Programma di tutoraggio in residenza

The Mentorship Residency Program is a pioneering residency concept that serves as an arts incubator with generous workspace and modern facilities enabling the creative work of visual artists across disciplines. We foster mentorship by pairing two artists together during a residency period to cultivate rich conversation, collaboration, and exchange experiences, knowledge, art industry information and technical skills. The artist-pairing consists of a National or International artist who is traveling to the state of Maine from their respective homes to be in residence with a Local/Regional artist. The goal of the pairing is to build positive relationships that enhance the individual artists as human beings and thought leaders. We want to create healthy relationships for artists of color who are navigating their art practice and create avenues of success that build networks. We situate mentoring as a dialogue between and among artists who share cultural histories and experiences. Essentially, a co-mentorship, as the dialogue is one that goes both ways and equally enriches the artist pairing. While in residence, the mentorship pairing shall also receive 1:1 feedback and support by the Indigo Arts Alliance staff and will participate in studio visits with a selection of artists, curators, cultural workers, scholars, and community organizers. To be in residence with Indigo Arts Alliance is to enter into an ecosystem of sustained community building, intellectual development and cultural production. We also maintain strong Alumni relationships with our Artists in Residence. Please visit our Artists Profile Page and get to know who is a part of the Indigo Arts Alliance network. Additionally visit our archives; Indigo Experience Videos and The Record, our text based digital archive that documents the creative process, thinking, and continued practices of the artists who participate in our Artist Residency programs. Our mission is dedicated to serving communities that have been impacted by colonialism and cultural erasure. Specifically for “Black and Brown” artists; Black refers to those who are descended from 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 Indigenous Peoples, Latinx, East and Southeast Asian, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim.

generous workspace and modern facilities enabling the creative work of visual artists across disciplines

artists must be a descendent from any of the African nations, African-American, Afro-Latin, Caribbean, i.e., the communities inhabiting the geographic breadth of all the places where Africans were displaced as a result of the transatlantic slave trade, Native Americans, indigenous peoples, Latinx, Southeast Asian/Indian African Ocean World, the Middle East, and the Pacific Rim.