WHO WE WORK WITH
Spiral Q works with communities and groups of all kinds in the city of Philadelphia and beyond: artists, activists, educators, schools, youth service providers, community-based organizations, cultural centers, civic association, HIV/AIDS service and advocacy groups, LBGTQ groups, advocates for the homeless, addiction centers, and mental health providers. Our work and methods resonate with folks of all ages and backgrounds, see below for examples of partnerships.
YOUTH
Spiral Q’s work with pre-teens, teens and young adults emphasizes critical thinking and leadership development. We promote the power of self-determination and create safe spaces for expression from the personal to the political. Youth can connect with Spiral Q through volunteer opportunities and apprenticeships. Organizations can bring Spiral Q artists into youth program spaces through hired workshops and residencies.
ACTIVISTS
Committed to supporting our community member’s First Amendment rights, Spiral Q works with activists of all stripes and levels of experience to take their messaging to the next level. Consulting on messaging and tactics, leading production of puppets and props, checking out items from our collection, and loaning tools and materials are some of the ways we support activists in their work.
GROWN FOLKS
Spiral Q is not just for kids! We design and facilitate professional development opportunities for corporations and organizations, provide trainings for teachers and other education professionals, and we have deep experience leading storytelling, art and theater-making workshops with adult populations in residential treatment centers.
ARTISTS
Spiral Q supports artists that are aligned with our mission and work. We can provide work space, lend tools and equipment, donate materials, provide visibility opportunities, offer technical support and even act as a fiscal sponsor.
SCHOOLS
Spiral Q has worked in Philadelphia area schools for the past 17 years. Partnering with school administration and teachers designs arts projects that connect to common core curriculum, bring unity to school communities through shared experience and create space for student voice and innovation.
UNIVERSITIES
Spiral Q works with colleges and universities to connect our work and practice to curricula. This can range from in-depth multi-session arts trainings, to lectures on our practice, to participation in panel discussions, to linking students up to meaningful internship opportunities that connect their studies with real world experience.
ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
Combining creative forces is a beautiful thing. Spiral Q works with arts organizations of all kinds to enliven community events, elevate artistic performances, and enrich original exhibitions. Collaborations, commissions, consultations and collection loans can bring an arts organization’s work to a new exciting place.
COMMUNITY CONNECTORS
Spiral Q works with event producers, community development corporations and public institutions to strategize tactics for community engagement – from consultation on event design and outreach to creating hands-on participatory activities utilizing Spiral Q’s range of skills results in meaningful community connections.
PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS
Our community is rich with organizations and individuals who share our vision of a fair, just and creatively-engaged Philadelphia. Across neighborhoods, backgrounds and issues, we team up with others who apply their experience toward this shared goal. Together, we partner and collaborate on art-making, workshops, events, parades, actions, civic planning and a million glittering other ways that combine art and change in people’s lives.
Abington Art Center • ACT-UP • Action United • Action Without Boarders • AIDS Action • Allen Hilles Fund • Allied Mental Health • America Street Youth Opportunity Center • American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies • Arcadia University • Arch Street United Methodist Church • ArtSpot Productions • The Attic • Audenreid Beacon School • Bache Martin School • Belmont Charter School • Berman Museum of Art • Blankenburg Elementary School • Bread and Roses Community Fund • Broad Street Ministry • Bryn Mawr College • BuildON • Burlington County • Caucus of Working Educators • Centro Nueva Creacion • Chester Eastside • Chester House • Coalition Against World Hunger • COHMAR • Community College of Philadelphia • Community Education Center • Congreso • Decarcerate PA • Delaware County Peace Center • Earth Quaker Action Team • Education Works • Every Mother is a Working Mother • Feltonville Intermediate School • Fitzsimmons High School • Food and Water Watch • Freire Charter School • Friends of Clark Park • GALAEI • Germantown High School • Girard Medical Center • Girl Scouts of Southeastern Pennsylvania • Girls Rock Philly • Gold Coast Buccaneers • Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger • Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance • Greater Philadelphia Puppet Guild • Greenfield Elementary School • Hunter School • Jewish Voice for Peace • Jobs with Justice • Julia de Burgos Beacon School • Lake Borgne Levee • Leeway Foundation • Locke Elementary • Martin Luther King High School • May Day USA • Mazzoni Center • Men in Motion in the Community • Middle Years Alternative • Mondo Bizarro • Moms Clean Air Force • Moonstone School • Moore College of Art and Design • MoveOn • Mural Arts Program • Myers Recreation Center • National School and Community Corps • NCBI Philadelphia • Neighborhood Bike Works • New Freedom Theater • New Jerusalem • New Life Consumer Center • New Sanctuary Movement • Norris Square Community Association • North Philly Stompers • Occupy Philadelphia • One Pennsylvania • Outward Bound • Parent Infant Center • PCCY • Pentridge Children’s Garden • Pendle Hill • People’s Emergency Center • Philadelphia Folklore Project • Philadelphia Food Not Bombs • Philadelphia Free Library • Philadelphia Marathon • Philadelphia Jewish Peace Network • Philly Student Union • Philadelphia Trans* March • Philadelphia Weed and Seed • Philadelphia Youth Media Collaborative • Philadelphia Youth Network • Philly Against the War • Philly BDS • Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign • Powel School • Prince Music Theatre • Prometheus Radio Project • RAGE (Riders Against Gender Discrimination) • REDI, Inc. • Rhoads Elementary School • Richard and Friends in the Community • Rosenbach Museum & Library • Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education • SEIU Healthcare PA • Sheridan Elementary School • Smith Memorial Playground • Society of Friends • Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition • St. Andrew’s School • St. Joseph’s University • Students for a Democratic Society • Swarthmore Mountain Justice • Temple Contemporary • Tyler School of Art • The Lighthouse • The Rotunda • Unite Here • United for Peace • University City District • University of Pennsylvania • University of the Arts • Urban Nutrition Initiative • Urban Tree Connection • Ursinus College • Village of Arts and Humanities • Walnut Hill Community Association • West Kensington Ministries • West Powelton Steppers • West Philly High • Women’s Community Revitalization Project
