To lift up Ohlone language restoration, culture and identity, sculptures will be created in Peralta Hacienda that represent the words for Sun (Gismen), Moon (Kormey) and Water (Sii), in Chochenyo. These sculptures will be bordered by sedge, ferns and willow plantings in the creek area to later harvest for Ohlone basketry. Over two years leading […]

This project invites and reflects on community responses to history and stories from the cityscapes of Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco and NOW Hunters Point. Through a live, outdoor dance performance, the lead artists will explore how communities inhabit space, how spaces influence bodies, how design can bring communities together, and how history […]

This immersive artistic experience will include site-specific, multimedia performances at and around the Ping Yuen housing complex in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Through performances, community programming and exhibitions, And the Community Will Rise will explore the legacy of and significant role that residents in Chinatown public housing play in ensuring the social, political and cultural integrity of […]

“An act of insistence of black female original genius.” This is the next iteration of the multi-year House/Full of Blackwomen, which addresses issues of displacement, well-being and sex trafficking of black women and girls in Oakland. The New Chitlin Circuitry will be a site-specific ritual performance project reclaiming and highlighting the creative labor and foundational influences Black […]

This project will be a site-specific installation and performance elegy for five Oakland youth killed before the age of 30. THE BLACK (W)HOLE will examine Black culture as a vehicle for resistance and spiritual renewal, creating public rituals that affirm cultural memory and allow for mourning and healing.

A series of performances, public artworks, workshops and forums in San Francisco and Oakland. Y BASTA YA! will shine a light on the experiences of Latina women with regard to invisibility, labor rights, domestic violence and sexual abuse.

Commons Archive will foster connections across race, generation and class to address the dissolution of neighborhood networks by displacement and gentrification. The project will engage residents of North Oakland’s Golden Gate neighborhood to create a collective memory bank through citizen history trainings, community mapping and restorative justice listening sessions. The stories will be translated into […]

Colorín Colorado San Francisco will include community workshops and work with artists with developmental disabilities to create sculptures exploring their journeys as immigrants. The sculptures will be placed at San Francisco sites that are significant to the Latinx community. They will be animated by music, dance and poetry, bringing culture and the arts to life.

Lakbai Diwa, Diasporic Spirit will bring visibility and collective cultural healing to the Pilipina community in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood. The project will be anchored by site-specific dance performances, workshops, art installations, and a ceremonial procession that will feature balangays, traditional Pilipino boats, as a metaphor for how this island culture has been affected by […]

Future IDs will partner with California reentry programs, community organizations and formerly incarcerated individuals on a yearlong, site-specific exhibition on Alcatraz Island. Identity-inspired artworks and monthly public programs will illuminate the life dreams as well as the racial, gender and age diversity of those who have been incarcerated. In stark contrast to prison-issued IDs, these […]