Kristine Schomaker

Tomorrow - September 30th Deadline This is it. The final hours to join the Call and Response Book Collaboration project. If you've been on the fence, now is the time to decide. What Is Call and Response? Since 2020, Call and Response has connected over 500 artists across six continents through collaborative art-making. Born during the pandemic to combat isolation and spark creativity, this project has facilitated hundreds of unexpected partnerships that transformed artistic practices and...

Sign up Deadline: September 30, 2025 About Call and Response Since 2020, Call and Response has connected over 500 artists across six continents through collaborative art-making. This international project pairs artists randomly to create work together through a back-and-forth exchange, building unexpected connections and fostering creative community across geographic and cultural boundaries. Now we're taking this digital collaboration into the physical world for the first time. The Project:...

I chose "A Multicultural View" as our theme because we're living through a moment when difference is being weaponized. ICE raids tear through communities across the country. Racism masquerades as policy. Our multicultural reality—the messy, beautiful complexity of who we actually are—gets reduced to talking points and fear. But here's what happens when artists respond to that fear with curiosity instead of silence: magic. Revolution. The kind of transformation that policy can't legislate and...