Arquetopia Review: The Foundation is Expanding Its Resident Artists’ Network

PUEBLA, MEXICO / ACCESSWIRE / December 17, 2021 / Arquetopia Foundation is a nonprofit arts and cultural foundation. The foundation’s goals also include social change through artistic, cultural, and educational initiatives. Arquetopia has examined its existing artist residency network and decided to expand it in order to reach a larger audience for social change.

Arquetopia’s mission is to establish an international art community that emphasizes reflection, which can be achieved through cooperation, reciprocity, and a commitment to more sustainable and ethical art practices. For more than twelve years, Arquetopia Foundation has been involved in numerous projects offering mentorship and special residency programs for artists from all over the world.

The Foundation was established by Mexican visual artist and curator Francisco Guevara and north American classical musician Chris Davis in 2009. Arquetopia is located in the majestic city of Puebla, Mexico, a world heritage site rich in culture and diversity that is known for its rich history, delectable cuisine, Talavera ceramics, and customs rooted in the 16th-century baroque that have been enriched by a mix of five pre-Hispanic/indigenous cultures, Arabic, Jewish, French, and Spanish influences. The Foundation was originally opened to serve as an educational art center for inner-city youth but soon expanded to offer international artist residency programs. Arquetopia opened its second professional residency space in the historic city of Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2011. Wich magnificent colonial architecture such as the Santo Domingo church and its former convent and multiple art museums and cultural centers, Oaxaca holds many excellent characteristics that complement the original location. Arquetopia is proud to offer its premier artist residency programs in Mexico and Latin America with extensive collaborative networks in central and southern Mexico. These networks led to the third professional residency space launching in spectacular Cusco, Peru in early 2018. Cusco was also recognized as a Cultural Heritage of the Peruvian Nation in 1972 and subsequently designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. Additionally, Arquetopia is set to open its fourth professional residency space and art history research center in stunning Naples, Italy, in 2022. Naples has been a cultural center in Europe since ancient times, when it was a major seaport on the Mediterranean Sea, making it a superb choice for the fourth location.

Arquetopia International Artist-in-Residence Programs are the among the most reputable in the world for their unique and fully customized approach to the artist-in-residence experience. Competitive professional and academic development opportunities are available through the programs offered to emerging, mid-career, and late-career national and international artists, designers, curators, art historians, art educators, academics, writers, journalists, cultural researchers, and graduate students aged 20 and over. All residents enrich their experience and art practices with important local cultural knowledge via Arquetopia’s methodologies and collaborations with prominent cultural institutions, renowned experts, and notable artists. As a result, the resident artists grow in skill and have greater capacity to impact their communities both locally and across the world.

Arquetopia has been honored to host many of its Artists-in-Residence as returning residents multiple times. Each of the selected projects pursued involves artists from around the world with different perspectives, creating synergies and a generous space to learn about diverse cultures, histories, traditions, and art practices. The foundation offers 25 different artist residency programs in which world-class international artists have access to local knowledge and resources in regions of the world that are artistically unique, such as Puebla and Oaxaca in Mexico; Cusco in Peru; and Naples in Southern Italy. These programs offer a unique methodology for visual artists, art historians and writers. All programs includes both group activities as well as individual activities, in which international artists and writers have the opportunity to create new works inspired by experiences lived. For its 10th anniversary, Arquetopia launched a series of new programs for young emerging artists, and several particularly for outstanding Arquetopia alumni, and several international exchanges with organizations in the India, Palestine Tanzania, Lithuania, Serbia, United States, and Nepal.

All residency programs at Arquetopia Foundation are based on a non-exploitative model promoting social consciousness, since residents are encouraged to embrace a diversity of cultural exchange methods as part of their artistic and/or research objectives while taking part in the programs. The residency programs are process-oriented, respecting cultural diversity and offering multiple critical perspectives at its core. The highly qualified members of the staff and the international board of directors devoted themselves to designing a dynamic curriculum. They were particularly careful to consider each location’s unique demands. Resulting in each residency program offering courses that encourage a meaningful communication between the resident’s practice and the environment they will encounter. Arquetopia uses a unique, multi-disciplined approach that combines artistic mentorship, discussion, and analysis. Individualized mentoring, discussion, evaluation, and a critical bibliography are used to evaluate each artist and writer’s requirements. If you are interested in applying, or would like to learn more, please visit www.arquetopia.org.

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