Calling Up Justice | Fall 2026
Maiamama, Calling Up Justice’s Digital Producer and a multidisciplinary artist and video game designer based in the Pacific Northwest, participated in an extended period of in-person collaboration, creative development, and community connection through our Quarantine Residency program.
We are especially grateful to Dagny Brown, Co-Director of the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center, who generously hosted Maiamama during the first part of her visit. This hospitality made it possible for Maiamama and fellow resident Jasper Love to overlap, collaborate, explore local shops, and participate in cultural events together. Their adventures included a visit to Graditude for dashikis and African fashion. After Jasper’s departure and the completion of our Sunrise & Salutations, Sunsets & Valedictories collaboration with Black Arts Movement House and Lower Bottom Playaz, Maiamama moved into the Calling Up Justice Quarantine Residency room.
Maiamama completed the editing of the final performance video and participated in Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET) Week activities alongside Claudia and Jesenia. She livestreamed a concluding conversation featuring Black women directors and edited the recording for HowlRound Theatre Commons. Maiamama and Jesenia also collaborated on a photoshoot for In Search of Lost Stims.
The residency created opportunities for artistic exploration and professional development beyond scheduled productions. Maiamama and Claudia visited a comic book shop connected to Maiamama’s professional network, explored an escape room as a point of comparison with her own video game design practice, reconfigured the Calling Up Justice studio, watched RRR, and visited the redwoods. During an Open Development consultation, Maiamama received valuable feedback and developed a new webpage promoting her portable livestreaming practice, expanding her independent creative services.
Maiamama subsequently traveled to Los Angeles, returning through the Calling Up Justice Quarantine Residency for an overnight stay before continuing north. In Oregon’s Rogue Valley, another Calling Up Justice community member, Rob of Early Words, welcomed her into their guest room. Their conversations about the technology industry, coding, livestreaming, and online community building extended the residency’s spirit of peer exchange across geographic locations.
Maiamama’s residency demonstrated the power of distributed creative hospitality and relationship-based cultural production. Through shared housing, professional collaborations, artistic adventures, technical experimentation, and informal conversations, the experience supported both Maiamama’s independent practice and Calling Up Justice’s ongoing digital production. It also modeled how a network of community members can make travel, collaboration, and professional development more accessible for artists working across distances.
