With support from the California Arts Council, Level Ground Inc will publish the fifth edition of SKEW Magazine – an experimental art and dialogue magazine produced annually. From poetry to artwork to photography to essays and more, SKEW features exciting, thought-provoking new work from experimental Black artists both locally and globally.
We run three distinct, interdependent programs. The specific events and projects within each program may evolve or even change year-to-year on account of our capacity, budget, and strategic decision-making, but these programs provide the consistent scaffolding for where Level Ground directs our resources.
Our Residency Program provides emerging visual artists and cultural stewards with financial, creative, and care support to produce and exhibit a new body of work. A rotating selection committee curates each residency cohort, and every program cycle culminates with a free public offering from the residents.
Our Production Incubator supports experimental and nonfiction filmmakers making work about critical socio-political issues. We create opportunities for collaboration and provide resources for project development, production, and distribution.
Our Social Practice Labs are artist-led humanities seminars and workshops inspired by revolutionary texts where our larger communities join the Level Ground Collective to study and practice frameworks of collective liberation and abolition. Each year, the lab is documented in an annual group publication and/or exhibition.
Alongside our programs, Level Ground maintains a Mutual Aid Network that offers responsive, ongoing, and direct material support specifically and exclusively for the Level Ground Collective (i.e. emergency grants, health stipends, project materials).

