Robert J. Fox (pastor)

Robert J. Fox was responsible for conceiving Summer in the City (city program), a New York City antipoverty program with efforts concentrated in the South Bronx, East Harlem, and Lower East Side.^[2] The project was funded by the federal Office of Economic Opportunity and in 1967 ran a total of 26 storefront centers and employed 580 workers.^[3]

The "spirit" of Summer in the City (city program) was influential to Susan Shapiro Kiok, one of the artists in the city program.^[4] Susan went on to incorporate Cityarts Workshop in 1971.^[5]