OUR PHILOSOPHY

Culture Push is an arts organization that supports artists and creative thinkers who are using imaginative, participatory methods to address social and civic challenges. Operating at the intersection of art, social justice, and public engagement, Culture Push fosters collaboration, experimentation, and new ways of thinking through hands-on, community-driven projects. The mission of Culture Push is to create change by supporting new modes of thinking and doing, rooted in the many communities of New York City and reverberating beyond.

HISTORY

The current focus of Culture Push is the Fellowship for Utopian Practice. The Fellowship is a process-based program aimed at artists and other creative people who are seeking to test new ideas through civic engagement. Culture Push offers the Fellows concrete financial and institutional support, including feedback and mentoring, a stipend, and fiscal sponsorship for fundraising efforts. During the Fellowship year, Fellows collaborate with different communities and the Culture Push staff to find viable working methods for realizing ambitious hybrid projects. While Culture Push emphasizes the visual and performing arts, the Fellowship program is open to people working in any discipline aiming to expand their practice beyond its traditional borders.

Other Culture Push programs have included participatory symposia and residencies that bring together people from different fields to exchange practices through active participation; Studio Marathons, all day creative socializing with a theme; IdeaNEWS, a record of the Culture Push year; and Fashion Re/Action, a workshop series that was the prototype for the Fellowship.

Culture Push was founded in 2008 by Clarinda Mac Low, Aki Sasamoto, and Arturo Vidich. Their individual visions feed into a larger vision; a fluid culture where the lines between art, politics, daily life, and social experiment can blur, and challenging the lines between disciplines leads to challenging the form of society. The founders share strong backgrounds in the performing and visual arts, and an investigative spirit, and they span two generations. All the founders received their undergraduate degrees from Wesleyan University (1987, 2003 and 2004).

HARDLY PARTY: An Introvert Rager

By Culture Push, Inc.

HARDLY PARTY: An Introvert Rager

Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM