I’m Beatrice L. Thomas, the founder and creative director of Authentic Arts & Media, a multidisciplinary artist, producer, creative entrepreneur, and facilitator.
My work moves between performance, cabaret, visual art, producing, workshops, and cultural strategy. Across each form, I bring creativity, inquiry, popular education, design justice, and collective joy to the work of making meaningful connection and lasting change.
Authentic Arts & Media works with artists, communities, and organizations to develop new work, strengthen creative practice, design learning experiences, and build more equitable, sustainable cultural futures.
Our Services & Design Practice
We offer a range of services depending on your needs, all based on a design practice that centers on innovation, design justice, inquiry, popular education, joy, and fun. You can also find out more about the kinds of clients we work with here.
- Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Workshops & Trainings
- Organizational Consulting
- On-Demand Virtual Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Trainings
We model the practices and processes we believe will lead to a more just and equitable world, working to create access to our knowledge and tools for those who are committed to creating change.
We design for multiple truths and intersecting identities, uplifting traditional, indigenous, local, historic and geographic truths, knowledge and practices in the development of our cultural strategies.
We center the most historically excluded by designing new practices and methodologies that break free from old paradigms, liberating the process and participants alike while supporting learners of all types and abilities.
We weave collective joy and fun throughout our practice to give folks the energy to do the hard work and inspire meaningful connection with challenging topics.
We believe in the power of people’s collective knowledge and experiences. We do not hold “all the answers”. We facilitate you in an emergent process of surfacing your own answers and charting an authentic course.
We know the only way to achieve sustainable change is by cultivating authentic relationships and working collaboratively to envision and create a collective future that is in harmony with the planet.
We center asking and listening as practices that are essential to progress and accountability, knowing that inquiry is the key to authentic, equitable learning, self-determined change, and a collectively designed future.
We celebrate and nurture the creative spirit, inviting it to add beauty, humor, and insight at every stage of our process.
Our Clients
