Who We Are
The Anger Project was conceived by Haas, who also serves as its director and producer. What began in 2005 as a seed of an idea—a room full of dishes to smash—has since evolved into a collaborative process inviting others to explore and engage with their own complex relationships with anger. The project hosted two small-scale pilot studies in 2019 and 2021, featuring facilitated conversations and movement workshops, in Arizona (in person) and Texas (online). In 2022, it received its first grant, a Research and Development Grant through Arizona Commission on the Arts. Because of this grant funding, The Anger Project catalyzed into something more than an idea, scribbles in notebooks, and private workshops with friends.
For more information about Haas, visit: Haas Body Practices
Photo by: Rachel Marie Photography
Collaborating Artists
While deeply collaborative in spirit, The Anger Project remains intimate in scale, engaging guest artists and facilitators whose work aligns with our mission, when funding allows. Collaborations are rooted in mutual resonance and amplification, bringing together
creative voices to deepen the work and support one another. We work with artists whose practices explore
themes of anger, grief, embodiment, and liberation. Each person brings their own approach into the space,
enriching the experience for participants and the project as a whole.
Helen Lee (they/she) is a Queer Asian, Chicago-born interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the senses, sits with death, aging and the entanglement of light and shadow, summer and winter and grief and joy. They weave movement, storytelling, visual arts, video, plant medicine, taxidermy, installation and/or social practice that examine facets of trauma, racism, anger, healing and meanings of home, love and war.
They joined The Anger Project in 2022 and are grateful for a community to safely express anger, rage, pain, to scream and smash objects together.
For more information about Helen, visit: Momentum Sensorium
Helen, 2023 from the series OUTCRY by Whitney Bradshaw
Maria Renée (she/her) is an artist, writer, connector, and community grief-worker. All of her work is done in collaboration with the natural world, rooted in the vibrant Sonoran Desert ecosystem.
Maria has participated in The Anger Project through facilitating grief circles that emphasize the relationship between anger and grief through somatic and creative practices.
For more information about Maria, visit: Maria Renée
Whitney Bradshaw is a queer artist, activist, educator, curator, former social worker, and documentary film producer whose practice centers healing and empowerment while boldly confronting systems of marginalization and oppression. She is the creator of OUTCRY (2018–present), an ongoing social practice project that invites viewers to consider why expressions of grief, rage, and resistance from marginalized communities are so often dismissed, while creating space for those emotions to be witnessed, valued, and heard. OUTCRY reframes anger as a source of liberation, healing, power, solidarity, and civic action.
Whitney and OUTCRY are the subject of a short documentary film titled "OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage" directed by Clare Major and produced by Whitney and Frankly Speaking Films. The film was shortlisted for the International Documentary Association's Best Short Film Award of 2024.
Since 2022, Whitney has collaborated with the Anger Project, facilitating OUTCRY Scream Sessions virtually via Zoom and in person in Chicago and Tucson. She is grateful to be part of a community of artists committed to community care, healing, and liberation through the expression of rage, pain, and grief.
For more information about Whitney, visit: Whitney Bradshaw
Whitney, 2018 from the series OUTCRY by Whitney Bradshaw