Black Iris is an artist-run laboratory for national, international, and regional artists working in a variety of media. Black Iris's multi-disciplinary activities aim to connect the local community to a growing constellation of thought strung together through creative acts. Black Iris presents community-focused activities, exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures, experimental music events, parties, social interactions, and unexpected acts of imaginative expression. Through radical re-imagining, we see art’s potential to not only impact the singular viewer/participant but a neighborhood, a city, and a mode of thought.