OUR MISSION
Creative Acts is an organization that seeks to transform urgent social justice issues through the revolutionary power of the Arts; to heal trauma, build community, raise power, and center the voices of those who are or have been incarcerated.
WHO WE ARE
We are a Black-led organization that centers those with lived experience of incarceration and the global majority (BIPOC) in decision-making positions.
LAND Acknowledgement
We would like to respectfully acknowledge that the land Creative Acts stands on is ancestral and unceded Indigenous lands, specifically the territory of the Tongva, Kizh, Chumash and Yokuts people, and that the version of America that exists today began with genocide of the Native people on what they know as Turtle Island. Beneath the contemporary surface of any site in the United States, there are histories of belonging that have been erased, overlooked, contested, and forgotten, as well as contemporary communities that continue to endure, create and thrive.
As occupiers of these territories, we recognize the continual displacement of Native people by the US and are aware that land acknowledgements are often used as an empty stand-in for actual decolonization work. This is something to bear in mind while continuing to build frameworks to dismantle the ongoing effects of colonial legacy, both in the art spaces, educational spaces and elsewhere.
Please use this LINK to find out whose ancestral lands you work and live on, and learn about them because they are still here.
Our Impact
100%
voter turn out
Our Art Attacks! Program yielded a 100% voter turn out from our incarcerated youths inside during the 2020 election cycle.
#1
First program in Security housing unit
Our Virtual Reality Reentry program is the first program to be asked and to operate in the Security Housing Unit at a maximum security prison. There has been a 96% drop in in-prison infractions within the first year.
15+
alumni create our work
Our braintrust and our foundation for all our programs and training comes from the development work of our alumni community who served a total of over 200 years behind bars.
Our Programs
aRT aTTACKS!
Our Art Attacks! curriculum enriches and inspires incarcerated youth to be agents of civic change.
ANTI RACISM & DEI TRAINING
A revolutionary, arts-based approach to diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism to train corporations and organizations alike.
VR REENTRY
This game changing, immersive VR curriculum prepares adults serving life sentences for a safe, successful and technologically sound reentry into society.
Alumni Lab
Operating in the spirit of science, this laboratory brings together alumni of our various cohorts to shape curriculum so it is relevant to and reflective of the community we serve.
Support
Our Work
Consider becoming a recurring monthly Donor to help us continue serving our community and healing through the power of the arts!
