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]]>Founder of Weil Studio, Amanda has spent more than three decades exploring the intersection of photography and architecture through large-scale photographic glass installations. Amanda’s artistic practice also includes time based projects, including PicAnHr – one photo per hour each September dating from 1986. Amanda is a New York State certified mediator, and also serves as the President of the Norman Foundation, which, in its vision for a more just and participatory democracy, supports grassroots organizing and civic engagement.
A longtime member of the Creative Time community, Amanda previously served on the Board from 2001–2024, including a nine-year tenure as Board Chair from 2006–2013. During that time, she helped guide the organization through a period of bold artistic experimentation and landmark projects, including Paul Chan’s Waiting for Godot in post-Katrina New Orleans, Paul Ramirez Jonas’s Key to the City, and the traveling exhibition Democracy in America.
We are honored to welcome Amanda back and look forward to her leadership, vision, and longstanding commitment to artists and public life.
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]]>New York, NY – Monday, May 18, 2026 – Creative Time announces Toward Sanctuary, a series of programs co-curated by Celine Wong Katzman and Dr. Gervais Marsh with Buffy Sierra, inspired by Guadalupe Maravilla’s artistic practice and upcoming Creative Time public art commission. Through collective action and imagination, Toward Sanctuary contends with the possibilities and difficulties of cultivating sanctuary across legacies of public and socially engaged art. The programming is informed by the history of sanctuary movements in the U.S. and Maravilla’s practice of building community-centered spaces for holistic wellbeing.
Creating sanctuary is rooted in an expansive history of dynamic practices, and is an ongoing aspiration. The need to reimagine and actively build spaces of refuge has never been more urgent during this time marked by escalating anti-immigrant violence, increasingly authoritarian global politics, and deepening socioeconomic inequities. Sanctuary emerges both through strategies invested in liberation and as a protective enclosure from harm–an offering to breathe, to heal, to envision radical alternatives, and to be connected with community.
Artists, cultural workers, organizers, and neighbors have nurtured and sought out sanctuary through practices and sites like independent schools, underground resistance, mutual aid collectives, community gardens, experimental art spaces, and modes of underground resistance. Toward Sanctuary programs will address the promise and limitations of the designation “sanctuary city” and consider the power and potential of networked communities that extend across arcs of history and beyond borders.
Starting May 30th, 2026, Toward Sanctuary programs will take place at CTHQ, Creative Time’s gathering space for art and politics, and across other sites in New York City including a nightclub, an urban farm and more. Maravilla’s upcoming Creative Time commission, soon to be announced, will draw on his work across sculpture, sound healing, performance, and organizing in support of immigrant communities.
Toward Sanctuary programming will include performance, teach-ins, community-centered healing practices, dancing, music, films and more. Programs feature historians, community organizers, artists and collectives from throughout the city and beyond, including Adrian Wong, Alice O’Malley, Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), Body Hack, Christopher Rey Pérez, Cinthya Santos Briones, Herban Cura, Julie Tolentino, Linda Goode-Bryant, Dr. Lloyd Barba, Lola Flash, Mary Mattingly, Red Canary Song, Reverend Juan Carlos Ruiz, Tania Bruguera, TTA Healing Studio, Wildlife Freedom Foundation, and more to be announced.
Public Program Schedule
Full program details available on creativetime.org/projects/toward-sanctuary
We Keep Us Safe: Sanctuary Movements Past and Present
Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), Cinthya Santos Briones, Dr. Lloyd Barba
Free and open to the public at CTHQ
Saturday, May 30 | 2 PM – 6 PM
Rooted: Cultivating Sanctuary in the Mind and Body
TTA Healing Studio
Free and open to the public at CTHQ
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 | 6 PM – 8 PM
Sanctuary After Dark: Legacies of Queer Nightlife
Presented in collaboration with the Body Hack collective and featuring Alice
O’Malley, Julie Tolentino, Lola Flash, and more
Ticketed and open to the public at Nowadays
Saturday, June 27 | 2 PM – 6 PM, afterward Body Hack’s Pride Nonstop will continue all weekend long
Tending Sanctuary: Plants to the People
Herban Cura
Free and open to the public at CTHQ
Thursday, July 9, 2026 | 6 PM – 8 PM
We Keep Us Safe: Sanctuary as Collective Practice
Reverend Juan Carlos Ruiz and Tania Bruguera
Free and open to the public at CTHQ
Wednesday July 29, 2026 | 6 PM – 8 PM
Cat Sanctuary and Beyond: Structures of Our Shared Realms
Adrian Wong and Wildlife Freedom Foundation
Free and open to the public at CTHQ
September 2026 | Date to Be Announced
We Keep Us Safe: The Whores Feast and Feeding
Red Canary Song and collaborators
Free and open to the public at CTHQ
November 2026 | Date to Be Announced
ABOUT CREATIVE TIME
Since 1974, Creative Time has commissioned and presented over 350 ambitious public art projects in partnership with thousands of artists and organizations throughout New York City, across the country, around the world—and even in outer space. Its work is guided by three core values: art matters, artists’ voices are important in shaping society, and public spaces are places for creative and free expression.
Creative Time is acclaimed for the innovative and meaningful projects it has commissioned, from Tribute in Light (2002), the twin beacons of light that illuminate lower Manhattan annually on the anniversary of 9/11, to Kara Walker’s powerful sugar-sphinx, A Subtlety (2014), at the Domino Sugar Factory, Pedro Reyes’s Doomocracy (2016), a theatrical haunted house of political nightmares at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Chloë Bass’s If you hear something, free something (2025), a sound work in MTA subway stations throughout NYC, and so much more.
Based in New York City, Creative Time touches millions, locally, nationally, and internationally, through public programming initiatives like the Creative Time Summit, which has been presented in a variety of locations including Venice, Stockholm, Washington, D.C., and Miami. CTHQ, Creative Time’s gathering space for art and politics, offers public programs, artist-led workshops, and free co-working space.
Creative Time is committed to presenting important art for our times and engaging broad audiences that transcend geographic, racial, and socioeconomic barriers.
PROJECT SUPPORT
Toward Sanctuary programs and Creative Time’s CTHQ public programming space are made possible with visionary founding gifts from the Mellon Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, and the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.
MEDIA CONTACT
THIRD EYE: Justin Conner | justin@hellothirdeye.com
CREATIVE TIME: Gloria Celeste Perez | gloriap@creativetime.org
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]]>January 22, 2026 – New York, NY – Creative Time is pleased to announce that Jean Cooney has been appointed as the organization’s new Executive Director. Cooney, who currently serves as the Director of Times Square Arts and Vice President of Arts and Culture at the Times Square Alliance, returns to Creative Time, where she previously held multiple roles over seven years including Deputy Director. In her new role, Cooney will lead the development and implementation of Creative Time’s institutional vision. Her start date will be February 23, 2026. Creative Time will celebrate Cooney’s arrival on April 28, 2026 at the Spring Gala. Cooney succeeds Justine Ludwig, who served as Creative Time’s Executive Director since her appointment in 2018.
“I couldn’t be more excited to welcome Jean back as she takes the role of Executive Director. She has an extensive history with Creative Time and has played a key role in some of our most important projects. Jean has a deep commitment to public art and exceptional relationships with artists and the broader artistic community. Jean truly is the ideal candidate to lead the organization into its next decade as a pioneer in groundbreaking public art. Her vision and dedication to the future of Creative Time are as inspiring as anything I’ve witnessed in my twelve years with the organization,” said Jon Neidich, Creative Time Board Chair.
Jean Cooney shared, “I’m thrilled to join Creative Time, an organization that continues to define the field of public art and its limitless possibilities, and champion artists in the creation of the seemingly impossible, completely unexpected, undeniably powerful, and deeply engaging. Drawing on my seven formative years at the organization, and nearly seven more leading Times Square Arts engaging with the broad and diverse public audiences in Times Square, I couldn’t be more excited to work with staff, board, artists, and the broader Creative Time community to bridge the past, present, and future of the organization’s incredible legacy.”
At Times Square Arts, Cooney worked with hundreds of artists to present engaging and powerful public works to millions of visitors in one of the world’s most iconic and visited urban spaces, curating bold, engaging, and timely projects that responded to both the cultural moment and the communities that shape Times Square. Cooney also played a key role in expanding Times Square Arts’ nightly Midnight Moment presentation to more than 90 synchronized billboard displays, and led the program’s first major publication, Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square. She launched a socially engaged Public Artist-in-Residence program, and forged meaningful partnerships with leading organizations across the cultural landscape of New York City and beyond. During her seven-year tenure, Cooney presented works by artists including Shantell Martin, Pedro Reyes, Pamela Council, Charles Gaines, Marta Minujín, Yvette Mayorga, David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Laurie Simmons, Shahzia Sikander, Rashaad Newsome, Jeffrey Gibson, and Joan Jonas.
Tom Harris, President of the Times Square Alliance, shared, “Jean has taken Times Square Arts to the next level, elevating Times Square as an aspirational place for artists to present their work and for audiences to enjoy public art, and she has forged strong relationships with the district’s diverse communities and stakeholders along the way. We applaud Creative Time for recognizing her exceptional talent, and while she will be sorely missed at the Times Square Alliance, we look forward to collaborations between both organizations in the future.”
In her seven years at Creative Time, Cooney played a lead role in the organization’s major artist commissions, public programming, engagement initiatives, and cultural partnerships. She helped realize Nick Cave’s HEARD•NY, 2013, in Grand Central Terminal; Kara Walker’s A Subtlety, 2014, at the former Domino Sugar factory; Duke Riley’s Fly By Night, 2016, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as well as commissions by artists Trevor Paglen, Suzanne Lacy, Simone Leigh, Bradford Young, Otabenga Jones & Associates, Xenobia Bailey, Spencer Finch, Karyn Olivier, Lauri Stallings, Pedro Reyes, Sophie Calle, and Phil Collins.
ABOUT JEAN COONEY
Jean Cooney is an arts leader, cultural producer, and curator with over 14 years leading ambitious public art programs in New York City. Cooney is currently the Vice President of Arts and Culture for the Times Square Alliance and the Director of Times Square Arts, the public art program that invites contemporary artists to engage with Times Square and the district’s broad and diverse audiences. Times Square Arts commissions and presents sculpture, installation and performance in the district’s public plazas, as well as Midnight Moment, a video program synchronized nightly on over 90 of the district’s iconic billboards from 11:57pm to 12am. Prior to Times Square Arts, Jean spent seven years at the public arts non-profit Creative Time supporting the realization of large scale site-specific artist commissions across New York City. Jean holds an M.A. in Visual Arts Administration from New York University, and a B.A. in International Relations from Boston University.
ABOUT CREATIVE TIME
Since 1974, Creative Time has commissioned and presented over 350 ambitious public art projects in partnership with thousands of artists and organizations throughout New York City, across the country, around the world—and even in outer space. Our work is guided by three core values: art matters, artists’ voices are important in shaping society, and public spaces are places for creative and free expression.
We are acclaimed for the innovative and meaningful projects we have commissioned, from Tribute in Light, the twin beacons of light that illuminate lower Manhattan annually on the anniversary of 9/11, to Kara Walker’s powerful sugar-sphinx at the Domino Sugar Factory (2014), Pedro Reyes’s Doomocracy (2016), a theatrical haunted house of political nightmares at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Chloë Bass’s If you hear something, free something (2025), a sound work in MTA subway stations throughout NYC, and so much more. Though based in New York City, our organization touches millions, both nationally and internationally, through initiatives like the Creative Time Summit, which has been presented in a variety of locations including Venice, Stockholm, Washington, D.C., and Miami. We are committed to presenting important art for our times and engaging broad audiences that transcend geographic, racial, and socioeconomic barriers.
IMAGE: Portrait available on request. Photo © Claudia Lucia
MEDIA CONTACT
THIRD EYE
Van Lundsgaard | van@hellothirdeye.com | 212-355-9009
CREATIVE TIME
Gloria Celeste Perez | gloriap@creativetime.org
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]]>Celine joins Creative Time with extensive experience working alongside artists to unravel and transform exhibitions, classrooms, publications, and websites. Her research considers the impacts of contemporary technologies on archival practices, community infrastructure, and public space. Her projects span museums, galleries, train tunnels, farms, and the internet, including the first major U.S. museum presentation of the landmark online biennial CyberPowWow and a forthcoming solar-powered online art exhibition.
Previously, Celine co-directed the School for Poetic Computation and held curatorial roles at Rhizome, an affiliate of the New Museum, and the Queens Museum. From 2021–2023, she served as Mentor-in-Residence at NEW INC, and she has been recognized with fellowships including the Digital Fellowship at Singapore Art Museum (2025), the Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellowship (2024), and a Teiger Foundation curatorial grant (2023). Her writing appears in The Nation and Art in America, among other publications.
We are looking forward to seeing the bold, inventive, and transformative programming Celine brings to Creative Time.
Photo by Kevin Peter He.
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]]>The Board of Directors has assembled a search committee that will work with a search firm to recruit Creative Time’s next leader. As the search for a new Executive Director continues, Creative Time’s leadership is bolstered by our experienced Deputy Director Yukiko Yamagata who will serve as Interim Executive Director, and who will be responsible for overseeing the organization’s programming, staff, and operations.
Justine Ludwig states, “Working at Creative Time has been one of the great privileges of my life. Its history has so deeply inspired my own curatorial practice–the belief that art ought not be siloed and that artists are active drivers of social change. The organization could not be in better hands than with Yukiko and I have no doubt Creative Time will continue to thrive in its next chapter.”
Board Chair Jon Neidich states, “Creative Time thanks Justine for her leadership and contributions to its ongoing success in creating experimental and groundbreaking programming. We wish her the best of luck and are looking forward to finding Creative Time’s next leader to continue its visionary work. Creative Time has a number of projects that we are bringing into the world over the next few months–including our recently opened public art commission by Chloë Bass presented in partnership with MTA Arts & Design and a new slate of fall programming for our CTHQ gathering space–and we look forward to embarking on the next 50 years of the organization.”
We are excited for this next chapter for Justine, and would like to express our gratitude for her years of service with Creative Time.
Image Credits: Justine Ludwig by Ali Cherkis; Photo Courtesy of Yukiko Yamagata.
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]]>The commission is the first sound work by artist Chloë Bass and will play through announcements in key subway station mezzanines, reaching hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, in the first innovative artist project on the MTA broadcast system.
New York, NY – August 14th, 2025 – Creative Time, in partnership with MTA Arts & Design, announces the debut of a new commission by artist Chloë Bass. Titled If you hear something, free something, Bass’s sound work will engage MTA’s public announcement system, reaching the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and visitors who use New York City Transit’s services daily. This monumental audio art exhibition will consider the standard purposes of public address, providing riders with a fleeting moment of everyday connection. Coinciding with MTA Arts & Design’s 40th anniversary, the sonic artwork will begin playing on September 3, 2025 and run through October 5, 2025. A press preview and public performance will take place on September 3rd at 12pm at Fulton Center.
Chloë Bass is well known for her multidimensional practice which uses daily life as a site of deep research to address scales of intimacy, where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand. Bass has worked in performance, conversation, publication, and installation; however, If you hear something, free something is her first sound project and the first artist-led engagement with the MTA’s PA system. The sonic artwork—in English, Spanish, Arabic, Bangla, Haitian Kreyòl, and Mandarin—will play intermittently in key station mezzanines, reaching hundreds of thousands of riders. ASL translations will be available on Creative Time’s website. Each recording will begin with a custom tone, designed by Bass in collaboration with artist Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, followed by one of 24 total announcements spoken by professional performers and everyday New Yorkers. To arrive at each poetic announcement, Bass assembled a series of focus groups that gathered a cross section of people who interface with the transit system regularly—teens, adults, transit advocates, and MTA workers—to consider what sounds and stories might call us to somewhere familiar, or bring us to a place of ease.
The soundscape of the city affects its residents’ quality of life. Noise regulates the body’s nervous system, and it can directly affect people’s willingness to participate in shared experiences and to help strangers. To move beyond courtesy and into connection, Bass plays critically with two well-known public information campaign slogans: “If You See Something, Say Something” and “Courtesy Counts.” At the height of the Cold War, emergency broadcast systems were created in order to alert citizens of geopolitical threats. In the wake of 9/11, a series of new campaigns were initiated across New York to encourage heightened awareness of one’s neighbors and surroundings. If you hear something, free something speaks to the long history of the MTA as an important site of public address.
FROM ARTIST, CHLOË BASS
“We’re used to thinking of certain conditions as given, when they’re actually a product of design. If you hear something, free something offers one opportunity to feel how a system might be different, or introduce us to other possibilities, if it were designed with a more open emotional mindset. It’s not just about the announcements. It’s about the ways we feel together in public space.”
FROM CURATOR, DIYA VIJ
“If you hear something, free something engages the largest transit system in the Western Hemisphere, a place where an incredible complexity of public life unfolds. The MTA serves millions of New York City residents daily, spanning every single neighborhood and social boundary. It is where every denomination of New York City meets. For this truly public art work, Bass offers a monumental but fleeting gesture that seeks to change the way we relate to each other in public life and public space. She asks us to consider, if we change what we hear, can we change how we feel, and in turn, will we be better neighbors?”
FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, JUSTINE LUDWIG
“Bass aims to connect everyday actions to a bigger picture of community and care. In a city of millions of people, this work is an antidote to isolation and apathy, it is an invitation toward shared experience and wonder. This project is Creative Time’s fifth collaboration with MTA Arts & Design (formerly MTA Arts for Transit) and we’re proud to further our organizations’ shared commitment to activating public spaces as places for meaningful connection through the arts.”
OPENING PERFORMANCE
On September 3rd at 12pm in the Fulton Center, the project will launch with a new, live performance composed by Bass with ten performers, four of whom were involved in the original recordings. Scattered throughout the Fulton Center atrium, the performers will be mixed among everyday transit riders and will usher in new forms of public address and communal care. It is also an opportunity to hear the entire sonic artwork—all 24 announcements—in a single context.
To attend, kindly RSVP with Van Lundsgaard (van@hellothirdeye.com).
Detailed information regarding the timing, frequency, and locations of If you hear something, free something is forthcoming.
ABOUT CHLOË BASS
Chloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, conversation, situation, publication, and installation. Bass has been exhibited and published at major institutions around the world, including recent solo exhibits at Buffalo AKG Art Museum, California African American Museum at A+P, Skirball Cultural Center, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven. Recently, MTA Arts & Design unveiled Chloë Bass’s permanent public artwork: Personal Choice #5, 2023, in the Lorimer Street L train subway station, invites riders to reflect on shared lived experience, connection, and physical and emotional proximity in New York City.
ABOUT CREATIVE TIME
Since 1974, Creative Time has commissioned and presented over 350 ambitious public art projects in partnership with thousands of artists and organizations throughout New York City, across the country, around the world—and even in outer space. Our work is guided by three core values: art matters, artists’ voices are important in shaping society, and public spaces are places for creative and free expression.
We are acclaimed for the innovative and meaningful projects we have commissioned, from Tribute in Light (2002), the twin beacons of light that illuminated lower Manhattan six months after 9/11, to Kara Walker’s powerful sugar-sphinx at the Domino Sugar Factory (2014), and Pedro Reyes’s Doomocracy (2016), a theatrical haunted house of political nightmares at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and so much more. Though based in New York City, our organization touches millions, both nationally and internationally, through initiatives like the Creative Time Summit, which has been presented in a variety of locations including Venice, Stockholm, Washington, D.C., and Miami. We are committed to presenting important art for our times and engaging broad audiences that transcend geographic, racial, and socioeconomic barriers.
ABOUT MTA ARTS & DESIGN
MTA Arts & Design encourages the use of public transportation by providing visual and performing arts in the New York metropolitan area. The Percent for Art program is one of the largest and most diverse collections of site-specific public art in the world, with more than 400 commissions by world-famous, mid-career and emerging artists. Arts & Design produces Graphic Arts, Digital Art, photographic Lightbox exhibitions, as well as live musical performances in stations through its Music Under New York (MTA MUSIC) program, and the Poetry in Motion program in collaboration with the Poetry Society of America. It serves the millions of people who rely upon MTA subways and commuter trains and strives to create meaningful connections between sites, neighborhoods, and people.
PROJECT SUPPORT
Project support for Chloë Bass’s If you hear something, free something is provided by Molly Gochman, Eric Richter and Charles Shoener, The New York Community Trust, VIA Art Fund, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The MAP Fund, and Trellis Art Fund.
We are also grateful for the support of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams.
Creative Time programming support for 2025 has been generously provided by the Mellon Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Lambent Foundation Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
MEDIA CONTACT
THIRD EYE
Van Lundsgaard | van@hellothirdeye.com | 212-355-9009
CREATIVE TIME
Gloria Celeste Perez | gloriap@creativetime.org | 203-521-1786
MTA
MTA Arts & Design | arts@mtahq.org | 212-878-7250
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]]>Pirbhai joins the organization from the Guggenheim. She will lead strategic fundraising efforts to support Creative Times public initiatives.
New York, NY – August 5, 2025 – Creative Time is pleased to announce that Ayesha Pirbhai has joined the organization as its Head of Development, where she will lead strategic fundraising efforts to support bold, public art initiatives. With a strong belief in artist-centered philanthropy, she brings experience in mobilizing resources at the intersection of culture, equity, and visual arts. Before joining Creative Time, Ayesha served as Manager of Individual Giving at the Guggenheim Museum, overseeing global donor groups and driving revenue growth through key initiatives like the Young Collectors Council. Her work there spanned large-scale fundraising events, major exhibitions, and acquisitions that elevated both artistic vision and institutional impact.
“We are thrilled that Ayesha Pirbhai will be joining us as our new Head of Development,” shared Creative Time Executive Director, Justine Ludwig. “I’m looking forward to working with her as we explore the ways that we can build community and momentum around our programs, support innovative artists projects, and engage with local, national, and global audiences.”
Ayesha’s career is marked by cross-sector innovation and a multidisciplinary approach. At Creative Time, she aims to expand the organization’s philanthropic landscape while fostering deeper connections among artists, funders, and the public.
“As a passionate advocate for socially engaged art, I’m thrilled to join Creative Time at a moment of bold vision and continued experimentation,” shared Pirbhai. “I believe fundraising can be a radical practice: collaborative, transparent, and transformative. I’m excited to use these practices to support artists whose work sparks dialogue, challenges systems, and reimagines the public realm.”
ABOUT AYESHA PIRBHAI
Ayesha Pirbhai is Head of Development at Creative Time. She previously managed global donor groups and the Young Collectors Council at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, while also focusing on support for major exhibitions and acquisitions. She has held a development role at the American Museum of Natural History, founded a fine art jewelry brand rooted in empowerment, and worked internationally as a culture writer and editor in Barcelona. Ayesha’s cross-sector background has resulted in a radical approach to fundraising, one that is collaborative, transparent, and transformative.
ABOUT CREATIVE TIME
Since 1974, Creative Time has commissioned and presented over 350 ambitious public art projects in partnership with thousands of artists and organizations throughout New York City, across the country, around the world—and even in outer space. Our work is guided by three core values: art matters, artists’ voices are important in shaping society, and public spaces are places for creative and free expression.
We are acclaimed for the innovative and meaningful projects we have commissioned, from Tribute in Light, the twin beacons of light that illuminated lower Manhattan six months after 9/11, to Kara Walker’s powerful sugar-sphinx at the Domino Sugar Factory (2014), and Pedro Reyes’ Doomocracy (2016), a theatrical haunted house of political nightmares at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and so much more. Though based in New York City, our organization touches millions, both nationally and internationally, through initiatives like the Creative Time Summit, which has been presented in a variety of locations including Venice, Stockholm, Washington, D.C., and Miami. We are committed to presenting important art for our times and engaging broad audiences that transcend geographic, racial, and socioeconomic barriers.
IMAGE: Portrait available on request. Photo © Diana Sinclair.
MEDIA CONTACT
THIRD EYE
Van Lundsgaard | van@hellothirdeye.com | 212-355-9009
CREATIVE TIME
Gloria Celeste Perez | gloriap@creativetime.org | 203-521-1786
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