Connections & Resources
Let's not reinvent the wheel, but lets connect the spokes
This space is for the development of all the various tools, including data, others doing what we are doing, investment avenues & funding....just to name a few
ALSO - we would LOVE to find someone who can help create a search engine on all this, as well as make it a wiki like page for folks to add, update as needed, vs Kelly just adding here and there and not having the bandwidth to fully develop it all. - thanks!!! It takes a village indeed, let's get our Philly village out and connecting!
Collectives in the Arts, around the globe
18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, United States
503(c) founded in 1988, supports three tiered organization including 60 artist residency that range from 1-3 months, to multiple years; “We strive to provide artists the space and time to take risks, to foster the ideal environment for artists and the public to directly engage, and to create experiences and partnerships that foster positive social change.”
Aces School of Creative eXpression, Pueblo, Colorado, United States
ACES School of Creative eXpression is a school for anyone 4 - 104 with a desire to connect to themselves and others using creative expression in the visual, language, and performing arts. ACES Artists bring their experience with artistic mediums and creative expressions to support ACES students discover their own artistic expression to find an authentic voice strengthening connection to self and others.
Amber Art and Design, Philadelphia, United States
Founded in 2013, Amber Art and Design cultivates public spaces that advocate for equitable growth by facilitating dynamic interactions between artists, communities, institutions, and movements.
Art Heals, Philadelphia, United States
Through the development of practical and accessible tools, ARTISTS HEAL® serves artistic communities through programming, workshops, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility consultation, and community development.
Artswok Collaborative, Singapore
An arts-based community development organization created in 2012 that recognizes the creativity and agency within individuals and communities to generate change. 2021 Financials 2021 Annual Report
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, United States
“CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH THE POWER OF ART
Connecting cultural expression and social change, Asian Arts Initiative uses art as a vehicle to explore the diverse experiences of all communities which include Asian Americans.”
ATNSC: Center for Healing & Creative Leadership, Cleveland, United States
Founded in 2016, socially engaged artist-led urban retreat, residency, research and exhibition space in the historic Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.
A Blade of Grass, New York, United States
Founded in 2011, “We provide resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. We evaluate the quality of work in this evolving field by fostering an inclusive, practical discourse about the aesthetics, function, ethics and meaning of socially engaged art that resonates within and outside the contemporary art dialogue.”
The Children of Infinity Reading Recommendations
A spiritually based non-profit focused on assisting humans raise their levels of consciousness through scientific spirituality. The journey to higher consciousness begins with a better worldview. The core problems that afflict our planet – fear, disharmony, confusion, and greed – are manifestations of problematic worldviews. The current prevailing worldviews – Scientific Materialism and Religion – are both inadequate in their own ways.
Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, United States
The Economy League of Greater Philadelphia addresses critical issues facing Greater Philadelphia by providing impactful research, connecting diverse leaders, and advancing shared solutions. We envision a thriving Greater Philadelphia region powered by informed and collaborative leadership.
Equinox Studios, Seattle, United States
Created in 2006, an artist work space complex with a unique ownership structure to reflect the benefits that flow from its creative community. Four light industrial buildings, with over 100,000 square feet of workspace where on any given day over 200, artists and artisans are painting, sculpting, photographing, metalworking and blacksmithing, woodworking, stone carving, making glass, ceramics, movies and music, dancing in two 99-seat performance spaces and studying in two painting schools. Article
The Future is Us Collective, Philadelphia, United States
Beginning in 2017 and led by a group of BIPOC, under 25 artists operating on a “For Us by Us” model: as a team of young adult artists who serve their community of teens and young adults. Aiming to create healing spaces where our audience of young people can experience community.
Guggenheim Social Practice, New York City, United States
In 2014, with support from the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, the Guggenheim launched an initiative committed to exploring ways in which artists and the museum can collaborate on projects that foster new forms of public engagement through community participation.
Impact PHL, Philadelphia, United States
ImpactPHL envisions Greater Philadelphia as a leader in the emerging, global impact economy. We support forward-minded leaders and practitioners that are aligning their financial assets to drive social, environmental, and economic solutions in our region and beyond. Recently published, “Moving Minds & Money to Transform Arts & Culture Investment.”
Through classes, programs, symposiums bring together artists and organizers in the same space, to critically and pragmatically engage in the discourses and practices concerned with art’s relationship to place, collaboration, ethics, material and interdisciplinary research. We are concerned with the role, history and potential of art in relationship to society.
Mural Arts Institute, Philadelphia, United States
The Mural Arts Institute is dedicated to advancing research on and development of socially-engaged public art practices. It provides capacity building, technical assistance, knowledge sharing, and networking to individual artists and organizations outside of Philadelphia, but is anchored in our own local practices.
NoMüNoMü, Baltimore, United States
Arts collective working to challenge the perpetual systems of oppression within and beyond the art world. They see the collaboration in the arts as a means to challenge the status quo, specifically in informing movement of decolonization, resource sharing and learning new ways of being within and through the field of art.
One Art Community Center, Philadelphia, United States
Located in West Philly, this community center is a creative space
and programming for healing, environmental sustainability, collaboration, and growth through arts, education, and culture.
A community building and research gathering project (2013-2018ish) led by artist Jeanne van Heewswijk in collaboration with the Philadelphia Art Museum; directory of participants includes artists, activists, historians, makers, social workers, organizers and companies. “An expansive project that tells a story of radical community building and active resistance through the personal and collective narratives that make up Philadelphia’s changing urban fabric.”
Pumping Station One, Chicago, United States
Founded in 2008, the 100% volunteer maker space and community workspace is “a place where people with an interest in arts, manufacturing, computing and technology can gather to work on projects while sharing ideas, equipment, and knowledge.”
Rosine Association 2.0, Philadelphia, United States
Initiated by Swarthmore College, is an interdisciplinary collective of artists, harm reductionists, archivists, and community members involved in today’s street economies, specifically at the intersection of sex work and drug use. A community-driven project (culminating in March 2023) using collective practices to explore harm reduction and healing in Philadelphia.
A non-profit organization focused on creating spaces to come together and discuss. With initiatives started in 1996, Christopher Phillips is the creator - Socrates Café is all about making ours, on local and global scales, an inclusive, thoughtful and participatory society where regular exchanges of ideas and ideals among diverse people take place. — all with the aim of creating more and more people power. Our initiatives make it possible for people to approach one another with greater openness, and less fear. They cultivate connectedness, and forge bonds that can galvanize diverse people to take unified action for a greater good.
Shadow Traffic, Philadelphia, United States
Started with 3 artists in 2017 after winning a Burning Man Award, the collective is focused on bringing together communities around participatory art. Using the principles of decentralization, self-reliance, and civic responsibility.
The Wooden Shoe Bookstore, Philadelphia, United States
Started in 1976 The Wooden Shoe is an all-volunteer collectively-run Infoshop located in Philadelphia, PA that seeks to embody the principles of anarchism and other movements for social justice. We strive to provide our local community with radical and non-traditional sources of written, digital, and spoken information. We wish to be an empowering resource for activism, organizing, art, self-education, dialogue, community-building, and the anti-capitalist struggle.
Investors & Partners that can help Philly Specifically
The Economy League of Greater Philadelphia
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