Remember the Future is a pilot fellowship Art.coop is organizing to honor the power of group work in the arts and beyond. Remember the Future awards a community of arts and culture groups with $15,000 each plus technical assistance for the year.
The Fellowship began in 2024 with 6 Fellows (Acres of Ancestry, Artisans Cooperative, Groupmuse, MeansTV, Question Culture, and Ohketeau) and is in its second year.
Arts groups around the country are fed up with our current system and are inspiring others with economic practices of shared power and shared wealth. The movement they are part of is called the Solidarity Economy, where cultural practice and redistribution go together.
Meet the Remember the Future Fellows
Artisans Cooperative is a cooperative online handmade marketplace promoting creativity, supporting artist livelihoods, creating opportunities for social impact art collectives, and connecting people through an equitable artistic community.
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Art, Media, & Technology.
Work & Labor.
Craft.
Traditional Arts.
Visual Arts.
Means TV is the world's first worker-owned, anti-capitalist streaming service and the home for worker-owned entertainment. Financed through subscriptions, and free of any advertisements or venture capital, Means TV seeks to chart an independent path in building a cooperative media organization lasting for generations to come. Together, we’re building a long-standing, worker-owned media infrastructure that reflects and empowers the 99%.
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Art, Media, & Technology.
Cultural Organizing.
Digital Arts.
Film.
Journalism & Literature.
Ohketeau Cultural Center provides a place for Native people to share, learn, and express their cultures. Through its work with youth, Ohketeau preserves our many cultures through intergenerational sharing with culture-bearers and Elders. We uplift Indigenous lifeways through robust educational programming, addressing socio-economic and public health issues disproportionately affecting Native communities.
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Art, Media, & Technology.
Cultural Organizing.
Interdisciplinary Arts.
Traditional Arts.
Why Remember the Future ?
We know that practices of cooperation are as ancient as culture itself, and that cultural workers have always been remembering ancestral practices as they build the futures of care that we need. This is why we call the fellowship, Remember the Future.
Art.coop’s mission is to redistribute resources, connections and tools to arts & culture groups who are challenging dominant paradigms in the economy.
We believe that the result of the Fellowship will be increased capacity and stronger connections across collectives, co-operatives, and other members of the Solidarity Economy movement. We affirm that culture shapes what we imagine is possible for social movements, and that movements strengthen the arts. We aim to demonstrate the interdependence between arts & culture and the Solidarity Economy movement.
How were the Fellows selected?
Each of the Remember the Future Fellows was nominated through a democratic process with the team at Art.coop. Thirteen groups were nominated, from which 6 were selected. All 6 Fellows were invited back for a second year, of whom five Fellows are re-joining (Acres of Ancestry, who participated in Year 1, is not joining for a second year).
The Remember the Future fellowship resources arts and culture initiatives that are:
based in the lands colonially known as the United States;
a group (2+ people with the intention to grow);
2+ years or older;
working for economic justice (i.e. fighting for better wages, equitable housing, systems change, getting resources for their communities, etc.);
trying to live their values by following Solidarity Economy principles such as interdependence, cooperation, equity, and pluralism;
reaching a wide audience, making inspiring art, and/or strengthening social movement(s); and
led by a diverse group of people.
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Write to Gabrielle Chapman at gabrielle@art.coop.