Outside of MFA programs there are very few opportunities for artists, writers, dancers, singers, visual artists, performers to spend time in a collective setting developing new skills and the rigor to ask big questions about their work and role as an artist.  Isolation is a central tenet of this society and this is true for Artists as well. SCI seeks to create a space where artistic community is fostered and participants are supported and challenged to grow in their artistic practice.

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The curators and facilitators for The Seeding Change Institute are Pangea’s Artistic Directors Meena Natarajan and Dipankar Mukherjee, Lake Street Arts! Curator Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe, and Miré Regulus.

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The Seeding Change Institute​ 

• Consists of an eight to ten-person cohort, at least half of whom are emerging artists

• Offers workshops, conversations, hands-on learning with guest artists and support for new projects created by each cohort member

• Requires one half-day per month for the duration of the 7-month institute
   

The Seeding Change Institute Projects​

• Each cohort member will develop their own project alone or in collaboration with other cohort members

• There will be opportunities for the cohort to share their work with a larger audience and to have their work well documented

• The project can be a performance, dance, visual project, public art project, film, reading or anything the artist thinks up

• Each project must have a public engagement component

• The focus is on being in a place of deep inquiry 

• The projects do not need to be large scale and can also be the jumping off place for a larger project to develop

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Applications open in October​