OUR STORY
We cultivate time, place, and programming through cultural practices of healing, artistry and land reciprocity.
Video by Jason Hill
The Sanctuary property is pledged as a Land Back site. We are committed to learning and modeling how to heal our relationships to land and each other, and to decolonizing our present and future life ways.
Prismid does not subscribe to, prioritize, or discriminate based on any religion.
OUR TEAM
Kenya Budd
Steward of People & Culture
Lisa Atia
Development Director
Ayanna Drakos
Grants and Languaging Associate
Héloïse Darcq
Admin Coordinator
Jolene Hall-Lopez
Garden Steward
Kendra Graves
Garden Steward
Anyeley Hallová (ADRE)
Real Estate Development Partner
Madeline Kovacs (ADRE)
Development Manager
Emily Kappes
(Allied Works)
Architect
Thea von Geldern
(Allied Works)
Architect
Nikki DePriest
Communications
Mick Rose
Co-Director
Program Coordinator
esperanza spalding
Co-Director, Fellow
Board Secretary
Tiago Rampe
Brunch & Baskets Steward
Darrell Grant
Chair
Board of Directors
Adriana Perry
Treasurer
Board of Directors
Soo Pak
Board of Directors
PRESS
2025
Esperanza Spalding Speaks on Renovating Prismid Sanctuary, the Power of the Number 7, and Valuing Music (Willamette Week)
Prismid Sanctuary, Grammy-winner esperanza spalding’s dream project, launches expansion plan (Oregon Live)
Esperanza Spalding (In Service Of)
Allied Works and Adre to bring BIPOC community-driven art space to Portland, Oregon, with Grammy Award-winner esperanza spalding (The Architect’s Newspaper)
Plans revealed for redevelopment of North Portland BIPOC artist sanctuary (Portland Business Journal)
2024
1803 Fund Announces First Community Partners, Investing $8 Million to Strengthen Black Portland (1803 Fund)
2023
UnThanksgiving organizers want to rethink colonial holidays (ICT)
The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility (KBOO)
Portland’s esperanza spalding on her new album, and creating an artist sanctuary in St. Johns (Oregon Live)
2022
Portland musician Esperanza Spalding moves forward with BIPOC artist sanctuary (OPB)
2021
Musician Esperanza Spalding Is Raising Money to Build a “BIPOC Artist Sanctuary” in North Portland (Willamette Week)
Esperanza Spalding’s newest project: a sanctuary for artists of color (OPB)
WHO WE'RE IN CONSTELLATION WITH
We're in community with so many wonderful art and land-based projects. Here's some info about a few of them.
OUR INSPIRATION & GUIDANCE
Here are our sources of guidance in our learning and growing: