The Mayor’s Arts Task Force will be comprised of city staff, local community leaders, and members of the artist community. Members will provide guidance on:
- Policies the City can pursue that will continue to foster and promote arts that are reflective of the diverse communities that live in Cambridge
- Ensuring a robust funding source for our arts community using both city resources, and the resources of local companies
- Collaboration between the City, the Central Square Business Association, and local artists to strengthen Central Square as an Arts and Cultural District
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List of Members/Member Affiliations
- Councillor Alanna Mallon, Chair
- Mayor Marc C. McGovern
- Jason Weeks, Executive Director of the Arts Council.
- Representative from the City Manager’s Office
- Representative from the Community Development Department
- Representative from the Office of Budget and Finance
- Afiyah Harrigan, Mayor’s Office
- Olufolakemi Alalade, working visual artist as a member of MatriArts, a museum shop curated to promote African women’s arts and materials
- Olivia D’Ambrosio, Director of the Bridge Repertory Theater
- David DeCelis, architect and Public Arts Commission
- Peter DiMuro, Executive Director of the Dance Complex
- Sarah Gallop, Government Relations at MIT
- Eryn Johnson, Executive director of the Community Arts Center
- Christopher Hope, Founder of The Loop Lab
- Kristina Latino, CEO of Cornerscape and music festival organizer
- Martha McKenna, Director of the Creative Commons at Lesley University
- Michael Monestime, Executive Director of the Central Square Business Association
- Jero Nesson, Brickbottom Gallery
- James Pierre, muralist and manager of the Community Arts Center’s Public Art Program
- Geeta Pradhan, Cambridge Community Foundation
- Ellen Shakespear, Co-founder of Spaceus, an arts space rehab
- Kelly Sherman, working visual artist and innovation consultant
- Ben Simon, EMF musician
This group includes working artists in the disciplines of dance, music, music production, theater, and visual arts, as well as specialists in developing arts spaces like studios and housing. Members will bring their expertise to help solve some of the most pressing issues facing working artists in Cambridge: lack of affordable creative space, sustainable funding, and strengthening Central Square as an Arts and Cultural District. The group is also representative of the diverse communities we have here in Cambridge.
Meeting Dates
Meeting will be held at 5:30pm. Locations To Be Determined.
Tentative Task Force Meeting Dates are:
October 11, 2018 @ Workbar, Central Square
November 8, 2018 @ Spaceus, Harvard Square, 20 Brattle Street
December 13, 2018 @ MIT Theatre Arts Building, 385 Vassar Street
January 10, 2019
February 7, 2019
March 14, 2019
April 11, 2019
May 9, 2019
June 13, 2019
Meeting Minutes & Documents
Minutes from October 11, 2018 Meeting
Minutes from November 8, 2018 Meeting