He is also president of BFC, a Manhattan-based construction company that specializes in low- to moderate-income-level homes in New York City, and serves as a volunteer on the boards of the
New York State Council on the Arts and the United Nations Development Co.
Culture Counts, a study recently released by NYFA, shows funds from the
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to organizations in the city already had been steadily decreasing over the past twelve years.
For the second year, the New York Folklore Society collaborated with the
New York State Council on the Arts to plan and implement the New York Folk Arts Roundtable.
He is a founder, Director and Vice President of the Association for a Better New York, and a former member of the
New York State Council on the Arts (1976-1986 and 1994-1999).
Schuyler Chapin, commissioner of the city's Department of Cultural Affairs, said his department was teaming up with the
New York State Council on the Arts to survey all cultural organizations below 14th Street in lower Manhattan and assess their losses.
The Preservation League of New York State and the New York State Council on the Arts have announced the 2005 Preserve New York Grant Program.
Municipalities and not-for-profit organizations with 501(c)(3) status are eligible to apply unless they are applying for funding directly from the New York State Council on the Arts' Architecture, Planning and Design Program (APD) for another project in 2005.
Pending a
New York State Council on the Arts grant, space will be available at $10 per hour to nonprofit companies with annual budgets under $1.5 million.
Twice a member of the
New York State Council on the Arts, he currently serves as chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors of the American Friends of the Israel Museum and as a member of the advisory board of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in New York.
He served as auditor for the
New York State Council on the Arts for three years, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Dance Critics Association in the early 1980s, was assistant to the director of the American Dance Festival Critic's Conference; contributed as a dance writer to numerous journals and newspapers and was the regular dance critic for New York Newsday; and performed with the Carolina Dancers, The Chapel Hill Ballet, and Sachiyo Ito and Company before coming to Dance Magazine.
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and
New York State Council on the Arts has released a report detailing the vision and next steps for future cultural programming on the World Trade Center site.
Mack, who resigned from his position as chairman of the
New York State Council on the Arts in January.