Mxt Collective

Based in the Bay Area, CA

“The Borderlands are physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory, where under, lower, middle and upper classes touch, where the space between two individuals shrinks with intimacy.” – Gloria Anzaldúa

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About Us

Mxt Collective is a group of artists, writers, makers, and creatives who are individually of mixed backgrounds, cultural ties, and presentations. It prioritizes individuals of minoritized experiences, with emphasis on BIPOC experience.

The collective functions as a space to hold discussion about individual identity conflicts and their cultivation into our creative practices, a space for community engagement, support, and brainstorming, a space to curate shows, workshops, and projects, a space to recenter, and a space to expand mutually.

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Mission

» To untangle the conflicting dualities and multiplicities of our mixed identities and intersectionality within the scope of individuals’ creative work. We are here to help uplift the voice that nuanced identity does not have to adhere to singularity in order to be heard in the art world.
   
» The development of a larger community to be able to exchange the paralleled experiences of mixed identity and living in the “in between.” This community is to be used as a container to more poignantly discuss how identity issues play into our daily lives, how to foster these conversations and questions on identity more deeply into our creative practice, and how to use them as a means of breeding increased connectivity.

Vision

» To help inspire and encourage continual expansion, growth, accountability, and learning, both internal in ourselves and external in our relationships with others. The more expansive this collective container is, the more strength we have in using these conversations and questions as a powerful tool of language and art-making to bridge the “borderlands,” not just of our own complex identities but the borderlands of all the diverse identities of those around us as well.

 

Monthly Meetings

Community

Zines + Publications

Art Shows

Artist Led Workshops

Project Facilitation

Panel Discussions

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