Artists and culture bearers exist within rich cultural and community contexts. Stream² emphasizes critical roles that community plays in artistic and cultural production These vibrant essays—“Shí Yázhí: 'there is money underneath your fingers'” by Michaela Shirley and Kayla Jackson, “Creating Space for Black Artists to Thrive” by Allen Kwabena Frimpong, “Taking it Virtual: Community-Based Arts Education Programming” by Karina Esperanza Yánez, and “A Suit and Tabla: Lessons on Art Leadership” by Robin Sukhadia—bring readers into various cultural and spatial contexts to better understand how creative ecologies are developed locally and diasporically.