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# Creative Time’s Diya Vij Helps Launch an Art World Think Tank
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/creative-time-diya-vij-helps-launch-an-art-world-think-tank/
- Published: 2021-05-10T20:22:38.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:05:59.000Z
- Description: The unorthodox program will gather together a group of thought leaders for 10 months to reflect and advise on happenings in the art community.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Podcast, Creative Time, Diya Vij, Featured, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

Diya Vij started her new job as Associate Curator of Creative Time just last fall, in the midst of the pandemic. She has since announced the first [Creative Time Think Tank](https://creativetime.org/think-tank/?ref=hyperallergic.com) cohort, which includes La Tanya S. Autry, Caitlin Cherry, Sonia Guiñansaca, Namita Gupta Wiggers, and a number of other engaged voices of the art community. This new initiative invited people to submit proposals for an open call, drawing 200 individual or group applicants. The selected cohort will meet regularly for the next 10 months to reflect on the realities around us and imagine a way forward for the cultural sector.

Vij has built a reputation over the years for her work at the Queens Museum, High Line, and in the Commissioner’s Unit of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, where she created the [Public Artists in Residence](https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dcla/publicart/pair.page?ref=hyperallergic.com) program. She joins me to discuss this unusual think tank and what the collective hopes to accomplish.

Music is Lorenzo Senni’s “[Move in Silence (Only Speak When It’s Time to Say Checkmate)](https://lorenzosenni.bandcamp.com/track/move-in-silence-only-speak-when-it-s-time-to-say-checkmate?ref=hyperallergic.com)” from Warp Records.

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