Collaborations

Community engagement and collaboration mean a great deal to me as a person advocating for mental and environmental health through creative actions. If you have a project you would like to collaborate on, please reach out to me at sabibicare@gmail.com. I’d love to hear about it.

InSimulation: Mirror//Horizon

The world over, humanity seems to be at crisis. Mental and emotional health, addictions, and ethics. In Ancient Egyptian lore, at the crossroads a scale presents itself and the heart is weighed against Maat’s feather. What makes a heart as light as a feather? Could it be play, silver linings, support, community, love, compassion? Research suggests that the way to experience a sense of peace in this world begins with the ability to access curiosity. Sometimes the quickest way to access curiosity is to answer a good question.

With this interactive social game, I asked several womxn to share questions they would be interested in asking a stranger. There were 7 hopscotch games within a neighborhood each game consisting of 11 squares and each square representing a question. Participants could play the game alone or bring someone from their community. For a more immersive experience curated music playlists were added.

IG: @sabibi.davidson #mirrorhorizon #mirror//horizon

Game Site: Insimulation.me

Game Design, Graphics & Website Design, Research: Sabrina Davidson

Collaborators: Avia, Jamie, Mika, Makeba, Annie, Dwan, Caroline, Paola, Ivy, Anje, Sabrina, Malka

The Black in Crimson and Black Mural

I completed this meaningful work in collaboration with local artist Avia Ramm in 2022. Acrylic on wood panel, this work highlights the contributions of Black scholars, faculty, staff, and leadership at San Diego State University, from its inception as a teacher’s college, where the central figure, Henrietta Goodwin, was the first Black woman to graduate. If you are ever in the San Diego area, please visit the Love Library on the SDSU campus to see it in depth. The table represents these figures having a seat at their own table, which they’ve created for themselves, and those who would stand on their shoulders. The flowers represent appreciation and acknowledgment of their significant contributions, both during their time on campus and beyond. Shirley Weber would go on to be the Secretary of State of California! You also see a nod to the divine 9 in the finger shape of Harold Brown.

Please visit this mural in the Love Library at San Diego State University

This project was funded and supported by the Division of Student Affairs and Campus Diversity at San Diego State University in collaboration with the Institute for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Justice.

Painters: Sabrina Davidson & Avia Ramm

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University page on the project

Paint by Number Mural: Mahatma, Malala

Located at Alexander Rose Elementary School, this mural project is a collaboration between painter Sujata Tibrewala and myself. Noticing a lack of public images of role models of color, this mural was designed to offer inspiration and encouragement to young people, featuring exceptional leaders who look like them. We had a great time engaging with the students. Sujata and I separately created a proposal for the students to vote on. They chose Sujata’s mural. Sujata and I painted the outline and placed numbers in the spaces for students to fill in. They did a fantastic job!

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Collaborators: Sabrina Davidson, Sujata Tibrewala, and the students of Alexander Rose Elementary

InSimulation: The Tecolote Biome

InSimulation stands for Installation Simulation, it was created from an appreciation of both physical simulated and installation environments. Its mission is to promote and advocate for mental and environmental health through the arts. InSimulation: The Tecolote Biome, is a deep mapping experience allowing participants to interact with the Tecolote Canyon Natural Park through an interactive map which includes stories of the fauna found in the Tecolote Canyon and its dependent species. Included in this project are several mini audio documentaries – interviews from the persons who helped advocate for the open space as well as the park’s rangers.

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Github: https://sabibimaps.github.io/california-botanical-map/

Please listen to: Interview with a Park Ranger – Ranger Erika Weikel

_{Graphic Design: Ayesa Love and Sabrina Davidson}

_{Photography | Audio Capturing | Dashboard Editing: Sabrina Davidson}

_{Animation: Ayesa Love + Sabrina Davidson}

Food Web Stories

FWS was a collaborative project designed by Ecological Designer Nik Bertulis and myself. Our initial project was to tour the Colorado River from Boulder County, Nevada to the delta of Mexico. We collected stories along the way from experts and locals affected by the river’s changing food web dynamics. Other inquiries lead to stories collected in China, Thailand, Hawaii, and the island of Borneo. We then disseminated the information through a website and community events featuring audio and photography. The posters below were designed by Nik Bertulis.

_{Project Direction: Sabrina Davidson and Nikolas Bertulis}

_{Graphic Design and Photography: Nikolas Bertulis}

_{Audio Capturing & Editing: Sabrina Davidson}

EARTH HANDBOOK

EARTH (Essential Artist Resource and Technology Handbook) was born from a collaboration with ARTS (A San Diego arts organization that provides no-cost art programs to youth) and Casa Tamarindo ( A binational design house focused on environmentally sound practice). Because of Covid-19 and the need to work remotely, we collaborated on finding and sharing vernacular/ indigenous methods for creating art materials. This work was used to start a database of information for artists who wanted to make their art tools at home. My work was to research and practice the techniques, sharing the information through photos which would eventually be used for the first publication which was entered into the climate change mitigation competition: Connect4Climate.