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About Cultural Affairs

Advisory Commission

Advisory CommissionAgnes Gund, Chair of the Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission presents a 2006 Mayor’s Awards for Arts & Culture to the local arts councils.


From left: Ella Weiss, Brooklyn Arts Council; Laurie Jean Watters, Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island; Tom Healy, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, Queens Council on the Arts; and Bill Aguado, Bronx Council on the Arts.

Agnes Gund
Chair

Stephanie Bell-Rose
Daniel Brodsky
Amy Chin
Vishakha N. Desai
Robert Esnard
Dolores M. Fernández
Alan H. Fishman
Susan K. Freedman
Raymond D. Horton
Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer
Michael Lynne
Raymond J. McGuire
Judith O. Rubin
David M. Sable
Claire Shulman
Hildy Simmons
Robert Soros
Elizabeth Streb
Laurie Tisch
Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner
Allan Weissglass

Ex-Officio

The Honorable Patricia E. Harris
First Deputy Mayor

The Honorable Kate D. Levin
Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs

The Honorable Adrian Benepe
Commissioner, Department of Parks and Recreation

The Honorable Joel I. Klein
Chancellor, Department of Education

Tom Finkelpearl
Executive Director, the Queens Museum of Art

Laura Jean Watters
Executive Director, Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island

The Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission is mandated by the City Charter to advise the Department of Cultural Affairs on issues relating to the City's cultural life. The current Commission, under the chairmanship of Agnes Gund, was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg in February 2003.  The Commission has provided invaluable guidance and expertise on a variety of critical areas, including arts education, capital financing, management and board development and marketing.
Read the press release announcing the Commission's appointment

Some Commission initiatives are supported, in part, by the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City.  The Mayor's Fund is a not-for-profit organization established to strengthen public programs with support from individuals, corporations, and foundations.  As a 501(c)(3) public charity, donations to the Mayor's Fund are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Learn more about the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City or make a contribution

The Commission would like to especially acknowledge generous support from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, BP, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, New Line Cinema, the Edward John Noble Foundation, Tom Otterness, Judith and Robert Rubin, the Silverweed Foundation, the Laurie M. Tisch Foundation, United Technologies, and Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner and Paul Wagner.

The Commission has also benefited from in-kind donations from and partnerships with American Express, Bedell Cellars, Brooklyn Brewery, Creative Cakes, Ericcson & Fina, Great Performances, The New York Times, Lisa Quiroz and Dan Osheyack of Time Warner, WQXR, and Y&R Brands/Wunderman NY.
Through January 3, 2010
Bronx Museum of Art
Intersections: The Grand Concourse Commissions
 
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