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All exchanges are connected, even though we pretend we live in separate worlds. And the world certainly does not need more pity. It needs more love. Love through shared creation, understanding, curiosity, and collaboration. Because when we love like this, we create far more lasting transformation than distant charity ever could. Instead of donating $20,000 to a local non-profit this year, why not expand your network, strengthen your community, and transform your worldview by

“There are levels to art,” a recent candidate told me as he asked about our fellowship opportunities, wanting to know where he stood amongst the other candidates accepted. That sentence disqualified him immediately from our program. Not because he isn’t right — there are levels to art — but because someone who can truly hold the responsibility that an artist has in this world knows competition is largely irrelevant. Art’s mission is not to save. It is to transform. To transfo

Not a heartbeat of mine skips when I open my social media feed and see another kidnapping or act of violence somewhere in Latin America. This particular incident happened on the complete other side of the country — roughly 1,000 kilometers away from where we are currently building. And still, my heart doesn’t stop. “Nikki, you’re delusional if you think you can create in the tropics,” my father tells me wholeheartedly. I know he worries about my safety. But I wasn’t born in A