Virtual Fellowship

Founded in 2014, the CCCADI Innovative Cultural Advocacy (ICA) Fellowship trains mid-career professionals of historically marginalized communities of color for public leadership and management of cultural institutions and nonprofit arts organizations in New York City and across the nation. A noted pioneering initiative in arts advocacy and cultural equity, the ICA Fellowship has been an impetus for radical change in New York City. The fellowship seeks to involve and increase the number of emerging leaders of these marginalized populations in cultural arts, public policy, and advocacy arts. 

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Fellows will engage in an in-depth series of collaborative exchanges, and assignments that nurture an understanding of historical contexts for the field of cultural arts public policy, offer innovative and progressive thinking, and provide opportunities to meet notable leaders in the field who highlight and utilize language and framework models that address the existing inequity within cultural arts public policy.

This fellowship program allows participants to engage with topics such as:

frameworks in historical cultural activism; public arts, fiscal equity: a tale of two arts cities; and building institutions in our own image, among others.

Fellows gain:

  • Effective strategies firmly rooted in social justice, arts advocacy, and cultural equity models from the Civil Rights and Black Power era to more recent progressive grassroots arts movements.

  • Access to executive level arts professionals through virtual sessions.

  • Certification and a participant stipend of $750 for successful program completion.



For questions about the program,
please email ica@cccadi.org. 

 

APPLICATION INFO

To be eligible, applicants must: 

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  • Be between 30 to 40-years-old, and have a minimum of 3 years of experience working in the arts and culture sector.

  • Be an arts-based professional from a historically racially marginalized community. 

  • Be endorsed by a mentor or employer.

  • Commit to virtually attend the intensive program and oral presentation.

    • All applicants should review the exact program dates and affirm their availability for all sessions in the application. Failure to commit to all sessions automatically disqualifies an application. Failure to attend all sessions can result in a suspension of stipend.

    • Participants will be asked to be on video at all times during program sessions. 

      • Connection to high speed internet via a computer or tablet is strongly suggested to ensure a smooth experience.

ALUMNI

Since its inception, the ICA Fellowship has provided dozens of talented cultural workers of historically racially marginalized populations with training that prepares them for leadership in arts and culture institutions. Meet Cycle X, our latest cohort of ICA Fellows.

The Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship is supported in part by

 
 

and Councilmember Diana Ayala & Councilmember Laurie Cumbo,