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What we do New Room Studios NRS provides bedrock support and capacity building for artistic projects incubates and nurtures community arts programs and helps artists produce new work. This new nonprofit focuses on projects and programs of high artistic quality that advance equity and justice in our communities so we can help build a more dynamic and diverse arts ecosystem. NRS actively discovers what keeps artists and prioritizing BIPOC LGBTQ and Disabled artists from producing the work they want to produce and having the practices they want to have and we will work with them to overcome those barriers. We talk with artists and we conduct surveys and focus groups of artists to learn what would help them most and we publish what we learn so that the community as a whole can be more responsive to their needs.