What if art, storytelling, and technology could shape a world where everyone flourishes?
Good Mirrors is a social practice studio cultivating new worlds through art and technology to shape tools, narratives, and experiences that advance human flourishing.
hu·man flou·rish·ing /ˈhjumən ˈfləriSHin/: a state of being where individuals embody their full potential, live with dignity, and meaningfully engage with the world around them.
Everyone deserves a good mirror.
At Good Mirrors, we weave creativity, technology, and storytelling to cultivate connection, awe, and well-being - nurturing human potential.
Our mirrors take many forms including, immersive exhibitions and curatorial projects, experimental schools, participatory workshops, salons, storytelling initiatives, and digital archives. Each project uplifts cultural memory, deepens public discourse and activates new ways of seeing, being, and belonging.
Our approach is rooted in womanist praxis, experimentation, inquiry, collaboration, and care. We partner with artists, researchers, organizations, funders, and communities to translate insight into programs, partnerships, and frameworks that are impactful, memorable, and shape more affirming futures.
Recent Projects
Good Mirrors Index
Technology is redefining how we think, dream and remember. We believe it plays a critical role in preserving memory and shaping identity, perspective and well-being. If technology shapes who we become, then communities must have agency in its design - so that our futures reflect human-centered values of care, empathy, and equity.
Launching Summer 2026, Good Mirrors Index is a digital encyclopedia created to expand the data used to train AI systems ensuring that technology better reflects human stories, particularly those of Black women, with greater depth and accuracy.
Supported by Mozilla Foundation, Meta Open Arts, and the New Museum.
WITNESS Exhibition
In partnership with Black Women Photographers and curated by Genel Ambrose, founder of Good Mirrors, and Tina Knowles, philanthropist and advocate for the arts, WITNESS is a visual arts exhibition and national tour that preserves cultural memory and offers new ways of seeing through the eyes of Black women.
Supported by Pivotal Ventures.
TRUTH Portal
TRUTH Portal is an interactive installation that collects and transmits audio-based stories of Black women, by Black women. It seeks to combat algorithmic bias and expand the datasets and narratives that shape how Black women and girls are represented.
As a narrative power artifact and living archive of Black women’s wisdom and knowledge, TRUTH offers an alternative experience on the internet, one grounded in storytelling and community.
Experience the portal online at TRUTHPortal.xyz
Supported by the Mozilla Creative Media Award. Read more here.
Mirror Work
Our limited edition deck, Mirror Work, features 31 bespoke affirmations. Created as a ritual of reflection and care, the deck encourages mindfulness and self-discovery.
Mirror Work has been featured in exhibitions including WITNESS and Kinfolk Tech’s KIN Festival, and finds home with women whose creativity and brilliance continue to inspire our work - among them Tina Campt, Ava DuVernay, Ruha Benjamin, Tina Knowles, Jasmine Wahi, Fe Noel, and Jannah and Kiyanna Handy of BLK MKT Vintage.
We are a collective of artists, researchers, designers, community-builders, and impact-minded strategists.
In the News
-
‘Few people ask us what we think about ourselves’: This L.A. art show elevates Black women and nonbinary artists
Co-curated by GOOD MIRRORS Founder, Genel Ambrose and Tina Knowles, philanthropist and Artistic Director of the WACO Theater Center, WITNESS exhibition asks: What do we witness when we see through the eyes of Black women?
Read about it in the L.A. Times here.
-
Tina Knowles and Genel Ambrose on Curating a Love Letter to Black Femme Artistry
WITNESS exhibition is an immersive visual art experience that features work by Black women and non-binary artists who project their vision of the world, society, community, and themselves through art.
Read ELLE Magazine’s review here.
-
TRUTH Portal Challenges, Changes Algorithmic Bias Against Black Women
Mozilla Creative Media Awardee TRUTH Portal uses positive storytelling to address harmful online narratives about Black women.
-
10 Projects Rethinking Data Stewardship: Announcing Mozilla’s 2022 Creative Media Awards
GOOD MIRRORS Founder, Genel Ambrose, is one of ten global recipients of Mozilla's 2022 Creative Media Award. The grant will be used to build TRUTH Portal, an interactive platform of stories of Black women, by Black women to combat systemic bias in artificial intelligence.
-
Emerging Visionary Grant Partnership
In collaboration with SheaMoisture, GOOD MIRRORS created the Emerging Visionary Grant, a 50k opportunity for 10 Black women storytellers who use prose, poetry, and other forms of expression to expand the narratives of Black women and foster history-making change in their communities.