Advocacy
Lane creates community-embedded, socially engaged work. Since living in a recovery house for six months following the death of his fiance in 2016, Lane has worked with communities in recovery, incarcerated and returned citizen communities, people experiencing homelessness, queer and trans communities, and more. Lane has completed restorative justice facilitation trainings with Insight Prison Project, and has basic Spanish and ASL. To learn more about his process, read his “Toolkit for Community-Engaged Artistic Practice” on HowlRound.
How to Be Successful in Housing
Lane was the 2023-2024 Resident Artist with Mission First Housing Group and coLAB Arts. As part of his residency, Lane was tasked with envisioning an arts project that would serve the needs of the community living in this permanent supportive housing development.
Lane created the graphic guide How to Be Successful in Housing, the intention of which is to help people set priorities and overcome emotional barriers to accessing resources when they reenter housing. Lane hired the illustrator Kennedy Ketcham to make the guide feel approachable and inviting. The full guide is available for free, and Lane will work with additional counties and resource centers to print book versions of the guide. Video versions and a Spanish translation are also available on the website.
