Community Work — Studio Two Three

Anchoring Grassroots Organizations

We believe in radical generosity and the power of grassroots community art production. To this end, we provide free space and deeply discounted program & administrative space for small & grassroots organizations including:

Afrikana Film Festival (a space that celebrates, elevates, and further validates Black stories, Black voices, and Black lives)
Performing Statistics (an 8 week summer institute that works with incarcerated youth to creatively reimagine the juvenile justice system

Milk River Arts (an ongoing studio program for neurodiverse artists)
Richmond Young Writers (supporting youth empowerment through creative writing)

*Printing T-Shirts with youth in the Performing Statistics program*

*Milk River Arts’ Validation Day Parade, featuring prints & banners created at Studio Two Three*

Providing Space for Arts & Advocacy Initiatives

*Richmond Public Schools Advocacy Posters*

We believe deeply in the power of printmaking to amplify the voices, stories and perspectives of our community.

Printmaking is an accessible, affordable means of mass production, and tool for civic engagement. We provide discounted & in-kind printing support for community groups & advocacy initiatives, and regularly host arts & advocacy projects including:

Richmond Public Schools (we provide space, educational assistance and printmaking for their advocacy meetings and events)
Southerners on New Ground (a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South)
History is Illuminating (we provide design & printing support for this project subverting the Lost Cause narrative and telling powerful Black stories)

Community Print Days

*Community Print Day with Friends of East End Cemetery photo by Brian Palmer*

*T-shirts printed at a Community Print Day at Marcus-David Peters Circle*

We bring our mobile print truck out in support of organizations with boots on the ground making our community stronger. We hold several Community Print Days a month; the content and printing vary each time. We’ve screen printed Defend Black Lives t-shirts, created giant letterpress type banners, and have converted the print truck into a darkroom to create large-format 8x10 portraits.