

“There were many fears at the beginning of the war—but none greater than the sense of doom that seemed at once incredible and certain. This was especially true when the neighboring towns fell, and the enemy swelled into these spaces like a flood ready to drown our village.”
On April 11th, Noni Williams, G. Anthony Galdamez, Ken Heinze, and Carlie Waganer sat down for a conversation about how we define and assess what constitutes failure in creative processes that hinge on investigation, discovery, and uncertainty.
On Friday, March 14th, we sat down with artists and organizers Lydia Cheshewalla, Patrick Costello, and Alajia McKizia to talk about compost as a mechanism for transformation, renewal, and exchange, and explored affinities in their work that bind compost to history, inheritance, and carrying certain types of knowledge forward.
By championing exploration over expectation, we support creative work that investigates our present and inspires a more just, equitable future for our city.

On June 13th, Paul High Horse, John Paul, and Barbara Robins sat down with Annika Johnson for a conversation about methods and materials Native and Indigenous artists and culture bearers use to interrogate past erasures, reclaim the present, and vivify Indigenous futures.