Tuesday Dec 2 is GIVING TUESDAY. With your support, we commit to standing tall as the community hub for APIs we have always been: educating emerging artists and growing class consciousness, gathering resources and making safer spaces, amplifying voices and empowering communities. Community is Everything, so will you donate to KSW today?
Read MoreThis winter, Kearny Street Workshop’s (KSW) “Community is Everything” is a belief that will build a better society for future generations. Our goal is to raise $35,000 at www.givebutter.com/ksw!
Read MoreIWL Summer Sessions provides an opportunity for students to work with experienced teaching artists in poetry and prose in two 4-week sessions during July and August. Applicants can apply for one or both sessions.
Read MoreAPAture is in its 26th year of supporting emerging artists from across the Bay Area! From October 18th to November 8th, we’ll be presenting four showcases and an art fair in venues across the city!
Read MoreIWL 2025 submissions are now open until March 23, 2025. Apply today to join a cohort of BIPOC writers who will spend this summer working across different literary genres!
Read MoreAVA Lab is a 9+ week hybrid seminar, professional practices, and cultural organizing intensive and is intended to develop and mentor APA visual artists looking to deepen their praxis in and with community, rooted in KSW’s organizational praxis of Solidarity, Renewal, Futurity, and Autonomy.
Read MoreSubmissions for IWL 2025 are open until Saturday, March 23rd! We’re excited to announce this year’s instructors including author of the critically acclaimed, Little Gods (HarperCollins 2020), Meng Jin, author of mahogany (2023 Wesleyen Press), and essayist featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, and more, Amanda Machado!
Read MoreIn memory of artist, organizer, and KSW’s former Executive Director, Mark Izu.
Read MoreThanks to you, Kearny Street Workshop raised $28,000, above and beyond our $25,000 goal for “Together, We’ll Make It.”
Read MoreHappy Holidays, friends! There’s still time to give
Read MoreThank you all for supporting KSW throughout this year. We wanted to take a moment to reflect on the many incredible accomplishments and the programs we hosted with your help
Read MoreTo all those who have donated, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We’ve raised an incredible $17,680 in peer-to-peer fundraisers, pledges from our closest supporters, mailed checks and cash, anonymous donations, and from our incredible monthly donors!
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