What: Transformational Creative Strategies Training (TRCSTR) is a cohort training program for community and public artists established in 2020. Artists are supported through individual and collective mentorship from facilitators and advisors. Cohort sessions offer hands-on learning and facilitated activities and conversations that build skills, explore questions, and creative strategies. Artists are encouraged to develop and be guided by their own learning goals and participate in a collective process to create public projects shared at the program completion.
TRCSTR is part of Hope Community’s art and creative strategy department, Art of Radical Collaboration (ARC). ARC is home also to Power of Vision (POV) Mural Project.
Why: Artists and cultural organizers are continually finding ways to remind, activate, and connect us; ways to decolonize, build collective power, interrupt the toxic stories that oppress and silence. It can be challenging to navigate public art in ways that uplift and support communities and ourselves. TRCSTR brings together organizing principles, healing approaches, and art. The training is intended to strengthen our collective capacity for embodying our principles through artistic work, creatively and collectively moving toward the world we believe is possible.
