WORKS

Image: Random Fortune Generators, Dumbo Arts Festival, 2013, Brooklyn, NY. By Anjali Deshmukh. Photo by Chasi Annexy.

We are artists, arts collaborators, people committed to justice, and/or people with experience in co-creating for and with people in public space.

Through The Arisen, we’re creating art embodying justice, in our studios, on our stages, and in our pages.

"At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody."

--Arundhati Roy
"My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe."

—Ana Mendieta
“We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.”

—N. Scott Momaday

PRACTICES

Social Practice is an art discipline that aims to create social and/or political change through collaboration with individuals, communities, and institutions, often in the creation of participatory art, and focuses on interaction between participants, social systems, & the artist or artwork. People in relationship are aesthetics in themselves — not only part of a work’s creation.
Including our community of writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
In our community are people who make with color, line, shape, and texture.
In our community are people who use their voices, as singers, speakers, and storytellers.
Where justice, loving care, solidarity, and other values can be embodied as forms of art.