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: https://www.haasbodypractices.com
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: www.momentumsensorium.com
Photo by: Whitney Bradshaw www.whitneybradshaw.com, @thewhitneybradshaw, @OUTCRYfilm
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: www.maria-renee.com