Social Practice: Arts for Collective Liberation
Lane is a social practice artist who has built community connections over many years. Since living in a recovery house when he first got sober in 2016, Lane has made socially relevant work alongside unhoused and incarcerated communities, and published on his process in HowlRound Theatre Commons.
While several of Lane’s plays and films are outpourings from these works, the two projects highlighted here specifically utilize the healing, stabilizing, and visionary power of art to address ongoing challenges in unhoused spaces.
Lane now uses his expertise in bringing healing-centered arts to communities that need them by collaborating with organizations to integrate the arts to strengthen their mission and impact.
Healing Survival: Arts-Based Strategies for Softening and Solving Collective Struggles
Lane was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative to create a comprehensive toolkit of healing-centered arts strategies to support the County’s community engagement around RV encampment resolutions.
He now facilitates single day to multi-week workshops for communities and organizations implementing these strategies.
How to Be Successful in Housing
This graphic guide helps individuals coming in from chronic homelessness to overcome emotional barriers to utilizing resources and settling into their space.
The guide is available digitally in both English and Spanish, as a pdf or in audiovisual form. Organizations can also order the guide for sliding scale cost, depending on how many copies are ordered.