The Lower East Side (LES) Young Artists of Color Fellowship supports early career artists in exploring creative practices centered on community engagement and cross-sector collaboration.
The fellowship aims to help these artists build a peer network of mutual support, meet with experienced artists & producers of color to help shape strategies for furthering their work in the field, and participate in a culminating public showcase of original projects.
We developed the Fellowship in recognition of the diversity of the Lower East Side community and its many cultures, and the need for FAB to play a role in the development of a generation of artists who reflect that diversity.
The Fellowship was developed particularly to support POC artists who live in the Lower East Side, although we accept applications for any young artist who is a NYC resident. We define the Lower East Side as including the area from 14th Street to Canal, Bowery to the East River, as well as Chinatown. This includes Loisaida, the East Village, and all of Community District 3.
2026 cohort
All Previous Fellowship Cohorts
This project is supported in part through funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.