We are pleased to announce that we’re accepting applications for the 2025–26 SPCUNY Student Fellowship through April 30, 2025! Join our online info session on Tuesday, April 8, at 10AM ET — register HERE to attend or to receive the recording.

Student Fellows are graduate students with a serious art practice, matriculated at any CUNY campus (often but not always from MFA programs), who are working to develop an independent project at the intersection of art and social justice. Selected through an open call, this group will be part of a wider SPCUNY 2025-26 cohort, which includes CUNY faculty/practitioners, all of whom are also developing their own projects. Student Fellows participate in a required weekly seminar in the Fall and Spring semesters and make significant progress towards (or complete) their independent project. They receive an unrestricted $4,000 stipend in the form of CUNY fellowships. 

You will likely benefit the most from being an Actionist with SPCUNY if you are a CUNY graduate student who is:

• Working towards one or more socially-engaged art projects, and has an existing basic knowledge of social practice art
• Interested in furthering your engagement with social practice and public-facing art beyond the requirements of an academic program
• Interested in discussions around social practice’s core issues while developing a project independently

Social Practice CUNY is an educational network that amplifies the collective power of socially engaged artists, scholars, and advocates throughout the City University of New York’s rich tapestry of faculty, staff, and students working for social justice. Based at the CUNY Graduate Center and working with students and faculty across CUNY’s 25 campuses, SPCUNY’s theory of educational transformation fosters structures for diverse creative leaders who will empower New York City as an inclusive, justice-driven cultural landscape.

For more information and to apply: https://socialpracticecuny.org/student-app/