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 […]

The project will include youth and adult artist mentorship teams who will bring mobile print-making laboratories to six events in Oakland. The public will be empowered to create art that documents personal and family stories of migration, relocation, identity and citizenship, creating a portrait of the Bay Area immigrant community.

A multi-faceted performance celebrating 100 years of outcast activism in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. The event will focus on the culture of liberation among young, working women in the early 20th century; 1960s transgender activism; the stories of Vietnamese immigrants, and of the longstanding single room occupancy Cadillac Hotel.

A series of screen and digital printmaking residencies to explore displacement and the housing crisis affecting San Francisco’s Mission District. Housed in a mobile unit, the residences will travel along the 16th Street corridor between Mission and Bryant streets.

A mixed media project that will engage young people in six San Francisco and Oakland communities to tell stories about their neighborhoods. Audiences will travel by BART to experience these stories through live performance, audio and print.

A meal in the streets of West Oakland that centers on the shared struggle, resilience, and healing remedies of people of color. This five hundred person public art project is the final culminating event in a series of community events called Remedies: From the Farm, To the Kitchen, To the Table, To the Streets.