A QUIET APPROACH
Quiet believes that learning without teaching creates division, just as teaching without learning creates stagnation.
THE QUIET
EQUATION
We Believe
As artists ourselves, we have a responsibility to be of service to artists on their path to sovereignty by supporting their:
Wellbeing
a baseline state of mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, and financial health
Space
the time, focus and freedom to deepen and expand creative practice
Agency
the control and ownership over creative and personal narratives
We Believe
We are healing through creative practice while keeping the Creator at the center. Through this, we’ve found that:
our collective survival depends on our individual healing
practicing art is a restorative social act
audacious creativity supports contagious healing
We Believe
Everyone has a story to tell.
Stories unite the head and heart, and transform the way we see the world. Everyone has a story to tell. In a time of global and environmental transformation, creativity is needed to imagine new futures and shift culture.
Wellbeing
a baseline state of mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, and financial health
Space
the time, focus and freedom to deepen and expand creative practice
Agency
the control and ownership over creative and personal narratives
our collective survival depends on our individual healing
collaborative practice is a restorative social act
audacious creativity supports contagious healing
Stories unite the head and heart. They transform the way we see the world. In a time of global and environmental transformation, creativity is needed to imagine new futures and shift culture.
All we are doing here on this planet is learning and teaching, teaching and learning. "
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Jasper Young Bear
Community Artist
CULTURAL CURRENCIES CIRCULATE IN CONCERT, NOT IN ISOLATION.
To shift a culture dominated by financial, political, and social power inaccessible by many, Quiet believes that we need new mediums of exchange that cannot be owned by individuals. A currency that expands by giving, elevates consciousness, builds community, and shapes culture. We call it cultural currency.
Cultural currency allows us to find abundance where others see scarcity – to grow in the face of financial limitations. This is a creative antidote to the social, political, and humanitarian challenges of our time.
Recently, we produced a magazine featuring the five core cultural currencies that Quiet exchanges within our community and that continue to ripple outward.
HOW DO WE TRANSLATE COMMUNITY VALUES INTO NEW WAYS OF WORKING FOR A BETTER WORLD?
Quiet’s learning journey was born out of years of creativity, collaboration, and communication. A human-centered ecosystem of support emerged, including:
- intake processes focused on people, not projects
- programming designed to create space for creation
- funding conditions designed to offer patient capital for artistic sovereignty
On this page, you’ll find practical tools and templates we’ve used in our daily work. We invite you to explore them, try them on, build on them, challenge them, and come back to us with your own learnings and recommendations.
