by Nina + Lou + Clara + Sarah + Dom + Gwen + Adela

Who do you look to in sticky situations? As we bump into dilemmas both mundane and monumental, we are fortunate to have so many in our extended social practice circle who we can turn to for support. 

by Adela Cardona Puerta + Chariti Montez

“Here’s the ideal of what we want and over here’s the bureaucratic process to get there and I had the skills to walk between the two. Going back to being the interpreter or the translator of the two worlds:  I can build this house by hand, but if it’s not legal in the place where I live, it’s vulnerable. I think that’s when I realized that I could live in both and help people navigate this bureaucracy”

by Midori Yamanaka + her daughter

“Little me thought dark-skinned people were just more tanned. And I assumed it just stays from some point… then, they cannot go back to the original skin color. Just like toast.”

by Lou Blumberg + Lo Moran

“I think what people get out of these beliefs is a sense of purpose and belonging and community that are very powerful. I think the ways to counteract that would be also building spaces of belonging and community that aren’t harmful to other people.”

by Nina Vichayapai + Elisheba Johnson

“Art should be for everyone… Public art is for everybody. It’s outside. There’s no hours. It’s so radical.”

by Sarah Luu + Lewis Alexander Geist of 90.5 KSJS

“The most amazing thing I’ve seen continuing despite all these digital changes is that radio continues to be a beacon in the community…When one discovers something that they really enjoy on the radio, it’s as if they’re entered into a club that they didn’t know existed.”

by Simeen Anjum + Kristan Kennedy

 “We don’t preserve; we work with living artists in the moment they’re making.”

by Gwen Hoeffgen + Roberta Hunte

 “Resistance doesn’t have to look big. It can look like the normalization of that which is hated. It can look like simply loving people. Or putting forward a model of what care looks like in birth. And doing it in artistic ways so that people, on a feeling level, can relax and have a moment with that. Because that’s our knowing. But whether we honor it or not, that’s the question. I think that’s the thing in this life, can we honor what we know to be true?”

by Domenic Toliver + Xavier Pierce

“I see a little me in my students, and I want the kids to see they can be all of these things. You can be an athlete, an artist, a lover of music, a scholar, all of these things together. You don’t have to pick just one. That drives my creativity now.”

by Clara Harlow + Jorge Lucero

“I’m trying increasingly, and have been trying for about three decades, to take those activities that are frequently considered underbelly activities and turn those into the primary activities. Turn those into the works.”