Museum Hue’s second biennial symposium on June 5, 2025 was a powerful day-long convening in celebration of our organization’s 10-year milestone presented at and in partnership with BRIC Arts Media in Brooklyn. The symposium highlighted the power of media, advocacy, mapping, and research to explore the visibility, sustainability, and future of Black, Indigenous, Latino/e/x, Asian, and all People of Color -led arts and cultural institutions. Through dynamic panels, we will examined innovative strategies that affirmed the power of our communities. As part also honored 10 leaders of arts organizations who have made outstanding contributions to keeping arts and culture thriving. ASL interpretation and live CART captions were provided to in-person participants only, but closed captions have been enabled on YouTube video recordings.

This symposium was made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Terra Foundation for American Art, and UP Foundation, and with additional partnership support from BRIC Arts Media, as well as Arts Administrators of Color Network, New York City Arts in Education Roundtable, and New Yorkers for Culture & Arts.

Museum Hue 10th Anniversary Symposium & Celebration

Presented in partnership with BRIC Arts Media

June 5, 2025

Introduction: Jennifer A. Scott, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem

Moderator: Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham, Executive Director Museum Hue

Keynote Speakers: Sonya Childress, Co-Founder, Color Congress; Erin Harkey, CEO, Americans for the Arts

Museum Hue 10th Anniversary Symposium & Celebration

Presented in partnership with BRIC Arts Media

June 5, 2025

Moderator: Carmen Hernandez, Senior Director, Community Impact, BRIC Arts Media

Panelists: Carolyn A. Butts, Founder and Festival Director, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora; Bhawin Suchak, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Youth FX; Betty Yu, multimedia artist

Museum Hue 10th Anniversary Symposium & Celebration

Presented in partnership with BRIC Arts Media

June 5, 2025

Moderator: Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham, Executive Director, Museum Hue

Panelists: Sarah Calderon, Executive Director, Creatives Rebuild New York; Omar Eaton-Martinez, Senior Vice President, Historic Sites, National Trust for Historic Preservation; Chelsea Goding-Doty, Senior Program Officer, Leadership Initiatives, New York Foundation for the Arts; Rasu Jilani, Executive Director, Brooklyn Arts Council

Museum Hue 10th Anniversary Symposium & Celebration

Presented in partnership with BRIC Arts Media

June 5, 2025

Moderator: Maritza Carmona, Senior Director of Government & External Affairs, BRIC Arts Media

Panelists: Candice Anderson, Executive Director, Cool Culture; Eli Dvorkin, Editorial and Policy Director, Center for an Urban Future; Natalia Nakazawa, Studio Program Director, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center; Coco Killingsworth, Chair of the Cultural Institutions Group; Chief Experience and Impact Officer, Brooklyn Academy of Music

Museum Hue 10th Anniversary Symposium & Celebration

Presented in partnership with BRIC Arts Media

June 5, 2025

Host: Brittany Bellinger, Museum Hue

Honorees: Melody Capote, Caribbean Culture Center African Diaspora Institute; Dr. Vedet Coleman-Robinson, Association for African American Museums; Quanice Floyd, Arts Administrators of Color Network; Diane Fraher, Amerinda; Lisa Gold, Asian American Arts Alliance; Kimberly Olsen, NYC Arts in Education Roundtable; Lucy Sexton, New Yorkers for Arts & Culture; Emma Osore, Blackspace; Ayesha Williams, The Laundromat Project

Special Honoree: Stephanie Cunningham, Museum Hue