State of the Arts NYC Show Description

BEFORE THE SHOW with host Savona Bailey-McClain and music executive Justin Kalifowitz

STATE OF THE ARTS NYC Hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain Show Description & Profile

WBAI FM Radio, 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

SHOW DESCRIPTION

State of the Arts NYC is a weekly radio show on WBAI radio, 99.5FM, where various sectors of NYC's arts worlds converge to report and analyze the dynamic state of the arts and its participants. Hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain, long-time Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF), she confronts, analyzes and celebrates victories, challenges and changes in the country's dynamic creative capital. Reports from the field; from the far-flung fringes; from center stage and from behind the scenes—the host Savona Bailey-McClain draws on her 20 years' in the trenches to bring you snapshot after snapshot in living color. State of the Arts NYC airs live on WBAI FM Radio

and wbai.org Fridays from 5-6 p.m.

SHOW HOST & PRODUCER Savona Bailey-McClain is Executive Director/Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund, which has organized high-profile public arts exhibits throughout New York City for the past 18 years, including Times Square, DUMBO, Soho, Governors Island and Harlem. Her public art installations encompass sculpture, drawings, performance, sound, and mixed media, and have been covered extensively by the New York Times, Art Daily, Artnet, Los Angeles Times and Huffington Post, among many others. She is host/ producer of "State of the Arts NYC," a weekly program on WBAI Radio and a member of Independent Curators International and ArtTable.

Past guests have included: Bill T. Jones, Internationally known Dancer/Choreographer; Rita Moreno, Oscar winning actress; Cecilia Alemani, Director of Public Art Programs/HighLine; Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Senior Curator/Madison Square Park; Valerie Paley, VP NY Historical Society; Saya Woolfalk, Mixed Media & Digital Artist; Kelly Taxter, Assistant Curator, Jewish Museum; Chuck Davis, dancer & choreographer; Kelly Baum, Postwar & Contemporary Art Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art /Met Breuer, Tim Tompkins, President of the Times Square Alliance; Sherry Dobbin, Creative Director & Director of Times Square Arts; Councilwoman Margaret Chin; Derrick Adams, artist; Steven Learner, Founder & Artistic Director, Collective Design; Adam Forman, Senior Researcher at the Center for an Urban Future; Neil Gagliardi, ASLA, is the Director of Urban Design at the New York City Department of Transportation; Andrew R. Phillips, Curator, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum; Charles Leslie, Co-Founder of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art; Eva Franch, Chief Curator & Executive Director of Storefront for Art & Architecture, Melissa Meyers, Christopher Stout, owner Christopher Stout Gallery, Margaret Tao, Asia Art Week, Liz Garbus, Academy Award winning filmmaker, Sol Guy, Producer at TriBeCa Films, Kendal Henry, Director for Percent for Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; Justin Garrett More, Executive Director, Public Design Commission; Nathan Kensinger, photographer; John Wang, Queens Night Market, Alex Tosca, jazz artist; Barbara Applebaum, Chief of Interpretation, National Park Service, Manhattan Sites; Edna Nahshon, Curator; NYS Senator Jose Serrano; Julie Menin, Commissioner, NYC Office of Media & Entertainment and a host of other artists and creative professionals.


PARENT GROUPPacifica Radio is an American network of six independently operated, non-commercial, listener-supported radio stations known for its progressive/liberal, political orientation. Launched in 1949 with service in Berkeley, California, it is the world's oldest listener-funded radio network. It is also a program service supplying over 100 affiliated stations with various programs, primarily news and public affairs. The first

public radio network in the United States, operated by the Pacifica Foundation, a non-profit corporation with national headquarters adjoining station KPFA in Berkeley. Programs such as Democracy Now! and Free Speech Radio News has been some of its most popular productions.

LOCAL STATIONWBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99.5 FM in New York City FM in New York City. The station has a transmitter atop the Empire State Building. Its programming is progressive, and a mixture of political news and opinion from a left perspective, tinged with aspects of its complex and varied history, such as Freeform radio, which

WBAI played a role in developing, as well as various music.WBAI FM Radio is located at 388 Atlantic Avenue, 3rd floor between Hoyt and Bond in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Downtown Brooklyn.

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State of the Arts NYC Show Description