Origin Story
Art Builds was founded in 2019 by a group of academics at the University of San Diego. We wanted a way to foster the type of interdisciplinary artistic collaboration that emerged from the 2018 sculpture project Unfolding Humanity. That project revealed there was an incredible interest from both our campus and the community to work together on participatory art. Thus Art Builds was born.


We are a large collective that has involved hundreds of people from multiple countries in our projects over the past few years. Our core team is based in San Diego and together have decades of experience in large format sculpture, design, engineering, lighting, electronics, structural analysis, and more.