GAAP 2025-26 Informational Webinar
In Online Webinar on June 27, 2025 | 12:00PM PT
The Grassroots Artists Advocacy Program (GAAP) is a cohort-based fellowship program for artist advocates who live or work in Oakland or San Francisco.
Artist Advocates include diverse artists, culture bearers, and creative workers with dedicated and committed artistic or cultural practices who directly engage in advocacy and policy development to advance the holistic well-being of the field. The first Cohort of this program is coming to a conclusion and we are excited to be preparing for Cohort 2, which will begin in October 2025.
In the application process, artist advocates will identify a change benefitting artists and/or culture bearers they want to make happen, those selected for the GAAP Cohort 2 fellowship will be supported to develop an artist advocacy plan to to work towards that change. Applicants need to explain how their idea for policy change will eventually impact artists and culture bearers. The application will be open 6/30 - 7/28.
Cohort 2 will be announced in September and begin meeting in October 2025. The GAAP cohort will meet regularly as a community of practice, learning from and supporting each other through a season of skill building through June 2026. The mandatory meeting dates will be included in the application process.
Register for the Webinar
Join us for an informational webinar on Friday, 6/27 at 12:00 pm PDT with Program Lead Ted Russell and CA for the Arts Director of Programs NeFesha Yisra’el. They will review the program and application process and answer questions.
The GAAP Program
GAAP is part of CA for the Arts’ Regional Advocacy Infrastructure Network (RAIN), which seeks to reinforce advocacy capacity and efficacy at the local, state and federal levels by designing new models of collaboration at the local (county and municipal) level.
GAAP is funded by The Kenneth Rainin Foundation
