Inaugural Cohort of Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Announced
Americans for the Arts, in partnership with the Joyce Foundation and American Express Foundation, has announced the inaugural cohort of its Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Fellowship program.
The ACLC Fellowship is a one-year professional development program for emerging and mid-career arts leaders of color in the Great Lakes region. By coupling advanced leadership development for ACLC Fellows with targeted learning opportunities for their professional mentors and regional arts leaders, Americans for the Arts hopes to advance greater racial and cultural equity in arts management in the Great Lakes region, with the ultimate goal of creating a model for systemic change at the national level.
The initial cohort of the two-year program includes fellows from Chicago, Cleveland, and Indianapolis. They include Gibran Villalobos, an administrator, curator, and art historian at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Sarah Khalid Dhobhany, an administrator and community engagement coordinator at Mana Contemporary in Chicago; Andrew Aaron Valdez, an actor and C.A.R.E. teaching artist at the Cleveland Playhouse; and Danicia Monet Malone, an arts and culture ambassador, urban planner, and facilities and program manager at the Purdue Black Cultural Center in Indianapolis.
For more information about the 2019-20 ACLC fellows, see the Americans for the Arts website.
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