Our mission statement:

Splinter Art and Community Fund (DBA Splinter Collective, or Splinter) is a 501c3 non-profit membership based organization and event space. It is housed in a 100 year old art studio warehouse and located in Cukson aka Tucson, Arizona. We center the artistic expression, voices and experiences of folks who are systematically disenfranchised and historically absent from the centers of power. We culture make, curate artistic events and provide an accessible space for community events, liberatory art practices, and social justice organizing.

Our Board of Directors and executive team are 100% comprised of people who have various intersecting marginalized identities. These include specifically Black, Indigenous, POC, LGBTQIA+, Disabled, and neurodivergent folks, and folks with lived experience of sex work, housing insecurity, incarceration and more.

We acknowledge our place in space and the complex history of exploitation that is settler colonialism. We provide mutual aid to our neighbors who are unsheltered or otherwise impacted by the housing crisis and oppose the forces of gentrification. By nurturing community building across divisions and cultivating deeply representative leadership, Splinter strives to promote partnership, inclusivity, diversity, and abolition.

*Shout out to Kimberlé Creshaw who originated the term “intersectionality” and explains it as “Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects. It’s not simply that there’s a race problem here, a gender problem here, and a class or LBGTQ problem there. Many times that framework erases what happens to people who are subject to all of these things.”