State of the Arts NYC is a weekly radio show hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain on WBAI radio in New York City. The show reports and analyzes the dynamic state of the arts in New York City's various sectors, drawing on Savona's 20 years of experience in the arts sector. Savona is the Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund and has organized many public art exhibits in New York City. The show airs live on Fridays from 5-6pm and has featured many guests from the arts world.

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BEFORE THE SHOW with host Savona Bailey-McClain and music executive Justin Kalifowitz
STATE OF THE ARTS NYC
Hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain
Show Description & Profile

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SHOW DESCRIPTION
State of the Arts NYC is a weekly radio show on WBAI radio, 99.5FM, where various sectors of
NYC's arts worlds converge to report and analyze the dynamic state of the arts and i ts
participants. Hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain, long-time Executive Director of the West Harlem
Art Fund (WHAF), she confronts, analyzes and celebrates victories, challenges and changes in the
country's dynamic creative capital. Reports from the field; from the far-flung fringes; from center
stage and from behind the scenes—the host Savona Bailey-McClain draws on her 20 years' in the trenches to bring you
snapshot after snapshot in living color. State of the Arts NYC airs live on WBAI FM Radio and wbai.org Fridays from 5-6 p.m.
SHOW HOST & PRODUCER
Savona Bailey-McClain is Executive Director/Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund, which
has organized high-profile public arts exhibits throughout New York City for the past 18 years,
including Times Square, DUMBO, Soho, Governors Island and Harlem. Her public art installations
encompass sculpture, drawings, performance, sound, and mixed media, and have been covered
extensively by the New York Times, Art Daily, Artnet, Los Angeles Times and Huffington Post,
among many others. She is host/ producer of "State of the Arts NYC," a weekly program on WBAI Radio and a member of
Independent Curators International and ArtTable.
Past guests have included: Bill T. Jones, Internationally known Dancer/Choreographer; Rita Moreno, Oscar winning actress;
Cecilia Alemani, Director of Public Art Programs/HighLine; Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Senior Curator/Madison Square Park;
Valerie Paley, VP NY Historical Society; Saya Woolfalk, Mixed Media & Digital Artist; Kelly Taxter, Assistant Curator, Jewish
Museum; Chuck Davis, dancer & choreographer; Kelly Baum, Postwar & Contemporary Art Curator, Metropolitan Museum of
Art /Met Breuer, Tim Tompkins, President of the Times Square Alliance; Sherry Dobbin, Creative Director & Director of Times
Square Arts; Councilwoman Margaret Chin; Derrick Adams, artist; Steven Learner, Founder & Artistic Director, Collective
Design; Adam Forman, Senior Researcher at the Center for an Urban Future; Neil Gagliardi, ASLA, is the Director of Urban
Design at the New York City Department of Transportation; Andrew R. Phillips, Curator, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
& Museum; Charles Leslie, Co-Founder of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art; Eva Franch, Chief Curator &
Executive Director of Storefront for Art & Architecture, Melissa Meyers, Christopher Stout, owner Christopher Stout Gallery,
Margaret Tao, Asia Art Week, Liz Garbus, Academy Award winning filmmaker, Sol Guy, Producer at TriBeCa Films, Kendal
Henry, Director for Percent for Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; Justin Garrett More, Executive Director, Public Design
Commission; Nathan Kensinger, photographer; John Wang, Queens Night Market, Alex Tosca, jazz artist; Barbara Applebaum,
Chief of Interpretation, National Park Service, Manhattan Sites; Edna Nahshon, Curator; NYS Senator Jose Serrano; Julie
Menin, Commissioner, NYC Office of Media & Entertainment and a host of other artists and creative professionals.

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PARENT GROUP
Pacifica Radio is an American network of six independently operated, non-commercial,
listener-supported radio stations known for its progressive/liberal, political orientation.
Launched in 1949 with service in Berkeley, California, it is the world's oldest listener-funded
radio network. It is also a program service supplying over 100 affiliated stations with various programs, primarily news and
public affairs. The first public radio network in the United States, operated by the Pacifica Foundation, a non-profit
corporation with national headquarters adjoining station KPFA in Berkeley. Programs such as Democracy Now! and Free
Speech Radio News has been some of its most popular productions.
LOCAL STATION
WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio
station, broadcasting at 99.5 FM in New York City FM in New York City. The station has a
transmitter atop the Empire State Building. Its programming is progressive, and a mixture of
political news and opinion from a left perspective, tinged with aspects of its complex and varied history, such as Freeform
radio, which WBAI played a role in developing, as well as various music.
WBAI FM Radio is located at 388 Atlantic Avenue, 3rd
floor between Hoyt and Bond in the Boerum Hill neighborhood
of Downtown Brooklyn.
TEAM MEMBERS
Reggie Johnson, Matt Cutler, Irene Javors,
CULTURAL PARTNERS

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BROADCAST CONTRIBUTORS

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SOCIAL MEDIA (SOURCE: TWITTER)