A professional development and networking opportunity for arts and cultural workers of color.

Lend your voice and help advance cultural equity in the arts and across our region.

Mid-America Arts Alliance, in partnership with the five other U.S. Regional Arts Organizations is now recruiting applications from arts leaders of color to represent our region in the National Leaders of Color Fellowship program (LoCF).

What is the National Leaders of Color Fellowship?

The National Leaders of Color Fellowship (LoCF) is free, eight-month, online leadership development experience that supports multicultural leadership in our nation’s creative and cultural sector. LoCF’s network shares and builds knowledge and skills to envision and enact a field that is supportive to the needs of BIPOC cultural workers at all phases of their careers.

During this no-cost eight-month fellowship, selected fellows receive:

• Access to specialists in the field
• Strategic learning objectives to deepen thought on anti-racist and culturally-oriented leadership practices
• National-level network and cohort building

Upon completion of this program, participants transition to alumni status and have opportunities to collaborate with the US Regional Art Organization in their region as advisors, funding panelists, and/or other professional capacities.

This partnership program between M-AAA and its sibling Regional Arts Organizations is led by Creative West and provides tools, continued learning opportunities and a network to administrators of color who seek to move into leadership positions in the arts and culture sector. Through this cohort-based learning model, LoCF has been attracting, training, networking, and promoting a new generation of diverse arts leaders since 2010.

Fellows can expect to spend approximately 10 hours a month on the program, including meeting dates listed on the National Leaders of Color Fellowship website and ongoing opportunities to connect with your RAO (Regional Arts Organization).