Spirituals, the earliest form of American music, are alive and well in Harlem.

Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records.

Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan Saya Woolfalk is a New York-based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. Through a series of multi-year projects, Woolfalk has created the world of the Empathics, a fictional race of women who are able to alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants. With each body of work, Woolfalk continues to build the narrative of these women's lives, and questions the utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity. In her design for Marcus Garvey Park, Woolfalk has turned the court into a fantastical, colorful mandala. Her court has been painted with the nonprofit youth development organization Publicolor, which uses design-based programs to engage at-risk students in education, college and career. NYC Parks’ Creative Courts initiative transforms dated sports courts and asphalt plazas across Manhattan into vibrant and welcoming places by inviting artists to create original murals that re-engage communities with their local parks. The Facebook Art Department’s Artist in Residence program (FB AIR) invites artists to create site-specific art installations around the world at Facebook offices and, increasingly, in the public realm, with the aim of bringing together diverse communities in real life and encouraging the exploration of creative and innovative thinking.

Harlem Perspectives is the title of an exhibition featuring Harlem artists at faction Art Projects