Thursday, April 18, 2024 | 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Location: The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, Room 309
107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002 (map)
Join Guest Curator Hayley Ferber in conversation with Residency Unlimited’s 2024 NYC-Based Artist Residents, Koyoltzintli Miranda, Lin Qiqing, Ruth Jeyaveeran, and Nia Winslow at the Clemente Center. Learn about the varied multidisciplinary artistic practices that they will be focusing on during their 3-month residency which explores ideas connected to identity as an individual or as part of a larger community.
Click here to read the 2024 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program Announcement.
SPEAKERS
Koyoltzintli Miranda is an interdisciplinary artist, healer, and educator living in NY. She grew up on the pacific coast and the Andean mountains in Ecuador, these are geographies that permeate her work. She focuses on sound, ancestral technologies, ritual, and storytelling through collaborative processes and personal narratives. Intersectional theories and earth-based healing inform her practice.
Click here to read Koyoltzintli’s full bio.
Website: koyoltzintli.com | IG: @koyoltzintli
Lin Qiqing is a textile artist based in New York. As a former award-winning journalist from China, she tells stories about gender, immigration, language, and politics through her distinctive weaving with hand-spun paper yarn and working with natural dyes.
Click here to read Qiqing’s full bio.
Website: linqiqing.com | IG: @qiqing077
Ruth Jeyavareen‘s work is based on traditional material practices. Drawing from her experience as part of the South Asian diaspora, she uses textiles to examine a shared history of alienation and dissociation. In her felted soft sculptures and installations, the boundary between human, animal, and flora dissolves to tell a story of isolation, migration, and evolution.
Click here to read Ruth’s full bio.
Website: ruthjeyaveeran.com | IG: @r_jeyaveeran
Nia Winslow is a self-taught mixed media collage artist who illustrates the colorful essences of Black figures in each of her compositions. Using paper as her preferred material, Nia combines the complexities of different textures, cuttings and clippings to illuminate figures, moods and stories. Through her artistry, Nia combines her passion for style and her chosen medium to inspire self-love and inventiveness in individuals, with a principal focus on the African and Black diaspora.
Click here to read Nia’s full bio.
Website: closetartistry.com | IG: @closetartistry
MODERATOR
Hayley Ferber is a contemporary arts facilitator, curator, educator and artist living in Brooklyn, NY. In her current role as Associate Director of Operations at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center and previous role as Deputy Director of Chashama, she supports a creative community of multidisciplinary artists. Independently, she has curated exhibitions for The Clemente Center, Residency Unlimited, Equity Gallery, New York Artists Circle, Robert Berry Gallery, and the Yard: Williamsburg, among others. As a visiting curator, Hayley has worked with artists from Residency Unlimited, ISCP, the NARS Foundation, Kunstraum LLC and ChaNorth, and has served as guest juror for NYSCA, the DCLA, Brooklyn Arts Council, and Queens Council on the Arts. Hayley’s personal artistic practice explores nautical themes through artist books and printmaking. She has exhibited her work at the Kalamazoo Book Art Center, Equity Gallery, Chashama, the Pelham Art Center, 440 Gallery, 92NY and Aqua Art Miami among others. She was a resident artist at ChaNorth in 2021 and received her MAT in Art & Design Education from RISD and BS in Studio Art from NYU.
Website: hayleyferber.com | IG: @hayleyferber| @theclemente
The 2024 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
