Activate spaces through art.
We want artists to explore ways to create, expand, re-contextualize, construct, or destruct space. What do we mean by “space”—physical space (public art, gardens, parks, structures, studios), mental space (freedom to imagine better and healthier futures) and socially constructed space (realities that are man-made, such as poverty, blight, gentrification, unemployment.) In doing so, we hope to creatively investigate the correlation between space, opportunity and the power of envisioning the future—specifically for, and with, a community that has historically been marginalized on the basis of race, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, language, and/or citizenship status.