Open Mag is excited to make its first call for submissions for a new kind of fellowship for African curators.

The Open Country Mag Curatorial Fellowships, sponsored by Africa No Filter, aims to provide direct motivation, technical knowhow, and funding support for new projects in a range of artistic fields: literature, film, music, visual art, photography, fashion, and media.

From a pool of applicants, we will select four curators for workshops, during which they will be guided by three experienced curators whose works span media, literature, film, fashion, activism, art, tech, and music. The three are Lumen Prize-winning interdisciplinary artist Minne Atairu, A Nasty Boy founder and Forbes Africa 30 under 30 changemaker Innanoshe Akuson, and Open Country Mag editor and Future Award Africa winner Otosirieze.

On the recommendation of the workshop instructors, we will then activate selected project ideas, offering two of them $2,000 each and the other two $1,000 each to finalize them. Open Country Mag will showcase the projects on our website, with the Fellows holding the copyright.

They are looking for two kinds of project ideas:

• Projects that are groundbreaking endeavours in single fields (say, literature alone, film alone, or art alone)
• Projects that cross two or more fields (say, literature and visual art, film and music, fashion and tech and photography)

They do not want to limit your innovation, so all formats of projects and ideas are welcome: an art exhibition, a musical retrospective, a journalism series, a fusion of fashion and tech, a blend of literature and photography — anything is welcome.

The projects can focus on any African country or region or can be continental.