Level Ground (LG) is an award-winning artist collective and production incubator creating experiments in empathy. We are at our best when we provoke both artists and audiences in spaces that may initially cause discomfort, but are ultimately transformative. LG was founded on the belief that social progress is only realized when we build solidarity across imposed social structures designed to keep us divided. These structures serve to maintain the status quo for the benefit of those at the top and include, but are not limited to: capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, ableism and racism.

Our Mission:
Through organizing and creating with artists, Level Ground is committed to destabilizing oppressive social structures through art making, community building, and resource sharing.

Our Vision:
Level Ground is a cohesive, horizontal community representing multiple and intersecting identities. We build solidarity across imposed social structures designed to keep us divided as our community strives to be rooted in right relationship with one another, the planet, and our means and economies of survival. We hope to inspire new, collective ways of imagining and organizing public and private communities in the arts and beyond.

Our Values:
– We build creative collaborations based on equitable access to resources, participation, and influence.
– We support artistic experimentation by protecting space to see differently and create what hasn’t been tried before (and might not even work).
– We provoke empathy by being open to the discomfort of seeing things from a new or opposing point of view.
– We foster nuanced conversation, especially between people who wouldn’t otherwise connect with each other.
– We cultivate diverse relationships because progress is realized when we build solidarity across the imposed social structures designed to keep us divided.