What happens when culture stops being just a vibe—and starts becoming a vehicle for disruption, healing, and ownership?
This isn’t your typical arts panel. This is a call to the architects of culture— the cultural curators, the movement makers, the storytellers—who use creativity to shift narratives and reclaim space.
In this raw and visionary conversation, Austin’s most catalytic cultural leaders—unpack how art becomes infrastructure for social change.
We’ll explore:
- How cultural workers are transforming gentrified cities into sacred ground for community.
- What it means to “placekeep” instead of displace.
- How visual and performance art become blueprints for justice, legacy, and civic power.
This panel doesn’t just celebrate art—it weaponizes it.
If you believe that murals are more than paint, songs are more than sound, and space is more than real estate, then you’ll leave this session charged to identify opportunity, lead with intention and build cultural legacies that outlive us.
