FOR ARTISTS

that centers creativity as a catalyst for transformative connection and collective liberation.

We are

AN ARTIST COLLECTIVE

Through campaigns and activations throughout the United States, we provide visionary tools to communities, artists, and organizations to make beloved community irresistible. Together, we seek infinite expansion.

Through campaigns and activations throughout the United States, we provide visionary tools to communities, artists, and organizations to make beloved community irresistible. Together, we seek infinite expansion.

Activations

On stage at the Brooklyn Museum, Peña and Bain will coanchor a live show that includes a segment called “News from the Inside,” featuring an incarcerated correspondent reporting from prison.
In conversation with The Embrace, a new monument on the Boston Common by Hank Willis Thomas x Mass Design, For Freedoms co-curated the exhibition with Praise Shadows Gallery.
Following its premiere at the Brooklyn Museum (October 28 - November 6, 2022), For Freedoms announces that For Freedoms News (FFN) will be presented in its second iteration at Untitled Art.
#EyesonIran is a response in solidarity with the courageous Iranians who are risking their lives to express their demand for human rights and a free Iran.
On August 29, we were at the Apollo Historic Theater for a one-night performance of LYRICS FROM LOCKDOWN, written and performed by Bryonn Bain, directed by Gina Belafonte and produced by For Freedoms as part of Another Justice: By Any Medium Necessary.
Commissioned by The Music Center, We ARe Here: A Celebration of Legacy paired the worlds of physical and digital artistic experiences to broaden our understanding of L.A.’s ancestral history.
For Freedoms, in collaboration with Blackpuffin Curatorial, presented its third visual essay Looks of Freedom III, curated by Modou Dieng Yacine and Michelle Woo.
Another Justice is a call to reconvene and reconsider what justice can be in a time of imbalance.
A COOL MILLION (ACM) is a campaign for climate awareness and activism led by artists, arts professionals, and institutions.
For the first time, For Freedoms went to the UK! In partnership with Avant Arte, For Freedoms presented 2020 Awakening billboards by Hank Willis Thomas and Christine Wong Yap throughout London and offered limited prints of each design.
What does LANDBACK mean to you? We asked over twenty Indigenous artists and allies this question, inspiring reflections on the past, and visions of the future.
FOR FREEDOMS and CONVERSE have teamed up for Hear Her Here - an initiative that helps propel more Black femme artists into spotlights, onto stages and at the heads of tables to make positive impact on the communities we share.
In collaboration with The May 19th Project, in solidarity with AAPI heritage month, and in honor of the diversity of the AAPI community, For Freedoms curated and produced a billboard campaign to visualize mutual support in a time of increasing anti-Asian violence around the globe.
What else could freedom look like? How expansive can a nation's self-image be?