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.






















Presence Prompting


← Back to Studio Projects Partner: Moonwater Farm → Pomona 4A’s → Residency Art Gallery →

Studio Services:

Community Archiving → Collective Learning → Installation & Placemaking →

Presence prompts are a community archiving initiative rooted in a simple paper and market question and answer format that produces an automatic archive through shared reflection and collective presence. Often produced as a key and complementary feature within exhibition development, this practice allows for expanding the curatorial concept into an interactive feature that honors attendees perspective alongside participating artists or facilitators.



title
Presence Prompting

format
Community Archiving

practices
Collective Learning, Installation, Creative Direction, Placemaking, Facilitation, Design & Propaganda, Printmaking

seasons
Winter 2019, Ongoing

contributors
Marvin James, Altagracia Alvarado

partners
Residency Art Gallery
Pomona 4A’s (African American Advisory Alliance)
Moonwater Farm
Black Market Flea