In this audio postcard, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) describes their project- to explore and develop creative approaches to serving local artists, community-based organizations, and audiences.

This audio postcard is part of a series of 16 about the 2011 NYC Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund grantees as they embark on their innovative projects.

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Voices:
President, BAM: Karen Brooks Hopkins
Executive Producer, BAM: Joseph Melillo

Credits:
Audio Producer: Jonathan Mitchell
Recording on Location in Brooklyn, NY
Photos Courtesy of Brooklyn Academy of Music
Music by Explosion Robinson

In this audio postcard, CEC ArtsLink talks about the launch One Big City, a series of public events created collaboratively by New York City and international visiting artists engaging with and responding to New York City’s diaspora communities, presented at local cultural venues.

This audio postcard is part of a series of 16 about the 2011 NYC Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund grantees as they embark on their innovative projects.

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Voices:
Executive Director, CEC ArtsLink: Fritzie Brown
Program Director, ArtsLink Awards: Tamalyn Miller

Credits:
Audio Producer: Lu Olkowski
Recording on Location in New York, NY

Photos Courtesy of CEC ArtsLink, Eve Sussman, Elena Skochilo, Luise Kaunert, The Hinterlands, Mark Jenkins, C.L.U.E. and Taxter & Spengeman, Alexander Ugay, Arthur Donowski, Andrea Steudel, Mykola Ridnyi, Yara Arts Group

Music by Explosion Robinson

The Mannahatta Project

In this podcast, Richard Evans talks with Eric Sanderson, a Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, and artist Mary Miss, about their boundary breaking projects that make environmental issues personal, visceral, and tangible for New York City residents.  Their projects are grantees of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 2011 Cultural Innovation Fund award and part of a cohort of 16 organizations being documented by EmcArts/ArtsFwd over the next two years.

In this 23-minute podcast, Sanderson talks about his project Mannahatta 2409, a new interactive website that allows every citizen to create their own vision of a sustainable New York City at a block by block level and share it with others.  The goal of the project is to engage the public’s imagination in one of the greatest challenges of our generation: designing the sustainable city.

Mary Miss talks about 1000 Steps of Broadway, her project that brings artists and scientists together to create a series of physical interventions at key points along the 225 block corridor of Broadway. The goal of the project is to redefine the role of artists in creating a more environmentally sustainable New York City, a task typically left to government agencies.

Guests:

Eric W. Sanderson is a Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society. Sanderson is the author of “Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City,” and curated an exhibition based on the Mannahatta Project on display at the Museum of the City of New York. Sanderson also guided creation of this website that allows users to explore Mannahatta in comparison to Manhattan today (see Explore page).

Mary Miss has reshaped the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, landscape design, and installation art by articulating a vision of the public sphere where it is possible for an artist to address the issues of our time.  She has developed the “City as Living Lab“, a framework for making issues of sustainability tangible through collaboration and the arts, with Marda Kirn of EcoArts Connections.

Wildlife Conservation Society

In this audio postcard, Wildlife Conservation Society describes the goals of building an online forum that allows the public to develop and share their own preferred ecological climate-resilient designs for Manhattan.

This audio postcard is part of a series of 16 about the 2011 NYC Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund grantees as they embark on their innovative projects.

Watch it online with images

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Funded by Rockefeller Foundation

Voices:
Senior Conservation Ecologist, Wildlife Conservation Society: Eric Sanderson
GIS Programmer: Kim Fisher

Credits:
Audio Producer: Lu Olkowski
Recording on Location in Bronx, NY
Photos Courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Society
Music by Explosion Robinson

In this audio postcard, Mary Miss talks about her studio’s public art installation along the length of Broadway that makes the city’s sustainability initiatives tangible to citizens at street level through collaborations between the artist, scientists and the community.

This audio postcard is part of a series of 16 about the 2011 NYC Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund grantees as they embark on their innovative projects.

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Funded by Rockefeller Foundation

Voices:
Artist: Mary Miss

Credits:
Audio Producer: Sarah Lilley
Recording on Location in New York, NY
Photos Courtesy of Mary Miss Studio
Music by Explosion Robinson

In this audio postcard, executive director of National Assocation of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) outlines their new project providing professional mentoring to New York Latino/a and Native writers, producers and directors of narrative and documentary projects to create and advance new films.

This audio postcard is part of a series of 16 about the 2011 NYC Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund grantees as they embark on their innovative projects.

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Funded by Rockefeller Foundation

Voices:
Executive Director, NALIP: Kathryn Galan

Credits:
Audio Producer: Sarah Lilley
Recording on Location in New York, NY
Photos Courtesy of National Association of Latino Independent Producers
Music by Explosion Robinson

In this audio postcard, the co-founders of OurGoods talk about expanding OurGoods.org, an online barter network for creative people.

This audio postcard is part of a series of 16 about the 2011 NYC Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund grantees as they embark on their innovative projects.

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Voices:
Co-Founder, OurGoods: Jen Abrams
Co-Founder, OurGoods: Caroline Woolard

Credits:
Audio Producer: Kerrie Hillman
Recording on Location in Brooklyn, NY
Photos Courtesy of Our Goods
Music by Explosion Robinson

In this audio postcard, leaders of Chimpanzee Productions describe their interactive project, Digital Diaspora Family Reunion: One City, One Family, bringing to life New York City’s hidden visual history using personal family photographic archives and stories.

This audio postcard is part of a series of 16 about the 2011 NYC Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund grantees as they embark on their innovative projects.

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Voices:
Director, Chimpanzee Productions: Thomas Allen Harris
Multimedia Producer, Digital Diaspora Project: Ann Bennett
Producer, Chimpanzee Productions: Don Perry

Credits:
Audio Producer: Sarah Lilley
Recording on Location in East Harlem, NY
Photos Courtesy of Chimpanzee Productions
Music by Explosion Robinson

In this audio postcard, leaders from El Puente discuss their Green Light District Initiative, which investigate the overlap between the creative, health and sustainability practices of their quickly gentrifying Southside Williamsburg community (locally known as Los Sures).

This audio postcard is part of a series of 16 about the 2011 NYC Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund grantees as they embark on their innovative projects.

Watch it online with images

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Funded by Rockefeller Foundation

Voices:
Executive Director, El Puente: Frances Lucerna
Assistant Director, El Puente Green Light Initiative: Anusha Venkataraman

Credits:
Audio Producer: Kerrie Hillman
Recording on Location in Brooklyn, NY
Photos Courtesy of El Puente, Juan Beltran
Music by Explosion Robinson

Ryan Fleur is president and CEO of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. As chief executive for the largest performing arts organization in the Mid-South since 2003, Fleur is responsible for all aspects of the $4.5M operation. During his first five years, he has transformed the organization into one committed to “creating meaningful experiences through music”, in which all of its artistic and educational initiatives are implemented through a lens of community engagement. He developed the Orchestra’s current strategic plan through a comprehensive, inclusive planning process, balanced the Orchestra’s books for the first time in 10 seasons, and has taken significant steps to transform the Orchestra into a sustainable musical institution.

Kelly Pollock is Executive Director of the Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis. Pollock served as COCA’s general manager since 2006, overseeing all business operations and programming.  She joined COCA in 1997 and served as its director of development for eight formative years as the organizational budget grew from $1.7 million to its current size of $5 million.  She successfully managed COCA’s $10 million Access to Excellence capital and endowment campaign.  She was also responsible for securing millions of dollars in grants over the years from National Endowment for the Arts, Wallace Foundation, Kresge Foundation, MetLife Foundation, among others.  As COCA’s general manager, Pollock secured one of four national Innovation Lab grant awards from the Doris Duke Foundation and EmcArts to develop COCAbiz, a program designed to integrate arts practice and concepts into talent and leadership development in business.

Duration: 27:40 minutes