Diverse Works Inc.

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“The only directors who receive compensation are the executive directors and the board has to approve any increase in compensation for the executive directors”

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“Founded by artists in 1982, diverseworks is nationally known for its groundbreaking artistic programming, meaningful engagement with communities, and advancement of progressive art and ideas in houston and the nation. The organization provides commissioning opportunities for emerging and mid-career artists to create new multidisciplinary work, and acts as a launching pad for young artists, collective and future arts organizations. Diverseworks supports artists and projects that inspire dialogue about contemporary issues and culture and offer experiential and progressive works of art that compel viewers to broaden their perceptions of what art is and how art can be a critical tool for addressing social, cultural, and aesthetic concerns. Major programs in 2022-23: sites of memory: jenelle esparza and veronica gaona (september 24-november 5, 2022, diverseworks gallery @ match, houston) this exhibition featured recent works by jenelle esparza (san antonio) and veronica gaona (houston), who each explore the impermanent nature of land and its residual energy using objects, land-based materials, and research. Dw also presented an outdoor performance by gaona: for those who do not return in life, there is always death / para aquellos que no regresan en vida, siempre est la muerte in collaboration with lawndale art center. Project freeway fellowship (september 2022-may 2023, diverseworks and various locations) project freeway fellowships support artists to create new community-focused projects that address the people and places where they work and live. For her fellowship, performance artist stacey allen worked in collaboration with cultural preservationist and photographer danielle mason and filmmaker keda sharber to create aesthetic inheritances, a project that addresses the need for the preservation of black culture and community. A portion of the project took place on the site of the barrett family home at barrett station, a freedmen's settlement established in 1875 in northeast harris county. For their fellowship, husband and wife team, laura moreno and azel agustin, focused on their changing neighborhood in northwest houston through the kitchen table interviews. The project was developed as a documentary film and community conversation that preserves the oral histories of their neighbors before they are lost through the process of rapid gentrification. Little central america, 1984 (december 17-18, 2022, first unitarian universalist church of houston) this live performance by elia arce and ruben martnez focused on the "little central americas" established across the u.s. As a result of the central american civil wars of the 1980s. The new production at one of houston's sanctuary churches included a local central american poet, a family from houston's salvadoran community, and local latinx musicians. This was the national premiere of this new theatre work and was co-presented by diverseworks and circuit network. A gift from the bower (april 22, 2022 november 18, 2023, locke surls center for art and nature @ splendora gardens, cleveland, texas) this major outdoor, multidisciplinary art exhibition and performance series featured new large-scale sculpture by fourteen artists and artist teams installed in small clearings in the piney woods of splendora, texas. As the world experiences the unprecedented impacts of climate change, aspects of the flora and fauna of the grounds took a central role for audiences in their experience of the artworks and their relationship to the natural world. Lead artists included leticia r. Bajuyo, susan budge and george tobolowsky, john calaway, carlos canul and rachel gardner, lina dib, alton dulaney, ronald l. Jones, sharon kopriva, charmaine locke, jack massing, sherry owens and art shirer, patrick renner, kaneem smith, and james surls.”

“Contract labor: program service expenses 37,000. Management and general expenses 110. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 37,110. Artist fees: program service expenses 45,926. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 45,926. Professional fees: program service expenses 19,050. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 1,625. Total expenses 20,675. Payroll processing fees: program service expenses 78. Management and general expenses 35. Fundraising expenses 67. Total expenses 180.”