One Year in BOLT Residency 2015-2016

BOLT is one of the artist residencies in Chicago. It is a one-year program that offers “the opportunity to engage the Chicago arts community and its public in critical dialogue about contemporary art.”

It offers a studio in the lower level of the Chicago Artist Coalition’s gallery, one SOLO show during the year and professional support by having studio visits from artists, gallerists, curators, and collectors. I am starting this residency on July 15^th. I already got the studio and am moving soon.

I was a HATCH resident, which is another artist-in-residency program that the Chicago Artist Coalition offers. This residency helped my work gain exposure and let me meet wonderful people in the arts. Now that I am starting BOLT I am delighted to be part of a community of talented artists, expand my professional network in the arts and strengthen my presence as an artist in the United States through community dialogue, and access to programming and support.

Showing at 6 Mujeres

August 27^th, 2015 will be the opening of the show “6 Mujeres” at the gallery Otros 360 Grados in Bogota, Colombia. I am absolutely thrilled to show the pieces that I have being working on during this year for this exhibition.

 

One of the goals of the Otros 360 Grados gallery is to address an inequality in the number of women and men exhibiting in and represented by commercial galleries. The show 6 Mujeres in August is a dialog between fiber, drawing and painting from a Latin American, feminine point of view. Aside from me, the show includes Gabriela Lascombes (Argentina), Maria Jose Mir (Chile), Maria Jose Concha (Chile), Nayibe Bechara (Colombia) and Carmenza Kafarela (Colombia.)