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About the residency program
La Nueva Fábrica offers residencies by invitation and application every year for artists, curators, and cultural practitioners from around the world.
The residency open call is currently CLOSED. Please visit this page again in September, 2024 for updates on our next open call.
The 2024-2025 edition of La Nueva Fábrica’s residency program has a focus on Central American community art projects, and has received the support of the 2023 Fundación Ama Amoedo Grant.
Selected residents
-Milko Delgado (Panamá)
-Elyla (Nicaragua)
-Catta Matute (Honduras)
-Pilar Rodriguez y Jamie López (Guatemala)
-Balam Say (Guatemala)
2024-2025 Residency Program: Community Projects
The 2024-2025 residency cycle has a focus on community projects and is open to Central American citizens who live and work in the region and who either: are in a situation of vulnerability due to gender, racial, or other social discrimination; live in rural, remote, or underserved areas; whose first language is not Spanish–such as: q’eqchi’, tz’utujil, kaqchikel, garífuna, etc.
ELEGIBILITY:
- The 2024-2025 residency cycle has a focus on community projects. To apply, applicants must:
- Be Central American citizens who live and work in the region and who either: are in a situation of vulnerability due to gender, racial, or other social discrimination; live in rural, remote, or underserved areas; whose first language is not Spanish–such as: q’eqchi’, tz’utujil, kaqchikel, garífuna, etc.
- Have an idea, preliminary project, or community project rooted in visual arts, which has the potential to involve other members of their local community.
- Commit to sharing documentation on the project once this is implemented in their respective communities after the on-site residency at La Nueva Fábrica.
- Be of legal age (18+ years old).
- The program offers 5 residencies; residents will be selected through an open call by a jury of specialists.
UPCOMING RESIDENT:
Previous RESIDENTS
FIRST RESIDENT ARTIST
DOÑA PAULA SANTOS
1912 | 2015
Doña Paula learned to weave at age four from her grandmother in her ancestral town of San Antonio Aguas Calientes. For over three decades, Doña Paula lived on the site of the adjacent textile mill, collaborating with La Nueva Fábrica Co-founder Mitchell Denburg on unique weavings. Doña Paula cultivated her art by honoring the ancient designs of her village, as much as by creating contemporary works in non-traditional colors and layouts. She lived to be 103 years old, and we take inspiration from her incredible work and long life.