Peer-led training and immersive residencies are designed to support imaginative, artist-driven approaches to social activism and community engagement. More than twenty annual classes are created in concert with partner institutions across the country including  Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan; Cucalorus Film Foundation in Wilmington, North Carolina; Eureka! Press in Kingston, NY; Community Forge in Pittsburgh; and a new site in Oregon. Past examples of Making Thinking programming include an in-depth look at the correlation between hip-hop and urban planning and a history of Drag and the avant-garde. Recent residencies have focused on the use of emergent technologies to deepen interpersonal relationships and a book project that positioned art making as an act of survival among four Black, working class artists. A new residency in Oregon will bring together artists interested in land rights and utopias in the Pacific Northwest.