What Is LxNY?

LxNY | Latinx Arts Consortium of New York is a collaborative peer network dedicated to knowledge exchange, resource-sharing, and collective action towards systemic change. Formed in 2020 by organizations serving Latinx communities and artists across New York City, LxNY aims to transform the historical underfunding of Latinx arts by advocating for the equity-driven missions of our cultural institutions, nurturing our deep relationships with community, and stewarding our hard-fought legacies into the future. Advancing cultural work as essential work, LxNY honors the expertise of our multigenerational arts leaders and culture bearers, harnessing their collective experience to better serve the city’s diverse cultural landscape.

Our Purpose

  1. To TRANSFORM the structural undercapitalization, simplification, and undervaluing of Latinx arts, cultural productions and institutions.

  2. To INVEST in a cooperative peer-network exchange between our organizations and cultural bearers of our neighborhoods and communities, to generate pipelines that impact the social infrastructure of the communities we serve.

  3. To AGGREGATE the collective experience and expertise of Consortium partners to expand our social capital while mapping out initiatives for boosting collective visibility.

  4. To REFRAME the concept of Legacy as inherited status of past temporal longevity into one of stewarding our equity driven missions, institutional histories, and multigenerational leadership, along with our hard fought assets into the future.

  5. To ADVANCE cultural work as essential work that informs and nurtures Latinx New Yorkers' culture-specific generational challenges and contexts.

 Steering Committee

This core group mostly represents the organizations that got together in the midst of the 2020 Covid pandemic to form the LxNY Consortium, providing the infrastructure to activate the coalition.