What is the Hive?

The Mission
T he Hive Archive is a non-profit, women*-run feminist arts organization. Our community space will provide an archive of art made by women, a feminist library and resource center, affordable community art studios and a gallery/performance space. Through these resources, we hope to create an accessible, safe environment for creative collaboration, learning, and activism.

*We define “women” as people who identify as, and/or live in the world as “women”.

The Vision
The Hive Archive's active promotion of gender equality in the arts is an integral part of a larger goal: using cultural production as a means of resisting and disabling racist, classist, ageist, homophobic and sexist social structures. The Hive will function as a community-based organization that focuses not just on art making and empowerment through creative expression, but that is also centered around civic involvement and social change. We believe that the sum of a whole is greater than it's individual parts; that people sharing ideas, skills and resources will always lead to accomplishments greater than those of any individual.