Mattie Loyce is an interdisciplinary artist/curator and community advocate originally from and currently based in San Francisco, CA. Critically engaging socio-political content, and encouraging empowerment through holistic relationship building are key to her community work and socially engaged artist practice. Throughout her career she has made a commitment to amplifying the voices and supporting the lives of people with marginalized identities, specifically people and artists of the African Diaspora, Queer people and People of Color.
Mattie is currently the Community Development Manager, at DISH (Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing), in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. She also regularly moderates and facilitates panels and interviews with the greater artist community.
About this Project
CounterPulse’s inaugural Curator in Residence Mattie Loyce presented the work of the ‘We Are Home’ Tenderloin Community Quilt project. The ‘We Are Home’ project, also led by Mattie Loyce in their role as Community Development Manager at DISH (Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing), is an art project engaging the extended Tenderloin community in expressing the significance and meaning of ‘home’ through building a collective quilt.
The ‘We are Home’ quilt project is focused on amplifying the voices of people who have the lived experience of homelessness, those that care for, or live and work in community with unhoused neighbors. From the fall of 2022 through the Spring 2023 the ‘We Are Home’ quilt project is hosting workshops throughout Tenderloin, where individuals participate in creating unique quilt square panels to contribute to what will be a greater Tenderloin Community Quilt completed by fall of 2023. The workshops have engaged DISH Permanent Supportive Housing residents, as well as the public from The Hospitality House Community Arts Program, and The Tenderloin Museum communities. This exhibition and curatorial project at CounterPulse will be the process show, allowing each quilt square created to shine as its own individual artwork before becoming a part of the collective quilt.