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, “Taking it Virtual: Community-Based Arts Education Programming” by Karina Esperanza Yánez, “A Suit and Tabla: Lessons on Art Leadership” by Robin Sukhadia, and “Creating Space for Black Artists to Thrive” by Allen Kwabena Frimpong—bring readers into various cultural and spatial contexts to better understand how creative ecologies are developed locally and diasporically.