Institutional Collaborators
Institutional Collaborators
Our institutional collaborators make it possible for the CEI to thrive. Their investments in equity, creative justice, and resource sharing have sustained our collective action experiments since 2021.
Interested in becoming an institutional collaborator with the CEI? Email incubator@artsconnectinternational.org for information on how to get involved.
Meet Our Institutional Collaborators
Midway Artist Studios
The Incubator is hosted within the Midway Artist Studios.
Midway Artist Studios is unique as the largest artist rental building in Boston and provides artists at all stages of their career a place to work and live in Boston. Midway supports artists on all levels, from providing affordable studios, to encouraging the flow of ideas and skills between disciplines and generations. Through the proximity of artists practicing diverse disciplines, new collaborations, learning, ideas, organizations and opportunities can be generated; supporting the creation of work that otherwise might not have been created.
Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture
The Incubator is funded in part through the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture.
The Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture enhances the quality of life, the economy, and the design of the City through the arts. The role of the arts in all aspects of life in Boston is reinforced via equitable access to arts and culture in every community, its public institutions, and public places.
Key areas of work include support to the cultural sector through grants and programs, as well as the production and permitting of art in public places.
The New Commonwealth Fund
Red Sun Press
The Barr Foundation
Mass Cultural Council
The Incubator is funded in part through Mass Cultural Council.
Mass Cultural Council works to elevate our rich cultural life in Massachusetts. We serve the Commonwealth and all who live, work, visit, and play here by amplifying creativity, providing resources, expanding relationships, and championing transformational changes that maintain and grow a thriving creative and cultural ecosystem.
The Incubator is funded in part through The New Commonwealth Fund.
A holistic approach to systems change, NCF’s strategy integrates investment, capacity-building, and ecosystem development, positioning us as a leader in redefining philanthropic practices for long-term impact. NCF makes a forever pledge to build a Commonwealth where non-profit leaders and communities have access to philanthropic dollars. We aspire to a world that listens to those who are the most proximate to solutions and allows them to lead the collective movement toward repair. NCF is committed to reshaping the philanthropic sector to ensure that funding supports a full spectrum of leadership and expertise.
The Incubator is funded in part through Red Sun Press.
Red Sun Press was a cooperatively-managed printing and graphic design shop in Jamaica Plain, a diverse and burgeoning neighborhood in Boston, MA. Their mission was to provide high quality printing and graphic design services that communicate the spirit and goals of their clients and that reflect their shared commitment to promoting a just and equitable society. They were committed to supporting groups organizing around issues of social and economic change. After a lot of challenges, conversations, and hand-wringing, Red Sun Press decided to indefinitely suspend their printing services in 2025.
The Incubator is funded in part through The Barr Foundation, Arts & Creativity.
Great art transforms the way we engage with the world. It brings beauty into our lives. Through creativity we can transcend conventions and generate new ideas, alternatives, and possibilities. Arts and creativity have the power to connect us with each other, to help us understand our dynamic environment, and to imagine new, better, different futures. Against a backdrop of rapidly changing demographics, technological advancements, and evolving art forms, Barr’s Arts & Creativity program seeks to invest in bold ideas and leaders. Our overarching goal is to elevate the arts and enable creative expression to engage and inspire a dynamic, thriving Massachusetts.
What People Are Saying
“The Boston Foundation is proud to support this community-driven, BIPOC-led initiative that is guiding our arts and culture sector towards a more just and collaborative future. We look forward to seeing the new ways of working that CEI imagines and brings into being. ”
“We are ecstatic to host in residence the Cultural Equity Incubator, we look forward to supporting each of your important work and collective growth.”
