Through mentorship we facilitate working opportunities to engage in and receive critical feedback, relationship building and access to resources that build careers and networks. During Residency, artists participate in public artists talks, symposia, hands-on-workshops, presentations and community art events, thereby increasing their visibility, sharing intellectual knowledge.
We believe in the necessity of Black-led arts organizations to create, sustain and amplify access for Black and Brown artistic expression. We are directly dismantling and pushing back against narratives of our absence in the canon of art history.
African descent refers to people from all African nations, African- American, Afro-Latin, and Caribbean. The geographic breadth of all the places where Africans were displaced as a result of the transatlantic slave trade. We describe “Brown” to include Native Americans, indigenous peoples, Latinx, East, and Southeast Asian, the Middle East and Pacific Rim.