New York Foundation for the Arts

Ruth holds an MFA in poetry from UNC Greensboro and an m.a in latin american studies and bs in foreign service from georgetown university rob arnold is a chad moral poet sas arts leader and the author of to the unnamed forthcoming in 2027 from gray wolf congratulations His creative work has appeared in The Rumpus, Plowshares, Gettysburg Review, The Adroid Journal, Solstice, and Poem A Day, among others, and has received support from the T.S. Eliot House, Somerville Arts Council, the Jack Straw Cultural Center, and Artists Trust.

A graduate of NYFA's 2023 Incubator for Executive Leaders of Color, Rob has dedicated his career to building access and advancing equity in literary spaces, a passion he carries, and to his current role as executive director of Poets House in New York City.

Previously, he co-founded the online journal Memorious.

and worked with Plowshares, Fence Books, Beacon Press, Penn New England, the National Poetry Series, Grid Books, Avetis Creative Management, and Hugo House, where he was interim executive director.

She is the author of two books of poetry, Boomhouse, which won the 2024 Eugene Paul Nasar Poetry Prize, and What Came Down in the Smoke.

Her creative work has been supported by Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, MacDowell, NYSCA/NYFA, and Vermont Studio Center.

Her writing can be found or is forthcoming in Best Small Fictions 2023, Allium, Ballast, Bedfellows, Grist, Heavy Feather Review, Jet Fuel Review, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, Northern New England Review, Teger Quarley, Waxwing, Wildroof Journal, and elsewhere.

Her mixed media arts have been featured in exhibitions across the United States.

Yeah.

But a drone installation from the New York Foundation for the Arts, I believe.

2,977 lights representing—or drones representing, you know, the lost— Lost souls on on that day in this kind of beautiful formation over the skyline.

So I think that's pretty impactful It's pretty cool to see I was actually not able to find the artist I could actually dig a little bit more and maybe I can drop it in the show notes But it was put on by the New York Foundation for the Arts and I mean I

say one thing about this which I've been seeing a lot of coverage about you know The mayor being, you know, petitioned not to show up and a lot of politics behind 9-11.

And there was a remark that happens over and over again in a lot of news stations where they're like, millennial generations and younger don't take 9-11 seriously.

And it was unveiled – It was yesterday in the skies over New York Harbor.

And it is a public art installation sponsored by the New York Foundation of the Arts.

So it's definitely worth going online looking at it.

It was shaped by a whole lot of the collective voices from the 9-11 community, including a first responder, artists that were involved, and many other people, members of the families who lost loved ones there.

But I think because of my background and because there is a way to create it that comes more from a jazz mindset in a way.

I guess it got the attention also because of... of the themes that we were proposing and the topics of the songs and the fact that there were music female creators involved, we got the support of the New York Foundation for the Arts, Women's Fund and Chamber Music Americas, Artistic Projects and New Music USA.

I am so thankful for that because then I was able to create the kind of album that I wanted to make and pay the creators and the collaborators and everybody accordingly because it's so difficult making albums, except for some folks like the Suno CEO who believes that is boring and for free and...

And everybody can make an album now.

[laughs] Jesus.

I guess my experience in the entertainment industry was a little bit different, mostly because it was NYFA, you know? So you had students instead of convicts, and those students were fresh-faced, man.

They wanted to work so hard, bro.

And then after one month of shooting, they're, they're basically broken [laughs] and leave the industry forever.

Another one that I had submitted as one of my first possible asks.

It was from the NYFA 2026 Anonymous Was a Woman Environmental Art Grant.

And another five month pocket of possibility is now officially closing.

I know that I have to go back and look at some of these grant proposals because they had some really good ideas in them.