Community

Children participating in a pumpkin decorating contest at an outdoor event, seated at a long table with pumpkins, coloring supplies, and cups.
Panel discussion at a sustainable fashion event with five people seated on stage, an audience watching, and a banner that reads 'designedCOLLECTIVE' hanging above.

Community is where Paige’s creativity, service, and collaboration come together. As Chapter Lead for Project Color Corps, she works with designers, students, and neighbors to transform schools and public spaces through color, pattern, and co-created murals. Through designedCOLLECTIVE, she creates gatherings and installations that support artistic exchange, dialogue, and connection.

Project Color Corps

Smiling woman with glasses wearing a white t-shirt that says "YWCA IS ON A MISSION", standing outdoors in front of a colorful mural.

Through Project Color Corps, Paige collaborates with communities to reimagine schools and public spaces through color, pattern, and mural-making.

The work begins by listening: how do people want to feel in their space, and what do they want it to reflect back to them each day?

Those responses become the foundation for visual environments that reflect the identity, dignity, and imagination of the community itself.

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designed COLLECTIVE

Two mannequins dressed in colorful, retro-style outfits are displayed in an art gallery with vibrant paintings in the background. The mannequin on the left wears a shiny green and black dress with long gloves, and the one on the right has a yellow curly wig, a black jacket with lace, and yellow pants, sitting on a white platform illuminated from below.
Three framed shell artworks displayed on a wall with geometric patterned gold and blue wallpaper, part of an art exhibit titled "STRATA" by Elan Evans.
Four people sitting on chairs in a dimly lit room, engaged in conversation, with a large abstract textural artwork on the wall behind them.
Two women are standing and talking in a living room with modern wall art behind them. One woman is wearing a colorful dress, and the other is wearing a gray blazer and dark jeans, holding a magazine. The room has a gray sofa with pillows, a small side table with a speaker and magazines, and some bottles and glasses on a table.

designedCOLLECTIVE began as a Bay Area gathering space where art, activism, and community came together through installations, exhibitions, and salon-style events. It created room for artists, designers, and changemakers to explore how beauty, equity, and imagination can shape the world around us.

Today, designedCOLLECTIVE remains an invitation to gather across disciplines and identities for conversations, creative experiments, and place-based experiences that foster connection and possibility.

If you are an artist, maker, movement practitioner, or collaborator interested in co-creating future events or installations, Paige welcomes the conversation.

Two men look at a large, geometric, three-dimensional wall art installation with white and beige faceted shapes.
A panel of five diverse women and one man sitting and standing on stage during a discussion in front of an audience, with abstract artwork and geometric structures behind them.
An art installation featuring a large, spherical cluster of dark green, shiny bags on the left, with a geometric wire sculpture extending to the right, set against a background of white walls with diamond-shaped framed artworks.