The Queer Culture Arts Foundation (QCAF) is dedicated to preserving, cultivating, and reimagining queer cultural life through art, storytelling, and space-making. We support queer artists/designers, historians/archivists, and culture bearers through exhibitions, residencies, publications, educational offerings, and public programming rooted in beauty, memory, and resistance. Whether exploring queer art, self as sacred, oral history, or design, we steward and archive the stories, spaces, and legacies that define and defend queer life—past, present, and future.
*Category of Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography, Drawing, Ceramics. Performing Arts: Music, Film. Literary Arts: Literature, Poetry, Drama, Fiction, Prose. Culinary Arts. And Fashion Design.
Our foundation is dedicated to the following principles:
How we work, what we believe, and the values that guide every program, partnership, and offering.
Preservation & Archiving
We safeguard queer culture by preserving our stories—through oral histories, archiving efforts, exhibitions, publications, and material practice. We honor memory as a form of resistance and survival.
Learning & Awareness as Legacy
We believe education is a cultural practice and an act of liberation. Through teaching, mentorship, and creative exchange, we preserve queer knowledge and pass it forward. Our approach to learning is intergenerational, experiential, and rooted in the belief that queer people have always found ways to teach each other how to survive—and thrive.
Mentorship & Support
We nurture queer creatives through mentorship, collaboration, and access. We believe that guidance, visibility, and community can shape lives and legacies, and foster the transferring of sacred queer knowledge.
Residency & Creative Development
We offer dedicated space, time, resources, and community for queer artists, designers, writers, and thinkers to explore, experiment, and create—free from extractive models and external expectations.
Spiritual & Cultural Autonomy
We recognize the sacredness of queer identity and the unique cosmologies we create. We make space for ritual, reclamation, and reverence beyond the binaries of dominant traditions.
Joy, Kinship, & Collective Care
We center joy and kinship as necessary parts of cultural work. We nurture cultures of collective care rooted in individualism, recognizing that we survive and thrive through one another. We celebrate the pursuit of beauty as an act of survival and love.
Erotic & Sensual Power
We embrace the erotic and the sensual as sources of queer wisdom. Desire, divinity, sensuality, and kinship all belong in our cultural record.