This research will help advise Grantmakers In The Arts on how to program content related to how alternative funding models and new economies could serve as tools for its members to support culture and artists in a manner that is racially equitable.
From 2014-2020, The Flight Deck was a home for multidisciplinary artists to present work, share resources and practice radical acts of imagination in the heart of downtown Oakland. Through PianoFight’s “Reimagining Business Models in the Arts” research project, they are developing an Oakland Cultural Space Cooperative. This business will network, preserve and activate cultural spaces, with […]
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 […]
