Partnerships

Partner with
City Arts Lab.

Sponsors fund the program. Cities host it. Universities extend it.

01
Cities & Arts Councils
Sponsor-funded. We need a venue introduction and your community channels.

You get economic development, equity programming, and civic branding for minimal lift. We bring the program, the curriculum, the facilitation, and the follow-up. Your city opens the door.

Cities partnership →
02
Corporate Partners
Founding Sponsors help design the inaugural program.

Toolkit co-design, co-branded content, panel presence, and documented outcomes. Packages are built around your objectives. Founding Sponsor status is limited to the inaugural cohort — later sponsors join a program that already exists.

Corporate partnership →
03
University Partners
Curricular co-development, student placement, and community engagement.

A working relationship between your institution and the city's creative workforce. Co-develop the local program, place students alongside creative entrepreneurs, and document impact suitable for accreditation narratives and grant applications.

University partnership →

One program.
Three entry points.

Each partner type plays a different role in the same program. Corporate sponsors underwrite the cost and integrate their tools into the curriculum. Cities provide the venue, the audience, and the civic legitimacy that makes the program meaningful. Universities extend the curriculum into their academic programs and place students as participants, mentors, or researchers. The program works because all three are present.

Sponsors
Fund & co-design
Cities
Host & convene
Universities
Extend & document
Cost to participants
Free
Ready to partner?