Established in 1963, Afro Charities builds bridges across generations and socioeconomic divides through artistic, educational and direct aid projects inspired by the AFRO American Newspapers’ archives. Afro Charities helps to care for the newspaper’s archives, and create meaningful opportunities for their community to engage with this indispensable resource.

Beta-Local is a San Juan-based non-profit organization founded in 2009 and dedicated to supporting and promoting cultural practices and transdisciplinary knowledge exchange. It was conceived as an organization by and for artists, responding to a state of permanent crisis and disinvestment for culture and public education in Puerto Rico.

The Black Embodiments Studio is an arts writing incubator, public programming initiative, and publishing platform dedicated to building discourse around contemporary black art. They began in Seattle in 2017 with the goal of cultivating rich, complex discourse around contemporary Black art and artists.

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Through their Arts Writing Incubator they provide people a structure of support to develop and workshop their own writing on contemporary black art. They get the opportunity to publish in the annual BES journal, A Year in Black Art, and they gain tools to publish in regional and national arts writing outlets. The Brief is their latest publishing venture, focusing on short, unpretentious arts writing that makes you feel again.

Their Public Programming invites Black artists, curators, and writers to be in conversation and collaboration with one another. They're focused on creative alliances meant to build sustainable peer-support networks, commissioning new work from artists and writers, and developing ethical public programming practices that do not exploit their labor.

The Black School is an experimental art school teaching BIPoC and ally students to become agents of change in their communities through art & design education and programs based in African diasporic histories, prioritizing local community needs. Their mission is to use art to transform social realities through Black Love, healing, and self-determination.

Burnaway is a non-profit magazine of contemporary art and criticism from the American South and the Caribbean, published online weekly and in print annually. Through its editorial program and cultivation of emerging arts writers and journalists, Burnaway connects the region’s diverse creative communities and develops exchange between Southern art, and the national and international art audiences.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) is a non-collecting institution dedicated to presenting the best and most exciting international, national, and regional art of our time. Founded in 1948, the Museum prides itself on presenting new art and documenting its role in modern life through exhibitions, lectures, original publications, and a variety of educational programs and events.

Fogo Island Arts (FIA) was founded in 2008 as an international artist residency program with the belief that artists are visionaries with a unique capacity to reveal and respond to the complexities of our time. Fogo Island Arts is the founding program of Shorefast, an organization dedicated to unleashing the power of place so local communities can thrive in the global economy.

Forge Project is a Native-led non-profit organization whose mandate is to cultivate and advance Indigenous leadership in arts and culture. Founded in 2021, Forge has directly supported nearly 300 Indigenous artists, hosted dozens of cultural practitioners and knowledge keepers, and built new audiences and platforms for their work.

Franklin Furnace’s mission is to present, preserve, interpret, educate, and advocate on behalf of experimental art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, cultural bias, or politically unpopular content. They provide physical and virtual venues for the presentation of time-based art, including artists’ books and periodicals, performance art, installation art, and contemporary artforms.

Independent Curators International (ICI) supports curators to help create stronger art communities through experimentation, collaboration, and international engagement. ICI believes that curators are arts community leaders and organizers who champion artistic practice; build essential infrastructures and institutions; and generate public engagement with art.

New Crits provides one-on-one studio visits with some of the world’s most visionary artists. Their online platform and mentorship program is accessible to all artists at every level of their career, creating an inclusive critique experience outside the traditional arts education system.

Public Media Institute (PMI) is a nonprofit organization based in Chicago that supports independent media and artist-led projects. A front for the left in the arts since 1990, PMI operates Co-Prosperity, a gallery and event space; Lumpen Radio, a community radio station; Lumpen Magazine, a publication for cultural and political work; the Buddy Store, a retail space that sells work by hundreds of local artists; and the MdW Coalition, a network of artist-run initiatives across the Midwest.

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These platforms provide spaces for making, distributing, and presenting work, while building connections between artists, organizers, and audiences.

Puʻuhonua Society is a Native Hawaiian women-led non-profit organization based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Active at the intersections of contemporary art, traditional cultural practices, environmental stewardship, and transformational education, Puʻuhonua Society creates opportunities for Native Hawaiian and Hawaiʻi-based creatives to express themselves and engage with diverse audiences.

Sixty Inches From Center is a worker-led organization and publishing platform that produces collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, art history, and culture in Chicago and the Midwest. Led by arts workers, writers, editors, artists, curators, librarians, and archivists, Sixty promotes and prioritizes the preservation of culture within Indigenous, diasporic, queer, and disability communities of this region.

S.O.U.R.C.E. is an artist-centered and action-oriented organization focused on artistic approaches that connect people while addressing human challenges in bold, beautiful and poetic ways. S.O.U.R.C.E. is committed to supporting artists and producing projects and practices rooted in community, experimentation, creative methodologies and social justice.

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The people at S.O.U.R.C.E. believe creative practices can propel empathy and justice in the world.

Rooted in an urban Indigenous arts community, Spiderwoman Theater produces provocative and humorous theatre that empowers Native/First Nations/Indigenous artists and women and girls. They inspire, nurture and challenge Indigenous theater and traditional artists and women theater artists and their communities to discover, explore and realize their dreams and their futures through collective storytelling and theater performance and training.