Arts for America is More Like US's workshop for college students to use their talent in the Arts to better portray fellow Americans across the political spectrum. Each participating student will receive $100.
"Arts" is broad, including audio, video, visual art, stories, live performances, games, social media posts, and more.
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The Arts allows messages and powerful stories to reach large numbers of Americans.
Substantial academic work supports “indirect contact” methods perfect for the Arts, including parasocial contact (developing one-sided relationships with characters) and vicarious contact (seeing positive interactions between groups).
Americans are busy and have many interests, reducing time for dialogues and interpersonal interactions across politics, but nearly all Americans are media consumers the Arts can reach.
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The Arts for America workshop lasts six sessions, starting the week of October 6. Students first learn More Like US’s CAST (Complex, Admirable, Similar, Together) framework. This framework helps correct overly negative distortions of fellow Americans across politics as stereotypical, inferior, totally different, and worthy of avoidance.
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The ~8 students in this cohort work with and learn from each other, though each develops their own artistic content.
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Artistic content will be shown on the Arts for America Instagram page, and More Like US will work with the students to find other avenues for content dissemination.
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Each student who completes the Arts for America workshop and produces content in the Arts will receive $100.
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Applications are due Sunday, September 14.
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All students enrolled in an institution of higher learning (e.g., community college, college, university) in the first semester of the 2025-2026 school year are eligible.
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Students will be chosen based on the following:
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Demonstrated artistic talent in at least one area, which can include audio, video, visual art, stories, live performances, games, social media posts, and more.
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Clear interest in working to improve the future of the US
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Where possible, some demonstration of using the Arts for social good in the past
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Ideally, students with some capabilities to showcase their work (e.g., previous displays of their work, an existing social media presence)
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