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Art as We Are: Creative Community Care
The Ripple Effects of Collective Artmaking - Izabela’s Story
The Ripple Effects of Collective Artmaking - Izabela’s Story
The Ripple Effects of Collective Artmaking: Rehearsing More Caring Futures
The Ripple Effects of Collective Artmaking: Rehearsing More Caring Futures
Come As You Are (but really): raia’s story
Come As You Are (but really): raia’s story
Come As You Are: Co-creating Caring Spaces through Collective Artmaking
Come As You Are: Co-creating Caring Spaces through Collective Artmaking
Pay it Forward Arts Fund forms partnership with Art Not Shame
Pay it Forward Arts Fund forms partnership with Art Not Shame

The Pay it Forward Arts Fund (PIFAF) is a gift of artist Barbara Salsberg Mathews and her husband Bruce Mathews. The award helps local artists, in any discipline, fund art projects that “pay it forward” and benefit the community.

The Brown Bag Art Club
The Brown Bag Art Club
Crown Shyness: reflections on F*ck Perfect from Aubrey Szabo
Crown Shyness: reflections on F*ck Perfect from Aubrey Szabo

Artist Witness for Fuck Perfect, Aubrey Szabo, reflects on their experience and what their work, Crown Shyness, means to them.

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