To operationalize, assess and review access for priority communities for the Foundation’s New & Experimental Works (NEW) Program.
The Center for Cultural Power (The Center), led by Oakland artist Favianna Rodriguez, will be launched to help underrepresented artists—artists of color, artists with disabilities, and transgender, indigenous and women artists—build their practices, engage in social movements and overcome the barriers to success that these artists have faced. In turn, the artists will usher in […]
Nourishing Community Wealth Co-Cap Conference which brought together over 200 local and national innovative cross-sector professionals to engage in conversation and highlight community wealth building innovations. The conference examined a broad range of models and innovations for investment, ownership, and support of local businesses and entrepreneurship that centers equity and prioritizes the local community.
Oakland Life-Safety Loan Fund aims to create long-term and permanently affordable safe spaces for the arts to thrive in the Bay Area. The fund will provide tenant improvement loans for life/safety upgrades to qualified live/work, art practice, and community event spaces serving Oakland artists. The program is supported by technical assistance from Safer DIY Spaces.
Will serve as a regional hub for artists of all disciplines and community investors dedicated to social change through creative practice.
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.
