CENTER is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1994 that supports socially and environmentally engaged lens-based projects through education, public platforms, funding, and partnerships. For over 30 years, CENTER has helped visual storytellers across the globe reach audiences with their mission-driven projects.
CENTER creates platforms where the creative impulse can be engaged and challenged. By establishing trans-disciplinary partnerships between artists and justice-driven communities, historians, cultural critics, students, and the art world, we honor our unique role in advancing projects that respect all people, open minds, and engage our shared humanity.
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