Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov and BAC's newly elected Chairman of the Board Diana DiMenna submitted a Statement of Support for the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities on April 3, 2017 to our congressional representatives in the U.S. Senate: Senator Charles Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and the Manhattan Delegation of the U.S. House of Representatives: Representative Adriano Espaillat, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Representative Carolyn Maloney, and Representative Nydia Velázquez. This public declaration of support advocates for the importance of the NEA to represent the very best of the American creed: commitment to the beauty of diversity, the thrill of experimentation, and the communion of understanding between the artist and the public.
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