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Community Projects

These projects approach art as something that happens between people. Developed over time and across contexts, they create situations for participation, learning, and connection. Art is not treated as an object to be completed, but as a shared process that continues to evolve.

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An ongoing socially engaged art project that creates spaces for play, participation, and learning through community gatherings, workshops, and evolving forms of creative exchange.

A year-and-a-half-long socially engaged art project in which young people used dialogue and collective making to explore communication, community, and shared humanity.

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A year-long socially engaged project developed during COVID that explored connection through wearable art, instruction, and remote participation across distance and changing social conditions.

A weekly community gathering in Fukuoka, Japan, where shared apple pie and open invitation created space for creative exchange, relationship-building, and emergent collaboration.

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A year-long socially engaged project that began with letter exchanges and unfolded into shared meals, exploring reconnection, care, and the building of relationships over time.

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© 2026 by Mai Ryuno | Photos: Sheldon Chang, Grace Khieu, and Julie Chon

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