Category: Think/Create/Share Lab

BxArts Factory will select three artists for three separate residencies for the 2023 season.

Artist in Residence Project (ARP) objective is to provide emergent artists in the Bronx with space to pursue their artistic practice with a three month residency and to create the infrastructure for community engagement.

Each resident artist will be selected throughout a call for submissions process which includes an application and virtual interview. Selected artists will obtain free space and access to free art materials to create a unique body of work that is community centered and engaging. Each resident artist will be supported in creating programming for the community in the form of workshops, panels, artists talks, exhibitions, studio visits and/or outdoor events.

During the residency artists will present a program once a month. This program will be free and open to any member of our community. At the end of the residency the artists will exhibit the work for a month as we welcome our next resident. The residencies and programs will take place in our space in the Bronx. The facilities have other artists studios and two small galleries available to the resident artists for exhibition space. We also have two multi-use spaces, perfect for community engagement events.

Applications for the Residency Program at the BxArts Factory Studios are DUE on Friday, March 17th, 2023 at 5 pm. The selected candidates will be notified by Friday March 24th, 2023. First residency will begin in April 2023.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Link to Application: https://linktr.ee/bxartsfactory

The BxArts Factory is excited to introduce Élan Cadiz as the teaching artist for the Think/Create/Share lab! She will teach high school students whom are passionate about artistic creation and will guide them through the process of becoming a professional artist. We are excited to begin this amazing project with Elan Cadiz in the upcoming months!

Élan Cadiz is a North American Interdisciplinary Assemblage Visual Artist and her artworks are grounded in family, historical imagery and personal narrative. She use various formats of presentation: video, poetry, storytelling, artifacts, print media, photography, sculpture, drawing, painting, illustrations and installation for project series. The presentation may differ but remain in constant conversation with each other.

Élan graduated from City College of New York City with a BA in Studio Art in 2008 and will be graduating from the School of Visual Arts with a MFA in Fine Arts May 2018. She has exhibited with No Longer Empty, Harlem Arts Festival, Rush Art Galleries, El Museo del Barrio, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and more. She most recently co-curated Spirit of Community: Art of Harlem with Barbara Horowitz, President and Founder of Community Works NYC.

Cadiz has instructed young people in the arts for 18 years and taught for Together the photographs share the energy and strength of the West Indian population and the groups influence to the political, economic and cultural vitality of the North Bronx.or was in collaboration with programs/institutions such as the Police Athletic League (P.A.L), Astoria Beacon Program, Young Adult Institute (Y.A.I), Casa Duarte, P.S. /I.S. 180, Say Yes To Education (affiliated with Columbia’s Teachers College), Harlem School of the Arts, Thurgood Marshall Upper and Lower Academies, Harlem Gems (Harlem Children Zone), No Longer Empty, Cool Culture, Bank Street College, Weeksville Heritage Center, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Historical Society, Center for Arts Education, Community Works NYC, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Children’s Museum and now with BxArts Factory.

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