UNPACK STUDIO HAVANA ART RESIDENCY
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6 Tips for Making the Most of an Art Residency By Alina Cohen Exterior view of the MacDowell Colony’s James Baldwin Library. Photo by Ngoc Minh Ngo. Courtesy of the MacDowell Colony. Residencies can offer a temporary paradise for artists of all disciplines. For weeks or months, they provide a home away from home, without… Continue Reading
ArchiveThing & Unpack Studio are offering TWO fully funded Art / Curatorial residencies in Havana, Cuba. APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED Open to all Canadian professional artists (citizens and PRs) interested in benefitting from Unpack Studio Art Residency Program • Fully paid Round-Trip Flight • Up to 3 Weeks of Lodging & Residency Services paid. Flexible residency… Continue Reading
By Laine Cunningham My grandfather lived in an American Civil War-era hospital he’d converted into three apartments. In the early part of his life, he was a boxer until his hands gave out. For a time, he drove buses for the City of Hagerstown, Maryland. Eventually he put together enough money to buy the building… Continue Reading
I arrived here about a week ago and I’m not sure I have recovered from the shock of discovering Havana. Randomly assemble Parisian hotels, Soviet tenement houses, splashes of turquoise and yellow, patches of jungle, and boat-size Chevrolets, sprinkle stray cats all over and bombard the hell out this place, you’ve got Havana. Every time… Continue Reading
I wanted to do this residency in order to dedicate more time and intention to my painting and to better connect to my mom and her childhood. My mom was born in Guantanamo, Cuba in 1960. She spent her early childhood in Caimanera, Cuba and then immigrated to Spain with my uncles and grandparents in… Continue Reading
My previous three-week blog spoke of a painting I had planned to complete at the residency. Whilst the painting had been informed by the themes, motifs and symbolism unearthed during my first time in Cuba, the formal attributes of the painting were very much embedded within my existing practice. Omar was determined to break me… Continue Reading
My paintings use Cubism to explore the tensions and contradictions between race and class in South- East London, the community in which I grew up. Presenting these histories alongside those of Cubism, I highlight Cubism’s own relationship with Colonialism, moving back and forth between history and the present, the centre and the periphery, challenging the… Continue Reading
ARRIVAL I had visited Havana previously in 2017/18 so my expectations were similar to that. On that first visit I stayed near the University on a very noisy road with zero Internet. This visit was very different, firstly the neighbourhood of Vedado is quiet. Tree lined residential streets near parks and little ‘shops’ from outside… Continue Reading
Born and raised in London, UK, I have exhibited in the UK, Greece, Amsterdam, Berlin and America. I went to art college in my 40’s and decided very early on that sculpture and installation art would be my preference. I create sculptural pieces within installation settings to generate questions, rather than creating aesthetically pleasing objects.… Continue Reading
After two years in COVID isolation, Cuba is open and ready to welcome you! …This was music to my ears! In 2019 I was awarded a research sabbatical from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to further my work in Cuba… but then came the pandemic. Delayed, I entered the sabbatical this past January… Continue Reading