A Special Announcement from Lincoln Jones
FAIR Arts Fellow and FAIR Board of Director Member Lincoln Jones shares a special announcement. Plus: join us in New York City on May 19th.
The Euterpides, by "the girl who is revolutionizing music"
We’re thrilled to share a special announcement from FAIR Arts Fellow and FAIR Board of Director Lincoln Jones, who is teaming up with one of the world’s most talked-about young composers to create a new ballet—and they’re doing it outside the system.
American Contemporary Ballet (ACB), one of America’s leading nonprofit ballet companies, is taking an unusual step for an arts organization – crowdfunding. Says ACB’s Artistic Director Lincoln Jones:
“I think crowdfunding is going to be a big part of the future for artists and arts organizations who want to focus on art, rather than the strings that often come with traditional support. It’s already been a game-changer for individual artists, but institutions need to take notice. The incentives are in exactly the right place—it empowers people to support work that excites them.”
Jones is betting that his collaboration with composer phenom Alma Deutscher will resonate:
“Alma wrote her first opera and violin concerto before she was ten. She writes beautiful, deeply touching melodies. This is her first ballet, and I think people will want to be a part of that. At ACB, we make ballet that has drawn a whole new, contemporary audience to the art. We hear all the time, ‘I never thought I’d be a ballet fan, but…’ So sharing this work with the world just makes sense.”
Fair For All Arts is proud to support Jones and Deutscher in this bold new collaboration. As they pave the way for a new model of arts patronage, we hope that you will join us in this effort. Learn more about becoming a part of this ballet’s creation: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/americanballet/the-euterpides-by-the-girl-who-is-revolutionizing-music. The campaign goes live today at 10 am PST / 1 pm EST.
May 19th: An Evening with Adam Gussow in NYC
On Monday, May 19th, join FAIR for an exclusive book talk with Adam Gussow, professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and a world-renowned blues harmonica player. This talk will be moderated by FAIR Arts Manager and Adjunct Professor of Music at Hofstra University, Brent Morden.
The author of My Family and I: A Mississippi Memoir, Gussow comes to New York City to share inspiring stories from his lifelong quest for racial reconciliation. From gigging in the streets of 1980s Harlem to graduate training at Princeton to teaching at Mississippi's most notorious prison, Gussow has lived a life uplifting Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for a just, humane, and colorblind America—especially in the 2020's as social justice fundamentalists insist on stigmatizing whiteness and hardening the color line rather than healing our divisions.
With a live musical performance and a social to close out the evening, we look forward to seeing many of you on May 19th. More info and tickets here.
"A must-read at a political moment when the colorblind ideal has been so cynically exploited.” -- Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race
Recent Reads
HIGHLIGHT: Freedom in the Arts’ “Afraid to Speak Freely” Report – On the State of Free Expression and Self-Censorship in the Arts (5/6/25)
A few more reads on our radar this week:
“Can Trans People Take a Joke? SNL Says Maybe” – Ted Balaker for The Shiny Herd (5/13/25)
“Kanye, Kneecap & Israel: Music's Free Speech Hypocrisy” – Winston Marshall for The Winston Marshall Show (5/13/25)
“Interpreting Thomas Sowell.” – Clifton Duncan for Becoming Thomas Sowell (5/11/25)
“The New Romanticism Just Found an Unexpected Spokesperson” – Ted Gioia for The Honest Broker (5/10/25)
Questions? Tips? Ideas? Anything to share? Reach out to us at arts@fairforall.org.