Location: National
Founding: 2024
Founders/leadership: Lydia Blankenship, Gabrielle Chapman, Robin Bean Crane, Ebony Gustave, Ethan Heitner, Nati Linares, Marina Lopez, Sruti Suryanarayanan, Caroline Woolard, stewards
The Remember the Future Fund (RTF) is administered by Art.coop, a fiscally sponsored project of MSC. RTF resources a community of arts and culture collectives fed up with the current system of extraction; they are actively building a Solidarity Economy movement in the United States.
RTF accordingly moves capital to its fellows, arts and culture collectives committed to resisting the dominant extractive capitalist economy, remembering and building ways of embracing deep solidarity, and sustaining systemic change through the embrace of interdependence.
RTF fellows are:
- Led by a diverse group of people.
- Based in the lands colonially known as the United States.
- A group of two or more people, active for two years or more, with the intention to grow.
- Working for economic justice by fighting for better wages, equitable housing, systems change, resources for their communities, and more.
- Trying to live their values by following Solidarity Economy principles such as interdependence, cooperation, equity, and pluralism.
- Reaching a wide audience, making inspiring art, and/or strengthening social movement(s).
The 2024 Inaugural RTF Fellows
Acres of Ancestry is a multidisciplinary, cooperative ecosystem rooted in Black ecocultural traditions and textile arts to regenerate custodial land ownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the South.
Artisans Cooperative is crafting an online handmade marketplace for an inclusive network of creatives. They are a member-owned, member-run, and member-benefiting co-op promoting creativity, supporting artist livelihoods, creating opportunities for social impact art collectives, and connecting people through an equitable artistic community.
Groupmuse (image above) is a worker- and musician-owned cooperative seeking to uplift artists and strengthen broader community bonds through live, intimate performances of historically-rooted music.
Means TV is the home for worker-owned entertainment. Financed through subscriptions, and free of any advertisements or venture capital, Means TV seeks to chart an independent path in building a cooperative media organization with the goal of lasting for generations to come.
Ohketeau is a place for Indigenous scholars and educators to undermine harmful narratives, stereotypes, and biases about Indigenous cultures and actively acknowledge and take steps to remove invisibility within mainstream settler society.
Question Culture practices transformative justice and cooperative economics and spreads it through pop culture via artist management, media production, and creative direction.
