Our Artists and Creatives Grants provide financial support - generally up to $2,500 - to independent creatives (including collectives and collaborators) making or presenting creative work relating to or encouraging community engagement. We are committed to helping projects that depart from the routine and present new, distinct and imaginative possibilities. Our fall grants (deadline September) are open to artists living or working in California. Our spring grants (deadline March) are open to artists living or working anywhere in the US. We do not fund projects by artists living outside the United States. We especially encourage applications from those who have been historically excluded from the mainstream art world. This includes, but is not limited to, those who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Trans, Deaf, Disabled, Immigrant or Refugee, or Self-Taught.
2025 RECIPIENTS
The ARTsonists
2025
Hib Hib: A Hmong American Sketch Comedy Show
The ARTsonists will present the third annual production of Hib Hib: A Hmong American Sketch Comedy Show in a larger capacity than its prior years. The ARTsonists, a collective of Hmong American performing artists based in Fresno, independently produce, write, and perform this live comedy show relating the Hmong American experience as means to bridge a connection to underrepresented communities through a unique cultural lens. The project will include multiple educational workshops as a part of the programming that are open to all, regardless of cultural background or experience. Additional outreach efforts to the Hmong people and other Asian communities would also be prioritized to create accessible educational and performing opportunities for those historically underrepresented in the performing arts.
Cat Chiu
2025
Civic Art Collection in Our Neighborhoods
The Civic Art Collection in Our Neighborhoods project is a community-engaged initiative that highlights existing public artworks (including murals, sculptures, mosaics, and monuments) located in the neighborhoods surrounding San Diego School Clusters. This project repositions these artworks as accessible teaching tools and catalysts for civic pride by engaging educators, students, and families in new ways of seeing and learning through public art. Cat Chiu will identify standout civic artworks in each of the school clusters. Participating teachers will create a lesson plan that will connect classroom learning to the surrounding community, inviting students to explore the civic artworks as cultural anchors that represent memory, identity, and place. The completed lesson plans will be compiled into a digital collection, shared through QR codes, maps, and community showcases.
Cog•nate Collective
2025
A/Bordar Nuestros Derechos: An Embroidery Workshop Series
A/Bordar Nuestros Derechos: An Embroidery Workshop Series mobilizes craft-making to co-create spaces that foster dialogue, accompaniment, and empowerment with/in immigrant communities in San Diego. Building on the model of “sewing circles” as spaces to co-produce and exchange knowledge – both around craftmaking and around one’s own community – Cog•nate Collective plans to gather people to design and embroider custom squares that will convey messages of solidarity as well as “Know Your Rights” information. The workshops will be hosted in partnership with local community organizations as a way of empowering immigrant communities and/or community members interested in advocating for change. By embedding legal and advocacy information into the co-creation of embroidered textiles, the project transforms craft into a tool of empowerment and resilience.
Ditza Futurists Collective
2025
Ditza Futurists’ Manifesto
Ditza Futurists Collective is a group of politically engaged, queer and gender nonconforming Zapotec diasporic artists. Over the last two years, they have built a transnational artist organization grounded in the Indigenous lifeways of their homelands in Oaxaca, México, and their shared values of self-representation, border abolition and queer liberation. They aim to publish, present, and distribute a zine of their manifesto to Zapotec (Ditza), Mixtec (ÑuSavi), and Mixe (Ayuukjay) mutual aid groups, artists, and community members across Los Angeles and San Diego. The zine will be a written compilation of their organizing principles , which will share an iteration of their world-building and offer community members seeking to build collective power a liberatory educational tool.
hamsa fae
2025
SPITROAST
SPITROAST is a live, ritual-performance combining shibari and social practice to confront the political scapegoating and ongoing erasure of third gender peoples in the U.S. The performance offers a ceremonial container for audiences to contemplate the complicity of cultural and affective extraction, especially in the physical and spiritual fetishization of the (trans)feminine body. The performance queers the diasporic technology of kamayan, a communal meal translating to “eating with hands”, seen in Filipinx and broader Oceanic traditions. Audiences are invited to feast not on a traditionally roasted pig, but the transfeminine body, cooking upon flames for sacrificial manifestation. At SPITROAST’s heart lies a commitment to equity by dismantling the hierarchies that render third gender peoples as disposable, while reframing their bodies as vessels for ancestral futurity.
Caitlin Gear
2025
Pussei* Magazine (Issue 3)
Produced by Caitlin Gear, Pussei* Magazine is a queer, feminist, anti-racist, and disability justice advocacy magazine that centers interviews, stories, and art from LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and disabled individuals based on varying themes. The third issue will feature interviews and stories from queer and trans people who play or are involved with sports throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. It will also include data and information on the current attacks and surveillance of trans and queer sports throughout the U.S. Art and creative work by local queer, trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled artists will supplement the interviews and stories. Caitlin will engage the LGBTQIA+ community by attending regional magazine/zine festivals and art/creative markets and produce an exhibition/event to further showcase the artists and creatives involved in this issue.
Adriana Lopez-Ospina
2025
The Desert Remembers: Voices of East Coachella Valley
Adriana Lopez-Ospina will curate a group exhibition titled The Desert Remembers: Voices of East Coachella Valley that will feature six emerging and mid-career artists from the Eastern Coachella Valley. The goal is to exhibit new artistic works that celebrate and interrogate the unique cultural, environmental, and social textures of this community: its desert landscape, Indigenous and immigrant heritage, music, architecture, economic resilience, and intergenerational stories. These works will be presented in a pop-up exhibition in a nontraditional space within the Valley to reach audiences who rarely engage in mainstream gallery settings. The show will run for one month with a culminating community celebration event where participating artists and residents can share food, performances, stories, and reflections.
LvL Up Kid
2025
LvL Up!
LvL Up! is a community-engaged mural project that brings together high school students from traditionally underserved communities to explore themes of resilience, self-expression, and collective imagination. LvL Up! workshops will guide students through self-reflection to explore both what gives them courage and what challenges them. The discussion is collectively reviewed and translated into a symbol that expresses what “leveling up” means, both as individuals and as a community. These exercises spark dialogue, build confidence, and give students tangible tools to LvL Up! in their own lives. The workshop will culminate in the co-design of a large-scale mural in collaboration with participating students that will stand as a visual landmark and a lasting testament to the next generation’s creativity and role in imagining our shared future.
JoAnn Mar
2025
How Dreams Turned to Ashes: Monterey’s Forgotten Chinese Fishing Village
How Dreams Turned to Ashes tells the story of a forgotten Chinese fishing village in Monterey founded in the 1850s, and a mysterious fire in 1906 that led to its demise. JoAnn Mar’s ancestors lived in that village. The project’s centerpiece is an audio documentary that highlights the fire that many suspect was arson, the hostility of the white residents that led to the eviction of the Chinese villages, and the apology issued by the Pacific Grove city council in 2023. Scheduled to be broadcast and streamed live on KALW public media in San Francisco, the documentary draws on the village’s tragic history as a way of educating audiences, with the hope of increasing their understanding and compassion for “the others” in our society.
Bonnie Joy Massey
2025
Archive to Art: Reimagining Rose Park Together
Rose Park is a historic and diverse neighborhood in Long Beach with a legacy of bringing people together, yet many neighbors do not know one another or the history of the place they live. To bridge the gap, Bonnie Joy Massey will present a two-hour mixed-media community art workshop where neighbors of all ages and backgrounds will come together to explore the layered history and shared future of their neighborhood. Participants will create individual collage artworks using archival imagery, maps, and photographs from Long Beach Heritage and the Historical Society, combined with their own expressions of the present and hopes for the future. The act of creating together will strengthen social bonds, spark dialogue, and build a greater sense of belonging.
Cedric Mitchell
2025
Crafted in Culture
For Crafted in Culture, Cedric Mitchell will collaborate with the Watts Labor Community Action Committee — a non-profit, human social services organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for South Central Los Angeles residents — and young adults from the Watts community to create a large-scale glass mosaic that is materially and symbolically rooted in the community. This new artwork will be built from individually crafted glass tiles, each one designed and made by a community participant, which will form a unified mosaic that reflects both individual expression and collective identity. The finished piece will be a striking, permanent artwork that reflects the collective imagination of Watts, created by and for the community it represents.
Yeeman “ManMan” Mui
2025
Demure Asian Rage
Demure Asian Rage is a raw, unfiltered exploration of rage — specifically, how rage manifests in the context of being Asian, mixed-race, non-binary, genderfluid, and AFAB in a world that often marginalizes such identities. Created and performed by Yeeman “ManMan” Mui and Leanna Li Keith, the project blends taiko, flute, electronics, movement, spoken word, and dance into a visceral performance that balances explosive power with breath and silence. Audience members submit short written prompts that are woven into a spoken word piece through live looping, layered with movement to embody the inner turmoil of suppressed expression. The Southern California premiere will include a new community workshop that ensures audience experiences flow directly into the performance, reinforcing its core: rage transformed into collective release, resilience, and connection.
Deepa Nair
2025
Claire’s Crunch Cake
Claire’s Crunch Cake is a creative documentary short film featuring Claire Mack, a beloved 88-year-old local baker, poet, a former public television broadcaster, social justice. While churning out crunch cakes, Claire reflects on her life growing up in a highly segregated San Mateo in the 50s-60s. Her unique perspective is of a local African American resident who fought against many odds to gain many firsts – build a career in broadcast media, become the first black mayor and start the first black woman-run business in San Mateo. Her story is one of perseverance in the face of inequity, of social justice activism and community building when faced with racism, a narrative of sheer grit and tenacity to rise despite being a high school dropout, a story with an affirming message, particularly for the youth of color.
Ezequiel Olvera
2025
Burnt Water
Burnt Water is a one-night sound performance taking place in the open-air courtyard of the 4th and Main/Medallion Apartments complex in downtown Los Angeles. Organized by Court Space (curator Ezequiel Olvera) and hosted by Central Server Works (director Joshua Oduga), the free event brings together musicians Nathanial Young, Corey Gordon, and Joshua Oduga to create an intimate sonic environment. The courtyard, normally underutilized at night, will be reconfigured through seating, lighting, and sound to invite 50–75 attendees into a temporary public forum of listening. Beyond the performance, Burnt Water is a proposition: that art can illuminate the gaps left by economic systems, transform how space is perceived, and open imaginative possibilities for how communities might gather in urban Los Angeles.
José Ome
2025
Ja weya ob’aj wij, ex weya nchemaj/Mi Historia, Mi Telar/My Story, My Weaving
This narrative-based dance-theater performance collaboration is led, created and performed by Indigenous Maya Mam immigrant women living in Oakland. Developed by NAKA Dance Theater (José Ome and Debby Kajiyama) and Maya Mam community members, the project investigates how anti-Indigeneity and colonialism impact Indigenous communities from Guatemala. Weaving – a daily practice for many Maya Mam women – emerged as a way to talk about their lives and express pride in their identity. Performances incorporate traditional textiles and contemporary creations using backstrap weaving tools, integrating visual and contextual elements into a tapestry of traditional and contemporary movement and storytelling. The project will culminate in eight premiere performances and a gallery installation featuring artworks generated throughout the process.
Renée Reizman
2025
Disability Drawing Club
Part hangout, part drawing workshop, the Disability Drawing Club (DDC) is a free, safe space for people with disabilities, chronic illness, and mental illness to speak unapologetically about their bodies. Sessions are held monthly at ADA accessible spaces across Los Angeles, providing an in-person space for people with disabilities who are longing to feel less isolated and alienated in a world designed for able-bodied people. Founded by interdisciplinary artist and journalist Renée Reizman, DDC uses drawing prompts and a show-and-tell format to spark dialogues about the disabled experience and help people from vastly different backgrounds discover common ground. The workshops are broadcast on Zoom for those who are unable to attend in person.
Daniele Siembieda
2025
Cultural Commentary Project
The Cultural Commentary Project is a participatory art initiative designed to transform public and community spaces into forums for civic dialogue and creative response. Daniele Siembieda’s project includes monthly community sessions where participants of all ages and backgrounds can create visual responses to policies that shape their lives. Tables with accessible materials will support artmaking, while listening and reading stations will provide policy documents, related artworks, and critical perspectives. Public dialogues with guest experts and local leaders will also be offered, making policy issues more approachable while encouraging informed civic participation. The project culminates in an evolving public exhibition and serve as a translator of complex policies, a catalyst for dialogue, and a living record of shared concerns.
Lindsay White
2025
Expanding ASL Access at Songwriter Sanctuary
As a songwriter, activist, and curator of Songwriter Sanctuary (a monthly original music series in San Diego), Lindsay White witnessed how access barriers persist in creative and community spaces, both online and in person. After hosting a Disability Pride Month concert that included ASL interpretation, lyric zines, and custom accessibility signage, it affirmed how vital these resources are, not as a one-off, but as a standard service. Songwriter Sanctuary was founded to build inclusive community through music, but inclusion isn’t real without access. Lindsay’s project will fund two professional ASL interpreters at all 11 Songwriter Sanctuary shows in 2026, demonstrating to Deaf and disabled community members that they are not only welcomed but valued.
Spencer Wilkinson
2025
Richmond Robotting
Spencer Wilkinson’s Richmond Robotting is a cultural preservation and community engagement project highlighting Richmond’s unique contribution to street dance. In the 1970s, the Richmond Auditorium hosted popular talent shows where local youth pioneered “Robotting,” a stylized mechanical dance that influenced the evolution of hip hop and continues to shape street dance culture across the world. Despite this influence, many young people in Richmond today have never heard of Robotting or their city’s central role in dance history. The project is building toward a major community event that will feature a screening of the Richmond Robotting short documentary, live performances by original dancers, and a panel discussion connecting generations of Richmond residents. The buildup also includes outreach to local schools, with youth invited to screenings and special workshops.
Christine Wong Yap
2025
Bay Windows / Ventanas en saliente /窗花
Made by and with a community, Bay Windows / Ventanas en saliente /窗花 is a trilingual project using social practice, storytelling, visual design, and public art to engage a cohort of 15 working-class, immigrant, Chinese and Latinx women with limited English proficiency (LEP) and limited access to the arts. Christine Wong Yap facilitated a series of six trilingual workshops for the cohort who engaged in reflective writing and created papercuts that represent their unique social and political perspectives. The papercuts will be adapted into lanterns, paired with each woman’s trilingual statement and subtitled video interview, and displayed in San Francisco’s Chinatown and Mission District where they will serve as a rare cultural bridge accessible to the city’s linguistically isolated Chinese and Spanish speakers.
Zara Zimbardo
2025
Marsification Mobile Planetarium Immersive Listening Space
In 2024, Zara Zimbardo and co-creator Lily Sloane released the concept album Marsification: A
Tale of Planetary Grief, to create an audio voyage for processing astro-colonial fantasies of leaving a damaged Earth for an uninhabited Mars. It weaves together textured soundscapes, spoken dialogue, satire, hyper-pop, whimsy, humor and heartache, non-fiction and speculative fiction, science and poetry, fantasy and history. Expanding on this work, Marsification Mobile Planetarium Immersive Listening Space will be a 12-foot cardboard planetarium presented at different public locations in the San Francisco Bay Area. The mobile planetarium is designed to activate people’s connections to these vast themes in a space of whimsy and gravity. A facilitation guide and post-listening craft activities for people of all ages will also support community engagement and integration.
Mikaelo Lacson Aguilar
2025
Hear Together
Hear Together is a unique industry gathering designed for social impact leaders, community organizers, and changemakers to connect, recharge, and celebrate their work. Set in an immersive, mindful disco atmosphere, this event blends music, movement, and meaningful dialogue to foster deep connections and collective inspiration. Changemakers often give so much to their causes that they forget to take care of themselves. By nurturing the people behind the purpose, we create a stronger, more connected community—one that’s ready to keep making an impact with renewed passion and resilience. Hear Together is about celebrating the work, the people, and the energy that fuels change.
Bahia Collective
2025
Tales of Lizards and Camels: A Film and Food Program
Deserts have historically been occupied, weaponized, and reimagined as sites for extraction by colonial forces and capitalistic projects. Bahia Collective’s Tales of Lizards and Camels: A Film and Food Program invites participants to engage with deserts as meeting points that connect our struggles and strengthen our solidarities. The program contains three main elements: a shorts program, food servings and text readings. Merging the acts of filmmaking, programming, and communal eating, the community is invited to rethink their engagement with films, creating a space where the boundaries between the screen and the audience, the film and the meal, are blurred and redefined. The event will conclude with a discussion that builds on the ideas and topics included in the films.
Joseph Godwin
2025
Move Together Initiative (Project MTI)
The Move Together Initiative is a community project where dance, health and digital literacy meet. Joseph Godwin’s initiative focuses on physical and mental wellness and creates a community where people can attend workshops on health issues and get medical checkups on a regular basis. It will attempt to form new social dynamics through workshops, mentoring programs, and Community Dance Circles, where participants use movement to connect a social issue and cause empathy. In addition, digital education classes will provide participants with the necessary skills to navigate the digital world, thus enabling them to tell their own stories, increase their social interactions, and access opportunities outside their neighborhoods.
Mamie Green
2025
Dis-order
Directed by Mamie Green, Dis-order is an immersive performance that reimagines the Passover seder as both a communal ritual and a family drama exploring the tension between honoring tradition and rebelling against it. Through a synthesis of theater, dance, puppetry, and audience participation, Dis-order demonstrates how we as a community are moved by enacting ancient rituals and what is left spoken and unspoken when we gather around the table. During the performance, audience members become integral players in the ritual, reading from scripts and sharing physical space with the performers. This direct involvement transforms passive viewers into active participants, fostering meaningful dialogue across cultural boundaries.
Thayu Lou Hamer
2025
Building Kujichagulia: The Komunity-Led Design Against Cop City
This project was created in response to the construction of a militaristic police training facility that destroyed a forested public park in a working-class black community in Atlanta. Seeing the “Cop City” unfold, Thayu Lou Hamer and collaborators decided to ask those directly impacted, what would they design and build instead? After receiving feedback from the community, they underwent a decolonial architectural process and are moving toward building the “Komunity Kitchen” they see in their future. A guidebook is being produced that will teach community members how to design their own spaces collectively, heal the lands of greater Atlanta, build using the natural materials in abundance around them, and show the final blueprints for the “Komunity Kitchen.”
J.E. Hernández
2025
Ilnamikilispan (útero-herida/womb-wound): Aquatic Memories of Longing
Ilnamikilispan is a transdisciplinary cuicatl-opera that reimagines operatic form through the lens of Mesoamerican artistic epistemologies. It is the first work of its kind in the U.S., fusing Indigenous Mesoamerican frameworks with emergent technologies, including wearable movement sensors and interactive sound and visuals. J.E. Hernández’s narrative follows a native mother who dies giving birth to her mestizo daughter, and the two reunite in a metaphysical aquatic space beyond time. The womb-wound (utero-herida) metaphor serves as both structure and theme, exploring the interwoven histories of colonial rupture and ancestral connection. Ilnamikilispan engages native communities by creating a space where these linguistic and cultural lineages are fundamental and inseparable from the artistic process.
Umi Hsu
2025
Fruiting Bodies
A multimedia oral history project with a futurist orientation, Fruiting Bodies by Umi Hsu is a memorial laboratory inspired by fungi’s resilience and regenerative power. With a goal toward transformative healing, Umi Hsu’s project explores concepts around temporality and ecology with members of the transgender and gender diverse communities. These communities are invited to participate in the making of speculative oral history recordings of their lives and afterlives. Through a series of one-on-one oral history interviews and group workshops, Fruiting Bodies provides the space for a collective, multigenerational contemplation on how we want to be remembered. The final recordings, along with fungi-inspired music compositions, will be featured in a 2026 exhibition.
Dena Igusti
2025
A Bit Tuary
A Bit Tuary is a multimedia found poetry series in which Southeast Asian NYC locals are asked to explore their relationship with grief, both current and anticipated. For Southeast Asians grieving the loss of loved ones and homes, personal artifacts become a means of collecting and/or supplementing historical archives. The artifact could be, for example, a letter from their parents, a screenshot of a conversation with a friend, or an item of clothing. The participants will be recorded interacting with the artifact and then interviewed about the item’s significance and why it is a symbol of grief. Eight to ten visual poems will be edited and written based on excerpts of the interviews and will be displayed on video and published online as text poems.
Ekene Ijeoma
2025
Black Forest: New York
Black Forest is a nationwide living monument and archive for Black lives past, present, and future. Through partnerships with local urban forestry, oral history, and community organizations, the project records about Black life and plants trees for Black lives. It includes plant-ins, tree giveaways, a phone hotline, web map, tree and story management system, sound and video artwork, and informational booklets. Black neighborhoods have historically been denied green spaces due to redlining and other policies. Currently, neighborhoods with majority people of color have 33% less tree coverage than those that are majority white. In eight years, Black Forest has recorded over 40,000 stories and planted over 40,000 trees across all 50 states.
Alejandra Martinez & Natasha Dominguez
2025
Debí Tirar Más Fotos: Documenting Community Stories, Preserving Shared Memory
The SELA Community Archive was launched in response to significant, forthcoming public infrastructure projects set to reshape Southeast Los Angeles. Born from a collective effort to document the region’s living history in light of these developments and the risks of gentrification and displacement, the archive is a mechanism for engaging diverse perspectives, cultivating collective knowledge, and supporting the community’s ongoing efforts to assert its identity and agency in the face of transformation. The exhibit will feature community-submitted photos and mementos, collections from grassroots and institutional archives, spaces for dialogue, and sections highlighting activist histories in the region. All contributions will be archived and preserved for future generations.
Ariel McCleese
2025
Trans Voices in Horror Poetry Zine
This project seeks to advocate for the power of poetry and art amidst crisis and uplift the work of emerging trans makers. Throughout historic periods of social unrest, resistance poetry has had an outsized impact on morale, achieving a galvanizing effect in the wake of adversity. Ariel McCleese will publish a poetry zine centering on the theme of lived horrors, featuring the work of trans poets and early-career trans illustrators speaking to the unique challenges of our present moment. The zine will be distributed freely among trans folks, distributed nationally in progressive bookstores, and available for direct order. All proceeds will be donated in support of trans advocacy and equality.
Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes
2025
MUJER: Mujeres United for Justice, Eco-wellness & Remembrance
MUJER: Mujeres United for Justice, Eco-wellness & Remembrance is a dynamic new social practice art project that empowers Southern California women and street vendor communities through culturally rooted creative wellness. Using mobile holistic Cultura Cura (Culture Cures) art carts, MUJER fosters healing, dialogue, and action in public spaces creating temporary convergences and creative communities for Chicanx, Latinx, immigrant, and Indigenous communities. Key components include: La Botanica del Barrio, a living, interactive sculpture blending social practice, performance, and education; and The Politricked Public (C)art, a mobile political art intervention featuring posters, poetry, projections, performances, and pláticas (talks). These carts bring art and wellness practices directly to the people, offering free, hands-on experiences in traditional remedies, creative activism, and cultural healing.
heidi andrea restrepo rhodes
2025
Tidal
Queer, transgender, and BIPOC communities in the U.S. have historically been dispossessed of access to public beaches through redlining policies and policing, as well as bullied within or excluded from the scene of surfing through its heteronormativity, transphobia, racism, and its domination by white cisgender men in competition for waves. Tidal is a participatory social documentation and portraiture project featuring queer and transgender surfers across the California coast, culminating in a traveling community art show that would be on display across major cities in California. By documenting the aesthetic refusals of gender binary culture, the athletic brilliance and oceanic intimacy of queer and trans surfers, Tidal creates visibility that intervenes on the pain of isolation and establishes a meaningful historical record.
Nina Sarnelle
2025
World Water Day for Paayme Paxaayt
In dominant LA culture, Paayme Paxaayt (aka The LA River) is thought of as a dirty and “unnatural” body of water to be avoided rather than revered. That has been slowly changing due to the advocacy of a network of engaged organizations, educators and artists with Indigenous Tongva leaders at the forefront. World Water Day for Paayme Paxaayt is a proposed 12-hour event that aims to encourage folks to consider the role that the river plays (or could play) in their lives and futures. Taking place along the river bike path, a diverse group of musicians, artists, ecologists, and naturalists will collaborate with the environment to present ecologically focused programming designed for an all-ages audience.
Alees Yvon
2025
ALIAS RADIO powered by ALIAS ENERGY
ALIAS RADIO is an eco-spiritual radio media platform reimagining sound and live transmissions as portals to interconnectedness, creativity, and earth-conscious living. Anchored in Alees Yvon’s vision of fostering healing, clean energy, and sustainable allyship, the station weaves together art, sound, and technology amplifying voices attuned to the planet's pulse. Through the power of sound, it invites audiences to experience the interconnectedness of life and to envision a world where humanity and nature coalesce in harmony. ALIAS RADIO programming will feature live transmissions, virtual sanctuaries, collaborative exchanges, and community engagement features such as call-ins and participatory sound projects that invite listeners to contribute recordings, chants, and sounds from their local environments.
Maya Simone Z. & zavé martohardjono
2025
UNDOXX: Borderless Artist Long Table on Censorship
UNDOXX is an artist-run series created, curated, and produced by zavé martohardjono, Maya Simone Z. and Jamie Chan that brings together global majority/BIPOC artists, queer and trans artists, and marginalized artists who have experienced censorship and contended with its inner workings. The project facilitates conversation and learning, generates community resources, builds power, and generates creative exchange to equip artists to navigate censorship. UNDOXX will offer a fall 2025 public event, “Borderless Artist Long Table on Censorship,” to deepen community power building and broaden resource-sharing for artists. This event will include a long table discussion followed by a post-talk reception that will bring together artists for conversation and guided activities to foster artistic collaboration.