We're building Culturalyst with artists, not just for them. This is what that actually looks like.

The Culturalyst Co-Design Cohort is a small, paid, time-limited pilot bringing together 5 working artists to shape the next phase of Culturalyst — a platform built to support artists, surface opportunities, and strengthen cultural communities everywhere.

This is not a workshop. It's not a focus group. It's a structured co-design experience where your real practice, your real friction, and your real feedback directly influence what we build next.

Over 8 weeks, you'll participate in 4 live virtual sessions with the Culturalyst team. You'll see tools in active development — including our portfolio and discovery platform and an early process documentation tool — at various stages of completion. Some things will be polished. Some will be rough sketches. All of it will be real, and your honest reaction will shape what happens next.

What you get:
— $150 stipend upon completing all four sessions
— Public credit as a contributor to Culturalyst's platform
— A dedicated interview feature published on Culturalyst
— Your name in a published cohort artifact documenting what we built together
— Early access to tools before public release
— Real influence — not symbolically, but directly in the iteration decisions we make

What we're looking for:
An artist who has thought seriously about how they document and share their process. Someone who has opinions about the tools they use — and the tools that don't exist yet. Someone who would make a reel about this if it was worth talking about.

Sessions: 4 sessions over 8 weeks, bi-weekly, 90 minutes each, fully remote.
Stipend: $150, paid upon completion.
Cohort size: 5 artists.

Short video introduction (under 2 minutes), link to work or portfolio, written responses to 3 prompts

Emerging artists and early-career creatives, ages 18–30, interested in arts technology and infrastructure