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 Boston Foundation
The Barr Foundation
The launch of the Incubator was funded in part through The Boston Foundation, Arts and Culture.
Our stated vision for the Arts and Culture Impact Area is to use the arts as a connector for all voices, communities and sectors to elevate the vibrancy, vitality, fabric and texture of city life and to lessen perceived and actual barriers and divides- social, economic, racial and physical. We believe relevant, ambitious, culturally competent art fosters a necessary exchange of ideas and perspectives for a healthy, progressive city and region.
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.”
