A crowd watches as a member of the Caney Indigenious Spiritual Circle performs a ritual with a replica of a Cemí Cohobabat stand at Miguel Luciano’s culminating community event in El Barrio.

The Civic Practice Partnership

The Met’s Civic Practice Partnership (CPP), launched in 2017, is a two-year artist-in-residence program for socially engaged artists and art collectives. CPP catalyzes and implements creative projects that advance healthy communities by bringing the skills and interests of neighborhood stakeholders together with those of The Met and artists who are socially minded in their practice. Artists selected for the CPP program work in their own neighborhoods across New York City and at The Met to develop and implement ambitious projects and forge meaningful collaborations.

Meet the Artists in Residence

Announcing the 2023–25 Artists in Residence

In January 2023, we welcome three new Civic Practice Partnership Artists in Residence: multidisciplinary choreographer and performer Alethea Pace, working in the Bronx, community-based public art collective Brooklyn Hi-Art Machine, working in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and interdisciplinary artist and creator of The Free Black Women’s Library, OlaRonke Akinmowo, working in various communities across New York City. Learn more in the press release.

Alumni Artists

For the Civic Practice Partnership’s inaugural program in 2017, The Met invited two dynamic artists: choreographer and performance artist Rashida Bumbray, working in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and multimedia visual artist Miguel Luciano, working in East Harlem. In 2020, we welcomed three additional artists to the program: Jon Gray of artistic and culinary collective Ghetto Gastro, Mei Lum and the W.O.W. Project, a community organizing and arts space in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and musician and composer Toshi Reagon.

View Featured Residency Work

Meet the CPP Artists

CPP artists work in their own neighborhoods across New York City and at The Met to develop and implement ambitious projects and forge meaningful collaborations. Watch the video playlist to learn about the work of alumni artists, Rashida Bumbray and Miguel Luciano.

In the Press

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Civic Practice Project CPP Artist in Residence Mei Lum marches through the streets of Chinatown with event participants holding up large signs of colorfully painted cut-out illustrations of birds and building facades.

CPP Artist in Residence Mei Lum marches through the streets of Chinatown with event participants holding up large signs of colorfully painted cut-out illustrations of birds and building facades.

The Civic Practice Project

The Civic Practice Project is a multiyear initiative that advances The Met’s role as a positive, relevant, and inspiring force in the daily lives of communities across New York City.

Collaborative for Creative Practice and Social Justice

Several seated clusters of people discuss together at tables covered with large note paper and post-its as well as refreshments.

The Collaborative for Creative Practice and Social Justice

Learn about a professional-learning community of twenty-one cultural organizations collectively exploring the impact of the arts in and with communities.

The Civic Practice Project is made possible by The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.

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