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The call for submissions for the 2025 Fulcrum Fund grant cycle is NOW OPEN. It will close at 11:59pm on Friday, December 20, 2024.
The call for submissions for the 2025 Fulcrum Fund grant cycle is NOW OPEN. It will close at 11:59pm on Friday, December 20, 2024.
In 2019, in cities across the country, the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad was celebrated with a great deal of fanfare. There is another story that must be told. The Other Side of the Tracks exhibition presents an imaginative new understanding of the locomotive through the eyes of artists from historically marginalized communities.
Artist Caroline Liu will lead a hands-on youth workshop that invites young artists to paint their own skateboard with a focus on mental health awareness. Inspire Nation, a local youth-centered mental health nonprofit, will provide their Rebel Responsibly journals and promote journaling and skateboarding as emotional outlets and Green Chili Skateboards will donate blank skateboards.
Delve into the history of the West through the lens of Chinese and other railroad workers’ histories, and through the railroad’s impact on America with a dynamic, inter-media live reading from poet and scholar, Paisley Rekdal.
The two-day workshop includes day one on Thursday, Jan. 9 from 5:30-8:30pm and day two on Sunday, Jan. 12 from 1-4pm. Tickets available soon at a sliding scale price.