Look for the spring release of the next volume of our Kin/Folk/Lore community-led history project organized by GVGK Tang!

Kin/Folk/Lore offers a grassroots, translocal approach to 21st storytelling. Residents forge unlikely connections while considering changing landscapes, core values, and hopes that define their lives – past and present.

Funding was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, PA Humanities, and Spring Point Partners. Additional support was provided by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and Independence Foundation.

Throughout 2026, our Living/Memory initiative is exploring community histories and the core values that define our lives – stories of perseverance, survival, and success.

Philadelphians are creating new public artworks connnecting past and present – while collaboratively imagining our shared future Living/Memory honors unknown narratives and personal experience, asking city residents, "What stories do you live for? What memories inspire you and keep you moving forward?"

Join us online, at our Main Street studio, and all around the city as we work together to make it better!™

COSACOSA youth grow, tend, and play in our North Philadelphia Healing and Unity Gardens!

Working with COSACOSA artists, the Gardens were designed and developed by neighborhood residents to transform overgrown, abandoned lots into sacred sites for the community – with paintings, mosaics, sculptures, and plantings that honor elders past and present, and signify hopes for the future. These spaces of walkability, wheelability, rest, and respite have been centerpieces of community life since 2006. Please meet us there for family-friendly activities throughout the coming year!