Projects & Events

Creatives for Collective Action supports justice-centered creative projects that help communities gather, communicate, organize, fundraise, and imagine together.

Upcoming Events

Art market open call flyer for artists and musicians, December 5 at Street Theory Collective, 11am to 4pm; apply by October 16
Upcoming event · December 5, 2026Central Square, Cambridge

Fundraising Market

Our first Fundraising Market will bring local artists and community members together in the heart of Central Square to raise money for families supported by LUCE and Operation Milkweed.

Join us at Street Theory Collective in Central Square to shop from 15 art vendors, enjoy live music, and visit a cash bar. Artists of all mediums will sell their work at the event. We will post the full list of artists closer to December 5.

DateSaturday, December 5, 2026
Market hours11am–4pm
PlaceStreet Theory Collective
541 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139

Apply to be a vendor

Bring your work to the market.

We invite artists of all mediums to sell at our event. There is no table fee, and tables and chairs will be provided. We ask that a minimum of 40% of proceeds be donated to families supported by LUCE and Operation Milkweed at the end of the event. More is welcome.

Please complete the vendor form by October 16, 2026 to be considered.

Apply as a vendor

Current campaigns

The red Future Booth in a Boston park, with a landscape mural on its side A visitor holds a telephone inside the Future Booth, beside community drawings and call resources

Future Booth

In the fall, the MA Senate and House will negotiate the final version of the Mass Wins Act, a large economic development bill. One of the major provisions they will decide is whether the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act forms part of the final law. This chapter of the package would require large AI developers to:

  1. Create enforceable safety plans
  2. Submit risk reports
  3. Report critical safety incidents
  4. Run third-party audits
  5. Give their workers whistleblower protections

These crucial policy standards will directly impact the large AI corporations whose irresponsible development practices, due to a lack of regulation, are already causing harm. These regulations will help keep Bostonians and Massachusettsans safe.

Creatives for Collective Action partnered with the Massachusetts AI Action Network (MAIAN) to create an art justice and AI safety advocacy tabling campaign named Future Booth. Five CCA artists designed and built the portable booth. The booth was brought to public places around Boston to reach the people directly impacted by the bill. MAIAN tabled alongside the booth to inform community members about the bill, why AI safety matters, and encourage people to use the phone booth to call their representatives.

Inside the booth, visitors found a script of what to say to their representatives when they called. Afterward, callers wrote their reasons for calling directly on the booth windows, becoming part of the art project. The goal was to make advocacy immediate, public, creative, and fun rather than simply asking people to promise they would call or engage in some other way later. This project generated over 2,000 conversations and hundreds of calls.

What Is an Art Build?

An art build is a gathering where artists, organizers, and community members create visual materials together for a campaign, event, action, fundraiser, or community need.

Art builds can produce banners, signs, posters, zines, props, installations, digital graphics, or other public-facing creative work. Just as importantly, they create space for relationship-building, skill-sharing, political education, care, and imagination.

Future gatherings

Creatives for Collective Action hosts gatherings, workshops, listening sessions, art builds, and community events that bring artists, organizers, activists, cultural workers, and community members together. If you have an idea for an event or build, please reach out!

Past events and builds

As our work grows, this page will include documentation of projects, photos from art builds, artist reflections, partner organizations, and examples of public-facing creative work created through the collective.

Accessibility & Care

Our gatherings are participatory, welcoming, and beginner-friendly. You do not need formal art training to attend. We want our events to be as welcoming and accessible as possible. As we plan each gathering, we will share information about location, transit access, food, masking/COVID expectations, materials, physical accessibility, and any participation needs.