CULTURE & ARTS 

• A growing collection of creative ecosystems and funds supporting Black people!

• The LA Black Photographer’s Union is seeking to open a photography center/ community space to provide free and low cost photography services. Fund here.

• Black Archivist believes in the power of the Black narrative and provide the tools and resources for Black people to document the life around them. To apply for a camera the only prerequisite is that you are Black / African American, living in the US and you have a love of photography at any level. Black Archivist accepts monetary and equipment donations!!

• The Black School is an experimental art school teaching art and radical Black history. They’re working to build a schoolhouse for the Black Radical Art School in New Orleans.

• BIPOC Creative Directory of photographers, makeup artists, set designers, stylists, and manicurists.

• Diversify Photo runs a continually growing database of BIPOC photographers available for hire and have launched #HireBlackPhotographers.

• Authority Collective is a group of over 200 women, non-binary and gender expansive people of color working in photography and film.

• Arts Leaders of Color Emergency Fund organized by Arts Administrators of Color Network

• Black Trans Femmes in the Arts (BTFA) supports the community of Black trans femmes in the art world

• See In Black is a collective of Black photographers. Through the sale of photo prints, they support funds with the goal of dismantling white supremacy and systematic oppression.

• Support 2000+ Black artists and Black Femme identifying artists by buying their music on Bandcamp

• Check out The White Pube. Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad are two young art critics providing thoughtful, generative, often dynamic, and never boring reviews, writing, and thoughts on art every week. TWP hosts monthly residencies for artists on their website. They remain independent from any large funders/organizations, this is their job! Donate to TWP here!!!

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