New York

Most populous city in the United States and one of the world’s most populous megacities with significant resources in the fields of culture, finance, and media, that influences commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports.

Center

• The point from which an activity or process is directed, or on which it is focused.

• The most important place in the respect specified—have or cause to have.

• A place or group of buildings where a specified activity is concentrated

• heart | nucleus | core | hub | depths | focal point

Art

The stories of human experience and history told through creative expression in multiple forms dating back to the Paleolithic period and encompassing all beliefs, values, mindsets, practices, customs, social institutions, and achievements both collective and singular of every group of people.

Community

Everyone in the world considered collectively connected through the sharing of interests, respect for diversity, and prioritization of the goals of individuals and groups through equanimity, empathy, and humanity.

Artists

Individuals, groups or collectives who are practiced in the skill, method, or techniques that pair beauty in all its vast manifestations with intellect, emotion, and calling, and include, in addition to visual, conceptual, and performance art, photography, filmmaking, design, architecture, fashion, as well as the composition of poetry and prose, music, dance, acting, and artisans of craft. Regardless of training and experience, whether or not discriminated against as an insider or an outsider and inclusive of every special circumstance of physical and mental stage of being and experience. 

Collaboration

An alliance and partnership based on shared values in sympathy in order to accomplish shared goals achieved through joint effort and cooperation in pursuit of human development.