2025 Conference Overview

Once again, TransCultural Exchange invites artists and those who support artists’ work to come together for our 8th International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts’ Avenues for Daring. Join us from March 7-9, 2025, for this three-day extravaganza, connecting artists around the globe, down the block and across the nation. During this unique global gathering, we will consider our era’s pressing need for diversity, political equity, and climate and social justice. We will do so, while also celebrating the arts’ ability to provide joy, respite, and common ground for dialog. Both here and abroad. We will reach beyond cultural, political and social divides, showcasing programs designed to engage artists with other cultures and disciplines to provide them with the tools, means and inspiration to, in turn, present the wonders and realities of the world to us. We will explore innovative strategies, technologies and working methods for artists to best express today’s challenges. With roundtable discussions, panels, small convenings, workshops, PechaKucha pitches, portfolio reviews, receptions, networking activities, and tours of local attractions, we will promote resources for sharing and new possibilities of caring.

2025 Conference Host: The Foundry, Cambridge Massachusetts

Touted as the ultimate creative space, with a room for fabric arts, housed next to a digitally equipped wood shop, a dance studio, theater, food lab, and numerous spaces for both large-scale and intimate gatherings, The Foundry is Cambridge’s inclusive hub for creative exploration. Nestled alongside MIT, steps from Cambridge’s renowned life science and tech innovators, and only a short subway ride to Harvard Square and Boston, our host of Avenues for Daring could not be more ideally situated. Or more ideally suited for a creative convening. Like the Conference itself, the possibilities for expanding horizons at the Foundry are endless. We are very grateful to the Foundry for lending us its entire space for this event. (Closer to the Conference date, added tours and other area activities will also be announced.)

Call for Sponsors
Interested in Sponsoring an aspect of the Conference to showcase your support of the arts as a platform for cultural understanding, dialog and creative innovation, contact Mary Sherman at msherman[at]transculturalexchange.org.

Registration
Registration available here.