Art.coop is a hub where artists and culture bearers get money, ideas, and tools to strengthen their communities.
The time is ripe for an artist liberation movement.
We want to be honest about the economy in our lives and work. We must create based on different narratives and new logics. Our collective imagination transcends cultures of greed and domination.
Arts groups around the country are fed up with our current system and are inspiring others with practices of shared power and shared money. The movement we are part of is called the Solidarity Economy, where cultural practice and redistribution go together.
At Art.coop, we are building a world in which work, trade, life, art, and culture flow into a collective space in which we all thrive.
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Who We Are
Art.coop is a collective of artists and cultural workers who collaborate to grow an arts and culture movement rooted in solidarity by centering artists and cultural workers making systems-change irresistible.
Our Core Organizers are:
Lydia Blankenship, People & Culture
Gabrielle Chapman, Development
Robin Bean Crane, Programs
Ebony Gustave, Programs
Marina Lopez, Programs
Sissy Rosso, Communications
Sruti Suryanarayanan, Programs
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None of this work would be possible without Art.coop's Co-Founders in Emiritus, Caroline Woolard & Nati Linares, who birthed this collective in 2021.
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Art.coop is a fiscally sponsored project of Movement Strategy Center. Support comes from individual contributors like you as well as Barr Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Ruth Arts, Surdna Foundation, and Good Chaos.
We know that the financial support we’ve received can be contradictory to fully embodying the solidarity economy but we are in a time of collapse. We hope we will not be dependent upon philanthropy but while it still exists and in this transitory moment, Art.coop composts capital in its current form to build the solidarity economy.
This is a website for Art.coop which exists to grow the Solidarity Economy movement by centering creatives making systems-change.
Fellowship branding by Cierra Peters. Report design by Surplus+ (Shea Fitzpatrick and Lucy Siyao Liu). Website by Cole Krumbholz, Julian Boilen, Or Zubalsky, and Sruti Suryanarayanan.