Culture Project is a nonprofit theatre company that views itself as an arts and human rights organization. The company is dedicated to addressing critical human rights issues by creating and supporting artistic work that amplifies marginalized voices. By fostering innovative collaboration between human rights organizations and artists, the organization aims to inspire and impact public dialogue and policy and encourage democratic participation in the most urgent matters of our time.
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Indianapolis, IN
Cultures in Harmony (CiH) forges connections across cultural and national barriers through the medium of music. Our projects catalyze cross-cultural dialogue that improves relations between the USA and the rest of the world, one melody and one smile at a time.
Curvatosi
Austin, TX
A film about government corruption and how it causes our system to work against us. I'm a former business lobbyist. I've participated in this legalized corruption. I've represented corporate interest before state and federal officials. I get angry when I hear an elected official scoff at the notion his/her vote can be bought. Of course they can be bought-it happens daily and often their votes are shopped around to the highest bidder. If this were not the case, corporate America would no longer be investing in them.
Baltimore City, MD
Cycles is an arts and social justice project addressing women’s health issues in neighborhoods in East Baltimore. Community artist, Whitney Frazier, collaborates with women and girls to produce an illustrated resource book about women’s health topics. After creating the book, female participants will distribute the book to their community members and host their own visual storytelling workshops.
Baltimore , MD
D center Baltimore is a a non-profit agency that is a broad cross-section of disciplines and individuals invested in improving and encouraging design-in all its iterations-in the Baltimore region. D center's members believe design thinking has the capacity to change the world and that banding together in creative collaboration will greatly improve the quality of urban life. The center's key program is the Design Conversations community discussion series.
Los Angeles, CA
Dan Froot (he/him) is a producer, performance artist, writer, composer, dancer, and saxophonist. He creates live performances and podcasts that foster community dialogue around issues such as food insecurity, housing, immigration, and the role of guns in American society. Dan received a New York Dance & Performance Award (a.k.a. BESSIE) for the creation of his music/theater work SEVENTEEN KILOS OF GARLIC; and a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (a.k.a.
Cambridge, MA
Dance for World Community™ actively promotes an expanded role for dance in galvanizing communities in order to meet the civic, social and environmental challenges of today. An initiative of the José Mateo Ballet Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the project seeks to create a closer relationship between dance and social change. It cultivates collaborative relationships between the dance community and local governmental, cultural, and social agencies, so as to inspire action to advance the civic health of local communities.
Brooklyn, NY
Dancewave’s mission is to provide high quality dance education and mentorship to NYC youth and to ensure access for low income students and families. Dancewave is a non-profit dance center that inspires students to express themselves authentically through an innovative model of dance education. Our unique model combines rigorous training with artistic integrity, and access for all, in a supportive environment. Students are mentored by accomplished dance professionals, which allows for personal growth as well as superior dance education.
San Francicso, CA
Dandelion Dancetheater is situated at the crossroads of dance, theater, community activism, healing, and new performance forms. Its work is built from a fascination with artistic experimentation, vulnerability, and risk-taking and a simultaneous commitment to the creation of high-quality, radically accessible art. Dandelion Dancetheater views the exploration of the endless possibilities of the human body as a potent means for personal and collective growth and share this exploration with diverse populations through performance, teaching, speaking, video, and writing.
Madison, WI
The Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission's mission is to encourage participation and access to Dane County's arts, culture and local history resources and activities.
Philadelphia, PA
Daniel Heyman is a painter and printmaker in Philadelphia. He is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow in fine arts and a 2009 Pew Fellowship in the Arts recipient.
Recent solo exhibitions include “Bearing Witness” at the Laband Gallery at Loyola Marymount University, List Gallery of Swarthmore College, and Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, “Abu Ghraib Detainee Interview Project” at the DePaul University Museum in Chicago, and “Eye Witness” at the University of Iowa Museum of Art.
Los Angeles, CA
He is an internationally recognized visual artist; an educator; political and community activist. His M.F.A. study took place at Otis/Parsons School of Design, and his BA from California Polytechnic University, where he was honored as Distinguished Alumnus of the Year.
Santa Fe, NM
Daphne moved to Santa Fe in 2007 after completing her first documentary film, Waterbuster, which she co-produced, wrote and edited with her partner, Carlos Peinado. Waterbuster premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film festival and was broadcast on regional public television stations. Daphne recently joined the Littleglobe Core Team as core artist and administrative coordinator.
David Feiner
Chicage, IL
Washington, DC
Since 1967, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (the Commission or DCCAH) has supported and advanced the arts and humanities of the District of Columbia. Through carefully calibrated investments across a range of targeted and general support grant programs the agency has helped make available a broad range of arts and humanities programs to the citizens of the District. During the past nearhalf-century, the Commission has developed other capacities and relationships that equip it to have even greater impact in the community.
New Orleans, LA
The Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project integrates the power of theatre arts and academic study into the national discourse on the death penalty. The Project offers actor Tim Robbins’ stage play of Dead Man Walking to schools, colleges, and universities. For the rights to produce the play, Robbins requires that at least two academic departments in the school incorporate the issue of the death penalty into their curriculum for at least a semester within that year.
Minneapolis, MN
“Dear President Blank,” is a mail art exhibition and project for every student at Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Here’s how it worked: 1. Each participating student created a message for the next U.S. president. 2. “Dear President Blank” collected and exhibited those messages in every hallway in the school. 3. Each message was then taken down and mailed to the next president. TALK ABOUT YOUR WORK/MESSAGE. MCAD faculty initiated discussion during the first week of class and then students picked up the conversation later, after the project had begun. The point was this.
Brooklyn, NY
Debi Cornwall is a visual artist working in conceptual documentary photography, who returned to creative expression in 2014 after a 12-year career as a wrongful conviction lawyer. Now, her values as an advocate and trained mediator, as well as her background representing innocent DNA exonerees, inform her visual work. Debi's deeply layered work marries empathy and dark humor with structural critique, using vivid, unexpected images and original documents to engage audiences and provoke new questions about choices made in the name of our satefy since September 11.
Washington, DC
MISSION
DEEP SPACE Arts is a peer-operated organization. We aim to present quality contemporary arts and interdisciplinary programming to facilitate and support the creative process as a portal into the collaboration of arts and multimedia.
SUMMARY
Deep Vision Dance Company
Baltimore, MD
Founded in 2011 by Artistic Director Nicole A. Martinell, Deep Vision Dance Company, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to producing high quality choreographic works in the Baltimore/DC area while creating a home for dancers, collaborating with local artists, and educating the community in the creative process. Martinell’s choreography immerses the audience into a unique world that highlights the flux of human emotions, arouses curiosity, and challenges one’s view of reality.