The Artists in Residence Program

Our Artist Residencies are designed to create viable, financially beneficial leadership opportunities for historically excluded artists. 

So far we’ve commissioned five paid residencies featuring eight Black and Brown artists from Oakland, St. Louis, New York, and the Caribbean. We have had at least 3,000 public participants and built strategic partnerships with 20 actively engaged community groups. Our most recent Artist-in-Residence was Safi Kolozsvari Regalado, a Bay Area based artist/muralist, who worked with youth fellows to conceptualize and design the artwork for Phase II of the Not One More Girl initiative, which was inspired by the long tradition of Chicano style ballpoint pen art. The posters depict steps people can take if they witness or experience harassment. Watch out for the announcement of our next Artist in Residence, in the spring of 2024.

Image of St. Louis based artist, Damon Davis, as our first-ever virtual artist-in-residence.
Image of artist-in-residence Safi Kolozsvari Regalado
Image of Zakiyah Harris
Image of artist Calvin Williams
Image of sign-painter Nisha Kaur Sethi
Community WellbeingAnyka Howard