Trust and Truth

So Live! Arts will now be an official sponsor for the Trust Your Struggle Tour. We are proud and excited to be a part of this dynamic movement.

The Trust Your Struggle Collective is a group of visual artists, educators, and friends dedicated to social justice and community activism through the medium of visual art. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City they work in conjunction with several other collectives and groups to produce art exhibits and community based events.
In the year of 2006 the collective completed a tour in which they painted political and socially conscious murals throughout parts of Latin America. The tour, entitled Trust Your Hustle Mural tour was a 2 month long traveling mural project based on developing and painting murals in communities that they felt were misrepresented, repressed, and forgotten by the majority. The collective is currently preparing to create a national U.S. tour based on this model. The 2008 Trust Your Hustle Mural tour will take place from July to August. It will begin in Brooklyn, New York and travel through Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans, San Antonio, Albuquerque, Phoenix, and Seattle. The tour will end in San Francisco, California with a culminating exhibition at the Galeria de La Raza.

The Trust Your Struggle Collective believes in working with groups that are striving to make a positive change in their environment. In a larger sense, the tour is an exchange of culture, visual art, and political education. All murals are created in collaboration with local artists, cultural centers, youth, activists, or graffiti collectives. The 2006 tour took the crew through the countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

An integral part of the mural tour is to help facilitate mural/art workshops or participate on speaking panels in the communities where the mural is to be painted. This way the group is not only developing and painting the mural with members of the community, but also showing those communities that the tour goes further than just painting, it is an experience in the human connection through the arts. Trust Your Struggle Collective has facilitated workshops and participated on panels at: Virginia Tech University, Trinity College in Connecticut, University of the Arts in Boston, and Casa de Artesana and University of San Carlos, both in Guatemala.

To view images of those murals visit myspace.com/trustyourhustle or myspace.com/trustyourstruggle

Click to view a video from last year.



Come and raise fists and funds with us this Friday! Trust me, "Art is their business" they are most definitely So Live!