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The Culture Keepers

Meet the artists and culture makers offering us sustenance and healing in a time of global upheaval.

  • Galería De La Raza

    Galería De La Raza

    First Row (L-R): Stephen Torres, Esperanza Macias – Board Treasurer, Richard Bains, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Ani Rivera – Executive Director, Olga Talamante, Francisco X. Camplís, Maya Chinchilla, Cathy Arrellano, Little, Christine Wong Yap, Jess SabogalSecond…

  • Paola de la Calle

    Paola de la Calle

    Paola de la Calle is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary visual artist based in San Francisco, CA.

  • Tosha Stimage — In memoriam

    Tosha Stimage — In memoriam

    Tosha Stimage is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of SAINT FLORA, living in Oakland, CA.

  • Cecilia Cassandra “La Doña” Peña–Govea

    Cecilia Cassandra “La Doña” Peña–Govea

    La Doña is a solo singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music educator from San Francisco, CA. 

  • Violeta Luna

    Violeta Luna

    Violeta Luna is a San Francisco and Mexico City-based performance artist, actress, and activist born in Mexico City. 

  • Bria Woodland

    Bria Woodland

    Bria Woodland is a young Black Soulaan womxn, poet, activist, and community organizer from Oakland, CA.

  • Ray Ryda

    Ray Ryda

    Ray Ryda is a rapper, mentor, and community organizer from East Oakland, CA.

  • Urban Peace Movement

    Urban Peace Movement

    Cinemagraph participants, Special thanks to Urban Peace Movement community: Demario Lewis, Elijah Lewis, Anthony Scott, Gerell Arterberry, Ersula Capers, Clidell Jackson III, Gregory Gee, Julian Stephens Caballero, Jorgina Hernandez, Golden Tachiquin, Taylor-Rene Harrison, Ashley…

  • Eryn Kimura

    Eryn Kimura

    Eryn Kimura is a fifth-generation Frisconian and Japanese-Chinese American mixed media artist, filmmaker, cultural producer, and community builder. 

  • Jackie Keliiaa

    Jackie Keliiaa

    Jackie Keliiaa, Bay Area comedian and creator of Good Medicine Comedy, an all-Native comedy showcase.

  • Erik Wright

    Erik Wright

    Erik Wright, known as Chiller Leo, is a multimedia artist and community leader from Oakland, CA.

  • Sophia Tupuola

    Sophia Tupuola

    Sophia Tupuola is a first-generation Sāmoan-American visual artist born and raised in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco.

  • Adimu “WolfHawkJaguar” Madyun

    Adimu “WolfHawkJaguar” Madyun

    Adimu “WolfHawkJaguar” Madyun is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and healer from Oakland, CA.

  • Emory Douglas

    Emory Douglas

    Emory Douglas is a renowned political artist and activist whose work has been central to the Black liberation movement since the 1960s. 

  • Alex Locust, aka “Glamputee”

    Alex Locust, aka “Glamputee”

    Alex Locust, aka “Glamputee”, is a Bay Area-based drag performer, culture worker and disability justice educator.

  • Shanna Strauss & Jess Sabogal

    Shanna Strauss & Jess Sabogal

    Shanna Strauss is a queer Tanzanian-American mixed media artist and printmaker based in Oakland, CA (Ohlone unceded territory).  Jess Sabogal is a cuir Colombian-American muralist and printmaker from San Francisco.  

  • Corrina Gould

    Corrina Gould

    Corrina Gould is Tribal Chair of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation and co-founder and co-director of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. Born and raised in Huichin (Oakland, CA), a mother, grandmother, and lifelong…

  • Kumu Hula Mark Keali’i Ho’omalu

    Kumu Hula Mark Keali’i Ho’omalu

    Kumu Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu is the founder of the Academy Of Hawaiian Arts, a school and cultural center at the border of East Oakland and San Leandro. He is also known as a Kumu…

  • Timothy B

    Timothy B

    Timothy B. is a muralist and storyteller from Oakland, CA. 

  • Jon Bernson

    Jon Bernson

    Jon Bernson is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning media artist based in San Francisco working at the intersection of film, theater, sound, and installation.

  • Loveli “Revlon” Mohair

    Loveli “Revlon” Mohair

    Loveli “Revlon” Mohair is a Ballroom artist and fashion designer originally from Vallejo, CA, who performs frequently throughout the Bay Area.

  • Chucha Marquez

    Chucha Marquez

    Chucha Marquez is a Queer, Nonbinary Chicanx artist, event producer, and social media strategist from the South Bay. 

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Project Highlights

The Visual Vanguard: Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Party, and the Black Arts Movement in San Francisco 

Emory Douglas is widely considered the most prolific and persistent graphic agitator in American Black Power movements....

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The Medicine Is In The Laughter

In April of 2025, just days after her 40th birthday, Jackie Keliiaa stood on stage at Chico State University’s Laxson Au...

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POUND THE GROUND

A CHANT’S ENCOUNTER WITH EAST OAKLAND’S CONTROVERSIAL KUMU I’m hoofing it to catch a 57 bus that cuts across the entire...

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Paola de la Calle is Never Empty-handed

San Francisco has a way of finding its people. For artist Paola de la Calle, it was a print of a Zapatista portrait whea...

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Adimu “WolfHawkJaguar” Madyun

Adimu “WolfHawkJaguar” Madyun is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and healer from Oakland, CA.

Emory Douglas

Emory Douglas is a renowned political artist and activist whose work has been central to the Black liberation movement s...

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