Hello!

We are Transverse Cooperative, an artist-owned co-op based in Baltimore, MD that serves movements for collective liberation with art, design, and cultural strategy. 

We organize artist-workers towards better living and working conditions through collective action.

Co-founders Camila and Ellie take a selfie in a mirror. There are colorful illustrations overlayed on top of the photo.
Co-founders and worker-owners Ellie and Camila color their commissioned coloring book. Drawings of flowers and sparkles are transposed on top of the image.

Our co-op offers commissions to organizations working in the solidarity economy, towards collective liberation, or who are otherwise aligned with our values. We create: 

Merchandise

T-shirts, stickers, pins--we’d love to create branded merch for your project that embodies your values and community

Report & book design

We are passionate about using layout and graphic design to support the accessibility and beauty of written work

Written content drafting & copyediting

Clear, concise, and accessible storytelling is part of the well-designed work with which we can support you

Illustration

Coloring books, zines, comic books, posters and all the beautifully drawn art you could need

Brand identity

Let's design a logo, style guide, and branded templates for your unique voice as an organization

Event organizing & support

We design and facilitate anti-oppressive arts workshops, as well as speak about our work on interviews, panels, and more

Protest props

Banners, posters, puppets--direct action tools can and should be accessible, fun, and interactive

Cultural strategy

We offer up our collective knowledge and experience to consult about how design translates to organizing, to build our movements strategically through arts and culture

And more!

What our clients say about us

Clear, organized, timely. Really appreciate you all communicating your own availability and timeline preferences, as well as flexibility and professionalism.
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Mirlo
The Transverse experience was streamlined. Transverse was... proactive and guided the process and this made it easier for us to manage this multi-lingual, visual zine project on top of the other programs and work we do. Transverse being a cooperative also helped with our process. Their experience made them familiar with our subject matter and the ethos behind the work we do, and that helped the vision come to life.
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Austin Cooperative Business Association
The decision to make the visual narrative a coloring book was a stroke of genius - sending just the right message about the future we need to co-create. The work is beautiful, and a great tool to start conversations about a complex topic.
Healthy Places Seed Grants recipients and the Purple Line Community Coalition (PLCC)
Graphic illustration of a lightbulb with a sun inside and leafy vines coming out of the base. The vines wrap around the words public power. Two hands are cupped and hold it all.

As arts community organizers,

We hold space for other creatives to question the arts, culture, and media industrial complexes, deepen their artistic-organizing practices, and collaborate on building projects that move us to unlearn and uproot the capitalist framework forced upon our artistry.

Get in touch!