ABOUT US

Art Lives Here is an inclusive and diverse community of artists, arts professionals, collectors, and patrons dedicated to promoting cultural equity. ALH works collaboratively to create opportunities for under-represented artists, emerging and re-emerging, as well as mid career artists. We are all inclusive by design. Our exhibitions do not segregate artists, instead we exhibit the work of our members in dialogue with their peers. As a nomadic gallery we are able to introduce the work of our artists to a broader audience and provide access to art in non traditional locations. Out intention is to bring meaningful public art installations, exhibitions, performances and educational programming to people where they live and work.

Art Lives Here believes that a thriving arts community is good for society and has the power to positively impact change by exploring issues beyond the sound bite.

Founded in 2021 by Connie Lee, an independent curator, public art leader, and an advocate for public space. During Lee’s six-year term, 2015 – 2021, as President of the Marcus Garvey Park Alliance, she developed the acclaimed Public Art Initiative (PAI), a program that facilitated dozens of public art installations in Northern Manhattan including Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem Art Park, White Park, Eugene McCabe Field, Morningside Park, A Philip Randolph Square and public plazas in the neighborhoods of Harlem and East Harlem. The PAI and the artists Lee worked with needed room to expand and Art Lives Here was formed to think outside of the box.

Since 2020 Lee has curated and hosted, a salon and exhibition space in a Harlem brownstone, connecting emerging and mid-career artists to each other, arts professionals, and the collectors that want to support them. Lee has seamlessly blended her design and art careers by curating a collection of rugs designed by artists and produced in Nepal alongside her own designs. She currently serves as a public member on Community Board 11.