Jamie Bennett is a systemic and creative thinker who works at the intersection of arts, culture, and equitable community development. Drawing inspiration from success stories around the country, he articulates the complementary nature between artistic and trade-based skill sets, and how banding together as collaborators can unlock positive outcomes. In conversation with show host Nathaniel Kressen, Jamie shares what excites him about the three pilot projects at the center of this season and the innovations behind how they'll be financed.

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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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