The Unstoppable Voters team works in-depth with movement leaders to build long-term skills and run winning campaigns
Applications open for the Unstoppable Voters: Leaders Accelerator
The Unstoppable Voters: Leaders Accelerator is a unique professional development and campaign support program. It’s for leaders at U.S. advocacy organizations who are ready to supercharge their 2026 voter engagement work with the powers of creativity. Through a mix of in-person training, online mentorship, peer support, and seed funding, leaders will design and implement genuinely new and impactful campaigns for the 2026 general election. Apply by May 17!
Leadership Development
Through our Unstoppable Voters Fellowships, we work with movement leaders over many months to train and mentor them in æffective organizing and artistic activism. We support them in ideating, implementing, and evaluating innovative pro-voting actions. The programs are transformational for leaders in the field.
Since 2020, we’ve had sixteen fellows from a variety of advocacy organizations and nine faculty fellows at a range of higher education institutions.
“By nature, I am a very skeptical person, probably a classic pessimist using, “I’m a realist” as a thinly veiled excuse. I am very much someone who learns by doing and would rather just figure things out as I do the work, so I have not often sought out training and I’m not a big believer in most “train the trainer” models. I can say with absolute certainty that the training provided by the Center for Artistic Activism is the best training I’ve ever attended. The Unstoppable Voters team members are incredible teachers. The curriculum strikes the perfect balance of examples, frameworks, activities that were actually useful in live-time with my work (not just high minded ideals). Every single week the hour-long sessions were the highlight of my week. I felt so inspired, energized, and could actively feel more worldview shifting and my theory of change evolving – in fully positive ways. I did not expect my work to be impacted as much as it was by this fellowship.”
– Alexia Kemerling, REV UP Coalitions Coordinator, American Association of People with Disabilities and 2024 Unstoppable Voters Fellow
Campaign Development
We’ve supported hundreds of creative civic engagement campaigns over the years, often in deep collaboration with partners. Here’s a taste:
Art for the Polls
In 2024, we worked with People for the American Way Foundation. We supported dozens of artists running creative civic engagement campaigns in North Carolina, New York, and Ohio, in partnership with Common Cause NC, Cleveland VOTES, the Chinese-American Planning Council, and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund.
These artists’ inventive campaigns reached over 500,000 people and included visual art, comedy, dance, music, and more.
#ArtistsWhoVote
In 2023, with support from The Carter Center, we worked with artists and activists in Arizona to increase voter confidence and counter voter mis- and disinformation in the city of Mesa, which had contended with major election violence in 2022.
Voter Concierge Corps
In 2022 and again in 2024, we worked with game and experience design studio Playscapades to run the Voter Concierge Corps. This bespoke service provides personalized ballot research, shareable voting guides, and 1:1 help to make civic participation simple and fun.
“They researched everything for me and walked me through their recommendations. It made things so easy! It literally took me under 10 mins to vote!!” – Voter participant
How’s Your Voice Gonna Matter if You Don’t Vote
In 2021, we worked with organizations in Philadelphia including PA Youth Vote and Just Act to log a big win for students: the passage of the Student Voter Education and Registration Resolution.
Plus
- Cirque d’Vote – line-warming circus performances at early voting locations and on Election Day
- Fuck Talking, Go Vote – diverse cowboys, cowgirls, and cowpokes across the country rode on horseback in 11 rides to ballot boxes before Election Day
- Delivering Democracy – troupes of dancing mailboxes on the ground throughout Pennsylvania to make people excited about voting by mail and dropbox.
- Song Power For The People – original pro-voter song sung continuously for over 24 hours to put pressure on busting the filibuster and getting national pro-voter standards passed
- ¿En Serio Loca? ¡VOTA! – a takeover of Orlando’s October Pride to queer the vote and help the QTPOC community counter poll intimidation
- Chase the Erase – a day of raucous street actions featuring drum lines, cheer squads, and lots of chalk to fight for fair districts in Pennsylvania.
- Teens March on the Ballot Box – hundreds of Philadelphia teens voting for the first time
- Float the Vote – Detroit food and ice cream trucks educating people about registration, early voting, and polling locations
- Project Your Vote – projecting key voting information and narrative imagery in dozens of cities near voting sites
- Texorcism – an invitation to a witchy ceremony where participants could “exorcize” parts of Texas politics they didn’t like
- And many more!