our mission

Our mission is to reconnect communities affected by the 2025 wildfires through memory, storytelling, art, and shared cultural experiences.

By preserving schools, homes, restaurants, gathering places, and everyday moments through miniature dioramas and community participation, Pali–Altadena Collective seeks to honor what was lost while helping communities heal and rebuild together.

The project is both archival and participatory: students, families, and displaced residents are invited to contribute oral histories, photographs, miniature figures, and personal memories that become part of a growing public record. Together, these works form a living archive that preserves not only physical places, but the emotional landscape of community life for future generations.

Through exhibitions, workshops, traveling installations, and educational programming, we hope to create spaces where remembrance becomes connection—and where art helps imagine a resilient future rooted in belonging, creativity, and hope.