The Vigilant Love Artist Activist Fellowship is a six-month program for young, emerging artists ages 18-24 from Muslim, Black, Indigenous, and/or POC (BIPOC) communities who have a desire to create political art that connects to abolitionist movements, community care, and healing justice. We believe that artist activists play a critical role in disrupting systems of violence and dehumanization and building pathways to liberation and healing – the Artist Activist Fellowship honors and resources this important work by ensuring young artists have the resources and deep, intergenerational, and cross-communal relationships needed to sustain this work for the long haul.

All Vigilant Love Artist Activist Fellows will receive one-on-one mentorship and coaching from values-aligned Muslim and BIPOC artists in community, peer support from their 10-person fellowship cohort and the broader Vigilant Love community, and resources to hone their identities and voices as artists activists. Fellows will also receive a $1000 participation stipend and an additional $500 to support the creation of artwork to showcase at a community exhibit at the end of the program.

Young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 who identify as Muslim, Black, Indigenous, and/or a Person of Color/racialized person are invited to apply to the Artist Activist Fellowship. Ideal candidates include artist activists who:

Are engaged with an artistic medium they would like to further develop in community with the support of a seasoned artist activist mentor

Have a desire to learn and create art that connects to abolition, community safety, surveillance, healing justice, gender justice, racial justice, disability justice, transformative justice, anti-Zionism, indigenous & land sovereignty, the War on Terror and intersecting themes

Live in Southern California, with a preference for folks who are Los Angeles-based