Supported by a production support grant, “CRANE” transforms the iconic Hunters Point Shipyard crane into a canvas for community storytelling using advanced projection mapping and soundscapes created from histories contributed by local residents. Visible from multiple vantage points, “CRANE” will feature a year-long geo-tagged audio tour and a two-week illumination with live performances, offering a […]
Supported by a production support grant, artist Mildred Howard will partner with 500 Capp Street to create three temporary site specific sculptural installations that will examine the history of white supremacy, patriarchy and colonialism reflected in national monuments. Using the sculptures as a catalyst for community engagement, dialogue and healing, the piece aims to address […]
An LED mobile sculpture and performance project aimed at reducing pedestrian-vehicle collisions in San Francisco. Merging public art with social advocacy, “The Junction Keep” will address the critical issue of pedestrian safety in high-incident intersections by illuminating crosswalks with vibrant LED sculptures and engaging the community through interactive performances. This project is supported by a […]
To support Local Commons which provides Model A and C fiscal sponsorship and services to a diverse group of San Jose and South Bay creatives.
To support the engagement of Russell Consulting to launch and lead the Grassroots Artists Advocacy Program (GAAP) designed to train and empower individual artists to effectively advocate for policies benefitting artists and arts organizations and participate in coalition building with other sectors across the stateÕs creative economy.
To support the MediaMaker Fellowship Program for emerging social issue documentary filmmakers. Bay Area Video Coalition inspires social change by empowering media makers to develop and share diverse stories through art, education and technology.
An immersive dance theater experience that uplifts marginalized communities by addressing the impact of climate change on Black and BIPOC neighborhoods, thereby offering a unique opportunity for self-discovery through nature and the arts that ultimately aims to transform the relationship between the community and the environment.
A new project that takes an experimental and innovative approach to sustaining Pilipinx indigenous ritual and arts through the platform/lens of contemporary performance. “Tubong for Living Ancestors” features and reclaims the tubong, a Philipino Indigenous pre-colonial practice.
Choreographer Deborah Slater and playwright Eugenie Chan unite with a multigenerational collective of diverse women storytellers/artists to create a series of devised dance/theater vignettes around loss, grief and hope using movement, film and acting based on intergenerational legacy in both a western Chinese-American family and the gathered collaborators.
A site-specific devised dance theater re-imagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale” that deconstructs the fairytale in the context of the daunting questions that come with generative AI seeping into our everyday experience.
