Nomadic in nature, Red76's origins reside in Portland, Oregon wherein it was founded in the early winter of 2000 by Sam Gould and Jef Drawbaugh. The group, often in flux and geographically dispersed, is the moniker for initiatives most often conceived and facilitated by Sam Gould and collaboratively implemented with the assistance of Gabriel Mindel-Saloman, Zefrey Throwell, Dan S. Wang, Mike Wolf, Dylan Gauthier, Paige Saez and many others over the last decade plus.

Red76 often activates its work within public space, or devises means towards creating an atmosphere wherein the definition of space and publics may have an opportunity to redefine itself. These aims are often achieved through the construction of sites of inquiry and collective discourse, using familiar tropes from day-to-day life like restaurants, classrooms, bookstores or Laundromats, to ease participants into an area of consideration that is familiar and in which those participants, in turn, are encouraged to help re-shape and re-construct that site in question.

Red76 initiatives utilize overlooked histories and common shared occurrences as a means of creating a framework in which to construct their public inquiries. Social histories, collaborative research, parallel politics, free and horizontal media, alternative educational constructs, gatherings, masking and public dialogue play continuing and vital roles within the methodology and concepts of Red76's work.