Culture & Narrative Fellowship
Culture & Narrative Fellowship
The Culture & Narrative Fellowship was founded on the belief that artists and cultural strategists can play an active role in narrative and culture change. This year’s Fellows will have an opportunity to explore and challenge white supremacist narratives alongside advocates and thought leaders using the latest in narrative research and communication tools. Fellows will also receive a $15,000 award and strategic support for their proposed art or cultural intervention during the six-month fellowship period.
The Culture & Narrative Fellowship: At A Glance
- A $15,000 award to support a new or existing project
- Two in-person events:
- 1) A week-long in-person experiential training in NYC w/ other artists and leading advocates and communicators (late March 2023)
- 2) TOA’s week-long Creative Change Retreat (late August 2023)
- Monthly virtual community learning sessions (3 total)
- A Social Practice component: Fellows will pursue 1-3 creative audience engagement strategies to connect with their target audiences
- Virtual bi-weekly office hours with TOA staff and a virtual closing session
Alex Albadree
Alex Albadree is a BIPOC queer immigrant creating art for social change. Applying an intersectional approach, Alex highlights the ways that oppressive systems rooted in white supremacy and capitalism degrade our empathy, dignity, and environment.
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Nando Alvarez
Nando Alvarez is an Ecuadorian artist based in Washington DC. As a Latinx immigrant, he tries to connect a wide range of experiences and traditions into an always developing language to talk about the profound crisis we are in, trying to put the human being at the center of his narrative. His...
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Sheri Bradford
Sheri Bradford is in the film and television industry, working in animation and and creating art wherever she can.
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Adamu Chan
Adamu Chan is a filmmaker, writer, and community organizer from the Bay Area who was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison during one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the country. He produced numerous short films while incarcerated, using his vantage point and experience as an incarcerated person as a...
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Sage Crump
Sage Crump is an artist, culture strategist, and facilitator who expands and deepens the work of cultural workers/arts organizations in social justice organizing and supports social justice organizations in understanding the role art and culture can play in movement building.
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Annie Del Hierro
Annie Del Hierro (b. Quito, Ecuador) is a community-engaged visual artist, organizer, culture promoter, and educator based in Brooklyn - the ancestral and unceded land of the Lenape. Her work explores history, individual and collective memories, and identity utilizing collage art, wheat-pasting, photography, and video as tools for her practice.
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Marcos Echeverria Ortiz
Marcos Echeverría Ortiz is an award-winning interdisciplinary journalist, photographer, and documentary maker practicing transmedia storytelling. His work uses hybrid media to explore the immigrant experience in New York City through stories connected to memory, archives, identity, underground music, and human rights.
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Salomé Egas
Salomé Egas is proudly Ecuadorian, and an interdisciplinary performer, arts educator and children’s books author.
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Josh Healey
Josh Healey is an award-winning comedic writer, performer, filmmaker, and creative activist.
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Jesse Krimes
Jesse Krimes is an artist whose work explores societal mechanisms of power and control with a focus on criminal and racial justice. While serving a six-year prison sentence he produced and smuggled out numerous bodies of work, established prison art programs, and co-created artist collectives. After his release, he co-founded...
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