BLACK (SPACE) RESIDENCY
Black (Space) Residency is a physical container for imagination, inquiry, activity & rest for BLACK CREATIVES.
A residency for Black creatives, curators and writers.
Black (Space) Residency offers a physical container for imagination, inquiry, activity, and rest for Black creatives working across a myriad of disciplines. Our Artist-In-Residence have access to the working studio, staging gallery, and production labs for 1-3 months and are held with care by a small group of master-artists and curators who offer mentorship and instruction in visual arts including digital printing, printmaking, photography, ceramic arts, and woodworks.
Operating at the intersection of abundance, well-being, safety, and self-determination, our work is rooted in the love of Black culture as a means of creating and offering space without any expectation of performative or production output from Black artists. Black (Space) Residency resource partners include Artist As First Responder, the Museum of the African Diaspora, the East Oakland Black Cultural Zone, and the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, and is located at Minnesota Street Project Studios in San Francisco, CA.
Making (Space):
Artists and Organizers of
Black (Space) Residency in Conversation
Hear us talk with Museum of the African Diaspora in the first in a series of three panel discussions. Learn how we formed Black (Space) Residency, a physical container for imagination, inquiry, activity, and rest for Black creatives located at Minnesota Street Studios.
Creative access in the
Bay Area
As the San Francisco Bay Area continues to experience the mass exodus of creatives due to gentrification, displacement and extreme increased rent for arts spaces (galleries, studios, retail) the brunt toll has disproportionately, negatively, impacted Black and Brown communities.
During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and global uprisings fighting for racial justice, there is an additional increased economic insecurity and a sense of place for the Black creative community.
Furthermore, the institutions of white supremacy and anti-blackness within the arts and academic sectors continue to ravage the access and success of Black, Indigenous, people of color creatives further reducing their entry and mobility within the industry.