The Guinea Arts Cooperative is a collaboration between Seattle area Guinea-focused teaching artists, their families, students, and friends.

The Ebola outbreak in Guinea, West Africa has resulted in profound financial stresses on many Guinean people due to restrictions on travel, resource scarcity, and escalating prices on basic necessities. Our purpose is to plan and initiate community-driven arts-based events with the goal of raising funds that will be utilized to distribute essential resources to the families and extended networks in Guinea supported by artists living in the Seattle area, and to provide additional assistance to the broader community in Guinea through a partnership with the UN World Food Programme.