Stories & Insights

Cultural Ecosystems at Risk: Global Insights from Local Challenges

Cultural ecosystems play a crucial role in fostering community resilience, social cohesion, and economic growth. Political marginalization, war, global health crises, and long-term disinvestment have exposed the fragility and limitations of the structures that support these ecosystems. CEC ArtsLink and the Culture & Arts Policy Institute collaborated on a public presentation to explore bottom-up models of cultural governance and the values and practices to cultivate thriving cultural landscapes. The panel facilitated by Gonzalo Casals, Co-Director of the Culture & Arts Policy Institute (NYC), featured ArtsLink Fellows Tamara Janashia, Director of the Culture and Management Lab (Georgia) and Hnat Zabrodskyy, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Pavilion of Culture CF (Ukraine), together with Randi Berry, Director of IndieSpace (NYC).

“Away” Is a Real Place: People’s Trash Museum of Bishkek

A story by US artist sTo Len about working with communities and local governments to address urgent environmental issues.