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2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

2009

• March 2009 - LMCC presents Open Studio Weekend 2009 Featuring New Works
  by 21 Artists– and Writers–in–Residence
• March 2009 - LMCC announces the Downtown Dinner 2009: Honoring our Real Estate Partners
• March 2009 - Access Restricted: Capital of the World - Robert Neuwirth, featured speaker
  “Under the Table and Off the Books: Informal Economies in the Developing City – And Your City”
• March 2009 - Poems & Pints Series featuring Katy Lederer and D. Nurkse
• February 2009 - LMCC Announces 2008-2009 Creative Curricula Grant Recipients
• February 2009 - Access Restricted: Capital of the World - Miriam Greenberg, featured speaker
  “The Shifting Skyline: Branding New York in Times of Financial Crisis”
• February 2009 - Poems & Pints Series featuring Dana Goodyear and Matthew Zapruder
• January 2009 - Access Restricted: Capital of the World - Carol Willis, featured speaker
  “Form Follows Finance: The Architecture of Wall Street”

2008

• December 2008 - See Inside 20 Artists' Studios: LMCC presents Open Studio Weekend
• December 2008 - LMCC Swing Space hosts La Superette at South Street Seaport
• December 2008 - Poems & Pints Series featuring Edward Field and Vijay Seshadri
• November 2008 - Poems & Pints Series featuring Paul Muldoon and Mark Strand
• October 2008 - LMCC announces 22,00 Square Foot Space at 14 Wall Street for Swing Space (Part 2)
• October 2008 - LMCC announces 22,00 Square Foot Space at 14 Wall Street for Swing Space (Part 1)
• September 2008 - Poems & Pints Features Exhilarating Readings With Premier American Poets at the Historic Downtown Fraunces Tavern
• August 2008 - Ofelia Loret de Mola's Company Danscores Collides with Punk Rock in Available Space, a New Performance Event that Explores Space and Social Interaction
• August 2008 - Richard Move and MoveOpolis! Surprise with Pulsating Performance Installations at Various Downtown Locations Presented as Part of Sitelines 2008
• August 2008 - LMCC announces New Dates for Headlong Dance Theater: Hotel Pool Will Take Place August 12-16 at 8 PM
• August 2008 - LMCC's Sitelines presents Monica Bill Barnes' Game Face, A Fun and Bizarre Look at Wall Street's Tirelessness
• July 2008 - Martin Lofsnes & 360 present the U.S. Premiere of Maktub by Lauri Stallings
• July 2008 - Questions Asked: Risa Jaroslow & Dancers Engage Audiences in 311, a New Dance Piece that Inquires What We Expect from Government
• June 2008 - Doorknob Company Mourns Optimism in its New Work, The Miracle Show and the Death of Optimism, created for Sitelines 2008
• May 2008 - Buglisi Dance Theatre's Enthralling Theatrical Spectacle, Under the Buttonwood Tree.com, Opens Sitelines 2008
• May 2008 - LMCC Sitelines Performance Schedule
• May 2008 - LMCC announces the 2008 Production Grant Recipients
• May 2008 - LMCC awards $137,000 through its Grants for Art in Public Spaces Program
• May 2008- LMCC announces the Downtown Dinner 2008 honoring Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, First Deputy Mayor Patricia E. Harris, playwright Edward Albee, and artist Kiki Smith

2007

• October 2007 - Maggie Boepple appointed LMCC president
• February 2007 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Awards over 156 artists and arts groups at The Manhattan Borough Arts Bash
• February 2007 - Access Resticted: New York Surrogate's Court / Hall of Records
• January 2007 - Floodwall

2006

• November 2006 - Games People Play
• October 2006 - Beautiful Discovery: The Work of Joe Ben Plummer
• September 6 - 8 & 10, 2006 - Evening Stars
• May 2006 - Sitelines 2006 Site-specific performance series Downtown: 9 groups with 64 FREE dance, theater, and music performances
• March 31, 2006 - The largest residency in NYC expands events throughout Downtown: LMCC Open Studio Weekend
• March 16, 2006 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council announces honorees for the annual Downtown Dinner fundraiser at Cipriani Wall Street on May 4, 2006
• March 8, 2006 - Nomadic Life Nearing End for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
• March 2006 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council celebrates more than $300,000 in grant awards at the Manhattan Borough Arts Bash: 2006
• February 2006 - For Art's Sake

2005

• November 2005 - Redhead Projects Presents a Cheap Publicity Stunt
• October 2005 - Announcing Free Studio Space and Living Stipends for 12 - 15 Displaced Gulf Coast Artists
• August 2005 - International Cultural Summit featuring Over 60 Artists and Cultural Leaders Announced for September 11th Weekend. What Comes After: Cities, Art and Recovery [200 kb]
• July 2005 - $1,781,000 in Cultural Grants Awarded to 13 Arts and Culture Organizations [295 kb]
• July 2005 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Announces Set and Drift: Art Lands on Governors Island (PDF - 186kb)
• May 2005 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Announces Site Matters: A Talk With Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Trade Center Resident Artists
• May 2005 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Announces Undisciplined: Race and New Media Art (PDF - 84 kb)
• May 2005 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Announces the Second Season of Sitelines (PDF - 147 kb)
  
• May 2005 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Hosts
  The Downtown Dinner; Celebrating Art and The City
  (PDF - 202kb)
  
• April 2005 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Presents Workspace: 120 Broadway Open Studio Weekend (PDF - 104 kb)
  
• April 2005 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council presents The Borough Arts Bash; A Night of Dance, Spoken Word, Film and Visual Art (PDF - 54 kb)
  
• March 2005 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council presents For Art's Sake (PDF - 670kb)
  
• March 2005 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Hosts DiVA Opening After Party (PDF - 138kb)

2004

• December 2004 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Selected as Recipient of a $5 Million Grant from the September 11th Fund (PDF - 82.3kb)
• December 2004 - Community Works Joins Forces with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Harlem Arts Alliance to Present harlem is... Downtown
  (PDF - 39.6kb)
• October 2004 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Announces Book Release: Site Matters: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Trade Center Artists Residency, 1997 - 2001 (PDF - 1.45 kb)
  
  
• September 2004 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Presents Workspace: 120 Broadway Open Studio Weekend (PDF - 161kb)
• September 2004 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Announces Inaugural Season of Downtown Digital Futures (PDF - 161kb)


• September 2004 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Announces Fall Grants and Services Opportunities For Artists and Nonprofit Art Organizations (PDF - 75.1kb)


• August 2004 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Announces its Fall Season (PDF - 408kb)

• April 2004 - LMCC Announces Spring/Summer Season (PDF - 132kb)
  
  
• April 2004 - LMCC Announces 2004 Spring Benefit (PDF - 104kb)
  
  
• February 2004 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Presents Workspace: The Woolworth Building Open Studio Weekend (PDF - 110kb)
  
  
• February 2004 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Announces Its 2004 Grant Recipients (PDF - 133kb)
  

2003

• December 2003 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Announces Its 2004 Winter Season, In the Face of Others: Exhibition and Downtown Dialogue Series (PDF - 149kb)



• November 2003 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Announces a Change in Executive Leadership (PDF - 32kb)



• September 2003 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Presents Motion Studies - a Multimedia Exhibition and Public Dialogue Series Exploring Movement (PDF - 48kb)



• July 2003 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Holds 30th Anniversary Fall Season in New Cultural Center and Around Downtown (PDF - 68kb)



• May 2003 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Holds Open House, Photography Exhibit in New Facility - JPMorgan Chase Funds Move To New, Post Sept. 11 Location (PDF - 56kb)



• May 2003 - The Lower East Side Tenement Museum and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council present Regarding the Mihrab - An installation by Can Tiryaki, Tom Morbitzer and Goil Amornvivat (PDF - 32kb)



• April 2003 - Thundergulch / Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in association with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the World Policy Institute and the Computer Instruction Center of The New School Presents
  The Future of War: Aesthetics, Politics, Technologies
  (PDF - 40kb)



• March 2003 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Announces 30 Years - 30th Anniversary Benefit and Silent Auction at The Regent Wall Street on April 1, 2003
  (PDF - 32kb)



• February 2003 - The Lower East Side Tenement Museum and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council present Flight - An Artist Installation by Alia Hasan-Khan (PDF - 32kb)

2002

• December 2002 - Merce Cunningham Dance Company
  & P.S. 234 4th Grade Children Perform Rewarding Lives Dance Event (PDF - 48kb)



• November 2002 - The Lower East Side Tenement Museum and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council present Suspect - An Artist Installation by Peter Scott
  (PDF - 32kb)



• November 2002 - HERE and Suzanne Vega
  Present A Memorial Exhibition & Concert Series celebrating the life and work of Tim Vega (PDF - 40kb)



• October 2002 - Re-Covering the Cityscape: Impressions of History Underfoot (PDF - 40kb)



• October 2002 - State and HUD Funds Will Aid in Recovery of Downtown Artists and Cultural Organizations (PDF - 24kb)



• September 2002 - New Views: DUMBO - Artists Examine Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn Vantage Point
  (PDF - 32kb)



• September 2002 - Looking In: Storefront Exhibition Revitalizes Downtown Streetscape (PDF - 56kb)



• August 2002 - The Lower East Side Tenement Museum and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council present
  The Burqa Project: On the Borders of My Dreams I Encountered My Double’s Ghost - An Artist Installation by Jn. Ulrick Désert (PDF - 32kb)



• August 2002 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in association with the Municipal Art Society presents Microviews: Artists’ Documents of the World Trade Center (PDF - 52kb)



• June 2002 - In a Gesture of Solidarity with New York City in the Wake of September 11, the City of Paris Has Awarded a Six-Month Residency in Paris to Three New York Artists (PDF - 36kb)



• May 2002 - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Visual Arts Program Once on 92nd Floor of WTC Now Nearby in World Financial Center (PDF - 114kb)



• May 2002 - New York’s Festival with a Beat Returns Downtown: Festival of Creative Communities, Monday, June 3 - Thursday, July 25 (PDF - 100kb)



• May 2002 - Downtown River to River Festival 2002: Largest Free Arts Festival to Celebrate Lower Manhattan (PDF - 586kb)



• February 2002 - Snoopy, the Famed Peanuts™ Character, Aids Lower Manhattan Arts Group Thanks to S2 Art Group (PDF - 37kb)



• February 2002 - Yes, It’s Alive! LMCC & New York/New Visions Create New Map of Downtown Culture
  (PDF - 303kb)

2001

• November 2001 - World Views Open Studios Exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (PDF - 44kb)