My research is mainly concerned with the inseparability of art and politics as it manifests in social movement activism: what I call cultural activism, but what we may also think of as the creative labor of making social change happen. In my book project on civil rights movement cultural activism I look at how political art in the 60s and 70s was shaped by the chaos of organizing. Creativity was seen as the conduit with which to imagine social change, as well as challenge the main ideological tenets of solidarity. Within the Creativities Project, I am particularly interested in how creative labor and its production shapes how communities organize themselves. I see a gap between structures that impose creativity, “creativity on demand” (or creativity as a mode of labor production) and the emergence of creative collectives born from a need to share resources, many of which exist in Pittsburgh. This gap urges me to ask: as creative labor replaces industrial labor in many of the same urban settings, how have workers’ rights and systems of organization changed?