Celebrating marginalized voices and challenging dominant narratives. Whether it’s reclaiming the narrative of Black individuals in Europe, promoting Black joy as a form of resistance and resilience, or providing an alternative perspective on colonial relationships.
Visual Storytellers Program
The talent development program, Visual Storytellers, focuses on self-taught, emerging visual creators (makers who tell stories through images, such as illustrators, VR artists, tattoo artists, graphic designers, or photographers) who operate outside traditional paths and the conventional white cubes or black boxes and need help with further professionalization.
A six months trajectory
Participants follow an intensive artistic coaching program lasting six months (from September to February) and group masterclasses on cultural entrepreneurship, positioning, financing, and pitching skills. Additionally, the participants receive one-on-one coaching where their personal development questions are central, working towards the exhibition of their own visual work (free work) during the final exhibition of Visual Storytellers.
Focus
The focus of the program is on sustainable guidance and progression into the professional field. During the project's duration, an additional 5 alumni will have the opportunity to exhibit at the Dutch Design Week during the Visual Storytellers exhibition.
About QISSA
At QISSA, we scout the storytellers, literary innovators, screenwriters, agitators, and stage beasts of tomorrow.
QISSA not only gives new creatives a kickstart but also offers them an artistic community from which to lean and draw inspiration.
