to where it can be found.
A 12-week program that equips Latino immigrant artists with a complete digital ecosystem to amplify their voice, expand their reach, and live from their creativity.
NC & Charlotte are home to extraordinary artists. The world just hasn't found them yet.
The Latino and immigrant creative community is vibrant, brilliant, and full of stories worth telling. Painters, musicians, photographers, dancers, designers, writers, and filmmakers bring these stories to life. Yet invisible barriers, such as language, technology, and access, often keep them off the cultural map. Creative Code exists to change that.
Of Latino workers between 16 and 64 have low or no digital skills — more than double the national average of 31%.
Of households in Mecklenburg County lack reliable internet access, a gap that disproportionately affects Latino artists and creative entrepreneurs.
Latino residents call Charlotte-Mecklenburg home today, a community that grew 16% between 2021 and 2023. Active, creative, and vibrant, yet underrepresented in public cultural spaces.
No program in Charlotte-Mecklenburg combines Spanish language delivery, hands-on digital construction, and an ecosystem built by immigrants, for immigrants.
What if the problem
was never the talent?
An immigrant artist arrives with years of craft, a story that moves you, and work that deserves to be experienced. They carry the memory of their homeland, the beauty of their culture, and the resilience of someone who crossed something hard and kept creating. But without a digital presence that belongs to them, without a place in the connected world, that art only exists for those who already know it.
It’s not that Latino and immigrant artists aren’t here. It’s that Charlotte doesn’t yet have a way to find them. Every Creative Code cohort changes that permanently.
The creativity, the history, and the talent are already here in Charlotte. What’s missing is the digital infrastructure to make them visible, accessible, and findable by those who are looking.
Creative Code doesn’t teach technology for technology’s sake. It uses it as a bridge between who the artist already is and the world that is waiting to discover them.
Every participant builds their own digital ecosystem from the inside out. They don’t receive ready-made solutions — they learn to create, sustain, and grow their own presence.
12 weeks. A basic digital ecosystem that is yours.
A bilingual mentorship — not a course — where you build one connected, working system that finds clients and generates income. Each session produces something concrete that belongs to you.
E-learning modules & guided resources
Work through bilingual digital modules and step-by-step resources on your own schedule. Each one produces something real you keep — not homework, not exercises.
Bilingual mentor reviews your real progress
Four sessions where a bilingual mentor sits with you, reviews what you’ve built, and unblocks what’s not working. Real progress reviewed. Real problems solved.
01
Digital Identity and Artistic Voice
In this module, you define your personal brand narrative, your visual identity, and your artistic voice — in Spanish, with your story as the protagonist.
02
Web Presence and Living Portfolio
Your live website. Your registered domain. Your digital portfolio showing your work with the quality it deserves. Your Google Business profile active.
03
Your Connected Community
You build the system that turns occasional admirers into a loyal community — a direct, personal, and intimate channel between your work and people.
04
Sustainable Creative Practice
Your art becomes economy. You set up your service offer, your payment system, and your growth strategy. Final Creative Showcase.
Generative AI is the main engine.
Instead of watching tutorials about digital marketing, you use AI — coached step by step — to build everything you need. You learn AI by using it to build something real, not as a separate lesson.
At the end of 12 weeks, each artist has:
deliverables
The parts working together — not sitting separately, unused.
We don't count promises. We count what exists.
Every Creative Code achievement is a verifiable digital artifact. A website that loads. A profile that appears in a search. An artist who gets paid for their work.
Artists with a complete digital ecosystem at the end of the 12 weeks.
In-person Creative Showcase where the artists exhibit their work to the community.
New profiles in the Immigrant Artist Directory — publicly searchable.
Timeline — The 12 weeks
Foundation
Baseline digital diagnosis. Definition of identity, narrative, and artistic voice.
Construction
Live website. Registered domain. Published digital portfolio. Verified Google Business.
Connection
Active digital community system. Own channel between the artist and their audience.
Launch
Service offer configured. Active payment system. Creative Showcase presencial.
A program valued at $5,000.
Designed so that price is never the obstacle. We believe that talent should not decide who has access.
Solidarity Price
Access the full program for less than half the market value. The rest is covered by sponsors.
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Email us and when the mentorship is available
we'll send you the payment link.
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Full Scholarship
We are actively working to finance full scholarships for our first cohort — Summer 2026.
Apply Now!Sponsored
A company or private individual finances your full place. Your profile will be among the available candidates.
Register as candidateWho should apply
Creative Code is designed for immigrant artists and creative entrepreneurs who have a creative product, service, or skill they are ready to bring to market, but need the digital tools, knowledge, and guidance to get started.
Have something ready to offer or sell, such as photography, baked goods, artwork, design, handmade products, creative classes, music, or other creative services.
Interested in turning your creative work into a source of income and ready to take practical steps toward launching or growing it.
Need support building the digital tools to promote and sell your work, including a professional brand, website, portfolio, online presence, or basic digital business tools.
Not already have a strong, established digital business infrastructure. Creative Code is intended as a starting point for creatives who need help building these foundations.
Be an immigrant, first-generation American, or child of immigrant parents. Priority will be given to Latino and Hispanic creatives, while applications are open to creatives from other immigrant communities.
Reside in North Carolina, with preference given to applicants in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.
Commit to actively participating in the full 12-week program, including workshops, mentorship, assignments, and program activities.
You do not need to have an established business to apply. You need something creative you are ready to build from.
Your investment. Your impact.
Every dollar supports a verifiable outcome: a website built, an artist visible in the Creative Directory, a community stronger. All sponsorships are tax-deductible.
Community Ally
$2,500 Per cohort- ›Logo on Creative Code website, all program materials & Creative Directory
- ›Social media coverage across all cohort communications (bilingual)
- ›Recognition at the free public Creative Showcase
- ›Cohort impact report with verified, documented outcomes
- ›Official 501(c)(3) tax acknowledgment letter
Creative Partner
$5,000 Per cohort- Everything in Community Ally
- ›Co-branding on all bilingual cohort materials (digital + print)
- ›3 dedicated social media features (Instagram + LinkedIn, bilingual)
- ›Logo on Creative Directory as supporting partner
- ›Speaking opportunity at the Creative Showcase
- ›Inclusion in press release to Charlotte & NC media
Presenting Sponsor
$7,500 Per cohort- Everything in Creative Partner
- ›"Presented by [Your Org]" on all cohort touchpoints
- ›Featured logo on Creative Code site + Directory (1 year)
- ›Dedicated artist spotlight story on Link Foundation channels
- ›Guest session within the 12-week program curriculum
- ›Network access to graduates and Charlotte's creative community
- ›Detailed impact report with participant stories and metrics
Founding
Champion
$15,000
Annual · Both cohorts
- ›"Founding Partner" designation on all materials for 1 full year
- ›Permanent logo on the Creative Directory as Founding Sponsor
- ›Co-branded press release + media outreach Charlotte & NC
- ›Custom impact report: 30 artists, verified outcomes, media-ready
- ›Priority consideration for joint grant applications
- ›Maximum visibility across Charlotte's creative community
Finance an artist's
full place
Investment: $4,000. With name, with work, with story. You follow their transformation during the 12 weeks and are a direct part of what they build.
I want to sponsor an artistDo you have a bigger vision?
Corporate, foundation, and in-kind sponsorships available. Let's design a partnership together that reflects your mission and ours.
Let's talk
Charlotte already has
the artists.
Help us help the world
discover them.
"The most powerful art is the one someone can find.
Be part of making that happen."
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"We link dreams and empower the Latino community with technology and innovation."
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