Grantee Database

Macro Waves Collective

Grant Year

2023-24

Grant Program

General Operating Support

Award Amount

$38,499.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, Macro Waves Collective will invest the 1st year of funding towards essential capital improvements on its new Emeryville experimental studio and the 2nd year of funding towards wages of 3 core administrative staff who will manage all creative direction of programs and partnerships, technical operations, and project finances for the creative hub. This studio will be dedicated to artistic incubation, creative experimentation, and community building. The fundamental improvements include building out a fabrication workshop, media lab, gallery, and flexible multi-use space that will prioritize access to other QTBIPOC+ artists based in the Bay Area seeking opportunities to explore new avenues of their practices and bodies of work. A core program for this studio will be an annual residency for interdisciplinary artists, community organizers, and cultural disruptors.

Organization Summary

As a collective, Macro Waves specializes in creating experiential art, interactive installations, and immersive exhibitions. Our programs incorporate a combination of multimedia installations, new media, projection mapping, performance, and storytelling. We conceptualize projects with the intention of cultivating meaningful partnerships with community activists, organizers, collectives, and other artists based in the Bay Area.

Through an intersectional framework, we integrate healing in our creative practice as a form of radical justice, so that we may unlearn cemented patterns reinforced by generations of trauma and violence. Our projects and programs focus on the topics of mental health, healing justice, and collective care. We offer alternative modalities of multisensory healing-based experiences that encourage participants to practice self-care and collective care. All of our projects are participatory, inclusive, and accessible to the community. In response to the pandemic, Macro Waves expanded its programs and services, integrating new media and technology-based solutions towards creating safe, socially distanced, and online-based opportunities to engage with our works. We have developed virtual gallery platforms, produce augmented reality art tours, live stream production and conceptualized new creative projects.
In addition to our collective practice, Macro Waves operates as an art studio that offers a range of creative and technical services including but not limited to art direction, projection mapping, installation art, motion graphics animation, video production, environmental design, fabrication, and print production.

Organization

Macro Waves

Address

1420 45th ST #50,

Emeryville

94608

County

Alameda

Region

Bay Area – Other

Phone

(415) 713-7856

Congressional District

California Assembly district 15

State Assembly District

District 15

State Senate District

District 9

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