Artists

We believe that art and artists are essential to societal movement and social progress. Get to know the artists that have played a critical role in our history.

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YBCA 10 Podcast

At the intersection of art and activism stands the 10 – a multidisciplinary cohort of artists brought together by YBCA. This podcast is dedicated to highlighting each member of the YBCA 10, making space for pivotal conversations about their cultural motivations, civic engagement, and how each are designing creative prototypes that directly address racial justice and climate equity for the betterment of community health and well-being.

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YBCA 10 Podcast: Alex J. Bledsoe

“We have a lot to learn from one another, especially when we’re tapping into our ancestral roots and our understanding of the land and our connections with land.”

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YBCA 10 Podcast: Dr. Ayodele Nzinga

“When I discovered the power in words, was when I began to take the idea of making art and make worlds and understand that’s what it was – world making – that it was powerful. Really, really powerful.”

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YBCA 10 Podcast: My-Linh Le

“When I look at turfing by itself […] it’s already a whole database. It’s already a genre of study. We think that scientific method is the only way of knowing something, and that’s just simply not true. Our bodies know so much.”

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YBCA 10 Podcast: Deanna Van Buren

“I think there’s been great impact in at least having people think that we can be, as architects, we can be folks who address social change rather than propping up systems of oppressions, which is what we’ve been doing since the dawn of time, even to change systems like mass incarceration.”

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SF-GIPA Artist Impact Stories

We sat down with San Francisco artists and SF-GIPA participants to talk about how SF-GIPA impacted them, their loved ones, and their creative communities.