A Culture of Art & Innovation
Radical Self-expression emboldens people to innovate, play and create, and Communal Effort brings people together to build temporary and permanent cultural spaces around the world.
Burning Man Arts
Through the Art Honoraria grant program started in 1999, Burning Man Project has invested millions in the creation of public art, supporting artworks that invite you to create, ask you to play, and change how humanity engages with art.
Burning Man Project also facilitates art in unexpected places — a multi-year collaboration with Google culminated in the installation of six artworks at the Google Visitor Experience in Mountain View, California.
The public has encountered Burning Man art installations in major museums such as the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery as well as locales as disparate as San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, indigenous communities Torreón, Mexico, and at a historic parkland estate in central England.
Through Burning Man art, Radical Self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. When those gifts become shared experiences, communities are transformed.
Culture Centers
Burning Man Project establishes and inspires the creation of centers where participatory creative culture can evolve and grow through community engagement, hands-on learning, and collaborative making.
In addition to the annual expression of Black Rock City, Burning Man Project has invested in the rural area of northern Nevada where the event takes place, helping to transform it into a year-round hub for Burning Man culture. Fly Ranch, the nonprofit’s 3,800-acre property, is a place to build connections, explore regenerative practices, and imagine future projects.
Just as Black Rock City has inspired pop-up cities around the world through the Regional Network, the Burning Man ethos has inspired year-round community hubs and collaborative maker spaces from Buenos Aires to Berlin, from Scandinavia to South Africa, and countless points between.
Virtual cultural centers extend Burning Man’s reach beyond physical spaces into digital realms. Burn2 has been cultivating a vibrant virtual Burning Man experience since 2003 in the Second Life platform. During the pandemic, BRCvr created a Burning Man experience in full VR that is now being relaunched as BurnerSphere.
These spaces where culture is cultivated demonstrate how the Burning Man ethos transforms any location into a platform for participatory creativity and community connection.
Want to participate in making art happen? Get involved here. Or go deeper on Burning Man culture and read the Dispatch – our annual folio of Burning Man’s impact around the world.