🌿 What’s Your Elephant™ — Sustaining the Work

SOIL: Where the Light Enters was one powerful chapter in our ongoing story. But What’s Your Elephant™ is not a single exhibition — it is a living, evolving platform for creative community care.

Throughout the year, we produce exhibitions, workshops, wellness gatherings, and interactive art experiences that center mindfulness, storytelling, and collective healing.

Our work creates space for people to slow down, reflect, create, and connect — especially in communities where those spaces are often limited or underfunded.

Your support directly sustains:

• Healing-centered art and mental-health programming
• Free and low-cost community workshops
• Safe spaces for dialogue, self-expression, and intergenerational connection
• The elevation of marginalized and often silenced voices
• Local artists, facilitators, and creative practitioners

From SOIL to Echoes of Empathy and beyond, each project builds on the last — weaving art, advocacy, and mindfulness into experiences that nurture resilience and belonging.

Since its inception, What’s Your Elephant™ has engaged more than 3,500 individuals across South Florida through exhibitions, workshops, and immersive art activations — offering over 16 mindful mask-making experiences and more than a decade of community-centered programming led by Niki Lopez.

Together, we are transforming creativity into connection — and connection into community care.

See the work in motion — from exhibition nights to hands-on community workshops.

Opening Night of SOIL: Where the Light Enters

A Past Workshop Experience

About What’s Your Elephant™

Founded in 2014 and officially established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2023, What’s Your Elephant™ is an arts and educational organization that uses creativity to address the unspoken.

Through exhibitions, workshops, wellness gatherings, and interactive art experiences, we create spaces for storytelling, mindfulness, and community connection.

Our work centers mental health, LGBTQ+ identity, social justice, gender equity, and collective wellbeing — uplifting marginalized voices and fostering transformation through art.

To learn more, visit whatsyourelephant.org

Why Your Support Matters

Community-centered art does not sustain itself. Your contribution helps ensure that these spaces remain accessible, intentional, and rooted in care.

Every gift supports artists, facilitators, youth, families, and community members who deserve spaces to create, be seen, and belong.

About the Curator

Niki Lopez is an award-winning Afro-Latina, queer interdisciplinary visual artist, curator, and social practitioner based in South Florida. Her work blends visual storytelling, cultural symbolism, and social practice to create spaces for reflection, dialogue, and collective care.

As the founder of What’s Your Elephant™, Lopez produces immersive exhibitions, workshops, and wellness-centered art experiences that merge creativity, advocacy, and mindfulness. For nearly two decades, her projects have invited communities to transform vulnerability into visibility and creativity into social impact.

💻 About the nonprofit: whatsyourelephant.org
🎨 About the curator: nikilopez.art

🌿 What’s Your Elephant™ — Support Year-Round Community Art & Wellness

Sustaining exhibitions, workshops, and creative wellness spaces rooted in mindfulness, storytelling, and collective care.