{"value"=>"National Arts Consortium, Inc., 1973-1987, formally the New York Arts Consortium, was organized in the Fall of 1976 as a “means of reducing the growing problem of raising adequate funds for programming and administration of ethnic arts organizations.” Located at 44 West 62nd Street and later at 36 West 62nd Street, the consortium was incorporated in 1978. Members included the Cinque Gallery, the Olatunji Center of African Culture, the Rod Rodgers Dance Company, the Richard Allen Center for Culture and Art comprising the Afro-American Total Theatre and the Henry O. Tanner Gallery, Weusi Nyumba Ya Sanaa Gallery and Academy of African Art and Studies, Ballet Hispanico, Kuumba Theatre and Workshop, Chicago, Inner City Cultural Center, Los Angeles, and the Caribbean Center for Understanding Media, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Goals included fundraising, location and programming of common performance and exhibition space, presentations combining the resources and talents of member organizations, and raising the visibility of Consortium members. Ademola represented Weusi, which became a member of the Consortium in 1977, and was on the Consortium's Board of Directors. The New York Arts Consortium Gallery was shared by the Weusi artists and the Henry O. Tanner Gallery. Files consist of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, reports, brochures, gallery announcements, flyers, press releases, programs, grant proposals, financial records and the publications Muses and the National Arts Consortium Newsletter."}
{"value"=>"<p>National Arts Consortium, Inc., 1973-1987, formally the New York Arts Consortium, was organized in the Fall of 1976 as a “means of reducing the growing problem of raising adequate funds for programming and administration of ethnic arts organizations.” Located at 44 West 62nd Street and later at 36 West 62nd Street, the consortium was incorporated in 1978. Members included the Cinque Gallery, the Olatunji Center of African Culture, the Rod Rodgers Dance Company, the Richard Allen Center for Culture and Art comprising the Afro-American Total Theatre and the Henry O. Tanner Gallery, Weusi Nyumba Ya Sanaa Gallery and Academy of African Art and Studies, Ballet Hispanico, Kuumba Theatre and Workshop, Chicago, Inner City Cultural Center, Los Angeles, and the Caribbean Center for Understanding Media, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Goals included fundraising, location and programming of common performance and exhibition space, presentations combining the resources and talents of member organizations, and raising the visibility of Consortium members. Ademola represented Weusi, which became a member of the Consortium in 1977, and was on the Consortium's Board of Directors. The New York Arts Consortium Gallery was shared by the Weusi artists and the Henry O. Tanner Gallery. Files consist of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, reports, brochures, gallery announcements, flyers, press releases, programs, grant proposals, financial records and the publications Muses and the National Arts Consortium Newsletter.</p>"}