Kim Ye has been selected to receive a year-long California Arts Council’s CA Creative Corps Fellowship. Kim Ye engages in a multi-disciplinary, research-based practice that engages gendered constructions around power, and the entanglement between public space and private desire. Through their Fellowship, Kim Ye will work with SWOPLA to address social justice and community engagement through the realization of the Sex Worker Guide to Parenting project. Through community-based publishing, video production, and event organizing, this three-part project aims to raise the visibility and increase the resilience of a population that is heavily stigmatized and criminalized: people who do sex work while being a primary caregiver to a child.

CA Creative Corps Artist and Culture Bearer Fellowship at Community Partners was created to support artists and culture bearers of all disciplines and practices who live in and/or have a demonstrated history of working in relationship to a community identified within the lowest quartile of the California Healthy Places Index. Artists and culture bearers who are selected have oftentimes had to work outside of arts and culture funding systems and have a history of working at the intersections of equity and social justice work in Los Angeles and Orange Counties.

In addition to a cash award, the program supports its fellows by creating learning opportunities, matching mentors to assist fellows throughout the project, and PR services to amplify their project and project issues. The fellowships are funded by a grant from California Arts Council and administered by Community Partners.