ARCOS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC

Description

ARCOS has been serving independent artists since 2011; sustaining and evolving by remaining fluid in both artistic process and organizational structure.Guiding our structures is a core value of divesting from white supremacy as a company and as individuals. Operationally, this looks like sharing our platform with BIPOC artists, redistributing resources, radical transparency, horizontal decision making, and care-full hiring and rehearsal processes. The development of these values has integrated us in a community of future-oriented artist-activists we are proud to support and co-create with. It has also shifted the way we make work, what that work looks like, and where/how we present work in communities.

Currently co-directed by dance artist and educator Erica "EG" Gionfriddo and multimedia artist Eliot Gray Fisher, ARCOS creates work that probes the intersection of technology and humanity through rigorous interdisciplinary experimentation. We utilize a process of "hacking" or repurposing everyday technologies for other than their intended use. We hold an expansive definition of technology to include the digital, analog as well as technologies of identity and community like language, gender, and even dance and movement forms.

As we move into our second decade of arts innovation and service, we are hoping to find volunteer board members who are as excited as we are about co-creating new futures where arts and our bodies are integral to surviving and thriving as a species.