AGENCY: CREATING NEW ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS

Often the best an artist can hope for is a residency within an organization that works in their sector of interest.  And then they are left to re-invent the wheel in terms of having a real impact in that space.

ALI wants to be your agent, and strategically develop opportunities in the places you want to make a difference: residencies, research positions, fellowships, immersions.  This means advocating for cultural change in institutions to recognize how powerful artist-adjacency can be, and protecting artists from conventional ‘instrumentalization’ to move forward the agendas of others.

This isn’t an easy lift, which is why we want to do it together, and create a community of artists, and a record of achievement, that lets prospective organizational partners see there’s much more to opening their doors to artists than just good PR and decorated hallways.