About
Voluminous Arts creates space for trans people to explore expansiveness and agency through music, sound, conversation, and experimental art. This entirely trans-led organization operates a record label and a community resource hub, and provides employment to trans people in a respectful environment.
Built on a foundation on mentorship, increased access to resources and community building, our programs nurture the connections between gender experiences that refuse to be put in a box and experimental creative works that challenge existing forms.
Voluminous Arts was founded in 2020 by interdisciplinary artist Gavilán Rayna Russom and is currently based in Glendale, Queens.
Vision
A place for transgender people to create expansively.
Mission
To foreground, nurture, and advance the experimental artistic culture of transgender people and communities.
Free Palestine
In unequivocal solidarity with the people of Palestine, Voluminous Arts has since its inception adhered to the Palestinian international call for Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions (BDS). We are honored to commit to the underlying guidelines of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). This commitment is part of the holistic ethos of decolonization, abolition, and land back that is at the core of Voluminous Arts’ organizational structure, relationships, programs, activities, and operations. Our vision is of necessity decolonial and abolitionist, because trans liberation cannot exist simultaneously with police, prisons, and settler colonial occupation.
In our organizational and individual capacities we therefore commit to:
boycott any cultural product or event funded, commissioned, &/or sponsored by an official Israeli body
not collaborate with or take money from Israeli institutions
refuse "normalization" efforts seeking to justify Israel's violence or present a false symmetry between oppressed & oppressor
advocate for others to similarly divest from Israel, end support for the oppression of Palestinians, & pressure Israel to comply with international law
More information available at https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi