Creating Connection Through Community Art in Dallas
WHERE WE’VE BEEN
Hand-painted shoe from a community art collaboration with Knowledge & Essential Youth Services (2023)
Current Projects
Explore community-centered art initiatives that inspire connection and creativity across Dallas. From youth residencies to pop-up workshops, each project invites participants to co-create, reflect, and reimagine their environment through art.
Meet Cardoza
Cardoza is a Dallas-based artist and educator using participatory art to bring people together. Learn more about the story, values, and vision behind the work — and how art becomes a tool for dialogue, healing, and joy.
Get Involved
Whether you’re a neighbor, educator, or organization, there’s a place for you in this movement. Discover how you can collaborate, volunteer, or bring a project to your community — and help turn creative ideas into collective action.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Residency
A hands-on art program that turns everyday waste into creative treasure. This residency teaches youth how to repurpose materials like old clothes and shoes into powerful works of art — blending sustainability, self-expression, and community pride.
Transformation begins with what we reclaim — in materials, in stories, in each other.
— Cardoza