritage Center
Welancora Gallery

Top Photo: Braata Folk Singers in Concert October 2011. Image Credit: Wide Vision Photography Image Source: Braata Productions