What Is LxNY?
LxNY | Latinx Arts Consortium of New York is an intersectional network of Latinx-serving cultural organizations based in New York City. Our mission is to foster knowledge exchange, resource-sharing, and collective action towards systemic change. We envision a New York City where Latinx arts and culture are fully funded, deeply valued, and celebrated as an integral part of the city’s diverse and vibrant cultural fabric.
What do we do?
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Funding Equity in Arts and Culture
Equity in arts and cultural funding is more urgent now than ever. We advocate for significant increases in funding across the board, with additional resources being directed to where they are currently most lacking. The end result must be that in New York City, communities of color and the organizations serving them all have the same level of resources as do wealthier white communities. Read our equity statement and letters here.
Cultural Advocacy Project
The LxNY Cultural Advocacy Project is a research and capacity-building initiative that will inform and strengthen LxNY’s advocacy strategy and help define the next steps toward developing and implementing an Advocacy Agenda that engages with arts and cultural policy and affects the conditions affecting Latinx arts and cultural organizations. Cultural Advocacy Project Report. Stay tuned for the release of our upcoming Cultural Advocacy Project Report.
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The marketing efforts of LxNY: Latinx Arts Consortium of New York are centered around amplifying the visibility of Latinx arts and culture across the city. By cross-promoting a wide array of artistic and cultural programs, events, and exhibitions, LxNY leverages their Instagram account (@lxnyarts) to engage a diverse audience and highlight the work of their 45+ member organizations. LxNY also offers a comprehensive guide on the Bloomberg Connects app, making Latinx arts and cultural offerings more accessible to local communities and visitors from all over the world. Through these platforms, LxNY fosters deeper connections between artists, organizations, and audiences, celebrating the richness of Latinx culture in New York City. Click here for more!
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Historias is an expansive citywide initiative that weaves scholarly research, oral histories, and cultural programming to re-center Latinx narratives in NYC. Unfolding between 2024 and 2026, presented by The Clemente in partnership with LxNY, with lead support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Historias marks the largest initiative in The Clemente’s 30-year history. Click here to read more about Historias!
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.
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Arnaldo J. López
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Charles Rice-González
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Libertad O. Guerra
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Marlène Ramírez-Cancio
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Rafael Sánchez
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Sami Abu Shumays
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Fernando Salazar
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Andrea Isabel López
Facts & Stats
In lower-income neighborhoods, cultural resources are “significantly” linked to better health, schooling, and security. The research, which was controlled for economic wellbeing, race, and ethnicity, found the presence of cultural resources is associated with:
A 14% decrease in cases of child abuse and neglect
A 5% decrease in obesity
An 18% increase in kids scoring in the top stratum on English and math exams
An 18% decrease in the serious crime rate
Cultural resources, like everything else, are distributed unequally around the City. The most affluent neighborhoods in Manhattan and western Brooklyn have extremely high concentrations of nonprofits, for-profits, artists, etc., while vast areas of the other boroughs have very few cultural resources.
New York State, Latino Population: 3,948,032
Latino Share of Population: 19.5%
New York City, Latino Population: 2,490,350
Latino Share of Population: 28.3%
New York, 2020 Census Profiles
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New York, 2020 Census Profiles -
The New York Latino population grew from 3.4 million to 3.9 million, an increase of 15.5%. By comparison, the non-Latino population of the state increased by only 1.8%
Source: NALEO Educational Fund, 2020 Census Profiles New York