Creative Interventionist Fellowship Application

The League of Creative Interventionists (LOCI) is a non-profit organization that creates public art and cultural programs with communities to tell real and just narratives, create empathetic spaces, and develop powerful leaders.

The League Fellowship Program elevates passionate neighborhood residents to connected and powerful leaders. The program provides them with both the resources to reimagine their neighborhood with powerful acts of culture and also valuable access to a national network of peers and mentors. 

Fellows will:

  • Collaborate with neighborhood residents and existing local organizations to create a project that positively impacts the community

  • Propel co-creative action at a neighborhood scale in partnership with community leaders, local organizations and residents

  • Create projects that present equitable, sustainable and generative opportunities for communities

  • Fully support their own project including project timelines, budget management, marketing and outreach, etc.

  • Create written and video documentation of their project for blogs, social media, etc.

Fellows possess:

  • Passion for their community

  • Strong will to create social and civic change

  • Desire to be a powerful leader for their community and in their city

  • Capacity to commit an average of 5 hours a week to being a League fellow

Fellows receive:

  • A stipend

  • A budget for project materials

  • Access to established community leaders in their city

  • Opportunity to grow their social and professional network in their city

  • Be at the forefront of a growing creative movement to re-imagine neighborhoods and cities

CURRENT CALLS:

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA

THE CHARLOTTE REGIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM WILL BE ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS JULY 29 - SEPTEMBER 11, 2020.

  • Fellows will do their foundational work by supporting the Project PLACE initiative in the Lakewood community, but will work collaboratively to develop community-based programming and individual projects.

  • The deadline for applications is September 11, 11:59pm.

  • Interviews will take place the week of September 21, 2020.

  • Fellows will be notified October 5, 2020

This Fellowship is supported in part by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Apply to be a Fellow