Organized by Michelle Johnson, program officer, Arts & Culture, The Kresge Foundation; and Regina Smith, managing director, Arts & Culture, The Kresge Foundation.
Moderated by Regina Smith, managing director, Arts & Culture, The Kresge Foundation. Presented by Blair M. Duncan, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone; Jamie Bennet, executive director, ArtPlace America; and Ellen Baxter, founder and executive director, Broadway Housing Communities.
Broadway Housing Communities' Sugar Hill Project, a mixed-use development designed by David Adjaye, pairs a children's museum of art and storytelling with 124 units of affordable housing and an early childhood center to generate transformational change in a high poverty, largely immigrant urban community.
UMEZ's multi-year grant made directly to the museum, signaling the museum's emergence as a full partner in BHC's creative placemaking mission, and the long-term sustainability of this ambitious initiative working at the intersection of housing, education, and art.