S.O.W. The Seeds Of Wisdom Foundation Inc.​

Bed~Stuy Creative Collective
​The Bed~Stuy Creative Collective will maintain a collective space, for exhibiting projects/shows and workshop or studio facilities. This is for economic reasons, to give members volume purchasing power and to allow for the costs of publicity and shows to be shared. Also for political reasons, to increase local lobbying power for arts infrastructur and to gather behind a cause or belief. For professional reasons, to develop a higher group profile that benefits the individuals by association, to create a hub for curators and commissioners to more easily locate potential talent.
The Bed~Stuy Creative Collective is significant to the artists’ practice because of the increased collective intelligence  made possible by the cross-combination of multiple creative minds and disciplines, the cross-fertilization of ideas and approaches and the social richness and networking capacities involved.
The Bed~Stuy Creative Collective will function as a group of artists with complementary resources and skills providing a solid ground for collaborative work directed to the needs of the community-at-large. Specifically we are involved in programs facilitating the development, production, and distribution of collaborative works. These works are realized in various media including film and video for theatrical distribution, network/ cable broadcast, the Internet and more conventional art media such as graphics and printed materials.
This defines the fundamental aspects of our members' desire to create and distribute "collaborative work" under the umbrella of an artist-run organization, our focus on new media versus traditional art objects and our openness to a range of aesthetic styles that would meet the "needs of the community-at-large." This last point is critical to our group's identity and serves as the foundation of a workshop-oriented administration that encourages experimentation in many different areas, including but not limited to TV production, video editing, film, and performance art. With various workshops operating simultaneously and the participants' ability to draw on like-minded members as partners, the “Collective” could produce many projects without the burden of an institutional identity. Hopefully, individual members will work together on more than one project in small subgroups that will change and over lap from one project to the next.

​OUR FUNDRAISING GOAL for ​THE BED~STUY CREATIVE COLLECTIVE IN 2013 IS $100,000.