The past decade saw a new wave of growth for LMCC that continued throughout Manhattan, including the revitalization of Governors Island in arts and culture, and partnerships that facilitated programs and research along Lower Manhattan’s waterfronts, as well as the expansion of funding arts into Upper Manhattan.

 

In February 2011, LMCC took over as the lead organizer and curator of the River To River Festival after many years of producing festival events. Two years later, we launched Paths to Pier 42 as part of the Arts East River Waterfront Initiative, a series of partnerships between LMCC and local community organizations that brought murals, public arts installations, performances, and other events to formerly vacant spaces along the East River Waterfront.

 

In 2016, we curated and presented Michael Richards: Winged, an exhibit of the artist’s prescient work on flight and blackness, at LMCC’s Arts Center.

 

Borough-wide initiatives continued to expand through our Manhattan administration of SU-CASA, a city-funded, community arts engagement program that places artists and organizations in twenty senior centers throughout New York City.

 

In 2018, with funding from Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ), LMCC developed the Upper Manhattan Arts Engagement (UMAE) grant, a new extension of our existing Manhattan Arts Grants programs to provides Upper Manhattan-based artists and arts organizations with financial resources for public presentations.