MAKERS MATTER

Arts-informed Community Initiatives

Makers Circle is a non-profit arts organization founded by working artists and community activists. At Makers Circle we cultivate what really MATTERS by sharing our skills and creative work with our community through projects, community arts organizing, and public exhibitions. We invite you do the same.

Makers Circle works with photographers, artists, and makers to encourage and support their personal and professional development as social artists. To facilitate community change and transformation, Makers Circle designs and implements arts-informed initiatives in partnership with non-arts organizations that want to expand their reach and impact through cross-sector collaboration. At Makers Circle, we have a deep passion for the power of the creative process to encourage adaptive change, expand awareness, and open up new ways of seeing and relating.

We believe that the arts and artists should play a major role in community regeneration and sustainable economic development. By using the power of the creative process, we build and nurture transformative relationships between individuals, their communities, and the natural world.

Our team of community organizers, group facilitators, and place-based artists use their combined talents to work with communities and non-profit organizations around the globe to develop innovative projects that put the power of the creative process at the center of personal and cultural change. In addition, Makers Circle provides development and project design services that help non-profit organizations weave their unique mission and vision into compelling proposals and effective campaigns.

Please check out the Six Feet Photography Project, our recent example of a global project initiated and facilitated by Makers Circle. As well as our newly launched Kinship Photography Collective.

If you are a community-based non-profit or a concerned citizen looking for innovative and collaborative ways to respond to complex challenges, we would love to tell you more about the superpower that is arts-informed project design.