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At TaylorSpace, we create organizational cultures that celebrate community and care.
Mission & Vision
Our mission is to build brave, creative, and healing-centered spaces that nurture community, culture, and transformation. Our vision is to create a world where care, consent, and community are paramount. Join us in transforming spaces and lives.
Our Roots in Practice & Play
Since childhood, we’ve practiced life through theatre, hip hop, and visual art. Games and roleplays taught us to learn and unlearn what it means to be human.
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At TaylorSpace, we design workshops rooted in Popular Education, sparking curiosity, play, and transformation. Our spaces are living — shaped by the participants who enter them. Together, we build something new every time.
"Earth without art is ‘eh.’ And it’s always time to play."
Taylor Space
Founder & Artistic Director
Je Naé Taylor
Je Naè is a Cultural Strategist, Black Dyke with a Black dog living and learning in The South. A native of Washington D.C. who loves playing Scrabble, writing Haikus, and having porch sits with her neighbors. She is a founding member of BYP100, where she has co-founded two chapters, the Healing and Safety Council, founding C4 Board member, and a co-founder of The Black Joy Experience. In her role as theatre director, she has devised new works with Regina Taylor, the South Side Community Art Center, the Highlander Research and Education Center, and the Goodman Theatre. For the last twenty years, she has been using roleplay as a forum to engage the community in solving problems more creatively. Her favorite roles are sister and friend.
Taylor Space is a practice of collective care, cultural strategy, and people power. We are a space and place for reflection, debrief, restoration, and rehearsal designing environments where individuals and groups can slow down, reconnect, and build capacity for sustained change. Our work lives at the intersection of cultural organizing, community safety, and wellness.
Rooted in grassroots movement practice, popular education, and arts-based facilitation, Taylor Space creates experiences that support grounding, de-escalation, and shared leadership. From wellness installations and peer-support spaces to trainings and convenings, we help communities navigate tension, strengthen relationships, and lead with clarity.
This is collective care as infrastructure supporting movements to practice the future they are building.
How We Practice Transformation
Exploration
Experience
Expression
Transformation
At TaylorSpace, transformation isn’t a one-way street—it’s a shared practice shaped by the people in the room. We ground our work in Popular Education, centering participants’ knowledge and stories as essential tools for learning. Through Co-Creation, we design each space together, adapting in real-time to what emerges. We honor Lived Experience as expertise, and infuse every session with Creative Play to make room for experimentation, connection, and joy.
Our workshops evolve with the people in them—no two are ever the same.
Honored with the 2023 Community Catalyst Award and the Arts & Wellness Innovation Grant, and featured in the Healing Justice Podcast, Issue #12.
In Good Company
Yes, And... Participant
“I’ve never felt so seen in a workshop. TaylorSpace didn’t just talk about consent—they gave us the tools to live it. The theatre games opened something in me I didn’t even know was closed. I walked away more confident in my boundaries, in my voice, and in myself."
Grief Lab Participant
"TaylorSpace held space for our team during a time of real loss and transition. Their grief workshop allowed us to process, connect, and move forward with more empathy and emotional clarity. It wasn’t just healing—it transformed the way we lead together."
Arts in it All Participant
“Art has always been part of my activism, but TaylorSpace helped me reconnect with why. Their workshop reminded me that creativity is strategy—and that joy, imagination, and play are powerful tools for organizing. It was liberating.”