Arquetopia Foundation Artist Residency, Puebla, Mexico — 6 Reviews 4.7/5
Artists, writers, academics, and researchers apply for customized international artist-in-residence programs in Puebla, Mexico (or other locations) with mentoring, studio access, and engagement with local epistemologies.
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- Entry fee
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- Location
- Puebla, Mexico (also Oaxaca, Mexico; Cusco, Peru; and Naples, Italy).
About
About
Arquetopia Foundation is an award-winning nonprofit arts and academic foundation in its 14th year, dedicated to promoting critical thinking, ethics, and reciprocity in artistic practices. The organization offers customized, professional International Artist-in-Residence Programs in Puebla and Oaxaca (Mexico), Cusco (Peru), and Naples (Italy), renowned for their comprehensive, research-based approach focusing on social creativity and sustainability in the arts.
Program Focus
Arquetopia's model challenges preconceived notions of history and place, encouraging artists to engage with local epistemologies and resistance models as sources of knowledge and inspiration for social change. The foundation emphasizes ethical artistic practices and acknowledges the problematic ties of artist residencies to colonization and extractive tourism practices.
Who It's For
Professional artists, writers, academics, and researchers from all over the world. The residency provides substantial mentoring and is designed for those seeking to deepen their artistic praxis through critical engagement rather than solely producing work.
What's Included
Residencies include customized professional programming, 24-hour studio access, comprehensive mentoring, weekly meetings and readings to encourage critical thinking, planned outings, and complete freedom to create and explore at your own pace. Dinner is typically provided.
Disciplines
Ceramics, craft, drawing, installation, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, painting, printmaking, research/scholarship, and textile work.
Locations
Primary: Puebla, Mexico. Also available: Oaxaca, Mexico; Cusco, Peru; and Naples, Italy.
Foundation Details
Established in 2009 as an autonomous and registered Mexican nonprofit, Arquetopia is self-sustaining and unaffiliated with any political, religious, or war industrial entities. Co-founded by Mexican visual artist and curator Francisco Guevara and North American classical musician Chris Davis.
- Theme
- The residency emphasizes critical thinking, ethical artistic practices, and engagement with local epistemologies and resistance models as sources of knowledge for social change, with a focus on sustainability in the arts.
- Eligibility
- Open to professional artists, writers, academics, and researchers.
- Audience
- Professional artists, writers, academics, and researchers.
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