The UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance is a founding member of the Working Group on International Collaboration in the Arts.

The Working Group on International Collaboration in the Arts is a consortium of organizations dedicated to building transnational, intercultural collaborative practice in the arts. Through their participation in the Ford Foundation initiative, "Internationalizing New Work in the Performing Arts," these organizations have been working to develop new models for building sustained, deep collaborative work by artists in the United States, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

The current members of the ICA Working Group are:

• The Ford Foundation has provided funding to support the programs of the working group through its multiyear initiative "Internationalizing New Works in the Performing Arts," which has the goal of strengthening U.S.-based collaborations that bring leading artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America together as partners with U.S. artists in the creation of new multidisciplinary work in the performing arts.
• Arts International encourages connection and interchange in the visual and performing arts through its grantmaking programs, information services, international conferences and forums, and special initiatives. Arts International has participated in the ICA Working Group though its Inroads initiative. The Inroads grant program provides funding to U.S. performing arts organizations to bring artists from Africa, Asia, and Latin America to the U.S. to explore possible collaborative projects with U.S. artists. A series of Inroads conferences produced in collaboration with ICA Working Group members has focused on the three world regions emphasized in the Ford initiative: INROADS/AFRICA, held in 1996; INROADS/ASIA in 1997; and INROADS/THE AMERICAS in 1998.
• Meet The Composer works to increase opportunities for composers by fostering the creation, performance, dissemination, and appreciation of their music. Among its other activities, it supports collaborations between U.S.-based composers and artists of all disciplines living in and outside of the U.S. Meet The Composerâs International Creative Collaborations initiative commissioned new works resulting from multidisciplinary collaborations between U.S.-based composers, choreographers and dramatists, and creative artists, based in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, including non-U.S. composers. Commissions supported through the third round of ICC funding are currently in development.
• Africa Exchange, an international program of 651 ARTS, was created as a formal, sustained approach to facilitating collaborations between performing artists from Africa and the United States. The program is designed to preserve, transmit and nurture African cultural forms within US communities, create links between African and US-based artists, explore new artistic forms and mutual influences among cultures, and encourage the creation of new, collaborative work. Africa Exchange supports African artists to travel to the US and engage with their US-based counterparts in residency programs, workshops, and concentrated creative time to explore each other's ideas and inspirations.

  Africa Exchange is part of the Artist Residency program of 651 ARTS, Brooklyn's premiere producers and presenter of arts and cultural programming grounded in the African Diaspora. Through programs such as Africa Exchange, 651 ARTS serves the cultural life of Brooklyn and beyond- locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally- by informing, nurturing, and connecting artists, audiences, organizations, and communities.

• The Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus Cultural Affairs Department has presented a series of intercultural performances including artists of the Caribbean and Latin America through its Cultura del Lobo performance series. It has also commissioned several performance works through the Center for Cultural Collaborations International in collaboration with other South Florida cultural organizations, including the Miami/Haiti project, a collaboration between U.S. choreographer Ralph Lemon, Haitian musician Zao, and several Miami-based musicians, and Los Balseros, a full-length operatic work developed in collaboration between U.S. composer Robert Ashley and Cuban American playwright Marie Irene Fornes.
• Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC) was founded in 1980 as a non-profit, multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to preserve, promote and develop the arts and culture of the Chicano/Latino/Native American peoples. The GCAC manages and provides artistic development for six component programs of the Center, including Dance, Literature, Media Arts, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts and Xicano Music. GCAC is involved in the ICA consortium through its Gateways Program, a performing arts commissioning program intended to bring together artists from the United States and Mexico to create new, multidisciplinary works in the performing arts that take their inspiration from the interplay between contemporary Chicano and Mexican cultures.
• UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance is dedicated to supporting research, creative experimentation, critical inquiry and aesthetic production of the performing arts. The Centerâs Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX) program is an international artists and writers residency program that promotes cross-cultural and interdisciplinary understanding; develops rigorous strategies for art-making reflecting the nuances of cultural differences; and fosters new ways to experiment, collaborate, and interpret artistic expression.
• Northwest Asian American Theatre (NWAAT) Out of a vision to celebrate and explore the multi-cultural voices of Asians in America, Northwest Asian American Theatre is dedicated to discovering, creating, developing and promoting exceptional Asian Pacific Islander (API) American and International works, emphasizing the original and innovative. NWAAT has participated in the ICA Working Group through its International Artists Program a residency based program which produces cross cultural, multi disciplinary collaborations between artists from Asia and API American artists from Seattle in an effort to elicit dialogue and creative expression about the Asian diaspora.
• New England Foundation for the Arts is a regional arts that works regionally, nationally, and internationally to develop and manage initiatives that advance the practice of the arts. NEFA has managed the innovative ethnographic research project undertaken by the ICA Working Group members to document best practices and build knowledge for the field in this area.