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        • Patricia Nicholson Birthday Benefit
        • Steve Cannon Tribute
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        • OPEN DOORS / OPEN STUDIOS
        • Arts for Art at the Kitchen
        • Cecil Taylor Memorial
        • FreeJazz at Weeksville
        • Vision at Tufts
        • Sonny Simmons Tribute Concert
        • Tribute to Hamiet Bluiett
      • Vision Festival Archive
      • Under_Line Salons >
        • Jemeel Moondoc Salon 4/18
        • Andrew Cyrille Salon 1/9
        • Under_Line Salon w/ Dave Burrell March 8, 2018
        • AFA Fundraiser Honoring Cecil Taylor
        • Under_Line Salon December 6
        • Canceled - Under_Line Salon ft. Eric Revis & Alvin Fielder
        • Under_Line Salon ft. Cooper-Moore
        • Canceled - Under_Line Salon ft. Alvin Fielder
        • Holiday Salon at the LOWLINE Lab
        • Under_Line Salon ft. Marshall Allen
      • Evolving >
        • Arts for Art at El Taller
        • Arts for Art at H0L0
        • Arts for Art at Nublu
        • Free Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon
        • Raza y Resistencia 2018
        • Justice is Compassion 12/7 - 1/12
        • Raza y Resistencia 2017
        • Justice is Compassion / Not a Police State
        • Raza y Resistencia
        • NYC FreeJazz Summit
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Board of Directors

Todd Nicholson
  Todd Nicholson is the Executive Director and AFA Board member. From 1998 thru his joining AFA as director in 2015, he worked as a bassist with Billy Bang, Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Satoko Fuji, Michiyo Yagi and Keisuke Ohta among others.  For the last 3 years he has taken on the considerable task of strengthening AFA to create a sustainable future for Free Jazz.
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​Patricia Nicholson Parker is the Founder and AFA Board Member. She is a dancer, poet and organizer of movement, music and causes.  She continues to envision an expansive, creative and just future for FreeJazz improvising arts.

Jo Wood-Brown
 Jo-Wood Brown, AFA Board Secretary, is a NYC based painter / installation and multimedia artist. Supported AFA since
David Kreuter
David Kreuter, AFA Board Chair, is the founder and president of VM Resources Ltd., a technology consulting and education firm specializing in mainframe computers. 
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Patricia Ali, AFA Board Treasurer, is the co/owner with her husband Rashied Ali of the famous Ali’s Alley (part of the loft era).
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Fred Moten, AFA Board Member, teaches courses and conducts research in black studies, performance studies, poetics and critical theory.  He is a professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
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Tom Carhart, AFA Board Member, has long experience in managing equity and fixed-income portfolios, especially for not-for-profit institutions, wealthy family groups, Japanese insurance companies, and European mutual funds.
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Ross Brooks, AFA Board Member, is an attorney at Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP, and Co-Chair of the Firm’s whistleblower practice.  He also advises the arts organizations Arts for Art, The Musicians’ Aid Society of New York and DMNDR, LLC, and is a moonlighting jazz musician.
William Parker
William Parker, founding member of AFA Board, was born and raised in the Bronx, and has been living in the Lower East Side since 1975. He has been a key figure in the NY creative jazz scene. 
Whit Dickey
Whit Dickey, is a founding board member and the first important donor for Arts for Art and the Vision Festival.  It was his vision that helped make the festival a reality.  

Advisory Board


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 Nana Carmen Ashhurst is an independent   filmmaker, and former hip hop entertainment   executive, who is currently fundraising for major   non-profits.

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Sandeep Mehta, Vice President of Technology at Wells Fargo. 


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Gregory Cohen is a Senior Associate at Cause Effective where he provides coaching and training to board & staff. ​

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Hope Carr, former manager of bands and currently in the music publishing industry.


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Jeff Evans is a Credit and Risk Analyst at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and profoundly supportive member of the NYC jazz community.

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Ian Zimmerman is the Director of Telefundraising at the Metropolitan Opera. Previously worked with DCM – an arts telemarketing firm.


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Herman Milligan Jr., is a Managing partner at the Fulton Group. He has experience in non-profit through board service, commission/task force participation, consulting, and grant review panels for national, regional, and local arts granting organizations


MISSION: Arts For Art supports diversity in music, dance, art and ideas that embrace improvisation as a means to transform both artist and audience.


​ARTS FOR ART, INC.
107 Suffolk Street, #300, New York, NY, 10002
212-254-5420 | info@artsforart.org

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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Board & Staff
    • Vision Circle
    • Programs
    • Safe(r) Space Code of Conduct
    • 2018 Annual Report
  • EDUCATION
    • Visionary Youth Orchestra (11-18)
    • Music is Mine (K-8)
  • EVENTS
    • Amina Claudine Myers Salon 1/07
    • Vision Festival 2020
    • Free Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon
    • EVENTS ARCHIVE >
      • Special Events >
        • Patricia Nicholson Birthday Benefit
        • Steve Cannon Tribute
        • Arts for Art at Weeksville
        • AFA at H0L0 Xennial
        • OPEN DOORS / OPEN STUDIOS
        • Arts for Art at the Kitchen
        • Cecil Taylor Memorial
        • FreeJazz at Weeksville
        • Vision at Tufts
        • Sonny Simmons Tribute Concert
        • Tribute to Hamiet Bluiett
      • Vision Festival Archive
      • Under_Line Salons >
        • Jemeel Moondoc Salon 4/18
        • Andrew Cyrille Salon 1/9
        • Under_Line Salon w/ Dave Burrell March 8, 2018
        • AFA Fundraiser Honoring Cecil Taylor
        • Under_Line Salon December 6
        • Canceled - Under_Line Salon ft. Eric Revis & Alvin Fielder
        • Under_Line Salon ft. Cooper-Moore
        • Canceled - Under_Line Salon ft. Alvin Fielder
        • Holiday Salon at the LOWLINE Lab
        • Under_Line Salon ft. Marshall Allen
      • Evolving >
        • Arts for Art at El Taller
        • Arts for Art at H0L0
        • Arts for Art at Nublu
        • Free Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon
        • Raza y Resistencia 2018
        • Justice is Compassion 12/7 - 1/12
        • Raza y Resistencia 2017
        • Justice is Compassion / Not a Police State
        • Raza y Resistencia
        • NYC FreeJazz Summit
      • Artist Meeting
      • InGardens >
        • InGardens 2019
        • InGardens 2018
        • In Gardens 2016
  • SUPPORT
    • Donate
    • SPONSORSHIP
    • MEMBERSHIP
    • Volunteer
  • AFFW
  • PRESS
  • MULTIMEDIA
    • Videos
    • Photos
  • STORE
  • NEWS