About Project Celluloid
Project Celluloid is a nonprofit initiative dedicated to preserving and celebrating human artistry in the age of AI.
Each year, the organization provides microgrants to artists working across disciplines — including visual art, music, writing, poetry, performance, film, design, and more — to support the creation of new human-made work.
The projects developed through these grants are then showcased at a year-end exhibition/gala that brings artists and the community together to celebrate REAL art from REAL artists.
By supporting artists directly and creating spaces for their work to be shared with the public, we aim to ensure that the skills and cultural communities behind human creativity continue to thrive.
Why this matters
For generations, art has been messy and real.
A songwriter staying up too late trying to find the right lyric. A filmmaker rewriting a scene for the hundreth time. A painter ruining a canvas and starting over. A comedian absolutely bombing onstage before finally finding the joke. The weird conversations, failed attempts, breakthroughs, accidents, and human mess underneath making something meaningful.
That process has long been the backbone of culture. But as AI replaces this backbone, the deeply human process behind making art risks being eroded away entirely.
Project Celluloid exists to support artists who still want to create the old-fashioned way, because we believe human creativity is worth fighting for.
Our Long Term Vision
While our early work focuses on supporting artists through microgrants and public showcases, our long-term vision is broader: to help build cultural awareness around the value of human-made art.
In the future, we hope to establish a recognizable “human-made” designation — a mark that artists across disciplines can voluntarily include with their work, whether at the end of a film, inside a book, on the back of a painting, or alongside a piece of music. This symbol would signal to audiences that the work was created through human imagination, effort, and craft rather than generated by machines.