State of the Arts NYC on WBAI FM Radio

State of the Arts NYC is a weekly radio show on WBAI radio, 99.5FM, where various sectors of NYC's arts worlds converge to report and analyze the dynamic state of the arts and its participants. 

Hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain, long-time Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF), she confronts, analyzes and celebrates victories, challenges and changes in the country's dynamic creative capital. Reports from the field; from the far-flung fringes; from center stage and from behind the scenes-- the host Savona Bailey-McClain draws on her 20 years' in the trenches to bring you snapshot after snapshot in living color.

Past guests for State of the Arts have included: Tim Tompkins, President of Times Square Alliance; Sherri Dobbin, Creative Director & Director of Times Square Arts; Adam Forman, author of Creative New York for the Center of an Urban Future; Eva Franch, Chief Curator & Executive Director for Storefront for Art & Architecture; Christopher Stout, artist & gallerist; Lady K Fever, Julie Torres, Jen Hitchings and Laura James, artists & independent curators.