Jazmin Garcia is a filmmaker, photographer, and music curator based in Los Angeles. Her work aspires to live within the visual realm of transformative justice, as a space that holds and uplifts memory, exploring themes around identity and freedom, focusing on immigration and the American pressures of cultural assimilation. She continues to develop documentary and narrative projects that expand on generational family histories and her own experience as a first-generation Mexican-Guatemalan-American. Her films weave intimate stories of hardship, magic, amor, and the perseverance of hope.

Residency 2026

Xochi Solis (b. 1981) is a multidisciplinary artist and community organizer based in Austin, Texas. Her work explores relationships to land, place, and personal history through collage and mixed media. Using paint, collected paper ephemera, hand-dyed and marbled papers, plastics, and found images from books and magazines, she builds layered compositions that investigate color, texture, and form. Her process reflects on the visual complexity of the environments she inhabits.

Solis’s work ranges from intimate works on paper to large-scale, site-specific wall installations, often responding to the cultural and spatial qualities of a given location. Alongside her studio practice, she is engaged in community building through her work with arts organizations in Austin and as a vinyl DJ focused on Tejanx musical traditions.

Residency 2026

Isabela Brown is an environmental scientist and climate policy advisor for the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice who artwork centers our personal relationships to our changing environment. Isabela entrenches her work in the communities she serves - reducing reliance on fossil fuels and improving air quality from school buses, street vendors, and ports by meeting people where they are at. Isabela's artwork explores the intimate and personal relationships with have with our environment - often layered with feelings of grief, fear, love, guilt, comfort, hope and loss that impact how we experience changing climates.

Residency 2026

Alice Otieno (born 1999 in Mombasa, Kenya) is a multidisciplinary artist and creative strategist based in the United Kingdom. Her practice spans research, visual culture, and public engagement. Through her work, she explores ideas about humanity’s place within broader social, ecological, and metaphysical systems, aiming to connect theoretical inquiry with artistic practice.

Residency 2026

Ana Gregorio, gestora cultural de formación, desarrolla una práctica artística vinculada a la gráfica y al trabajo en talleres de producción e impresión. A través del dibujo, ilustración y gráfica aborda temas como ausencia, violencia, migración, identidad y comunidades invisibilizadas, a partir de experiencias personales y memorias colectivas. Actualmente es becaria del programa Jóvenes Creadores, en la disciplina de Gráfica.

Residency 2026

Rafaela Tellaeche (Ciudad de México, 1997) es una artista visual formada en La Esmeralda y con una maestría en Práctica de Arte Contemporáneo por el Royal College of Art (Londres). En la Ciudad de México, su práctica se centra en medios hechos a mano como el bordado, el tejido, el dibujo y el grabado. Su proceso obsesivo explora la repetición, la paciencia y el gesto manual como formas de resistencia y reflexión existencial. Rafaela ha participado en numerosas exposiciones colectivas en México y en el extranjero: "un diseño sin Design" curada por Cecilia Casabona o Tate Modern Late "Beyond the Surface - Tactile Presence". En su trabajo, impartir talleres se ha vuelto una parte importante dentro de la práctica y el entendimiento del cuerpo. Trabaja actualmente el bordado repetitivo, acumulativo y obsesivo con su respectiva relación con el tiempo.

Residency 2026

Mónica Figueroa (CDMX, 1991) Estudió Artes Visuales en la UNAM. Su obra ha sido expuesta en México, EUA, Europa y Japón y ha sido becaria de Jóvenes Creadores en varias ocasiones. Desde Oaxaca, donde vive y trabaja, desarrolla una pintura figurativa que pone en escena cuerpos femeninos y seres híbridos conviviendo con fenómenos naturales. Su trabajo propone un horizonte afectivo y antipatriarcal, donde lo orgánico y lo mítico se entrelazan.

Residency 2026

Dulce María, originaria de Tlacolula de Matamoros, Oaxaca (Bak) es educadora, artesana y tallerista. Su práctica creativa explora el libro textil y el fanzine como una forma de auto-publicación y archivo, sus publicaciones dialogan con la memoria, la biodiversidad, la lengua y la cultura de la nación Zapoteca.

Residency 2026

Noemí Domínguez Gaspar is a Mixe-Zapotec feminist anthropologist with degrees from ENAH and a Master’s in Women’s Studies (UAM-X). She is currently a doctoral candidate in Gender Studies at UNAM. Her work addresses human rights, gender-based violence, racism, representation, and feminist practices, and she has collaborated with academic and public institutions. Her recent publications include De divas, sandungas e indias (2022) and La participación de las mujeres a través de la cocina para la producción de agave y mezcal en Albarradas (2020).

Residency 2025

Fernanda Armada is a multidisciplinary photographer and visual artist exploring identity, memory, and image transformation. A PECDA Guanajuato beneficiary (2023–2024), she held her first solo exhibition Miradas Hambrientas in Querétaro in 2024. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Mexico and abroad and published internationally. She studies Visual Arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and is a member of Same Faces Collective.

Residency 2025

Sonte’nish Myers is a filmmaker with roots in the U.S. and Jamaica whose work draws on folklore and cultural memory. Working across drama, sci-fi, and fantasy, she centers familiar worlds to explore preservation and identity through film and photography.

Her award-winning short Cross My Heart (Vimeo Staff Pick, streaming on SHOWTIME ANYTIME) led to fellowships with Sundance, Tribeca, and Film Independent. Her period sci-fi feature Stampede (The Black List, Sundance Labs) is currently in development, alongside new projects in near-future thriller and fantasy.

A graduate of NYU’s Graduate Film program, where she now teaches, she has also directed music videos for artists including Tank and the Bangas and Samara Joy.

Residency 2025

Nahima Quetzali Dávalos-Vázquez is a digital anthropologist and learning designer based in Oaxaca City. Her practice explores the intersections of technology, the body, inequality, and creativity through academic and applied projects. She focuses on guiding processes that approach technology through affective and sensory experiences, collaborating with collectives and institutions at the edges of the digital and reframing disconnection as a space for reinterpretation and meaning-making.

Residency 2025

Mayra Cernas is a transdisciplinary creator whose practice brings together textile craft, research, and situated pedagogy. Her work explores visual culture, regional dress, gender, and collective memory from the margins. Trained in sewing in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, she integrates textile labor into her ongoing project Cómo hacer un huipil, which combines historical research, material experimentation, and inherited practices.

Residency 2025