CULTURALYST: A Tool for Artists to Get Found and Funded

​***CONTEXT***

​You're an artist, a creative, someone who creates work that makes the world a better place.

You've done the work. You just can't get anyone to see it. Your bio's on one site, your portfolio's scattered across three different platforms, and the grant deadline you needed to know about? You found out a week too late — again. Meanwhile the opportunities that could actually move your career forward are happening outside Hawaiʻi, and you have no real way of knowing about them until they're gone.

Hawaiʻi Arts Alliance's statewide Listening Sessions in 2025 put real weight behind it: visibility and access, not talent, are the biggest barrier holding Hawaiʻi's artists back. Culturalyst is built to close that gap — one place to be discovered, track opportunities near and far, and stop losing ground to logistics instead of losing to competition. In this session, see it live, with real examples of how it's already helping real artists find opportunities and get their work seen.

Then tell us what your version needs to do to support your goals:

​***FLOW OF THE EVENING***

​6:30 — Welcome + the problem: why good artists still go unseen

​6:40 — Live Culturalyst demo, with real examples of artists using it to find funding and exposure

​7:00 — Open floor: what would make this actually useful for your practice or organization

​7:20 — Close + how to get involved

​***GOOD TO KNOW***

​Bring your phone or laptop — you'll leave with a live Culturalyst profile, not just a demo you watched

​See real examples of artists already using Culturalyst to find opportunities and get their work seen

​Built for artists, nonprofit organizations, and anyone tired of missing opportunities because they found out too late

​Free to attend, no pitch, no sales floor — just a working session on a tool built for exactly this problem