About Me
My name is Mattie Loyce and I am a interdisciplinary artist/curator and community advocate originally from and currently based in San Francisco, CA. As a career community development worker and creative practitioner, I utilize holistic and creative practice as a tool for community mobilization. As a San Franciscan; community arts, community advocacy, and uplifting the resilience of marginalized populations are ideological pillars of my work ethos and foundation.
PROFESSIONAL TIMELINE
For the last 15 years I have been working in community development and mobilization across the US and internationally (Europe, Brasil, Ghana and Afro-Diasporic Caribbean). I began my dual career in Boston, MA, directly out of undergradate studies working in community mental health while simultaneously founding her own ‘guerilla art gallery’, Mission Gallery. In 2017 I received a Masters of Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship with a focus in Leadership Studies. Following the Masters, during 2018-2020, she became Curator and Artistic Programme Manager at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning in Brixton, London, UK.
I am currently the Sr. Manager of Community Development, at Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing, DISH. Est. in 2006, DISH provides permanent supportive housing in the Tenderloin and SoMA neighborhoods of San Francisco, supporting permanent housing opportunities for individuals recovering from longitudinal houselessness and complex trauma. Since 2020 my role at DISH has been to engage community advocacy and development through the lens’ of resident leadership, harm reduction, and specifically creative and holistic programs, which is my field of expertise.
In 2020 my role started the foundation of the Community Development department which has since stewarded projects like the Tenderloin Community Quilt, Supportive Housing Resident Advocacy Project (SHARP), Harm Reduction Peer Responder program and others.
I continue to regularly facilitate panels and host community events as well as lectures, which all together allow for us to engage a critical discourse that I am dedicated to.
Peace and Power. Please be in touch!
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