Santa Fe Art Institute International Artist Residency

Santa Fe Art Institute | SFAI Revolution: Thematic Residency Throughout our 2022 programmatic theme, Revolution, SFAI will support research, artworks, and creative actions that use artistic imagination to provide sites of resistance, instances of engagement, and solidarity with transformational movements. Revolution residents aim to revolutionize the status quo. Their work is bolstered by utopian imagination and an expansive agency wherein everyone – across a range of ethnicities, nationalities, gender identities, and abilities – has the power to shape reality. According to Paulo Freire, people can, “develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves [so that we may] come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.” Guiding Questions: We ask how our art and creative tactics can: Reimagine the praxis, grammar, and aesthetics of entrenched and failing systems; Radically shift collective perceptions and lived reality to build capacity for self‑determination for all peoples; and Catalyze and support radical and profound social, political, environmental, and cultural change that is sustained, intergenerational, inclusive, and liberatory.