Many Hands Workshop is a place for New Yorkers from all parts of our city to plug into social movements and produce visuals that make us look and feel as powerful as we are.

The Workshop prioritizes projects that are pro-democratic and anti-authoritarian on both local and national levels by producing materials that strengthen the impact of campaigns, actions and mobilizations, offering space, resources and support to build connection, movement art, and power, and connecting cultural workers with movement partners to create visual and cultural strategy. 

Many Hands Workshop exists in an effort to meet the moment: rising fascism, record wealth inequality, and federal attacks on our bodily autonomy mean that our communities need spaces to come together to organize. We know that art can open a front door, bringing more people into the work. We aim to skill up more makers who understand how tactical art can help us win, and to build the relationships and infrastructure in NYC that our national movement will need in this critical era of storytelling in the streets.

The workshop is stewarded by a core team of artists and organizers: Akash Singh, Ange Tran, Ariel Friedlander, Lucy Block, Midori Johnson, Rachel Schragis, Ricky Gonzalez, Sammy DiDonato and Willa Folmar.  Core team members are actively leaders in ACT UP NY, Gender Liberation Movement,Democratic Socialists of America, Desis Rising Up and Moving, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Jewish Voice for Peace Hands Off NYC, Planet Over Profit, and Sunrise Movement NYC.