The Fellowship is a process-based testing ground for new ideas that connect artistic practice, civic engagement, and social justice. Through the Fellowship for Utopian Practice, Culture Push serves artists by providing creative, analytical, and logistical tools in the creation of truly transformative projects. The Fellowship program is open to artists and other professionals working in any discipline who wish to expand the boundaries of their practice. Six to eight Fellows are selected for each application cycle.

  
**TIMELINE**

* **Mid-December 2025:** All applicants receive results
* **January 2026:** First meeting
* **January 2026 - January 2027:** Continuing support and strategizing

  
Here are some things to keep in mind before beginning your application—please read carefully:

* **WHAT:** Each Culture Push Fellowship provides financial, logistical, and collaborative support for socially-engaged projects in the seed or ideation stage and grounded in the artist’s ongoing investment in a specific NYC community.
* **WHEN:** The Fellowship relationship lasts one calendar year, from January to December.
* **WHERE:** Proposed projects should meaningfully engage the five boroughs of New York City. While hybrid / virtual components are of course welcome, the Fellowship aims to support artists local to NYC in both location and intention. If you do not live in or propose to ground your project in NYC, this Fellowship will not be a good fit for you.

  
**To be considered for the Fellowship, projects must:**

* Take place within the 5 boroughs of NYC.
* Be interactive and engage the public (entirely or in part), in accordance with our mission. Note: Our definition of “civic engagement” includes public talks, live interactive components, skill-shares, participatory performances and similar activities that in some way address the public good and have clearly defined goals for serving as a means of generating social change.
* Test a new and previously unrealized idea that expands the scope of the applicant’s current practice.
* Not be considered as an exhibition or the production of a ‘show,’ but rather a series of events and/or actions aimed at engaging the public.
* Occur during the Fellowship year.

  

**WHAT WE PROVIDE**

* A stipend of $2250
* Fiscal sponsorship for additional grant-based fundraising and individual contributions
* Strategizing meetings with Culture Push staff, including development and production support
* Access to Materials for the Arts.
* An opportunity to foster community through meetings with Culture Push Board, Executive Director, Staff, Advisors, and other Fellows
* Marketing via the Culture Push network, email list, and social media contacts for promotion purposes
* Mentorship with experts in the field
* A Thought Partner
* An opportunity to edit our online journal, PUSH/PULL
* An opportunity to present your research and project development at the annual Culture Push Symposium
* An opportunity to exhibit your work at a public presentation produced by Culture Push alongside past and current Fellows
* NOTE: Culture Push does not provide a venue or exhibition space for projects, but we will work with Fellows to help secure suitable site(s).

  

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