We Are
Maroon.
Deliver Black Dreams.
A sanctuary for Black art and culture, where artists and neighbors create, gather, and own the culture, economy, and future we make together.
Come through.
Thu · Nov 5
TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
[Venue · Time]
A screening of the documentary on the Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing.
Oct 3, 2026
AFRO— · Art for the Rest of Ours
2nd line on Mt. Vernon · The Maroon Culture Lab
A 2nd line parade with the Hot 8 Brass Band, then a house party at the Lab with DJ Bern, Sonic Blush, and Pete Rock. Ten years, celebrated.
A DECADE OF CREATIVE PRACTICE. A 100-Year-Old House for the Next Hundred Years.
The Pythian Theatre has held Black Columbus since 1926. In 2023 it came home to Maroon Arts Group and the community that holds it. Today its 30,000 sq ft of ballroom, stage and gathering rooms are where Black artists make the work, neighbors gather, and Bronzeville keeps writing its own story.
years of the Pythian
years of Maroon Arts Group
Maroon to Freedom
Every artist, idea and gathering inside the Sanctuary moves along one path, with radical imagination running underneath it all.
Sanctuary
Collaboratory
Ideas become work. Residencies, co-productions and shared space at the Lab and BoxPark, where artists and neighbors build side by side.
Practice
Work becomes power. Black art moves into the city’s view, and ownership stays with the artists and community who made it.
Spaces That Hold Us.
Every room is kept by one covenant, Hold This Space: how we care for the place and for each other.
The Maroon Culture Lab
The historic Pythian Theatre, home to the Ballroom, the Blue Room and [other rooms]. For performances, gatherings, rehearsals and celebrations.
MPACC BoxPark
Our open-air gallery and gathering ground. Home to the BoxPark Gallery Residency, pop-ups, markets and summer nights.
Collaboratory
Gallery, community and organizational residencies for the artists and groups building Black futures in Columbus.
The Rest of the Story Is Still Being Written.
We began as a collective of Black creatives who used art to name and answer our shared struggle. Our first production, a choreopoem from Baltimore, played to a sold-out room. Ten years on, we steward a century-old theatre, an open-air shipping container park and a living network of artists.
Individual artists + Creatives Paid
Invested directly into the arts, culture, business, and civic ecosystem of Columbus
Gatherings, Exhibitions, Learning Communities, Activations hosted
Grant Awards
Join the Circle.
Collect one of our Artisan label Bottles
Our people have always been the foundation. For MAG’s 10th year and the Pythian’s 100th, we’re gathering a circle of 100 Kin, each giving $1,000 or more, to raise $100,000+ for the house that holds Black dreams.
$1,000
$2,500
$5,000
$10,000+
Give together. Host a Dream Circle: gather your people and pool gifts to reach $1,000+ as one.
Stay in the Loop.
Shows, calls for artists and ways to show up.
Held by our Kin. Strengthened by partners who invest in Black art in Columbus.
