FUTURE CREATIVE LEADERS: REIMAGINING THE LANDSCAPE OF CULTURAL LEADERSHIP
Launched in 2024, Future Creative Leaders aims to diversify sector-wide cultural leadership through talent development initiatives for young underrepresented creatives.
The programme extends beyond the existing Lighthouse Young Creatives programme, and reimagines the Lighthouse workforce.
ABOUT THE FUTURE CREATIVE LEADERS PROGRAMME
Future Creative Leaders (FCL) is a 12-month paid programme. It offers young creatives from underrepresented backgrounds the opportunity to work closely with Lighthouse's leadership team to explore various aspects of creative leadership.
FCL is funded and supported by Art Fund’s ‘Reimagine Grants’. Over the year, participants will co-curate programmes, select participants for mini-residencies, and recruit their successors, all while exploring alternative governance structures, accountability, and power-sharing.
The programme partners the FCL members with Trustee Buddies, providing them with essential finance and governance training. This mentorship aims to integrate FCL more closely with Lighthouse's Board of Trustees. We hope this will set a precedent for similar organisations across the cultural sector to follow.
Throughout the year, participants will document their governance experience creatively, sharing their insights and learnings with the wider sector. The culmination of their efforts will be showcased during Brighton Festival 2025, offering a platform to highlight the impact and significance of the programme.
ABOUT OUR FUNDERS
Art Fund is the national charity for art, helping museums and people to share in great art and culture for 120 years. Art Fund raises millions of pounds every year to help the UK’s museums, galleries and historic houses. The charity funds art, enabling the UK’s museums to buy and share exciting works, connect with their communities, and inspire the next generation. It builds audiences, with its National Art Pass opening doors to great culture. And it amplifies the museum sector through the world’s largest museum prize, Museum of the Year, and creative events that bring the UK’s museums together. Art Fund is people-powered by 135,000 members who buy a National Art Pass, and the donors, trusts and foundations who support the charity. The National Art Pass provides free or discounted entry to over 850 museums, galleries and historic places, 50% off major exhibitions, and Art Quarterly magazine.
