Creative Migration Information

Creative Migration is a women-of-color-led international arts organization – anchored between Los Angeles and Bangkok – driving systems change across arts, culture and ecology. We started at the intersection of arts and international cultural exchange. In 2011, participation in Project Green, a European sustainable filmmaking initiative, marked a turning point: culture became the lens through which we understood our role in shaping how societies respond to the climate crisis. From that shift, a new practice emerged: Creative Migration has integrated environmental responsibility into its operations since 2012 and adopted a formal Climate Policy in 2022. Creative Migration was founded in 2005 by our Executive Director, Susannah Tantemsapya, in California. She expanded operations to Thailand in 2018 to open our largest project to date, Bangkok 1899, through seed funding from The Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Philanthropy. Currently, our nonprofit has major support from Ford Philanthropy and ECCA Family Foundation. Creative Migration, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the United States founded and Creative Migration (East) is a registered foundation in the Kingdom of Thailand.