Arbutus

Arbutus celebrates, re-presents and amplifies ideas found in surprising places, ensuring that our picture of the world contains the joy that it should, and is accessible to everyone.

Arbutus was founded in 2018 to provide a sustainable way to gestate, incubate, and present joyous and imaginative projects from a range of artists and thinkers. A common thread among our current projects – Theater of the Mind and Reasons to be Cheerful – and those Arbutus has in development is that they have been dreamt up and are being created without adherence to a defined path or genre. Much like David Byrne’s past projects Contemporary Color, Playing the Building, and a series of bike racks created throughout NYC, Arbutus’ projects are unusual and expansive regarding how they come to be, the community of people involved in making them, and for whom they aim to serve.