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Artisans Cooperative
At 18 members strong, this bi-lingual multicultural artisans producer cooperative's mission is to increase art engagement among low income communities and create social justice change through interactive art that educates, all while strengthening their own economic feasibility through collectively producing and selling their art. In the past year they have successfully run an after school arts programming for youth at our shared community center, rotated showcasing artists at First Friday Art Walks. held four multicultural events that created interactive cultural spaces, showcasing their art, while inviting others to participate as co-creators. During the spring, summer and fall season of this year, they will work in collaboration with Manos Unidas Cooperative to co-create inter-generational workshops that educate through art focusing on the human experience of migration. They will foster youth and adults alike to create art and poetry that can be integrated into Manos Unidas's bi-lingual social justice art zine, Froneras Comunes. The workshops will culminate in a butterfly procession downtown that includes master butterfly puppets co-created by the artists.