{"id":38945,"date":"2025-12-08T23:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/?post_type=venues&#038;p=38945"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:46:33","slug":"lower-manhattan-cultural-council-lmcc","status":"publish","type":"venues","link":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/venues\/lower-manhattan-cultural-council-lmcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5c93a23dd468e\" data-node=\"5c93a23dd468e\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<div class=\"fl-rich-text\">\n<h3>Founded as Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LMCC serves, connects, and makes space for artists and community.<\/h3>\n<h3>Since 1973, LMCC has been the champion for independent artists in New York City and the cultural life force of Lower Manhattan.<\/h3>\n<h3>We envision New York City as a place in which artists and community in dialogue are creating a more just, equitable, and sustainable society.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>LMCC Serves Artists through:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lmcc.net\/resources\/artist-residencies\/\">Residencies<\/a>\u00a0that enable artists to experiment and develop their work and ideas, with professional development, financial training, and networking opportunities<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lmcc.net\/resources\/manhattan-arts-grants\/\">Grant funding<\/a>\u00a0to artists that support local\/neighborhood\u00a0projects<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lmcc.net\/public-programs\/open-studios\/\">Presentation opportunities<\/a>\u00a0that allow artists to share their work and creative process with the public<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>LMCC Serves Community through:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lmcc.net\/public-programs\/\">Free public programs<\/a>\u00a0in Lower Manhattan and Governors Island that activate neighborhoods and bring people together through performances and rich artistic experiences<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lmcc.net\/public-programs\/open-studios\/\">Access to the artmaking process<\/a>\u00a0to build connections and dialogue between artists and audiences<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lmcc.net\/resources\/manhattan-arts-grants\/\">Grant funding<\/a>\u00a0for neighborhood arts and community-based organizations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-heading fl-node-5d42272057d06\" data-node=\"5d42272057d06\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<h2 class=\"fl-heading\"><span class=\"fl-heading-text\">Our Mission<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5c9d4e26a8db8\" data-node=\"5c9d4e26a8db8\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<div class=\"fl-rich-text\">\n<p>To create a fertile and nurturing environment for artists and arts groups, enlivening public spaces with free programs in the visual, performing, and new media arts, and to provide leadership in cultural planning and advocacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-heading fl-node-5ad4fe384222b\" data-node=\"5ad4fe384222b\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<h2 class=\"fl-heading\"><span class=\"fl-heading-text\">Our Values<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-572b75ff8d039\" data-node=\"572b75ff8d039\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<div class=\"fl-rich-text\">\n<p><strong>We believe artists<\/strong>\u00a0are critical to a healthy society as agents of change and new ideas.<br \/>\n<strong>We acknowledge structural inequities<\/strong>\u00a0and we are committed to centering equity, diversity, and inclusion.<br \/>\n<strong>We are driven by curiosity<\/strong>. Experimenting, questioning, learning, and understanding are essential to creative development.<br \/>\n<strong>We are collaborative<\/strong>. We build partnerships and relationships, and we share our resources.<br \/>\n<strong>We listen<\/strong>. Adaptation and responsiveness are essential to meeting needs and ensuring resiliency.<br \/>\n<strong>We give with openness and care<\/strong>. We strive to be radically generous and accessible to all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-heading fl-node-5d422712db16c\" data-node=\"5d422712db16c\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<h2 class=\"fl-heading\"><span class=\"fl-heading-text\">Community<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5d42272736cd3\" data-node=\"5d42272736cd3\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<div class=\"fl-rich-text\">\n<p>We value an equitable, diverse, and inclusive world and actively work to counter discrimination on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, citizen status, ancestry, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or any other characteristic or identity.<\/p>\n<p>We acknowledge structural inequities that have excluded individuals and communities from opportunities and are committed to providing opportunities that help to rebalance those inequities in our work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-heading fl-node-5ddd8d8083032\" data-node=\"5ddd8d8083032\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<h2 class=\"fl-heading\"><span class=\"fl-heading-text\">Sustainability<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5d42273e5132d\" data-node=\"5d42273e5132d\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<div class=\"fl-rich-text\">\n<p>We define sustainability as an adaptive, balanced, and measured approach that appropriately considers potential economic, environmental, and social impacts on the communities in which we live and work.<\/p>\n<p>We work with artists, partners, stakeholders and communities to position arts and cultural activities as drivers in building sustainable neighborhoods and cities.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that sustainably-driven cultural initiatives will not only improve quality of life for cultural workers and local residents, but can also catalyze conditions of social equity and vitality, economic vibrancy and diversity, and overall community attachment and resilience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-heading fl-node-6140ad27d1907\" data-node=\"6140ad27d1907\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<h2 class=\"fl-heading\"><span class=\"fl-heading-text\">Land Acknowledgement<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-6140ad5322ad7\" data-node=\"6140ad5322ad7\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<div class=\"fl-rich-text\">\n<p>We want to acknowledge that the work we are doing to support artists and communities is happening on the traditional lands of the Lenape people. We are situated on the Lenape Island of Manahatta, today known as New York, and more broadly in Lenapehoking. We offer our respect to the Lenape\u00a0and other Indigenous caretakers of these lands and waters; and to their elders who have lived here, who live here now, and who will live here in the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fl-col-group fl-node-eah3vtbmocip\" data-node=\"eah3vtbmocip\">\n<div class=\"fl-col fl-node-onk71shximea fl-col-bg-color\" data-node=\"onk71shximea\">\n<div class=\"fl-col-content fl-node-content\">\n<h3 data-node=\"za7snf9gq05p\"><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"fl-module fl-module-heading fl-heading fl-heading-text fl-node-za7snf9gq05p\" data-node=\"za7snf9gq05p\">Our Residency Programs<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-col-group fl-node-5ff8e03c80222\" data-node=\"5ff8e03c80222\">\n<div class=\"fl-col fl-node-5ff8e03c802eb fl-col-bg-color\" data-node=\"5ff8e03c802eb\">\n<div class=\"fl-col-content fl-node-content\">\n<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-61646cb270eba\" data-node=\"61646cb270eba\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<div class=\"fl-rich-text\">\n<p><strong>LMCC&#8217;s Artist Residency programs<\/strong>\u00a0respond directly to the immediate needs of the artistic community, and promote the development of the artistic work. These residencies are available to artists working in all disciplines, via open-call applications or nomination processes.<\/p>\n<p>The studio spaces are located in temporarily donated spaces throughout Lower Manhattan and in our Arts Center at Governors Island. These programs are free to participating artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded as Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LMCC serves, connects, and makes space for artists and community.<br \/>\nSince 1973, LMCC has been the champion for independent artists in New York City and the cultural life force of Lower Manhattan.<br \/>\nWe envision New York City as a place in which artists and community in dialogue are creating a more just, equitable, and sustainable 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