Clyde Valentin of One Nation / One Project is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural producer who has built his career around uplifting community. Often focusing his work around the intersection of art, technology, and social justice, he recently produced the 18-city single-day event Arts for Everybody that underscored the connection between the arts and health. In conversation with show host Nathaniel Kressen, Clyde cites the centeredness of creativity to shaping culture, and makes the case for investors to consider artists as they might consider visionaries in tech.

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What if artists weren’t just shaping culture—but helping redesign the systems that shape our lives?

Artist-Led introduces a new class of creative practitioners working at the intersection of community, capital, and systems change.

Some are embedded within communities—listening deeply, surfacing shared values, and helping translate them into action. Others are working at the structural level, rethinking how community development is funded and who gets to lead.

Rooted in the work of CultureBanq, the series follows three place-based projects as proof of concept—offering a ground-level look at how artist-led enterprises can drive meaningful social outcomes while modeling new approaches to community investment.

Both intimate and expansive, Artist-Led makes the case for artists not as afterthoughts, but as essential collaborators in building more responsive, human-centered systems.

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