WORKING ASSUMPTIONS FOUNDATION

Grants program - as part of our high school photography program, wrkxfmly, which engages students to explore the theme of work and family in their lives, we offer a grant program to participating high schools so that they might further engage students and amplify the conversation around work and family through exhibitions, panels and presentations, the creation of print materials like posters, field trips to art shows exploring the theme, and more. We also offer grant opportunities that recognize and reward professional artists, writers, and scholars whose work rethinks assumptions of power and authority, addresses family diversity and changing roles, and explores ecologies of care.

Imprint - a publishing arm so that working assumptions can self-publish photography and project books of the work we do. There is no intention for any published books to be used as a revenue source - these books would be given away as promotional material or as resources for our education program.

Art lab - working assumptions incubates, tests, and develops new ideas, projects, partnerships, and art that explore the work and family interplay, including caregiving and family-making. Working assumptions is especially interested in opportunities to further critical thinking about our values and our expectations about productivity, power, vulnerability, and nurturing. We systematically seek out and collaborate with similarly driven multimedia organizations and thought partners to further explore those values and expectations, and we do so by combining research, expertise, and the power of visual communication.