Art Residencies

CALABAR GALLERY ART RESIDENCIES

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CALABAR GALLERY ART RESIDENCY AT COLAB ARTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ

This Six-month Social Justice Residency is for emerging and mid-career Black Artists globally who are working using unconventional ideas, materials, subject matter and doing some research-based work on a particular topic and pedagogy on Black lives globally and socially engaging New Brunswick. Each resident works with a locally based nonprofit.

2022-2025 ADVISORS:

• Halima Taha, Curator, Art & Culture Strategist and author of Collecting African American Art Works, NY
• Midori Yoshimoto, Professor of Art History and Gallery Director, New Jersey City University, NJ
• Elizabeth Keithline, Exhibitions Director, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM), NY
• Patricia Andrews-Keenan, Director, Pigment International, Art publication magazine, Chicago
• Jeanne Brasile, Director, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall Gallery, NJ
• Eto Otitigbe, artist & MFA Deputy Chair, Brooklyn College’s Sculpture Department, NY.

2024 Art Resident: JAYMES JORSLING

2024 Art Resident: LOUIE BLAKA

2023 Art Resident: VANEZZA CRUZ

2022 Art Resident: GHISLAINE SABITI

Ghislaine Sabiti is an interdisciplinary French/American Congolese-born artist, a painter, costume designer, and flame worker who was raised on the outskirts of Paris, France and is now based in New York. She studied fine art at Atelier Chantier du Coq and graduated with honors in fashion design from Atelier Chardon Savard in Paris, France. She studies glass lamp-work and photo decals at Urban Glass. She highlights the technical form used in both African and European arts, which stress form and color. Sabiti completed a fellowship at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute Cycle VIII of the Spring ICA, and New York Foundation of the Arts Immigrant Artist Program. Her work has been exhibited and commissioned nationally and internationally in France and the U.S. in numerous group exhibitions and solo shows including galleries and museum such as El Teatro del Museo Del Barrio, Occupy Museum Debt Fair at the Whitney Biennial, Atelier Rosal, Westfield State University Arno Maris Gallery, Rio Gallery, shapeshifterlab, Harlem School of the Arts, Brooklyn Film and Art Festival and Small Space Fest, and Poe Park Visitor Center. Ghislaine had a Chashama artist residency at the Marcel Breuer House Pocantico Center/Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Jamaica Center and Learning, Urban Glass, Commission for the Lexington Hotel, New York, Salon du Prêt-à-Porter. Sabiti was an award winner for the Dupont De Nemours hosiery design competition for DIM Company.

CALABAR GALLERY ART RESIDENCY at CARIBBEING HOUSE ON GOVERNOR’S ISLAND, NY

This Six-week Social Justice Residency is focused on the politics of land, food, agriculture and wellness and the creation of new, original, and/or experimental projects that is socially and politically engaging. The Residency designed by curator Atim Annette Oton of Calabar Gallery is about exploring ideas about Caribbean lives and community as it relates to politics of land, identity and socioeconomical issues while connecting today with history of Governor’s Island original residents, Native American Indians, in a search for the future.

2024 Art Resident: EDGIE AMISAL

Edgie Amisial (b. 1998) is a queer Haitian American multidisciplinary artist based in NYC. Working across painting, assemblage, experimental film, and writing, Edgie explores Black femme trauma, healing, and survival. Through her research and creative practice, she synthesizes the wisdom and liberatory potential of Black conjure feminism, ecofeminism, mysticism, and Afro-diasporic spirituality. Edgie holds a BA from The New School and an MA in Arts Politics from NYU.

CALABAR GALLERY ART RESIDENCY AT EASTERN CARIBBEAN RUM COMPANY (Cannes Brulees Rum) IN GRENADA 

This Six-week Social Justice Residency (formerly The Grenada Art Residency with Calabar Gallery at Cannes Brulees Rum Factory) is a Social Justice Residency for emerging and mid-career artists globally who are working using unconventional ideas, materials, subject matter and doing some research-based work focused on the politics of land, food, agriculture and wellness. This residency is focused on the creation of new, original, and/or experimental projects that is socially and politically engaging and concludes with several exhibitions.

• We suspended the 2024 selection because of the Grenada Hurricane and will select a resident in 2025

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2023 Art Resident: TEDDY FREDERICK

Teddy Frederick is a multi-disciplinary artist with a passion for storytelling through photography, filmmaking and art. He works with a mixture of traditional painting techniques and photography. His photographs are highly stylized and you can choose to interpret them as either photography or a painting as both are true about each piece he produces. They are often composed of abstract, dreamlike images masked with a hint of obscurity. He is interested in exploring the power of identity to evoke emotions, create nostalgia and cultivate a sense of connection that delves into the nuances of our human experiences. His aim is to create art whether it’s Paintings, Photos or videos that speaks to the viewer’s curiosity and encourages reflection and connection.  He is based in Grenada.

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