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Research & Development Studio Projects


The outcomes of our studio practice are projects varying in form and scale that are developed in service to our mission of contextualizing our histories, imagining our futures, and grounding us in the now.

Memoryhaus 555
ITS-IN-SCOPE Thesis Collections
Archive Caretaker Fellowship Program
Worldbuilding 3000 Sympoisum
Quiet Magazine: Cultural Currency
People’s Propaganda Printmaking Studio
Studio Portraits @ BMF
Crenwshaw Remembers Arts & Wellness Festival
ITS-IN-SCOPE Thesis Exhibitions
Seed-to-Shelf Spring Market Event Photography
Rep Club Retail Residency: Free People Time Thesis
Library for Researching & Remembering
Jardin de Altagracia Design Development
SUM’MOR School
Studio Portaits @ Nuit Noire

Memoryhaus 406
Guiiided Visual Language
Presence Prompting
People’s Propaganda Guest Lecture
Dahomey Research Artifact & Film Screening
The Sun Seeker Film Screening







A creative research studio at the intersection of indigenous histories and intuitive futures. Through our cooperative practice and intercommunal services we aim to inspire the public into innovative-ancient ways of being. We be in community, through arts, and towards a vision informed by intuition, context, and ancestors.




















Memoryhaus 406


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Studio Services:

Installation & Placemaking → Collective Learning → Community Archiving →

Operating out of an 8ft x 10ft space and located within the Alliance Community Cultural Center in Downtown Pomona, Memoryhaus 406 was developed within the Memoryhaus placemaking framework piloted at Memoryhaus 555 in Los Angeles. This space opened in fall 2022 with a built environment functioning as a community archive, showroom, library and lounge for the Black and Indigenous community located within the Inland Empire and Pomona Valley region. Through a curation of books, a rotating installation of artworks, and ongoing community archiving activations the space served as a site for carefree curiosity, appealing in particular to students at the nearby arts high school. Regularly activated through Downtown Pomona’s second Saturday art walks, this alternative site of archiving and learning offered a communal function while serving as an additional retail space for the ITS-IN-SCOPE catalog.

title
Memoryhaus 406

format
Installation & Placemaking

practices
Collective Learning, Community Archiving, Creative Direction, Programming Development, Installation, Placemaking, Facilitation, Design & Propaganda, Service Design, Curatorial Development

seasons
Fall 2022 - Fall 2024

contributors
Marvin James, Mary D., Chara Swodeck, Joshua Swodeck

partners
Pomona 4As (African American Advisory Alliance)
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