Fulcrum Arts champions creative and critical thinkers at the intersection of art and science to provoke positive social change and contribute to a more vibrant and inclusive community.
Current
Ian Wellman: Between the Noise
Festival
The Fulcrum Festival is a regional celebration across Greater Los Angeles that foregrounds the union of art and science as a powerful engine of contemporary culture.
Fulcrum Festival 2024: Waves Upon Waves
Waves Upon Waves coincides with Getty-led initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, and offers audiences immersive explorations of vibrations – musical, gravitational, seismic, optical, sensing, among others – fundamental to understanding human perception and experience and highlighting the shifting nature of reality.
Sequencing is Fulcrum Arts’ online publishing platform hosting essays, interviews, video, and artworks by contributors from an array of backgrounds and fields—all of whom share an interest in finding points of connection among art, science, and progressive social change.
Latest
SURFACE AND MEMORY: A CONVERSATION WITH KATHIE FOLEY-MEYER
Patrick J. ReedThe artist and researcher Kathie Foley-Meyer joined curator Patrick J. Reed to discuss her creative practice and scholarship on ocean memory and the territoriality and temporality of Blackness.
- Generation
- Growth
- Invisibility
- Land and Sea
- Networks
- Perception
- The Body
- Visualization
Support for Artists
Fulcrum Incubator
The Fulcrum Incubator connects midcareer artists with Southern California’s preeminent laboratories and scientific institutions to mine new areas of research, innovate new methods of artmaking, and inspire new ways of bringing science to public audiences.
Emerge Fiscal Sponsorship
The Emerge fiscal sponsorship program increases the capacity of independent artists, collectives, and small arts organizations by offering financial management, fundraising consulting, and the ability to seek funding through fiscal sponsorship.
Since 2017, Fulcrum Arts has brought artists and scientists together to tackle big challenges and explore big ideas collaboratively. We are particularly interested in the ways art and science unlock each other’s potential—how art can make scientific concepts more legible, how science can bring novel approaches and tools to art making, and how creative practice can push both disciplines into uncharted territories of discovery and innovation.