21c Museum Hotels pushes the boundaries of both the museum and hotel worlds to create a new kind of travel experience. Founded as a single property by contemporary art collectors and preservationists Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, whose mission was to share innovative contemporary art with the public. With locations ranging from 19th century warehouses to banks, 21c Museum Hotels create a union of genuine hospitality, thoughtful design, and culinary creativity — all anchored by a contemporary art museum. Learn more here.
EDENS purpose is to enrich community through human engagement. They are the owner, developer and steward of a nationally leading portfolio of more than 100 open-air retail and mixed-use places in high-growth markets coast to coast. Learn more here.
For Freedoms is an artist-led organization that centers art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse and direct action. Founded in 2016 by a coalition of artists including Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Michelle Woo, and Wyatt Gallery, For Freedoms is dedicated to fostering an environment of listening, healing, and justice through a wide range of creative engagement. For Freedoms works closely with a variety of artists, organizations, institutions and brands to expand what participation in a democracy looks like and reshape conversations about politics. Learn more here.
GENDER LIBERATION MOVEMENT (GLM) is an emergent and innovative grassroots and volunteer-run national collective that builds direct action, media, and policy interventions centering bodily autonomy, self-determination, the pursuit of fulfillment, and collectivism in the face of gender-based sociopolitical threats. Learn more here.
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey empowers individuals to make voluntary, informed decisions about their reproductive lives by providing safe, affordable healthcare, and educational services, and championing public policies to make those services available to all. PPMNJ is recognized as a leader in reproductive healthcare by providing a standard of excellence in clinical services, education, and advocacy for patients and community members in Essex, Hudson, and Passaic counties. Learn more here.
PUBLIC SPACE ONE (PS1) is an artist-led, community-driven, contemporary art center. PS1 aims to: provide an independent, innovative, diverse, and inclusive space for making and presenting art, produce unique programs that stretch boundaries and present diverse perspectives, provide resources for artists and cultural educational opportunities, and advocate for the importance of art in everyday life for any and everyone. Learn more here.
A cornerstone of New York’s cultural landscape since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world’s leading international contemporary and modern art galleries to New York each year. The fair plays a leading role in the city’s position as an important cultural capital through elevated presentations, thoughtful programming, curatorial leadership, meaningful institutional partnerships, and engaging public art activations. Learn more here.
The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) was founded in 1999. They were the first and are still one of the few centers in the U.S. with a named emphasis on both gender and sexuality. CSGS facilitates a broad interdisciplinary investigation of gender and sexuality as keys to understanding human experience. Learn more here.
The Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA) & Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at New York University are both interdisciplinary spaces for students, faculty, post-doc fellows, artists, scholars and the general public. Founded in 1969, IAAA’s mission continues to research, document, and celebrate the cultural and intellectual production of Africa and its diaspora in the Atlantic world and beyond with a commitment to the study of Blacks in modernity through concentrations in Pan-Africanism and Black Urban Studies. Learn more here.
The Latinx Project at New York University explores and promotes U.S. Latinx Art, Culture and Scholarship through creative and interdisciplinary programs. Founded in 2018, it was consolidated as a provostial center in 2023 as The Latinx Project: Interdisciplinary Center for Arts and Culture. The center’s distinguishing programs include the Artist-in-Residence, Curatorial Open Call, Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship, Public Humanities Fellowship, and Intervenxions digital platform and publication. Learn more here.
The New York City AIDS Memorial honors the more than 100,000 New Yorkers who have died of AIDS and acknowledges the contributions of caregivers and activists who mobilized to provide care for the ill, fight discrimination, lobby for medical research, and alter the drug approval process. The Memorial aims to inspire visitors to remember and reflect as well as empower current and future activists, health professionals, and people living with HIV in the continuing mission to eradicate the disease through the maintenance of our permanent, architecturally significant Memorial as well as through educational and cultural programming. Learn more here.
Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, is the largest public platform for innovative contemporary performance and visual arts. With up to 480,000 daily visitors to New York City's Times Square, it is one of the highest profile public arts programs and since its inception, Times Square Arts has featured works by a diverse group of nearly two hundred prominent and emerging artists. Learn more here.
Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting visual art projects, exhibitions, public forums, and publications—while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. Learn more here.