Culture Push is an arts organization that creates programs to nurture artists who approach common problems through hands-on civic participation and imaginative problem-solving. Culture Push’s mission is to create a lively exchange of ideas between many different communities; artists and non-artists, professional practitioners and laypeople, across generations, neighborhoods, and cultures. CP supports creating new modes of thinking and doing and serves a diverse community of creative people and artists. CP’s vision is a fluid culture where the lines between art, politics, daily life, and social experiments challenging the lines between disciplines leads to challenging the form of society.

Culture Push was founded in 2008 by Clarinda Mac Low, Aki Sasamoto, and Arturo Vidich, to feed a collective vision for a fluid culture where the lines between art, politics, daily life, and social experiment can blur–challenging the lines between disciplines as a means to challenge the form of society. CP’s primary interest is to explore, discover, and help shepherd where art will go and can go in this cultural moment. CP prioritizes artists and projects who are traditionally excluded from the artistic mainstream. The work of the Fellows and Associated Artists makes room for imagination, labor, radical co-creation, and the intricacies of the communities that the artists are working with. CP’s Fellowship was designed specifically to reverse current art world hierarchies by fortifying collaborative, creative, and inclusive methods of generating new ideas.

Jerome Foundation supports Culture Push’s Fellowship for Utopian Practice program. This program contains the Black Utopian Fellowship, the Climate Justice Fellowship, and the Disability Arts Fellowship. The Fellowship is supported by the collective of artists that leads Culture Push. 6-8 fellows are identified through an open call process and receive support for a full year. While Culture Push emphasizes the visual and performing arts, the Fellowship program is open to people working in any discipline aiming to expand their practice beyond its traditional borders. Culture Push offers Fellows concrete financial and institutional support, including feedback and mentoring, a stipend, presentation opportunities, and fiscal sponsorship for fundraising efforts. During the Fellowship year, artists collaborate with different communities and the Culture Push staff to find viable working methods for realizing ambitious hybrid projects.