June 2024
Happy Caribbean American Heritage Month!
Upcoming Events
Block Party with Studio Dem
June is Caribbean American Heritage Month inna Babylon, so we’re celebrating with our friends at Studio Dem for the third year in a row! Come lime with us at their Williamsburg store and honor our roots like one big family. Friday, June 28, mark your calendar!
FORGOTTEN LANDS at The MET Library
We’re thrilled to announce that we’re hosting a FORGOTTEN LANDS salon at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas J. Watson Library during #METFridays on July 26! The event will feature several guest speakers and aims to connect our audience and museum visitors with the wonderful collections available at The MET.
Space will be limited so stay tuned for more!
I AM CaribBEING X FORGOTTEN LANDS at Governor's Island
Celebrating Caribbean heritage never stops around here! We’ll keep the vibes going into July with I AM CaribBeing’s Caribbeing House at Governor’s Island. Their summer residency features artists and creatives from the diaspora in their iconic I Am CaribBeing mobile container. For the month of July, we’ll be curating a month-long exhibition and hosting a special screening of our Indigenous Origins Series. Join us this July, with more info to follow.
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
For this month and next, we’ll feature some of the guests at our upcoming MET event! First up is Volume 04 alum artist, Ania Freer.
Ania Freer 🇯🇲🇦🇺
Ania Freer is an award-winning Australian-Jamaican artist, filmmaker, and curator based between New York City and Jamaica. Her work in installation, film, and curating explores identity through themes of resistance, labor, folklore, craft traditions, race, and class, using oral histories to disrupt imperialist narratives and recenter marginalized voice
Ania’s work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Jamaica, and her short film Strictly Two Wheel won Best Documentary Short at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. She has received fellowships from the Caribbean Film Academy and New Local Space Kingston, along with scholarships from the American Australian Association Arts Fund. Her residencies include Art Omi, Ox-Bow, and AIRIE. Her work has been featured in Jamaica Journal, FORGOTTEN LANDS Volume 04, and DIZZY Magazine. Ania’s documentary series Real Talk is being archived at the Black Film Center and Archive at Indiana University Bloomington.
FROM OUR COMMUNITY
Trees of Little Caribbean at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Created in partnership with I AM CaribBeing, the Trees of Little Caribbean exhibition is a celebration of trees (and treelike plants) cherished by Caribbean people that spark stories of rebellion, resilience, spirituality, and joy. Plan a trip to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Steinhardt Conservatory to learn about native Caribbean trees like papaya, guava, soursop, and allspice as well as nonnative plants (like the banana) that were brought from across the globe under colonialism.
The Bishop Gallery Presents: Sula Playing In The Dark
Curated by Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa, soon-to-be FORGOTTEN LANDS contributor, a group exhibition featuring ten women and non-binary artists in a multi-media installation featuring themes of pole and nightlife, feminine extravagance and luxury, and women’s emotional interiorities. Sula Playing in the Dark is marked by an attention to traditions of beauty and survival among women at the margins and on view June 8 - July 27.
ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES
June - July 2024
2025 Headlands Center for the Arts Chiaro Award (California, United States) | Deadline June 5 Apply >>
R.A.R.O. Bogotá Artist Residency (Bogotá, Colombia) | Deadline June 5 Apply >>
The Studios at Mass MoCA (Massachusetts, United States) | Deadline June 8 Apply >>
A.PASS - Collective Research Residency (Brussels, Belgium) | Deadline June 9 Apply >>
The International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM) 2024 Travel Grant Program (Buenos Aires, Argentina) | Deadline June 9 Apply >>
2025 Headlands Center for the Arts AIR Program (California, United States) | Deadline June 10 Apply >>
Grantham Foundation for the Arts and Environment (Quebec, Canada) | Deadline June 14 Apply >>
Perez Art Museum Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) Fellowship (Miami, United States & Hybrid) | Deadline June 15 Apply >>
Vermont Studio Center Artist & Writer Residency (Vermont, United States) | Deadline June 15 Apply >>
The Kitchen Curatorial and Archive Internship (New York, United States) | Deadline June 15 Apply >>
Ox-Bow Artist Residency-Hold Space Grant for Artists of Color (Michigan, United States) | Deadline June 16 Apply >>
Fort Smith University Art & Design Residency (Arkansas, United States) | Deadline June 17 Apply >>
Grist – Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors (Global) | Deadline June 24 Apply >>
Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists (United States) | Deadline June 30 Apply >>
*We share artist opportunities from around the world! While the country is listed, not all opportunities are just for artists living and working in those places. Check out each link to see if you qualify! Share with the artists in your communities.
