About

We are just some radical, crafty folx wanting to make art with other radical, crafty folx in our own collectively-ran maker space. 

Rubble doggos: Maxwell, Snausser, and Gordie

We also miss the store Who Gives a Scrap and have created a mini used art supply store that will provide the community with low cost supplies. Check out the other pages on how to become part of the collective, shop at the store, or donate used supplies.​

We are imperfect people working every day to live our values in this shit storm of a society.  Read below to understand more about the values we hope our space will embody.  We understand that we and this space we have created may not be for everyone and that's ok. 

​Our Values

(not listed in order of priority - all of them are our priority) 

Earth-centered

Everything we do is analyzed through an earth-centered lens. We prioritize the repurposing of supplies and equipment while learning about and implementing systems to minimize and responsibly dispose of waste (i.e. transitioning to non-toxic art materials, centering events and classes about DIY earth-friendly materials like botanical ink, etc).  We also connect to our earth-centered ancestors and pull inspiration from them and the natural world. 

Anti-racist

We aim to elevate and support creators of color. We prioritize a divestment in whiteness (i.e. prioritizing BIPOC in leadership roles, clear and horizontal decision making, prioritizing BIPOC teacher-artists for classes, BIPOC creator hours, uplifting art that interrogates race and racism and more). We are constantly learning what it means to practice anti-racism in a community space with specific attention to how racism shows up on organizational and interpersonal levels. We want to create a space in which racial power dynamics are acknowledged and addressed through transformative action (rooted in restorative justice - reparative action centering the needs of the person who has been harmed) so that people from all backgrounds can learn and work towards justice.

Anti-Zionist

We stand in solidarity with and fight for Palestinian liberation. We believe that we must speak out against the horrible atrocities the Israeli government and it's allies are committing against the Palestinian people. Many of our members are anti-Zionist Jews.

Anti-capitalist

We don’t want creators to have to buy new art materials, pouring their valuable resources into a harmful economic system. We want to encourage as much divestment as possible from  an exploitative system and to  forge solidarity economies through shared ideas, knowledge, and materials  and mutual aid networks. Additionally, we support and encourage art-making processes as much and/or more than the outcomes and encourage outcomes that do not seek to satisfy dominant narratives of what “good art” is or looks like. 

Anti-patriarchal

We aim to elevate femme, trans, nonbinary and queer creators. We prioritize a divestment in patriarchy (i.e.women and LGBTQ plus people in leadership, creating a space where personal identifiers like pronouns are known and practiced, prioritizing femme, trans, enby and queer teacher artists, affinity creator hours, uplifting art that interrogates sexism and heterosexism and more). Our intentions are to address harmful patriarchal structures and interactions through a lens of transformative justice. 

Building creative community

This is a collective space that we will creatively build together. We want to inspire, teach, and learn from each other. We will strive to  create healthy relationships and boundaries.  We know this may not be the right space for everyone and we are comfortable with that. We encourage a space where all involved desire to build a healthy culture of self-reflection, self-awareness, and collaborative spirit.   

Cultural & Ancestral Expression

We honor and encourage the expression of our backgrounds - cultural, ancestral, lived and otherwise- and how they inspire our art. We affirm multiple ways of knowing and expressing (spiritual, cultural, ancestral, emotional, mental, physiological, etc.), and want our physical space to reflect the cultures our collective represents in decor, supplies and materials provided, art-making, and more.

Socially engaged art

While not all art needs to be socially engaged, we are very interested in how our art can create movement, inspiration, and social change in addressing some of the issues of our times (ie police brutality, mass incarceration, climate crisis, anti-trans legislation, antisemitism, misogyny, Islamaphobia, intimate family and partner violence and many, many others).  

*“We” right now refers to Dana, Cristyn and Rorey (founding members), and we want to put our thinking and hopes forward with the intention that there is and will continue to be room for re-working and adding to our values as a collective, so that “we” comes to represent the art collective as a whole. We imagine that the specific practice(s) of these values will be co-created and evolving.