It Can Change
A collective of artists, designers, and other people...find out who (and what).
Joseph del Pesco
What would you say about a museum that saved the world? Take a look at Joseph's curatorial projects, ranging from posters to people, and see what you find.
Green Museum
A giant, collaborative, art-making tool.
Wowhaus
A collaboration between Scott Constable and Ene Osteraas-Constable, Wowhaus includes permanent and temporary public art, furniture, architecture, and environmental design. Wow!
Edible Schoolyard
Aiming to foster an environmental stewardship and revolutionize the school lunch program, The Edible Schoolyard allows children at Martin Luther King Junior Middle School to learn about and experience growing, harvesting, and preparing nutritious seasonal produce. In their organic garden and kitchen classroom the children learn how the natural world sustains us.
Slow Food
Join the movement that links pleasure and food with awareness and responsibility.
Village Harvest
A nonprofit suburban harvesting cooperative in Santa Clara Valley, California that provides, preserves, and promotes valuable natural resources.
Mobile Structures
An extensive and informative archive of Temporary Services that serves as a resource for any and all who use Mobile Structures.
Ben Kinmont
Waffles anyone? Check out Ben's website to find out more about his projects.
B+B
Sarah Carrington and Sophie Hope founded B+B in 2000 as a curatorial partnership in response to the idea that art should and could have tangible social benefits. B+B's aim is to test and critique the role of the artist as an agent for change.
Jens Haaning
Download the catalogue filled with documentation on selected works by Jens Haaning, 1993-2002, as well as texts by Jennifer Allen, Berlin, Nicolas Bourriaud, Paris, Nina Folkersma, Amsterdam, Harald Fricke, Berlin, Hou Hanru, Paris, Lars Bang Larsen, Glasgow and Vincent Pécoil, and Dijon.
Jeanne van Heeswijk
What form will she take today?
Fritz Haeg
Lots of interesting projects including the studio, Sundown Saloon, Gardenlab, Edible Estates, memorial lawns, communtiy gardens, and so much more! Information on Fritz Haeg's artistic practice, teaching, images, projects, experiments, images, archives, future projects, contact info, etc. can all be found here.
Living Library
The Living Library is a systemic approach to environmental transformation developed by Bonnie Ora Sherk. It integrates interdisciplinary, project-based learning, community ecological planning, and state-of-the-art communications technologies.
Isuma Igloolik
The Igloolik community has an experimental 20-year history of using contemporary media art to serve community cultural needs. This site is a great resource for independent Inuit Video-making including information on their award winning film, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner.
Dan Peterman/Experimental Station
The website of Blackstone Bicycle Works that gives information about Dan Peterman's art practice and the Chicago community, fire, and struggle that contributed to the rebirth of the Blackstone building as the Experimental Station.
Creative Capital Foundation
A New York City-based nonprofit organization suporting artists working in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields.
Liquidacion
Dreams and objects, fresh from the trash...? Find out more about the Urquiza cartoneros who are paying the price for a failing government and the neo-liberal dogma.
Paula Hayes
University of Openess
Mess Hall
In its most abstract interpretation, the Mess Hall is an ethical project. Keyholders, exhibitions, events, redistribution and relationships occupy a rent-free space and maintain a constant giveaway of small surplus goods displayed in a permanent installation of artist Dan Peterman's storage bins.
Temporary Services
Brett Bloom, Marc Fischer, and Salem Collo-Julin draw on varied backgrounds and interests to incorporate their aesthetic practice within their lived experiences. Comprising Temporary Services, they have taken an extended interest in developing non-commercial methods of inserting ideas into publicly trafficked spaces since 1998.
Stockyard Institute
The nature of The Stockyard Institute art project seeks to address the primary conditions in the participant's lives, securing reasonable methods of creative, exploratory practice through artist collaborations, multi-media practices, and educated modes of teaching and learning.
Littoral
A non-profit arts trust which promotes new creative partnerships, critical art practices and cultural strategies in response to issues about social, environmental and economic change...aiming to propose creative solutions to real-life problems.
Friends of Temescal Creek
A community organization of Temescal Creek Watershed citizens, businesses and supporting organizations whose ideal is to see Temescal Creek restored as a natural watercourse through the urban landscape, providing a recreational and wildlife corridor from the hills to the bay.
Black Panther Tours
Black Panther Tours provides a historical bus tour of sites in Oakland, CA. which were significant to the Black Panther Party, the civil rights movement and United States History. Use this link to learn about the movement and arrange a tour!
People's Grocery
With a mission to uphold the human right to healthy and affordable food, The People's Grocery is working to find creative solutions to the food needs of the residents of West Oakland by building a local food system and local economy.
Center for Urban Pedagogy
Educational projects about places and how they change; walking tours, parties, and so much more...
Christine Hill/Volksboutique
Christine is not only a great artist, she's our friend! Volksboutique is at your service with the Portable Office, Accounting Archive, Stamps Kits, and more.
Fallen Fruit
Dave Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young are losing their hunger by tending and harvesting all the free fruit they can find and they think you should do the same.