Our Story

SACRA is a queer artist community.

A space for art, ritual, myth, and bold self-expression. We create gatherings, apparel, objects, and experiences that celebrate queer art.

Artist community first. Shop second.

SACRA creates and supports queer art through events, apparel, objects, and ritual-inspired experiences. The shop is one doorway into the world. The community is the center.

  • WE GATHER

    Live art, performance, music, figure drawing, nightlife, and queer ritual spaces.

  • WE MAKE

    Apparel, prints, objects, and symbols rooted in myth, nature, and queer expression.

  • WE SUPPORT

    Artists, performers, venues, collaborators, and the people who keep queer culture alive.

WHY WE GATHER

Community is care. Third spaces are vital to queer wellness, joy, chosen family, and survival. SACRA creates spaces where meaning can be felt again.

MYTH + RITUAL

Myth belongs to us all.

Myth gives us language for desire, transformation, nature, power, pleasure, grief, and becoming. SACRA treats myth as a living tool — something to research, reinterpret, wear, perform, and gather around.

Made to join the ritual.

Our merchandise is part of the gathering: apparel, art, and objects for people who want to carry SACRA with them into the club, the street, the studio, the bedroom, the woods, and the everyday.

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What We Believe

  • Queer art is sacred.

    Live art, performance, music, figure drawing, nightlife, and queer ritual spaces.

  • Community is care.

    Apparel, prints, objects, and symbols rooted in myth, nature, and queer expression.

  • Myth is a tool.

    Artists, performers, venues, collaborators, and the people who keep queer culture alive.

  • Pleasure is powerful.

    Live art, performance, music, figure drawing, nightlife, and queer ritual spaces.

  • Nature is alive with meaning.

    Apparel, prints, objects, and symbols rooted in myth, nature, and queer expression.

  • Boldness is welcome.

    Artists, performers, venues, collaborators, and the people who keep queer culture alive.

MEET THE TEAM

Founded by
Dustin Papow & Dmitry Shishov.

Two designers working to create and support queer art — building spaces where design, performance, fashion, nightlife, mythology, and community meet.

  • It's a given I have a passion for creating beauty. More importantly I believe in the power of story. Stories are the context in which humans understand and find meaning of information. I am fascinated by stories of any kind – film, books, video games – I am exploring how they are produced and what they mean to us all. I believe it's through meaning that fulfillment is found. We make our own magic.

    Every design has a story. For this reason I conjure illustrations that share my vision of the world and allow my viewers to find their own. I look forward to many more projects where I can collaborate, connect, and make modern magic with others.

  • As a licensed architect and designer, I draw inspiration from a rich tapestry of diverse cultural sources. My creative influences span from ancient practices and folk customs to the timeless ideals of classical Greek and Roman architecture. I am guided by the principles of firmitatis, utilitatis, venustatis (stability, utility, and beauty) as articulated by the great Roman architect and engineer, Vitruvius. Beyond the realm of architecture, I explore the practices of fashion and jewelry design. In my artistic journey, I aspire to weave a sense of fantasy into my creations, aiming to catalyze a transformative experience for those who engage with and wear my work.

Collaborators

The Circle is bigger than us.

SACRA exists because of the artists, performers, makers, venues, stage managers, photographers, DJs, partners, and friends who bring each gathering to life.

YOUR TEMPLE AWAITS