BIPOC Leadership Circle
BIPOC Leadership Circle
The BIPOC Leadership Circle is designed to center, support, and enhance the experiences of BIPOC leaders of cultural institutions.
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Stay tuned for 2026 dates + information
Date / time / place
- May 9, 16, 23, 30 & June 6, 2025
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10 am–12:30 pm PT / 11 am–1:30 pm MT / 12 pm–2:30 pm CT /
1 pm–3:30 pm ET - ZOOM - Virtual Event*
About the Program
Being a Black, Indigenous, Person of Color (BIPOC) in a predominantly white sector or organization has its challenges. Try also being a person of color in a leadership position. Most organizations, even those that are primarily BIPOC or BIPOC-friendly, do not offer systems of support and affirmation for leaders of the global majority.
Who is the program designed for?
Our program is designed to center, support, and enhance the experiences of leaders of color in arts and cultural institutions and communities. Through a popular education approach, we use our time together to generate conversations, connections, and ideas in order to inspire new leadership paradigms for and by BIPOC leaders. Ultimately, our goal is to create a national shift in leadership values and practices in the art and culture sector.
We are bringing together artists, activists, and organizational leaders who work at the intersection of art and activism. This space is uniquely designed for Leaders of Color and those who identify as: Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC); Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI); Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (MENASA); African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American (ALAANA); Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA); Black/African American; Indigenous/Native; Latinx; Latine; and/or People of the Global Majority.
Program Features
Virtual Sessions
Over the course of the series, participants will engage in virtual sessions to build community and grow their knowledge base through creative presentations and workshops led by program facilitators, artists, and/or guests from the field.
1:1 Meetings
Squads
We know we all learn and digest information differently. To create small-group engagements, the cohort will be organized into learning squads. Participants will be expected to attend monthly squad meetings to offer and receive support in a peer-learning environment; discuss key questions and learnings from the virtual sessions; and develop a Leadership Offering for the cohort that generates a new system, practice, structure, or way of being in the art and culture field.
To support the participants, each squad has an assigned facilitator or staff member to support their experience throughout the program.
In-Person Experience
To culminate and celebrate our work together, we will gather for a multi-day in-person experience to build community in person and to present squad learnings, including the Leadership Offering.
Leadership Offering
Throughout the program, each squad will compile key learnings and develop a Leadership Offering that envisions a new system, practice, structure, or way of being in the art and culture field. Squads will present their offering to the cohort at the in-person experience.
Logistics
Attendance
We ask that participants attend all 2.5 hours of each core session and the in-person retreat in its entirety. This workshop is designed to build thematically, layering one concept after another. Because this work is relational in nature, each session is important community-building. Missing more than a few minutes of the session will make it challenging for the individual and their co-learners.
Access
Computer-generated captions are available for all programming. ASL Interpretation and/or Live Captioning is available if requested two weeks prior to the training. For other access support, please let us know at the time of registration.
Tech Support
For day-of technical support, please email meet@artEquity.org
Schedule
To be announced!
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Group Registration
Please contact us at meet@artEquity.org to make arrangements for groups of 5+. While we do not provide group rates, it is important that each participant registers individually so that we know how to best support their training experience.
Note: We strongly believe that these training sessions should not be mandated. We are available to support you in creating the appropriate invitation for your group.
Refunds
Refunds will be made in full when requested two weeks prior to the training. Refunds take up to 10 business days to process. If you need to cancel your registration, please email us at meet@artEquity.org.
Exchanges
We are NOT able to offer exchanges for this program.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you define leadership?
How do I join?
The Interest Form is currently closed, but please check back again soon for updates.
Can individual practitioners participate?
Is there a fee to participate?
We are grateful for the support of faithful donors and grant partners in order to underwrite a large portion of the costs for participation. All virtual and in-person programming, resource materials, and texts are provided at no cost to participants. artEquity is committed to providing the following for the in-person experience:
- Housing;
- Ground Transportation from housing to local programming sites; and
- Specific meals during programming days.
Participants will be responsible for covering the cost of roundtrip travel to and from the in-person experience, transportation to/from their home airports, and meals not provided by artEquity.
We are committed to creating as much access to our programming as possible. Please indicate on your Interest Form if you may need financial support.
Why is there an interest form and not an application?
We believe in the power of language. We use the term “interest form” to note that there is often more interest than we have capacity. We wish we could invite everyone to participate; however, to create the most impactful experience, we have to limit the number of participants. Not receiving an invitation for the cohort is not a reflection of you or your leadership; it is indicative of the restraints for the number of participants we can comfortably accommodate.
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SUBMITTED INTEREST.
THE INTEREST FORM IS NOW CLOSED.
Thank You to Our Supporters
artEquity provides the tools, resources, and training to support the intersection of art and activism. Our work is made possible in part by the California Arts Council, the Dramatists Guild Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Getty Foundation, Barbara and Amos Hostetter, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the JKW Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Shubert Foundation, Venturous Theatre Fund of the Tides Foundation, and a growing community of individuals and organizations across the globe.