In 2022, Spitfire Strategies partnered with the People’s Project, a Los Angeles nonprofit powered by the Los Angeles Federation of Labor to produce Creative Resilience, an artful community experience that amplified the voices of BIPOC Angeleno workers, sounded the call for economic justice and celebrated the city’s vibrant cultural history of resilience.
Garnering more than 5,000 attendees, the 10,000-square-foot creative gallery and community action space focused on economic and racial justice and featured specially commissioned artwork from over 70 visual artists and performers. Creative Resilience centered BIPOC Angeleno workers’ experiences of pre- and post-pandemic economic hardship and their rich history of coming together through mutual aid to care for and support one another. Creative Resilience also included a Mutual Aid Expo related to the economy and work, situated among artful depictions of solidarity, workers, challenges for workers in the past and present, and an envisioning of the future of LA labor.
Two Tigers was recruited to create a docent training curriculum and leave behind based on the work in the show, lead an in-person docent training, and create a series of prompts for individual or group discussion for students.
The exhibition space was divided into six thematic galleries. Two Tigers worked in close collaboration with the curatorial team to identify representative artworks for each themed space and developed an easy to follow guide, which empowered each docent to lead an informed, inspired 30 minute tour of Creative Resilience, imbued with their own personal touch.
Discussion and reflection prompts encouraged interactivity between docents and audience members, fostering conversation and further building community. Spitfire created a virtual tour highlighting each gallery (or “chapter”) theme.
