Indigo Arts for Social Justice
Creative Community Collaborations
We love exercising our creative muscles and engaging in creative synergy with community artists. We believe that art and embodied experiences can move us toward collective action.
In collaboration with our community partners, we support programming that uses a creative learning and exploration process that: strives to embolden community members to articulate their point of view on issues that matter to them, to raise awareness in others, and to inspire new action.
Do You Have A Creative Idea You’d Like To Pursue With Us?
Walking with Black Phoenicians: Journeying Towards Peace Amid Chaos
On October 13, 2018, in collaboration with Arizona State University's Museum of Walking, Indigo Cultural Center held a museum walk honoring artist Earl Cooke, who has been an active member of this neighborhood and a contributor to the arts in Phoenix for several decades.
At this event, we walked the Historical Jefferson Street Corridor – from 16th Street to 7th Street in downtown Phoenix. Known as the ‘Black Corridor,’ this 1-mile stretch was and still is considered the heartbeat or epicenter of African American cultural life. This historical and cultural trail acknowledges and pays homage to the educational, religious, political, social and cultural sites of key structures, buildings and places that paralleled key moments in the history of black Phoenicians and that comprises part of the national tapestry of civil rights history.
Learn more about the Museum of Walking at: www.museumofwalking.org
Artwork Shown: Earl Cook, Sisters of Africa, acrylic on canvas, 1986
Photograph of Artist Earl Cooke
American Creed Screening with PBS Arizona
On April 24, 2018, In collaboration with PBS Arizona, Indigo Cultural Center held a community screening of the documentary "American Creed" to support the launch of Indigo Cultural Center's second decade of equity visioning.
Learn more about American Creed at: https://www.americancreed.org/
Raising Children of American Community Screening at FilmBar
Healthy families make healthy communities -- What would our downtown Phoenix community look and feel like if we worked together on diminishing inequities so that all young children had access to quality early childhood education?
On March 24, 2015, Indigo Cultural Center joined the Alliance for Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care for a community screening of the first episode of Raising Children of America, a PBS series on changing the conversation around early childhood. During this event at FilmBar, community members discussed the importance of quality early childhood education and its effects on our families, communities and nation.
Learn more at: https://www.facebook.com/events/376897975827030