Freewaves

LA Freewaves freewaves.org is a 33-year-old public art organization in Los Angeles that has worked creatively online and in the streets to advance issues about race and gender. We facilitate people overcoming their biases by providing creative material and safe space to relate to a broader spectrum of society. We are broadcasting a psychic liberation for our collective evolution through sharing ex

periences. With X-aMEN-ing Masculinities (2022), Freewaves extends its multi-year engagement with themes of gender acceptance, diversity, and transition into the often-criticized but under-explored sphere of masculinity. We have spent the last four years exploring themes of feminism in relation to the non-binary gender spectrum. We began by using a set of 10 postcards, each with an image and a related question on the back that viewers answered anonymously, along with a set of feminists PSAs which aired on the Metro TVs before our Out the Window project ended. Freewaves’ 2011-2014 project, OUT THE WINDOW, presented hundreds of artists’ videos to L.A. Metro’s 1 million daily bus riders on Transit TV. Creative videos use open-ended, humorous, relatable and questioning strategies to approach viewers with vital images. 2000 buses each have 2 screens and speakers inside. After every video an evocative question about the videos appears with a phone number to text responses. Supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, LA Arts Recovery Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, City of LA Dept of Cultural Affairs, LA County Arts Commission, California Arts Council, and people like you.