Arts & Culture Leaders of Color Fellowship
The Arts & Culture Leaders of Color Fellowship was a six-city, two-year pilot project to develop a fellowship for late-stage emerging and early-stage mid-career leaders of color. Underwritten by the Joyce Foundation, with additional support from American Express, this program is focused on six cities in the Great Lakes region and looks to develop next-generation leadership and community development skills in the fellows while also positively impacting the environment in which those fellows will do their work, including their peers, mentors, and managers. This program was sunset in 2021.
Arts & Culture Leaders of Color Forum
Modeled in part on Americans for the Arts’ successful Executive Leadership Forum program, this new initiative, launched in 2019, is designed for leaders of color across the career spectrum. Learn more here. This program is on hiatus.
Arts & Culture Leaders of Color Network
Launched in 2018, the Arts & Culture Leaders of Color Network provides Americans for the Arts members who identify as leaders of color with a community of shared learning and practice. It incorporates an advisory committee as well as a dedicated listserv. There is also a Facebook group that is open to members and nonmembers. Please email Jerelle Jenkins at [email protected] for more information.
Diversity in Arts Leadership Internship Program
Diversity in Arts Leadership (DIAL), administered by Americans for the Arts and national partners, matches undergraduate students from backgrounds traditionally untapped for arts leadership with dynamic communities, energetic host arts organizations, and business mentors, to guide students’ personal and professional growth throughout the summer. In 2022, the nationwide, competitive selection process placed 34full-time, paid, ten-week-long internships in New Jersey; Sarasota, FL; Raleigh, NC; Nashville, TN; Boston, MA and New York City. Please email Keya Crenshaw at [email protected] for more information.
