In 2015, Ash Studios initiated the practice of radical openness in one of the poorest zip codes in Dallas — turning our art space over to the community and experiencing extreme growth in the number of events and attendance at our art space. However, existing in a community that struggles with poverty, drugs, addiction, and violence, and focusing particularly on youth culture, we had three shootings occur outside our space — ending with someone being shot through the hand and leg at an art show. Over the years our space has also dealt with other forms of violence, overdoses, deaths, suicides, abuse, police intimidation, and police indifference. Our